Volume 76

Issues

Number 1, Spring 2017

CRITICAL FORUM ON STATISTICS

European Statistics, Russian Numbers and Social Dynamics, 1861-1914

Alessandro Stanziani 1

 

Read Zamiatin, but Not to Correct His Math

Yanni Kotsonis 24

 

Quantification and the Economic History of Imperial Russia

Steven Nafziger 30

 

On the Uses of Russian Statistics: A Response to Alessandro Stanziani's "European Statistics, Russian Numbers

and Social Dynamics, 1861-1914"

Mikhail Avrekh 37

 

Quantitative Approach to the Russian Past: A Comment on "European Statistics, Russian Numbers and

Social Dynamics, 1861-1914" by Alessandro Stanziani

Andrei Markevich and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya 45

CRITICAL FORUM: THE AFTERLIFE OF PHOTOS

Photographs as Historic Documents: An Examination of Two of Evgenii Khaldei's Budapest Photos

Peter Pastor 53

 

Between Affect and Authenticity: Disobedient Photographs

Ewa Stańczyk 63

 

Afterlives of Photographs: The Artist's Point of View

Jacek Fr±¶ 72

 

The Elusive Search for Evidence: Evgenii Khaldei's Budapest Ghetto, Images of Rape, and Soviet Holocaust Photography

David Shneer 80

 

Photographs and Their Many Lives

Olga Shevchenko 90

ARTICLES

Dissimulation and Memory in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania: the Art of Forgetting

Maria Ivanova and Michelle R. Viise 98

 

From All Sides: Interdisciplinary Knowledge, Scientific Collaboration, and the Soviet Criminological Laboratories of the 1920s

Kenneth M. Pinnow 122

 

Nabokov's The Gift, Dostoevsky, and the Tradition of Narratorial Ambiguity

Stephen Blackwell 147

 

Social Media and EuroMaidan: A Review Essay

Megan Metzger and Joshua A Tucker 169

CRITICAL REVIEW 192

FEATURED REVIEW 199

BOOK REVIEWS  216

COLLECTED ESSAYS 279

OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 282

 

Number 2, Summer 2017

CRITICAL FORUM: THE EAST EUROPEAN RESPONSE TO

THE 2015 MIGRATION CRISIS

Introduction: From Comparison to Relationality

Zsuzsa Gille 285

 

The Refugee Crisis and the Return of the East-West Divide in Europe

Ivan Krastev        291

 

Coherent Selves, Viable States: Eastern Europe and the “Migration/Refugee Crisis

Dace Dzenovska 297

 

The Unbearable Whiteness of the Polish Plumber and the Hungarian Peacock Dance around “Race”

József Böröcz and Mahua Sarkar 307

 

Beyond East and West: Solidarity Politics and the Absent/Present State in the Balkans

Jessica Greenberg and Ivana Spasię 315

ARTICLES

Honored Citizens and the Creation of a Middle Class in Imperial Russia

Alison K. Smith 327

 

“Vladimir Lenin in Smolnyi” by Isaak I. Brodskii: The History of a Twin

Andrei Keller 350

 

The Oil Deal: Nariman Narimanov and the Sovietization of Azerbaijan

Sara Brinegar 372

 

Revolution, Production, Representation: Iurii Rozhkov’s Photomontages to Maiakovskii’s Poem “To the Workers of Kursk”

Aleksandar Bo¹kovię 395

 

High Modernism in Theory and Practice: Karel Teige and Tomį¹ Ba»a

Jessica Merrill 428

 

Wedded to Welfare? Working Mothers and the Welfare State in Communist Poland

Piotr Perkowski 455

CRITICAL REVIEW 481

FEATURED REVIEWS 491

BOOK REVIEWS 504

COLLECTED ESSAYS 579

OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 583

LETTERS 585

IN MEMORIAM 586

 

Summer 2017, Special Online Issue

CRITICAL FORUM: Global Populisms

Introduction

Anna Grzymala-Busse S1

 

Global Populisms and their Impact

Anna Grzymala-Busse S3

 

“Neoliberalism is Fascism and Should Be Criminalized”: Bulgarian Populism as Left-Wing Radicalism

Venelin I. Ganev S9

 

Taking Far-Right Claims Seriously and Literally: Anthropology and the Study of Right-Wing Radicalism

Agnieszka Pasieka S19

 

Draining the Swamp: Understanding the Crisis in Mainstream Politics as a Crisis of the State

Abby Innes S30

CRITICAL FORUM: Russian Influence in 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Introduction

Harriet Murav S39

 

Trump, Putin, and the Future of U.S.-Russian Relations

Peter Rutland S41

 

Kompromat Goes Global?: Assessing a Russian Media Tool in the United States

Sarah Oates S57

 

Red Scares and Orange Mobilizations: A Critical Anthropological Perspective on the Russian Hacking Scandal

Julie Hemment S66

 

Exclusionary Egalitarianism and the New Cold War

Brian Porter-Szūcs S81

 

Number 3, Fall 2017

1917-2017: The Russian Revolution a Hundred Years Later

Anti-imperialism. The Leninist Legacy and the Fate of World Revolution

Jeremy Friedman and Peter Rutland 591

 

Violence to Velvet: Revolutions-1917 to 2017

Roger D. Markwick 600

 

Making Sense of 1917: Towards a Global History of the Russian Revolution

Matthew Rendle 610

 

The Great Socialist Experiment? The Soviet State in its International Context

David L. Hoffmann 619

 

Lenin in Barcelona: the Russian Revolution and the Spanish trienio bolchevista, 1917-1920

Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez 629

 

Queer Harlem, Queer Tashkent: Langston Hughes’s “Boy Dancers of Uzbekistan”

Jennifer Wilson 637

 

The Russian Revolution and the Instrumentalization of Death

Svetlana Malysheva 647

 

Russian Revolutions in Print: The Fate of the Ethnic Press

Joseph Lenkart 655

 

The Legacy of 1917 in Graphic Satire

John Etty 664

 

5=100: Long Live the “Filologicheskaia Revoliutsiia”

Elena Fratto 675

 

In Pursuit of a Different Revolution:  Russian Populists of the Seventies Generation in 1917

Ben Eklof and Tatiana Saburova 683

 

Women and Gender in 1917

Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild 694

 

Russia, 1917: Revolution as Demobilization and State Collapse

Eric Lohr and Joshua Sanborn 703

 

(Good) Land and Freedom (for Former Serfs): Determinants of Peasant Unrest in European Russia, March-October 1917

Evgeny Finkel, Scott Gehlbach, and Dmitrii Kofanov 710

 

Revolutionary Economic Reasoning in the Context of Revolution: the Origins and Fate of Bolshevik Economics

Denis Mel’nik 722

 

February 23 and March 8: Two Holidays that Upstaged the February Revolution, 1917-1923

Elizabeth A. Wood 732

 

“Do It the Russian Way”: Narratives of the Russian Revolution in European History Textbooks

Marharyta Fabrykant 741

 

The Russian Revolution as a Tourist Attraction

Diane P. Koenker 753

 

CRITICAL REVIEW 763

FEATURED REVIEWS 772

BOOK REVIEWS 791

REFERENCE BOOKS OF 2015-2016: A SELECTION 892

COLLECTED ESSAYS 900

OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 903

IN MEMORIAM 904

Number 4, Winter 2017

ARTICLES


Sex in the City that Peter Built: The Demimonde and Sociability in Mid-Eighteenth Century St. Petersburg
Igor Fedyukin 907

 

Probing the Heart and Mind of the Viewer: Scientific Studies of Film and Theatre Spectators in the Soviet Union, 1917-1936
Anna Toropova 931

 

Unholy Alliances? Language Exams, Loyalty, and Identification in Interwar Romania
Gįbor Egry 959

 

The Battle for Language: Opposition to Khrushchev's Education Reform in the
Soviet Republics, 1958-59

Jeremy Smith 983

 

Between Scholarship and Dissidence: The Dissident Historical Collection Pamiat' (1975-1982)
Barbara Martin and Anton Sveshnikov 1003

 

Confessing to Leviathan: The Mass Practice of Writing Autobiographies in the USSR
Yury Zaretskiy 1027

 

CRITICAL REVIEW 1048

FEATURED REVIEWS 1055

BOOK REVIEWS 1065

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS, 2016 1150

COLLECTED ESSAYS 1165

OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 1169

IN MEMORIAM 1172

INDEX 1174