2002 - 2 (April)

Opening Remarks

"K neperobopam b Kabyne" / "On the Talks in Kabul"

Some Preliminary Ideas

Kabul in Perspective

"The detail should not fall into dependence on the landscape!" or Brodsky's "On the Talks in Kabul," Derzhavin, Genre, and Identity

"Bras and the Rule of Law"

The Poetry of Decline

From Kabul to Byzantium and Back

Afterword

Loose Ends in "On the Talks in Kabul"

The Furnace Play and the Development of Liturgical Drama in Russia

The Trial of Lenin: Legitimating the Revolution through Political Theater, 1920-23

Marking NEP's Slippery Path: The Krasnoshchekov Show Trial

The Little Dragon and the Bear: Russian-Taiwanese Relations in the Post-Cold War Period

The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia

Vladimir Solovyov: His Life and Creative Evolution

Serapion Sisiter: The Poetry of Elizaveta Polonskaja

The Sovereign and His Counsellors: Ritualised Consultations in Muscovite Political Culture, 1350s-1570s

Between God and the Tsar: Religious Symbolism and the Royal Women of Muscovite Russia

Zemskii fenomen: Politologicheskii podkhod

P. A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia

Law and Custom in the Steppe, The Kazakhs of the Middel Horde and Russian Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century

An Improper Profession: Women, Gender and Journalism in Late Imperial Russia

Peter the Great and the West: New Perspectives

Catherine the Great and the British: A Pot-Pourri of Essays

D.S. Mirsky: A Russian-English Life, 1890-1939

Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals

A Diplomatic History of the Caspian Sea: Treaties, Diaries, and Other Stories

War and Revolution: The United States and Russia, 1914-1921

The Russian Revolution, 1917

Lenin

A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russsia during World War I

Die Sowjetunion, 1917-1991

The Forgotten: Catholics of the Soviet Empire from Lenin through Stalin

History of the Urbanisation of a Siberian City: Ulan-Ude

Die Moskauer Metro: Von den ersten Plänen bis zur Großbaustelle des Stalinismus (1897-1935)

Behind the Façade of Stalin's Command Economy: Evidence from the Soviet State and Party Archives

Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926-1933

Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin

Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution

Denazification in Soviet-Occupied Germany: Brandenberg, 1945-1948

Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk

Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000

Political Will and Personal Belief: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism

School, Reform and Society in the New Russia

Single Parents and Child Welfare in the New Russia

Tundra Passages: History and Gender in the Russian Far East

The Anatomy of Russian Defence Conversion

Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia

Russia and the World Trade Organization