2007 - 1 (January)

Articles in this issue

In Memorian: Daniel Field (1938-2006) - Proshchai

Page: vii

Contibutors to This Issue

Page: ii

Revisioning Aleksandrov's Circus: Seventy Years of the Great Family

Pages: 1 - 4

The Blue Angel and Blackface: Redeeming Entertainment in Aleksandrov's Circus

Pages: 5 - 22

Art Deco Aesthetics in Grigorii Aleksandrov's The Circus

Pages: 23 - 36

A Question of Place: Situating Old Shloime in Isaac Babel's Oeuvre

Pages: 36 - 54

Probable Western Origins of Muscovite Criminal Procedure

Pages: 55 - 72

Art as Glorious Deed: Creating the Community of Martha and Mary in Moscow

Pages: 73 - 94

Fetishizing the Soviet Collapse: Historical Rupture and the Historiography of (Early) Soviet Socialism

Pages: 95 - 122

Book Review by Andreas Schönle

Breaking Ground: Travel and National Culture in Russia from Peter I to the Era of Pushkin

Pages: 123 - 124

Book Review by Monika Greenleaf

The uncensored Boris Godunov: The Case for Puskin's Original Comedy with Annotated Text and Translation

Pages: 124 - 125

Book Review by Leonid Livak

Nabokov and the Art of Painting

Pages: 125 - 126

Book Review by Ilya Vinitsky

Russkaialiteratura XX veka: Zakonomernosti istoricheskogo razvitiia, kniga 1: Novye khudozhestvennye strategii

Pages: 126 - 128

Book Review by Brian James Baer

Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture

Pages: 128 - 129

Book Review by Shaul Stampfer

The Jews of Eastern Europe

Pages: 129 - 130

Book Review by Eric Naiman

Constructing the Stalinist Body: Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s

Pages: 130 - 132

Book Review by Barry P. Scherr

Vyacheslav Ivanov and C. M. Bowra: A Correspondence from Two Corners on Humanism

Pages: 132 - 133

Book Review by Bella Ginzbursky-Blum

Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales: An Animator's Journey

Pages: 134 - 134

Book Review by Vitaly Chernetsky

Remaining Relevant after Communism: The Role of the Writer in Eastern Europe

Pages: 135 - 136

Book Review by Nicholas B. Breyfogle

Armenia: A Historical Atlas

Pages: 136 - 137

Book Review by Gary Marker

Voluntary Brotherhood: Confraternities of Laymen in Early Modern Ukraine

Pages: 138 - 139

Book Review by David A. J. Macey

Zarozhdenie demokraticheskoi kul'tury: Rossiia nachale XX veka

Pages: 139 - 140

Book Review by R. E. Johnson

The Lena Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State

Pages: 141 - 142

Book Review by Peter Gatrell

Mirovoi krizis 1914-1920 godov i sud'ba vostochnoevropeiskogo evreistva

Pages: 142 - 143

Book Review by Nurit Schleifman

War of Revolution: Russian Jews and Conscription in Britain, 1917

Pages: 143 - 143

Book Review by Choi Chatterjee

Sovetskaia vlast' - narodnaia vlast'? Ocherki istorii narodnogo vospriiatiia vlasti v SSSR

Pages: 143 - 144

Book Review by Nathaniel D. Wood

Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918- 1968

Pages: 144 - 145

Book Review by J. - Guy Lalande

Britain, Soviet Russia and the Collapse of the Versailles Order, 1919-1939

Pages: 146 - 147

Book Review by Jonathan M. House

Thunder in the East: the Nazi-Soviet War 1941-1945

Pages: 147 - 148

Book Review by Mark Scott, ed.

Eyewitness Accounts of the World War II Murmansk Run 1941-1945

Pages: 148 - 149

Book Review by Joshua Sanborn

Stalin's Keys to Victory: The Rebirth of the Red Army

Pages: 149 - 150

Book Review by Kristian Gerner

Shvetsiia v politike Miskvy 1930-1950-e gody

Pages: 150 - 151

Book Review by Beatrice Farnsworth

Women, the Bureaucracy, and Daily Life in Postwar Moscow; 1945-1953

Pages: 151 - 152

Book Review by David Joravsky

Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists

Pages: 152 - 153

Book Review by Matthew Lenoe

Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda

Pages: 153 - 154

Book Review by Andrejs Plakans

Estonia 1940-1945: Report of the Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity

Pages: 154 - 155

Book Review by Michael G. Stefany

The Soviet Union: A Documentary History: Volume One: 1917-1940

Pages: 155 - 156

Book Review by Cynthia V. Hooper

The Soviet Century

Pages: 157 - 158

Book Review by Lutz Häfner

Das sowjetische Massenfest

Pages: 158 - 159

Book Reviewby Jonathan W. Daly

Volksaufstände in Rußland: Von der Zeit der Wirren bis zur "Grünen Revolution" gegen die Sowjetherrschaft

Pages: 159 - 160

Book Review by Martin Mc Cauley

Ideology and Challenges of Political Liberalisation in the USSR, 1957-1961: Otto Kuusinen's "Reform Platform," the State Concept, and the Path to the 3rd CPSU Programme

Pages: 161 - 162

Book Review by Stephen White

Intellectuals and Apparatchiks: Russian Nationalism and the Gorbachev Revolution

Pages: 162 - 162

Book Review by Stephen Hedlund

Unparalleled Reforms: China's Rise, Russia's Fall, and the Independence of Transition

Pages: 163 - 164

Book Review by Andy Byford

Rossiiskie uchenye v usloviiakh sotsial'no-politicheskikh transformatsii XX veka: Kurs lektsii

Pages: 164 - 165

Book Review by Grigorii V. Golosov

Elections by Design: Parties and Patronage in Russia's Regions

Pages: 165 - 166

Book Review by Richard Sakwa

The Dynamics of Russian Politics: Putin's Reform of Federal-Regional Relations, Volume II

Pages: 166 - 167

Book Review by Grigory Ioffa

Russia's Food Policies and Globalization

Pages: 167 - 168

Book Review by Douglas R. Weiner

Russian Nature: Exploring the Environmental Consequences of Societal Change

Pages: 168 - 169

Book Review by Craig ZumBrunnen

Understanding Russian Nature: Representation, Values and Concepts

Pages: 169 - 171

Book Review by Haldis Haukanes

Men in Contemporary Russia: The Fallen Heroes of Post-Soviet Change?

Pages: 171 - 172

Book Review by Melissa L. Caldwell

Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia

Pages: 172 - 173

Book Review by George O. Liber

Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough

Pages: 173 - 175

Book Review by Anna Fournier

Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine

Pages: 175 - 176

Book Review by Anatoly M. Khazanov

Ethnic Politics after Communism

Pages: 177 - 177

Book Review by Muriel Atkin

Radical Islam in Central Asia: Between Pen and Rifle

Pages: 177 - 178

Publications Received

Pages: 179 - 183