2008 - 2 (April)

Articles in this issue

Such a Beautiful Dream: How Russia Did Nót Become a Market Economy

Pages: 187 - 208

Poetry of Labor and Labor of Poetry: The Universal Language of Alexei Gastev's Biomechanics

Pages: 209 - 229

Ol'ga's Conversion and the Construction of Chronicle Narrative

Pages: 230 - 242

Sewage and the City: Filth, Smell, and Representations of Urban Life in Moscow, 1770-1880

Pages: 243 - 274

"Going Native" in the Caucasus: Problems of Russian Identity, 1801-64

Pages: 275 - 295

"Overcoming Peasant Backwardness": The Khrushchev Antireligious Campaign and the Rural Soviet Union

Pages: 296 - 320

Book Review by Kevin M. Platt

Lotman and Cultural Studies: Encounters and Extensions

Pages: 321 - 322

Book Review by Lewis Bagby

Romantic Encounters: Writers, Readers, and the "Library for Reading"

Pages: 322 - 323

Book Review by Robert W. Oldani

Anton Rubinstein: A Life in Music

Pages: 323 - 324

Book Review by Gene Fitzgerald

Reawakening National Identity: Dostoevskii's Diary of a writer and its impact on Russian Society

Pages: 324 - 325

Book Review by Alice Nakhimovsky

Jews in Russian Literature after the October Revolution: Writers and Artists between Hope and Apostasy

Pages: 325 - 326

Book Review by Greta Slobin

Beyond the Noise of Time: Readings of Marina Tsvetaeva's Memories of Childhood

Pages: 326 - 327

Book Review by Greta Slobin

The Ethics of the Poet: Marina Tsvetaeva's Art in the Light of Conscience

Pages: 327 - 328

Book Review by Diana L. Burgin

Unforced Labors

Pages: 328 - 329

Book Review by Christina Lodder

Kunst als Neuschöpfung der Wirklichkeit: die Anti-Ästhetik der russischen Moderne

Page: 329

Book Review by Kathleen Ahern

Shok pamiati: Avtobiograficheskaia poetika Val'tera Ben'iamina i Osipa Mandel'shtama

Page: 330

Book Review by Andrea Hacker

Nicht mit Gewehren, sondern mit Plakaten wurde der Feind geschlagen! Eine semiotisch-linguistische Analyse der Agitationsplakate der russischen Telegrafenagentur ROSTA

Pages: 330 - 331

Book Review by Alexei Bogdanov

Memoirs and Madness: Leonid Andreev through the Prism of the Literary Portrait

Pages: 331 - 332

Book Review by Valeria Sobol

Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture

Pages: 332 - 333

Book Review by Graham Roberts

Dziga Vertov: Die Vertov-Sammlung im Österreichischen Filmmuseum / The Vertov Collection at the Austrian Film Museum

Pages: 333 - 334

Book Review by Seth Graham

The Cinema of Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Pages: 334 - 335

Book Review by Alexandra Heidi Karriker

Pride and Panic: Russian Imagination of the West in Post-Soviet Film

Pages: 335 - 336

Book Review by Nickolas Lupinin

From Peasant to Patriarch: Account of the Birth, Uprising, and Life of His Holiness Nikon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia

Pages: 336 - 337

Book Review by Anthony Cross

Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond: Architecte 1679-1719: De Paris à Saint-Pétersbourg

Pages: 337 - 338

Book Review by John T. Alexander

The Memoirs of Catherine the Great

Pages: 338 - 339

Book Review by Victoria Clement

For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia

Pages: 339 - 340

Book Review by Muriel Atkin

Empire, Islam and Politics in Central Eurasia

Pages: 340 - 341

Book Review by Jennifer Siegel

Russia and the Eastern Question: Army, Govenment and Society, 1815-1833

Pages: 341 - 342

Book Review by David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason and the End of Imperial Russia

Pages: 342 - 343

Book Review by Curtis Richardson

Le laboratoire imperial: Russie-URSS 1860-1940

Pages: 343 - 344

Book Review by Redjeb Jordania

Géorgie: Sortie d'Empire

Pages: 344 - 345

Book Review by Marc L. Greenberg

Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863

Pages: 345 - 346

Book Review by Rotem Kowner

Russian Military Intelligence in the War with Japan 1904-05: Secret Operations on Land and at Sea

Pages: 346 - 347

Book Review by Vera Shevzov

Russian Baptists and Spiritual Revolution, 1905-1929

Pages: 347 - 348

Book Review by Susan Zayer Rupp

Intimate Enemies: Demonizing the Bolshevik Oppostion, 1918-1928

Pages: 348 - 349

Book Review by Stuart Finkel

Dvorianskaia pamiat': "Byvshie" v sovetskom gorode

Pages: 349 - 350

Book Review by David Shneer

Evrei sovetskoi provintsii: Vitebsk i mestechki 1917-1941 / The Jews of the Soviet Provinces: Vitesk and the Shtels, 1917-1941

Pages: 350 - 351

Book Review by William Chase

Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag

Pages: 351 - 352

Book Review by Karl E. Loewenstein

Left to the Wolves: Irish Victims of Stalinist Terror

Pages: 352 - 353

Book Review by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal

Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 1920-40: From Red Square to the Left Bank

Pages: 353 - 354

Book Review by Terry D. Clark

Lithuania 1940: Revolution from Above

Pages: 354 - 355

Book Review by Steven Rosefielde

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

Pages: 355 - 356

Book Review by Gennadi Poberezny

"Vopros voprosov": Pochemu ne stalo Sovetskogo Soiuza

Pages: 356 - 358

Book Review by Leonid S. Blickstein

Die Rekonstruktion der vorsowjetischen Geschichte: Identitätsdiskurse im neuen Russland

Pages: 358 - 359

Book Review by Katlijn Malfliet

La Propriété dans le Code civil de la Fédération de Russie: un système entre deux traditions

Pages: 359 - 360

Book Review by Thomas F. Remington

Seven Years that Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective

Pages: 360 - 362

Book Review by Alan Holiman

Russia's Revolution: Essays 1989-2006

Pages: 362 - 363

Book Review by Derek S. Hutcheson

Tretii elektoral'nyi tsikl v Rossii 2003-2004 gody

Pages: 363 - 363

Book Review by Cameron Ross

Why Not Parties in Russia? Democracy,Federalism, and the State

Pages: 364 - 365

Book Review by Joel M. Ostrow

Rebuilding Leviathan: Party Competition and State Exploitation in Post-Communist Democracies

Pages: 365 - 366

Book Review by John B. Dunlop

Russkii natsionalizm: Ideologiia i nastroenie

Pages: 366 - 367

Book Review by Andrei P. Tsygankov

Russia's Islamic Threat

Pages: 367 - 367

Book Review by Deniz Kandiyoti

Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, Aid and NGOs

Pages: 368 - 369

Book Review by Hans Günther

Political Economy of Socialist Realism

Pages: 369 - 369