Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History

Contents

 

                                      Special Issue

      Science, Fiction, and Power in the Soviet Union

 

From the Editors

Technopolitics and the Frontiers of History . . . 677

 

ARTICLES

Alexei Yurchak

Communist Proteins: Lenin’s Skin, Astrobiology, and the Origin of Life . . . 683

 

Slava Gerovitch

“We Teach Them to Be Free”: Specialized Math Schools and the Cultivation of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia . . . 717

 

Ksenia Tatarchenko

“The Right to Be Wrong”: Science Fiction, Gaming, and the Cybernetic Imaginary in Kon-Tiki: A Path to the Earth (1985–86) . . . 755

 

Joseph Kellner

As Above, So Below: Astrology and the Fate of Soviet Scientism . . . 783

 

REACTION

Grégory Dufaud

The History of Science and Technology, or How to Grasp Heterogeneity . . . 813

 

REVIEW ESSAYS

Volodymyr Kravchenko

Putting One and One Together? “Ukraine,” “Malorossiia,” and “Russia” . . . 823

 

Courtney Doucette

A Blast from the Past . . . 841

 

REVIEWS

Maureen Perrie

Samozvanstvo and the Legitimation of Power in Russian Political Culture . . . 855

 

Zhang Fengfeng and Zhang Laiyi

Divergent Paths in the History of Central Eurasia . . . 865

 

Éric Aunoble

Postrevolutionary Syndromes . . . 879

 

Jörn Happel

Nikolai Bolkhovitinov Analyzes the US Enemy in the USSR . . . 889

 

Katja M. Mielke

Thirty Years after the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan . . . 895

 

IN MEMORIAM

Laurie Manchester

Mark von Hagen (1954–2019) . . . 904

 

LETTER

Taras Kuzio

To the Editors

With a Response from Tarik Cyril Amar . . . 907

 

Contributors to This Issue . . . 911

From the Editors

“The Year That Changed the World”?​     221

 

Erratum​     226

 

Forum: Oral History and Memory in Soviet Central Asia

Jeff Sahadeo

Introduction ​     227

Marianne Kamp

Hunger and Potatoes: The 1933 Famine in Uzbekistan and Changing Foodways​      237

Adrienne L. Edgar

What to Name the Children? Oral Histories of Ethnically Mixed Families in Soviet Kazakhstan and Tajikistan​      269

Ali İğmen

Gender and National Identity in Memories of the Late 20th-Century Soviet Theater in Kyrgyzstan ​     291

 

Article

Evgenii A. Krestiannikov

Along the Routes of Justice: Judicial Circuit Riding in Western Siberia during the Late Imperial Period ​     315

 

Review Essays

Alexander E. Balistreri

Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Shaykh: Border Crossers in the Historiography of the Modern Caucasus ​     345

Christine E. Evans

Stirlitz in Washington? What “Stagnation” Tells Us Now ​     365

 

Reviews

Lynn Ellen Patyk

Reading, Writing, and Realism in 19th-Century Russia ​     377

Alexander Morrison

Convicts and Concentration Camps ​     390

Oksana Bulgakowa

The Other History of Soviet Cinema​     404

Joshua Rubenstein

Unearthing the Holocaust on the Russian Front ​     409

Susanne Schattenberg

Brezhnev’s Memos as a Source ​     421

Walter Sperling

Moscow, Maidan, and the Politics of Russia’s “Glorious Past” ​    430

 

Letter

Ben Eklof and Tatiana Saburova

To the Editors ​     433

 

Contributors to This Issue ​     435

Contents

From the Editors
Walled Worlds “Illiberal Democracy” and the CEU Affair     1
Forum: “National Indifference” in the Russian Empire

Andrei Cusco
Russians, Romanians, or Neither?
Mobilization of Ethnicity and “National Indifference” in Early 20th-Century Bessarabia     7

Karsten Brüggemann and Katja Wezel
Nationally Indifferent or Ardent Nationalists?
On the Options for Being German in Russia’s Baltic Provinces, 1905–17     39

Alexei Miller “National Indifference” as a Political Strategy?     63

Articles

John M. Romero
Soviet Music as National Achievement
The development of Professional Music in the tatar Assr, 1928–59     73

Simone A. Bellezza
The “Transnationalization” of Ukrainian Dissent
New York City Ukrainian Students and the Defense of Human Rights, 1968–80     99

Review Essays

Luba Golburt
Private Affairs
Histories of the Russian Age of Sensibility     121

Theodore R. Weeks
Jews and Russians from Imperial to Soviet Times    133

Tarik Cyril Amar
Politics,  Starvation, and Memory
A Critique of Red Famine    145

Reviews

Ricarda Vulpius
The Russian Variant of Enlightenment    171

Boris Kolonitskii
Before and After the Revolution     179

Vitalij Fastovskij
In Search of Soviet Podlinnost ́     184

Barbara Martin and Clemens Günther
Psychiatry in Late Soviet Literature     191

Karl D. Qualls
Making Spaces, Building Socialism, Transforming People     198

Andreas Hilger
The Global Cold War and its Legacies     208

Contributors to This Issue    219

Contents

From the Editors

An Interview with Lewis H. Siegelbaum     689

Articles

Rachel Koroloff Juniper
From Medicine to Poison and Back Again in 17th-Century Muscovy     697

Siobhán Hearne
To Denounce or Defend?
Public Participation in the Policing of Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia     717

Yuexin Rachel Lin
The Opportunity of a Thousand Years
Chinese Merchant Organizations in the Russian Civil War     745

Edward Cohn
A Soviet Theory of Broken Windows
Prophylactic Policing and the KGB’s Struggle with Political Unrest in the Baltic Republics     769

Review Essays

Alison K. Smith
The Russian Empire, the Russian Nation, and the Problem of the 19th Century     793

Sofya Salomatina
Debtors and Creditors in the Modern Age
An Interdisciplinary Dialogue     813

Stephen M. Norris
Killing Stalin
An Interpretation in Three Acts    827

Reviews

Jennifer Keating
Place, Power, and Experience in Tsarist Exile     849

Olga Malinova-Tziafeta
On the Path to Russian Modernity    861

Sören Urbansky
Challenges of Subalternity on the Northeast Asian Frontier    867

Joshua Rubenstein
Millenarian Bolshevism?    877

Igor Narskii
Archaeology of a Lost World and Remembering Soviet Life    891

Erratum 907

Contributors to This Issue    908