Current Issue
Volume 67
Number 1, Spring 2008
BORAT: SELVES AND OTHERS
Our Borats, Our Selves: Yokels and Cosmopolitans on the Global Stage
Eliot Borenstein 1
Borat the Trickster: Folklore and the Media, Folklore in the Media
Natalie Kononenko and Svitlana Kukharenko 8
Borat, Multiculturalism, Mnogonatsional’nost’
Steven S. Lee 19
Hyperrealizing “Borat” with the Map of the European “Other”
Dickie Wallace 35
Transnational Image Making and Soft Authoritarian Kazakhstan
Edward Schatz 50
Buying into Brand Borat: Kazakhstan’s Cautious Embrace of Its Unwanted “Son”
Robert A. Saunders 63
Comments
If the Subaltern Speaks in the Woods and Nobody’s Listening, Does He Make a Sound?
Paula A. Michaels 81
Borat: Putting the Id Back in Identity Politics
Nancy Condee 84
Articles
East and West Kiss: Gender, Orientalism, and Balkanism in Muslim-Majority Bosnia-Herzegovina
Elissa Helms 88
Images
Demonizing Judaism in the Soviet Union during the 1920s
Robert Weinberg 120
Images
Speaking National: Nationalizing the Greeks of Bulgaria, 1900-1939
Theodora Dragostinova 154
FEATURED REVIEWS
Robert V. Daniels, The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia; Robert Service, Comrades! A History of World Communism (Lars T. Lih) 182
Alena V. Ledeneva, How Russia Really Works: The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business (Peter H. Solomon Jr.) 185
BOOK REVIEWS
Carsten Goehrke and Bianka Pietrow-Ennker, eds., Städte im östlichen Europa: Zur Problematik von Modernisierung und Raum vom Spätmittelalter bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (Guido Hausmann) 189
Vladimir Tismaneanu, Marc Morjé Howard, and Rudra Sil, eds., World Order after Leninism (Leslie Holmes) 190
Janet Eliese Johnson and Jean C. Robinson, eds., Living Gender after Communism (Elena Gapova) 192
Stevan Weine, Testimony after Catastrophe: Narrating the Traumas of Political Violence (Michael Holquist) 193
Jóhanna Kristín Birnir, Ethnicity and Electoral Politics (Erin K. Jenne) 194
Martin Schulze Wessel, ed., Nationalisierung der Religion und Sakralisierung der Nation im östlichen Europa (Ralph Schattkowsky) 195
R. J. W. Evans, Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs: Essays on Central Europe, c. 1683-1867 (László Kontler) 197
Marius Turda and Paul J. Weindling, eds., “Blood and Homeland”: Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940 (Keith Hitchins) 198
Jerzy Kochanowski and Maike Sach, eds., Die “Volksdeutschen” in Polen, Frankreich, Ungarn und der Tschechoslowakei: Mythos und Realität (Philipp Ther) 200
Thomas Lorman, Counter-Revolutionary Hungary, 1920-1925: István Bethlen and the Politics of Consolidation (Ignác Romsics) 201
Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, The Massacre in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: Before, During, After (Janine P. Holc) 202
David M. Glantz, Red Storm over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944 (James J. Schneider) 203
Gareth Dale, The East German Revolution of 1989 (Steven Pfaff) 205
Angela Richter and Barbara Beyer, eds., Geschichte (ge)brauchen. Literatur und Geschichtskultur im Staatssozialismus: Jugoslavien und Bulgarien (Maria Todorova) 206
Roland Sussex and Paul Cubberley, The Slavic Languages (Frank Y. Gladney) 207
Peter Demetz, Böhmen böhmisch: Essays (Michael Heim) 208
Brian S. Locke, Opera and Ideology in Prague: Polemics and Practice at the National Theater, 1900-1938 (William Smialek) 209
Doris Boden, Irritation als narratives Prinzip: Untersuchungen zur Rezeptionssteuerung in den Romanen Milan Kunderas (Peter Petro) 210
Pavle Levi, Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema (Gordana P. Crnković) 211
Alexei Monroe, Interrogation Machine: Laibach and NSK, foreword, Slavoj ®iľek (Rajko Mursic) 213
Sharon Fisher, Political Change in Post-Communist Slovakia and Croatia: From Nationalist to Europeanist (Robert Pahre) 214
Conor O’Dwyer, Runaway State-Building: Patronage Politics and Democratic Development (Steven Saxonberg) 215
James Wesley Scott, ed., EU Enlargement, Region Building and Shifting Borders of Inclusion and Exclusion (Frank Schimmelfennig) 216
Janusz Bugajski and Ilona Teleki, Atlantic Bridges: America’s New European Allies (Paul Kubicek) 217
István Kemény, ed., Roma of Hungary, trans. Andrew Gane (Michael Stewart) 218
Krista Harper, Wild Capitalism: Environmental Activists and Post-Socialist Political Ecology in Hungary (Zzuzsa Gille) 219
Thomas Emmert and Charles Ingrao, eds., Conflict in South-Eastern Europe at the End of the Twentieth Century: A “Scholars’ Initiative” Assesses Some of the Controversies (Aleksandar Pavković) 221
Xavier Bougarel, Elissa Helms, and Ger Duijzings, eds., The New Bosnian Mosaic: Identities, Memories and Moral Claims in a Post-War Society (Keith Doubt) 222
Renéo Lukic, ed., La politique étrangere de la Croatie: De son indépendance a nos jours, 1991-2006 (Diane Éthier) 223
Marianne Kamp, The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism (Jeff Sahadeo) 224
Adeeb Khalid, Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (Brian Glyn Williams) 225
Natal’ia Kosmarskaia, “Deti imperii” v postsovetskoi Tsentral’noi Azii: Adaptivnye praktiki i mental’nye sdvigi (russkie v Kirgizii, 1992-2002) (Anatoly M. Khazanov) 227
Maureen Perrie, ed., The Cambridge History of Russia. Vol. 1, From Early Rus’ to 1689 (Paul Bushkovitch) 228
Dominic Lieven, ed., The Cambridge History of Russia. Vol. 2, Imperial Russia, 1689-1917 (Susan Morrissey) 229
Ronald Grigor Suny, ed., The Cambridge History of Russia. Vol. 3, The Twentieth Century (Robert V. Daniels) 231
John-Paul Himka and Andriy Zayarnyuk, eds., Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine (Gregory L. Freeze) 232
Heinz-Dietrich Löwe, ed., Volksaufstände in Russland: Von der Zeit der Wirren bis zur “Grünen Revolution” gegen der Sowjetherrschaft (Michael Melancon) 233
Susan Morrissey, Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia (Louise McReynolds) 234
Susanna Rabow-Edling, Slavophile Thought and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism (John Randolph) 236
Franziska Schedewie, Selbstverwaltung und sozialer Wandel in der russischen Provinz: Bauern und Zemstvo in Voroneľ, 1864-1914 (David A. J. Macey) 237
Ulrike von Hirschhausen, Die Grenzen der Gemeinsamkeit: Deutsche, Letten, Russen und Juden in Riga 1860-1914 (Theodore R. Weeks) 238
Alex Marshall, The Russian General Staff and Asia, 1800-1917 (Jennifer Siegel) 239
Jonathan D. Smele and Anthony Heywood, eds., The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary Perspectives (Frank Wcislo) 240
Martin Malia, History’s Locomotives: Revolutions and the Making of the Modern World, ed. and foreword, Terence Emmons (Richard Pipes) 241
Mary Schaeffer Conroy, The Soviet Pharmaceutical Business during Its First Two Decades (1917-1937) (Tricia Starks) 243
Klaus Heller and Jan Plamper, eds., Personality Cults in Stalinism/Personenkulte im Stalinismus (Lesley A. Rimmel) 244
Brigitte Studer and Heiko Haumann, eds., Stalinistische Subjekte: Individuum und System in der Sowjetunion und der Komintern, 1929-1953/ Sujets staliniens: L’individu et le systeme en Union soviétique et dans le Comintern, 1929-1953/ Stalinist Subjects: Individual and System in the Soviet Union and the Comintern, 1929-1953 (Jan C. Behrends) 245
Lynne Viola, The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements (Lewis H. Siegelbaum) 247
Mary Buckley, Mobilizing Soviet Peasants: Heroines and Heroes of Stalin’s Fields (David Moon) 248
Léopold L. S. Braun, In Lubianka’s Shadow: The Memoirs of an American Priest in Stalin’s Moscow, 1934-1945, ed. G. M. Hamburg (Edward E. Roslof) 249
Emily D. Johnson, How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie (Francine Hirsch) 250
Christoph Garstka, Das Herrscherlob in Russland: Katharina II, Lenin und Stalin im russischen Gedicht. Ein Beitrag zur Ästhetik und Rhetorik politischer Lyrik (Maria Basom and Anna Stol) 251
Il’ia Vinitskii, Dom tolkovatelia: Poeticheskaia semantika i istoricheskoe voobrazhenie V. A. Zhukovskogo (Sarah Pratt) 252
Elizabeth Cheresh Allen, A Fallen Idol Is Still a God: Lermontov and the Quandaries of Cultural Transition (Ilya Vinitsky) 253
Anne Lounsbery, Thin Culture, High Art: Gogol, Hawthorne, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Russia and America (Liza Knapp) 255
Maria Nemcová Banerjee, Dostoevsky: The Scandal of Reason (James P. Scanlan) 256
David MacFadyen, Yellow Crocodiles and Blue Oranges: Russian Animated Film since World War Two (Ian Christie) 257
Hélene Mélat, ed., Le premier quinquennat de la prose russe du XXIe siecle (Laura Beraha) 258
Rebecca Kay, Men in Contemporary Russia: The Fallen Heroes of Post-Soviet Change? (Michael Paul Sacks) 259
David White, The Russian Democratic Party Yabloko: Opposition in a Managed Democracy (Kathleen E. Smith) 260