Current Issue
Volume 67
Number 3, Fall 2008
ON THE BORDERS OF THE SILVER AGE
Robert Bird and Lina Steiner, Special Section Guest Editors
Introduction
Lina Steiner 547
Heroic Aesthetics and Modernist Critique: Extrapolations from Bakhtin’s Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity
Ilya Kliger 551
Masks of the Poet, Myths of the People: The Performance of Individuality and Nationhood in Georgian and Russian Modernism
Harsha Ram 567
Lyricism and Philosophy in Brodsky’s Elegiac Verse
Aaron Beaver 591
Visual Poetry after Modernism: Elizaveta Mnatsakanova
Stephanie Sandler 610
ARTICLES
Violating the Canon: Reading Der Nister with Vasilii Grossman
Harriet Murav 642
Russian Hybrids: Identity in the Translingual Writings of Andrei Makine, Wladimir Kaminer, and Gary Shteyngart
Adrian Wanner 662
DISCUSSION
Revisionism in Retrospect: A Personal View
Sheila Fitzpatrick 682
Comment: Revisionism Avant la Lettre
Robert V. Daniels 705
Comment: Codes and Confessions
J. Arch Getty 711
Comment: Life and Fate of Western Revisionism
Elena A. Osokina 716
Comment: Of Archives and Frogs: Iconoclasm in Historical Perspective
Jochen Hellbeck 720
FEATURED REVIEWS
Catriona Kelly, Children’s World: Growing up in Russia, 1890-1991 (Jeffrey Brooks) 724
Evgeny Dobrenko, The Political Economy of Socialist Realism, trans. Jesse M. Savage (Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy) 726
Archie Brown, Seven Years That Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective (Richard Sakwa) 728
fILM REVIEW
Alexandru Solomon, dir. The Great Communist Bank Robbery (Constantin Iordachi) 732
BOOK REVIEWS
Claude Lefort, Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy, trans. and introduction, Julian Bourg (Harald Wydra) 734
David Lane and Martin Myant, eds., Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Countries (John Marangos) 735
Anders Aslund and Marek D±browski, eds., Europe after Enlargement (Larry Neal) 736
Anders Aslund, How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia (Richard Pomfret) 738
Josette Baer, Slavic Thinkers or The Creation of Polities: Intellectual History and Political Thought in Central Europe and the Balkans in the Nineteenth Century (Jelena Milojković-Djurić) 739
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Vasily Sesemann: Experience, Formalism, and the Question of Being (James West) 740
Chad Bryant, Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism (Gary B. Cohen) 741
John V. A. Fine Jr., When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods (Adrian Mandzy) 742
Ulf Brunnbauer, Die sozialistische Lebensweise: Ideologie, Gesellschaft, Familie und Politik in Bulgarien (1944-1989) (Maria Todorova) 743
George W. Gawrych, The Crescent and the Eagle: Ottoman Rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874-1913 (Nathalie Clayer) 744
John Tyrrell, Janáček: Years of a Life. Vol. 1, (1854-1914): The Lonely Blackbird (Brian Locke) 745
Alfred Thomas, The Bohemian Body: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture (Melissa Feinberg) 746
Ingrid Merchiers, Cultural Nationalism in the South Slav Habsburg Lands in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Scholarly Network of Jernej Kopitar (1780-1844) (Elinor Murray Despalatović) 747
Sabrina P. Ramet, The Liberal Project and the Transformation of Democracy: The Case of East Central Europe (Minton F. Goldman) 748
Jasmina Lukić, Joanna Regulska, and Darja Zavirąek, eds., Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe (Janet Elise Johnson) 749
Seán Hanley, The New Right in the New Europe: Czech Transformation and Right Wing Politics, 1989-2006 (Martin Dangerfield) 751
Zsuzsa Gille, From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary (Katrina Z. S. Schwartz) 752
Maria Csanádi, Self-Consuming Evolutions: A Model on the Structure, Self-Reproduction, Self-Destruction and Transformation of Party-State Systems Tested in Romania, Hungary and China (Patrick H. O’Neil) 753
Zsuzsa Csergo, Talk of the Nation: Language and Conflict in Romania and Slovakia (Nadya Nedelsky) 754
Erin K. Jenne, Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment (Jóhanna K. Birnir) 756
Maria Spirova, Political Parties in Post-Communist Societies: Formation, Persistence, and Change (Anna Grzymala-Busse) 757
Balázs Balogh and Zoltán Illyés, eds., Perspectives of Diaspora Existence: Hungarian Diasporas in the Carpathian Basin-Historical and Current Contexts of a Specific Diaspora Interpretation and Its Aspects of Ethnic Minority Protection, trans. Gábor Komáromy (Éva V. Huseby-Darvas) 759
Keith Doubt, Understanding Evil: Lessons from Bosnia (Stevan Weine) 760
Alexander Bitis, Russia and the Eastern Question: Army, Government and Society, 1815-1833 (Ronald P. Bobroff) 761
Elena Andreeva, Russia and Iran in the Great Game: Travelogues and Orientalism (Firuz Kazemzadeh) 762
Michael Share, Where Empires Collided: Russian and Soviet Relations with Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macao (Elizabeth Wishnick) 763
Darius Staliunas, Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 (Alfred Erich Senn) 764
Melvyn P. Leffler, For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War; Vladislav M. Zubok, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (Hugh Ragsdale) 765
Mary W. Cavender, Nests of the Gentry: Family, Estate, and Local Loyalties in Provincial Russia (David L. Ransel) 767
Mikhail Luk’ianov, Rossiiskii konservatizm i reforma, 1907-1914, foreword, Mark D. Steinberg (Wayne Dowler) 768
Wendy Slater, The Many Deaths of Nicholas II: Relics, Remains and the Romanovs (Jamie H. Cockfield) 769
Lars T. Lih, Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? in Context (Anna Krylova) 770
Scott W. Palmer, Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia (Reina Pennington) 772
David Priestland, Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization: Ideas, Power, and Terror in Inter-War Russia (Elena A. Osokina) 773
R. W. Davies and Stephen G. Wheatcroft, The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933 (Andrea Graziosi) 774
Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 (Steven Merritt Miner) 775
Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995: Myth, Memories, and Monuments (Frederick Corney) 777
Dmitrii Shepilov, The Kremlin’s Scholar: A Memoir of Soviet Politics under Stalin and Khrushchev, ed. Stephen V. Bittner, trans. Anthony Austin (Martin McCauley) 778
Gerhard Wettig, Chruschtschows Berlin-Krise 1958 bis 1963: Drohpolitik und Mauerbau (Rolf Steininger) 779
Stephen F. Cohen, “Vopros voprosov”: Pochemu ne stalo Sovetskogo Soiuza? trans. Irina Davidian (Grigorii V. Golosov) 780
Andrew Kahn, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin (Gary Rosenshield) 781
Melissa Frazier, Romantic Encounters: Writers, Readers, and the Library for Reading (Justyna Beinek) 783
Abderhaman Messaoudi, La Transversalité du theme religieux dans Les Démons (Gary Cox) 784
Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Plays of Expectations: Intertextual Relations in Russian Twentieth-Century Drama (J. Douglas Clayton) 785
V[sevolod] E[vgen’evich] Bagno, A[ndrei] B[orisovich] Shishkin, et al., eds., Bashnia Viacheslava Ivanova i kul’tura Serebrianogo Veka (Anna Frajlich) 786
Tanja Zimmermann, Abstraktion und Realismus im Literatur- und Kunstdiskurs der russischen Avantgarde (Isabel Wünsche) 787
Birgit Beumers, ed., The Cinema of Russia and the Former Soviet Union (Denise J. Youngblood) 788
Andreas Schönle, ed., Lotman and Cultural Studies: Encounters and Extensions (Edna Andrews) 789
Elina Kahla, Life as Exploit: Representations of Twentieth-Century Saintly Women in Russia (Adele Barker) 791
Markku Kangaspuro and Jeremy Smith, eds., Modernisation in Russia since 1900 (Anthony D’Agostino) 792
Jeff Sahadeo and Russell Zanca, eds., Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present (Martha Brill Olcott) 793
Lilia Shevtsova, Russia-Lost in Transition: The Yeltsin and Putin Legacies, trans. Arch Tait (Thomas F. Remington) 794
Ellen Carnaghan, Out of Order: Russian Political Values in an Imperfect World (Neil Robinson) 795
Regina Smyth, Candidate Strategies and Electoral Competition in the Russian Federation: Democracy without Foundation (Peter Rutland) 796
Julie Hemment, Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, Aid, and NGOs (Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom) 797
Michael Ellman, ed., Russia’s Oil and Natural Gas: Bonanza or Curse? (David Lane) 798
Adam Swain, ed., Re-Constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region: The Donbas in Transition (King Banaian) 799
Larisa Fialkova and Maria N. Yelenevskaya, Ex-Soviets in Israel: From Personal Narratives to a Group Portrait (Larissa Remennick) 800