2009 - 1 (January)

Articles in this issue

Contributors to This Issue

Page: ii

The Customer is Always Wrong: Consumer Complaint in Late-NEP Russia

Pages: 1 - 25

Laughing with Comrade Stalin: An Analysis of Laughter in a Soviet Newspaper Report

Pages: 26 - 48

Ivan Turgenev's Crime an Punishment: "The jews" and the Furtive Pleasures of Liberalism

Pages: 49 - 69

Footnotes of a Graphomaniac: The Language Question in Evgenii Popov's The True Story of "The Green Musicians"

Pages: 70 - 88

"The Discreet Charm of the Russian Bourgeoisie": OKsana Robski and Glamour in Russian Popular Culture

Pages: 89 - 101

Émile Zola, Kozintsev and Trauberg and Film as Department Store

Pages: 102 - 121

Russia, Post-Communist Europe and the Geopolitics of Eurasia

Pages: 122 - 125

Book Review by Martha M. F. Kelly

Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture

Pages: 126 - 127

Book Review by Anne Nesbet

Times of Trouble: Violence in Russian Literature and Culture

Pages: 127 - 128

Book Review by Brian James Baer

Hamlet the Sign: Russian Translations of Hamlet and Literary Canon Formation

Pages: 128 - 129

Book Review by Lynn Patyk

The Fantastic in France and Russia in the Nineteenth Century: In Pursuit of Hesitation

Pages: 129 - 130

Book Review by Elizabeth Yellen

Pokryvalo Moiseia: Evreiskaya tema v epokhu romantizma

Pages: 130 - 131

Book Review by Charters Wynn

Conscription and the Search for Modern Russian Jewry

Pages: 131 - 132

Book Review by Karen Evans-Romaine

Das "Ende der Kunstperiode": Kulturelle Veränderungen des "literarischen Feldes" in Russland zwischen 1825 und 1842

Pages: 132 - 133

Book Review by Maxim D. Shrayer

Neither with Them, Nor without Them: The Russian Writer and the Jew in the Age of Realism

Pages: 133 - 134

Book Review by Michael C. Finke

About Chekhov: The Unfinished Symphony

Pages: 134 - 135

Book Review by Myroslava M. Mudrak

Vitebsk: The Life of Art

Pages: 135 - 136

Book Review by Julie A. Cassiday

Gorky's Tolstoy & Other Reminiscences: Key Writings by and about Maxim Gorky

Pages: 136 - 137

Book Review by Anna Nisnevich

Alexander Tcherepnin: The Saga of a Russian Emigré Composer

Pages: 137 - 138

Book Review by Vane Kepley Jr.

Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood's Russians: Biography of an Image

Pages: 138 - 139

Book Review by Adrian Wanner

The Making of a Counter-Culture: Henry Miller's Dostoevsky

Pages: 139 - 140

Book Review by Rozmeri Basic

Art Power

Pages: 140 - 141

Book Review by Lynn Garafola

Remembering Nureyev: The Trail of a Comet

Pages: 141 - 142

Book Review by Simon Franklin

Novgorod in the Early Middle Ages: The Rise and Growth of an Urban Community

Pages: 142 - 143

Book Review by Cherie Woodworth

Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330

Pages: 144 - 145

Book Review by Maria Salomon Arel

À l'aube de la Russie moscovite: Serge de Radonège & André Roublev: Légendes et images (XIV-XVII siècles)

Pages: 145 - 146

Book Review by Steven G. Marks

Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History

Pages: 146 - 147

Book Review by Matthew P. Romaniello

Exile to Siberia, 1590-1822

Pages: 147 - 148

Book Review by Jennifer B. Spock

Popular Religion in Russia: "Double Belief" and the Making of an Academic Myth

Pages: 148 - 149

Book Review by Gary Marker

The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia

Pages: 149 - 150

Book Review by Musya Glants

Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood under the Tsars

Pages: 150 - 151

Book Review by Theodore R. Weeks

The Romanov Empire and Nationalism: Essays in the Methodology of Historical Research

Pages: 151 - 152

Book Review by Francis Maes

Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin

Pages: 152 - 153

Book Review by Gregory L. Freeze

Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia

Pages: 153 - 154

Book Review by Jonathan Becker

The American Mission and the "Evil Empire": The Crusade for a "Free Russia" since 1881

Pages: 154 - 155

Book Review by Shaul Stampfer

Selbstorganisation und Bürgerlichkeit: Jüdisches Vereinswesen in Odessa um 1900

Pages: 155 - 156

Book Review by Henry Reichman

The Revolution of 1905 and Russia's Jews

Pages: 156 - 157

Book Review by Sally A. Boniece

"Rossiia-Matushka": Natsionalizm, gender i voina v Rossii XX veka

Pages: 157 - 158

Book Review by Jonathan Grant

Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands

Pages: 158 - 159

Book Review by Frederick C.Corney

The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd

Pages: 159 - 160

Book Review by Robert Argenbright

Tsentralizovannoe upravlenie ekonomikoi na Urale v 1917-1921 godakh: Khaos, kontrol', i stikhiia rynka

Pages: 160 - 161

Book Review by Martin Kitchen

The Soviet-Polish Peace of 1921 and the Creation of Interwar Europe

Pages: 161 - 162

Book Review by Leonid Livak

L'exil russe: La fabrique du réfugié apatride (1920-1939)

Pages: 162 - 163

Book Review by Michael Gelb

Soviet Karelia: Politics, Planning and Terror in Stalin's Russia 1920-1939

Pages: 163 - 164

Book Review by Steven A. Usitalo

Stalinismin lyhyt kurssi: Suomalaiset Moskovan Lenin-koulussa 1926-1938

Pages: 164 - 165

Book Review by William J. Chase

The Voices of the Dead: Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s

Pages: 165 - 166

Book Review by Marc Jansen

Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin's "Iron Fist"

Pages: 166 - 167

Book Review by Clayton Black

The Prison Manuscripts: Socialism and Its Culture

Pages: 167 - 168

Book Review by Kiril Feferman

The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories

Pages: 168 - 169

Book Review by Brandon Gallaher

The Church of the Holy Spirit

Pages: 169 - 170

Book Review by Betty Glad and Michael Masters

Yeltsin: A Life

Pages: 170 - 171

Book Review by Pål Kolstǿ

Europe's last Frontier? Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine between Russia and the European Union

Page: 172

Book Review by Kenneth Yalowitz

Understanding Belarus and How Western Foreign Policy Misses the Mark

Pages: 173 - 174

Book Review by Richard Pomfret

The Political Economy of Reform in Central Asia: Uzbekistan under Authoritarianism

Pages: 174 - 175

Book Review by Olga Mesropova

How Ordinary Russians Experience Their Lives and World: A Report of a Participant-Observer

Page: 175

Book Review by Michael Newcity

Russian Culture, Property Rights and the Market Economy

Pages: 176 - 177

Book Review by Kimitaka Matsuzato

Refoma mestnoi vlasti v gorodakh Rossii 1991-2006

Pages: 177 - 178

Book Review by John F. Young

Political and Social Thought in Post-Communist Russia

Page: 179

Book Review by Andreas Heinrich

The EU-Russian Energy Dialogue: Europe's Future Energy Security

Pages: 180 - 181

Book Review by Paul Kubicek

Russia and Globalization: Identity, Security and Society in an Era of Change

Page: 181