Slavic Review Volume 66 Number 1 -Spring 2007 http://www.slavicreview.uiuc.edu/current/ ARTICLES "Soft" Area Studies versus "Hard" Social Science: A False Opposition Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor 1 Hungary's Anti-Semitic Provinces: Violence and Ritual Murder in the 1880s Robert Nemes 20 Between Sacrifice and Indulgence: Nikolai Nekrasov as a Model for the Intelligentsia Konstantine Klioutchkine 45 Novelizing Religious Experience: The Generic Landscape of The Brothers Karamazov Kate Holland 63 Light in Captivity: Spectacular Glass and Soviet Power in the 1920s and 1930s Julia Bekman Chadaga 82 FEATURED REVIEWS Jochen Hellbeck, Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin (Ronald Grigor Suny) 106 Jan T. Gross, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz. An Essay in Historical Interpretation (Padraic Kenney) 108 BOOK REVIEWS Almut Bues, ed., Zones of Fracture in Modern Europe: The Baltic Countries, the Balkans, and Northern Italy / Zone di frattura in epoca moderna: Il Baltico, i Balcani e l'Italia settentrionale (Stefano Bianchini) 111 Rosalind Galt, The New European Cinema: Redrawing the Map (Dina Iordanova) 112 Derek S. Hutcheson and Elena A. Korosteleva, eds., The Quality of Democracy in Post-Communist Europe (Chris Hasselmann) 113 Savely Senderovich, The Riddle of the Riddle: A Study of the Folk Riddle's Figurative Nature (Alex Edward Alexander) 114 Christopher Hann and Paul Robert Magocsi, eds., Galicia: A Multicultured Land (Alison Frank) 115 Krzysztof A. Makowski, Si³a mitu: ¯ydzi w Poznañskiem w dobie zaborów w pi¶miennictwie historycznym (Keely Stauter-Halsted) 117 Theodore R. Weeks, From Assimilation to Antisemitism: The "Jewish Question" in Poland, 1850-1914 (Daniel Blatman) 118 Nancy Sinkoff, Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands (Daniel Stone) 119 Marci Shore, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 (Catherine Epstein) 121 George Sanford, Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940: Truth, Justice and Memory (Marc Jansen) 122 Timothy Snyder, Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine (David R. Marples) 123 Shana Penn, Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland (Michael Bernhard) 124 Janelle A. Kerlin, Social Service Reform in the Postcommunist State: Decentralization in Poland (Susan Rose-Ackerman) 125 Michael Düring and Ulrike Jekutsch, eds., Stanis³aw Lem-Mensch, Denker, Schriftsteller: Beiträge einer deutsch-polnischen Konferenz im Jahr 2000 in Greifswald und Szczecin (Yvonne Howell) 126 Thomas Wünsch and Andrzej Janeczek, eds., On the Frontier of Latin Europe: Integration and Segregation in Red Ruthenia, 1350-1600 / An der Grenze des lateinischen Europa: Integration und Segregation in Rotreußen, 1350-1600 (Paul W. Knoll) 128 Martin Schulze Wessel, Loyalitäten in der Tschechoslowakischen Republik 1918-1938: Politische, nationale und kulturelle Zugehörigkeiten (Daniel E. Miller) 129 David Short, ed., Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97): Papers from a Symposium (Alfred Thomas) 130 András Bozóki and Miklós Sükösd, Anarchism in Hungary: Theory, History, Legacies (Lee Congdon) 131 Beverly A. James, Imagining Postcommunism: Visual Narratives of Hungary's 1956 Revolution (György Csepeli) 132 William O. Oldson, The Politics of Rite: Jesuit, Uniate, and Romanian Ethnicity in 18th Century Transylvania (Paul E. Michelson) 134 Annette Freyberg-Inan with Radu Cristescu, The Ghosts in Our Classrooms, or: John Dewey Meets Ceauºescu: The Promise and the Failures of Civic Education in Romania (Tom Gallagher) 135 Bo¾idar Jezernik, Wild Europe: The Balkans in the Gaze of Western Travellers (Mary Neuburger) 136 Donna A. Buchanan, Performing Democracy: Bulgarian Music and Musicians in Transition (Carole Pegg) 137 Tomislav Longinoviæ, Vampires Like Us: Writing Down "the serbs" (Jan Louis Perkowski) 138 David J. Galbreath, Nation-Building and Minority Politics in Post-Socialist States: Interests, Influences, and Identities in Estonia and Latvia, foreword, David J. Smith (Andrejs Plakans) 139 Dovile Budryte, Taming Nationalism? Political Community Building in the Post-Soviet Baltic States (Kristian Gerner) 140 Fikret Adanir and Bernd Bonwetsch, eds., Osmanismus, Nationalismus und der Kaukasus: Muslime und Christen, Türken und Armenier im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Mustafa Aksakal) 141 Michael Kemper, Herrschaft, Recht und Islam in Daghestan: Von den Khanaten und Gemeindebünden zum gihad-Staat (Moshe Gammer) 143 David MacFadyen, Russian Culture in Uzbekistan: One Language in the Middle of Nowhere (William Fierman) 144 Martha Brill Olcott, Central Asia's Second Chance (Gary Bertsch) 145 Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Russian Identities: A Historical Survey (Peter C. Pozefsky) 146 Alexander Polunov, Russia in the Nineteenth Century: Autocracy, Reform, and Social Change, 1814-1914, ed. Thomas C. Owen and Larissa Zakharova, trans. Marshall S. Shatz (William G. Wagner) 147 John D. Basil, Church and State in Late Imperial Russia: Critics of the Synodal System of Church Government (1861-1914) (Paul Werth) 149 Andrei Val'terovich Grinev, The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867, trans. Richard L. Bland and Katerina G. Solovjova (Lydia T. Black) 150 Maks [Max] Engman, Finliandtsy v Peterburge, trans. from the Swedish by A. I. Rupasov (George E. Munro) 150 Natal'ia Selunskaia and Rol'f Toshtendal' [Torstendahl], Zarozhdenie demokraticheskoi kul'tury: Rossiia v nachale XX veka (G. M. Hamburg) 151 Michael Melancon, The Lena Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State (Henry Reichman) 153 Jochen Hellbeck and Klaus Heller, eds., Autobiographical Practices in Russia / Autobiographische Praktiken in Russland (Benjamin M. Sutcliffe) 154 Daniel Bertaux, Paul Thompson, and Anna Rotkirch, eds., Living through the Soviet System (Frederick C. Corney) 155 Derek Watson, Molotov: A Biography (Eric Duskin) 157 Roger R. Reese, Red Commanders: A Social History of the Soviet Army Officer Corps, 1918-1991 (John Bushnell) 158 Marcel de Haas, Russian Security and Air Power, 1992-2002: The Development of Russian Security Thinking under Yeltsin and Putin and Its Consequences for the Air Forces (Stephen J. Cimbala) 159 Olaf Mertelsmann, ed., Vom Hitler-Stalin-Pakt bis zu Stalins Tod: Estland, 1939-1953 (Olavi Arens) 160 John Barber and Andrei Dzeniskevich, eds., Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad, 1941-44 (Mary Schaeffer Conroy) 162 Thomas C. Wolfe, Governing Soviet Journalism: The Press and the Socialist Person after Stalin (Jonathan A. Becker) 163 Martin A. Smith, Russia and NATO since 1991: From Cold War through Cold Peace to Partnership? (Sean Kay) 165 Uri Ra'anan, ed., Flawed Succession: Russia's Power Transfer Crises, foreword, Robert Conquest (Anthony D'Agostino) 166 Andrew Wilson, Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World (Michael McFaul) 167 Michele Rivkin-Fish, Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention (William C. Cockerham) 168 Wolfgang Stephan Kissel, Der Kult des toten Dichters und die russische Moderne: Pu¹kin-Blok-Majakovskij (Olga P. Hasty) 169 Sophia Manns, Unreliable Narration in der russischen Literatur: F. M. Dostoevskijs Zapiski iz podpol'ja und V. V. Erofeevs Moskva-petu¹ki im Vergleich (Valeria Z. Nollan) 170 Chester Dunning with Caryl Emerson, Sergei Fomichev, Lidiia Lotman, and Antony Wood, The Uncensored Boris Godunov: The Case for Pushkin's Original Comedy, with Annotated Text and Translation (J. Douglas Clayton) 171 David Powelstock, Becoming Mikhail Lermontov: The Ironies of Romantic Individualism in Nicholas I's Russia (Lewis Bagby) 172 Gary Rosenshield, Western Law, Russian Justice: Dostoevsky, the Jury Trial, and the Law (Gary Cox) 173 Boris Pil'niak, Korni iaponskogo solntsa: Boris Pil'niak v Iaponii, 1926, ed. Dani Gravelli (Michael Falchikov) 174 Patrick Sériot, ed., Un paradigme perdu: La linguistique marriste (Lenore Grenoble) 176 Iurii Leving, Vokzal-Garazh-Angar: Vladimir Nabokov i poetika russkogo urbanizma (Jennifer Day) 176 Wolfgang Weitensteiner, Das andere Leben: Zeit und Erinnerung im Werk Jurij Trifonovs (Joseph P. Mozur Jr.) 177 Nathan D. Larson, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the Modern Russo-Jewish Question (Richard Tempest) 179 COLLECTED ESSAYS 180 BOOKS RECEIVED 183 LETTERS 186