Slavic Review. Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies.
Volume 70 No 1, Spring 2011
ARTICLES
Cross Kissing: Keeping One’s Word in Twelfth-Century Rus’
Yulia Mikhailova and David K. Prestel 1
Prosaic Witchcraft and Semiotic Totalitarianism: Muscovite Magic Reconsidered
Valerie Kivelson and Jonathan Shaheen 23
Genre and Actuality in Belinskii, Herzen, and Goncharov: Toward a Genealogy of the Tragic Pattern in Russian Realism
Ilya Kliger 45
Of Hats and Trains: Cultural Traffic in Leskov’s and Dostoevskii’s Westward Journeys
Anne Dwyer 67
An Odessa Odyssey: Vladimir Jabotinsky’s The Five
Barry P. Scherr 94
Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain and the Ethics of Listening
Gordana P. Crnković 116
The Politics of Memory in a Divided Society: A Comparison of Post-Franco Spain and Post-Soviet Ukraine
Oxana Shevel 137
FEATURED REVIEW
Paulina Bren, The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring (Melissa Feinberg) 165
FILM REVIEWS
Lana Parshina, dir., Svetlana about Svetlana (Beatrice Farnsworth) 168
Agne Nelk, dir., Lotman’s World (Maxim Waldstein) 169
Igor Sopronenko, dir., Russian Feminism: Twenty Years Forward, written and produced by Beth Holmgren (Adele Barker) 170
BOOK REVIEWS
Barbara Skinner, The Western Front of the Eastern Church: Uniate and Orthodox Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia (Gregory Bruess) 172
Vladimir Tismaneanu, ed., Stalinism Revisited: The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe (Norman M. Naimark) 173
Mary Elise Sarotte, 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe (Gale Stokes) 174
Anton Weiss-Wendt, Murder without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust (Doris L. Bergen) 175
Jack Jacobs, Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland (William W. Hagen) 177
Jacek Andrzej Młynarczyk, ed., Polen unter deutscher und sowjetischer Besatzung 1939-1945 (Gerhard L. Weinberg) 178
Gerald J. Beyer, Recovering Solidarity: Lessons from Poland’s Unfinished Revolution (Padraic Kenney) 179
Mary Heimann, Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed (Nancy W. Wingfield) 180
James Ramon Felak, After Hitler, Before Stalin: Catholics, Communists, and Democrats in Slovakia, 1945-1948 (Igor Lukes) 182
Radu Mârza, The History of Romanian Slavic Studies: From the Beginnings until the First World War, trans. from the Romanian by Leonard Ciocan (Keith Hitchins) 183
Nataša Kovačević, Narrating Post/Communism: Colonial Discourse and Europe’s Borderline Civilization (George Z. Gasyna) 184
Frances Millard, Democratic Elections in Poland, 1991-2007 (Joshua A. Tucker) 186
Katalin Fábián, Contemporary Women’s Movements in Hungary: Globalization, Democracy, and Gender Equality (Marilyn Rueschemeyer) 187
Galina Kichigina, The Imperial Laboratory: Experimental Physiology and Clinical Medicine in Post-Crimean Russia (Lousie McReynolds) 188
Anders Henriksson, Vassals and Citizens: The Baltic Germans in Constitutional Russia, 1905-1914 (Andrejs Plakans) 189
Brian Horowitz, Jewish Philanthropy and Enlightenment in Late-Tsarist Russia (Samuel Kassow) 190
Kenneth B. Moss, Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution (Leah Garrett) 192
Douglas Rogers, The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals (Christine D. Worobec) 192
Tat’iana Nikol’skaia, Russkii protestantizm i gosudarstvennaia vlast’ v 1905-1991 godakh (Heather J. Coleman) 194
Sharon A. Kowalsky, Deviant Women: Female Crime and Criminology in Revolutionary Russia, 1880-1930 (Jane McDermid) 195
Elena Osokina, Zoloto dlia industrializatsii: Torgsin (Olga Shevchenko) 196
Cathy A. Frierson and Semyon S. Vilensky, Children of the Gulag (Golfo Alexopoulos) 197
Lorenz Erren, “Selbstkritik“ und Schuldbekenntnis: Kommunikation und Herrschaft unter Stalin (1917-1953) (Tanja Penter) 198
Maria Zalambani, Censura, istituzioni e politica letteraria in URSS (1964-1985) (Andrea Graziosi) 200
David M. Glantz with Jonathan M. House, Armageddon in Stalingrad, September-November 1942, vol. 2, The Stalingrad Trilogy (Dennis Showalter) 201
Mark Edele, Soviet Veterans of the Second World War: A Popular Movement in an Authoritarian Society, 1941-1991 (Jeffrey W. Jones) 202
S. M. Plokhy, Yalta: The Price of Peace (Vladislav Zubok) 203
Thomas P. Bernstein and Hua-Yu Li, eds., China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949-Present (Elizabeth Wishnick) 204
Yinghong Cheng, Creating the “New Man”: From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities (Paul Hollander) 205
David C. Engerman, Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts (Elena Osokina) 207
Marcus C. Levitt, Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts (Andrew Kahn) 208
David M. Bethea, The Superstitious Muse: Thinking Russian Literature Mythopoetically (Michael Wachtel) 209
Isabel Wünsche, Harmonie und Synthese: Die russische Moderne zwischen universellem Anspruch und nationaler kultureller Identität (Christina Lodder) 210
Sylvia Sasse, Wortsünden: Beichten und Gestehen in der russischen Literatur (Inessa Medzhibovskaya) 211
Val Vinokur, The Trace of Judaism: Dostoevsky, Babel, Mandelstam, Levinas (Efraim Sicher) 213
Henrietta Mondry, Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, since the 1880s (Gabriella Safran) 214
Ronald D. LeBlanc, Slavic Sins of the Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction (Valeria Sobol) 215
Jessica Kravets, Das “Böse” im russischen Symbolismus: Bal’mont-Brjusov-Sologub-Remizov-Belyj-Blok (Adrian Wanner) 216
Sof’ia Gurvich-Lishchiner, Lichnost’ khudozhnika v tvorcheskom mire Osipa Mandel’shtama i traditsii russkoi klassiki (Evgeny Pavlov) 217
Tim Harte, Fast Forward: The Aesthetics and Ideology of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910-1930 (Nikolai Firtich) 218
Lazar’ Fleishman, Vstrecha russkoi emigratsii s “Doktorom Zhivago”: Boris Pasternak i “kholodnaia voina” (Catherine Ciepiela) 219
Judith Kuhn, Shostakovich in Dialogue: Form, Imagery and Ideas in Quartets 1-7 (Esti Sheinberg) 220
José Alaniz, Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (Karen Ryan) 222
Leonard H. Babby, The Syntax of Argument Structure (Lenore A. Grenoble) 223
Carole Sigman, Clubs politiques et perestroika en Russie: Subversion sans dissidence (James Critchlow) 224
Laura A. Henry, Red to Green: Environmental Activism in Post-Soviet Russia (Katrina Schwartz) 225
Martin Müller, Making Great Power Identities in Russia: An Ethnographic Discourse Analysis of Education at a Russian Elite University (Andreas Umland) 226
Robert Bruce Ware and Enver Kisriev, Dagestan: Russian Hegemony and Islamic Resistance in the Caucasus (Michael Kemper) 227
Amanda Wooden and Christopher H. Stefes, eds., The Politics of Transition in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Enduring Legacies and Emerging Challenges (Shireen T. Hunter) 228
COLLECTED ESSAYS 230
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 233
LETTERS 235
IN MEMORIAM 239
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