Kritika, Volume 10, Number 4 (Fall 2009)
Contents
FROM THE EDITORS
Against Falsification, and a Changing of the Guard ... 747
FORUM: INTERNAL ENEMIES AND EXTERNAL INFLUENCES—STALIN-ERA CINEMA
Andrey Shcherbenok The Enemy, the Communist, and Ideological Closure in Soviet Cinema on the Eve of the Great Terror (The Peasants and The Party Card) ... 753
Sergei Kapterev Illusionary Spoils: Soviet Attitudes toward American Cinema during the Early Cold War ... 779
REACTION
Julian Graffy Writing about the Cinema of the Stalin Years: The State of the Art ... 809
EX TEMPORE: TOWARD A NEW ORTHODOXY? THE POLITICS OF HISTORY IN RUSSIA TODAY
David Brandenberger A New Short Course? A. V. Filippov and the Russian State’s Search for a “Usable Past” ... 825
Vladimir Solonari Normalizing Russia, Legitimizing Putin ... 835
Boris N. Mironov The Fruits of a Bourgeois Education ... 847
Elena Zubkova The Filippov Syndrome ... 861
REVIEW ARTICLE
Nikolay Mitrokhin “Strange People” in the Politburo: Institutional Problems and the Human Factor in the Economic Collapse of the Soviet Empire ... 869
REVIEW ESSAYS
Liliya Berezhnaya Does Ukraine Have a Church History? ... 897
Theodore R. Weeks Urban History in Eastern Europe ... 917
Karsten Brüggemann Russia and the Baltic Countries: Recent Russian-Language Literature ... 935
REVIEWS
David B. Miller Nikolai Nikolaevich Pokrovskii and Gail D. Lenhoff, eds. Stepennaia kniga tsarskogo rodosloviia po drevneishim spiskam: Teksty i kommentarii [“The Book of Degrees of the Tsars’ Genealogy” according to the Oldest Manuscripts: Texts and Commentary], 3 vols., 1: Zhitie sviatoi kniagini OlŽgi, Stepeni I–X [The Life of Princess St. OlŽga; Degrees 1–10]; Aleksei Vladimirovich Sirenov, Stepennaia kniga: Istoriia teksta [The Book of Degrees: History of a Text] ... 957
Andrew A. Gentes Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Abby Schrader, and Willard Sunderland, eds., Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History; L. M. Dameshek and A. V. Remnev, SibirŽ v sostave Rossiiskoi imperii [Siberia as Part of the Russian Empire] ... 963
Barbara Alpern Engel Irina Iukina, Russkii feminizm kak vyzov sovremennosti [Russian Feminism as a Challenge of Modernity] ... 974
Kevin McDermott Paul R. Gregory, Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives; Stenogrammy zasedanii Politbiuro TsK RKP(b)–VKP(b), 1923–1938 gg. [Stenograms of the Meetings of the Politburo of the CC RCP(b)–AUCP, 1923–38], 3 vols. ... 982
Anton Fedyashin Nataliia Narochnitskaia, Rossiia i russkie v mirovoi istorii [Russia and the Russians in World History]; Narochnitskaia, Russkii mir [The Russian World]; Narochnitskaia, Za chto i s kem my voevali [For What and with Whom We Fought] ... 992
IN MEMORIAM
Daniel H. Kaiser Richard Hellie (1937–2009) ... 999
Contributors to This Issue ... 1007
Erratum ... 1010