Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History is, as its name suggests, dedicated to critical inquiry into the history and culture of Russia and Eurasia. Since 2000 Kritika has been dedicated to internationalizing the field and making it relevant to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The journal regularly publishes forums, discussions, and special issues; it often translates important works by Russian and European scholars into English; and it publishes in every issue in-depth, lengthy review articles, review essays, and reviews of Russian, Eurasian, and European works that are rarely, if ever, covered in North American Russian studies journals.
CONTENTS
FROM THE EDITORSMemorials, Memorials: Closing in on the 1917 Centenary … 729
STATE OF THE FIELD: 1917 ON THE EVE OF THE CENTENARY
S. A. Smith The Historiography of the Russian Revolution 100 Years On … 733
Boris I. Kolonitskii On Studying the 1917 Revolution: Autobiographical Confessions and Historiographical Predictions … 751
Liudmila Novikova The Russian Revolution from a Provincial Perspective … 769
REACTION
Donald J. Raleigh The Russian Revolution after All These 100 Years … 787
ARTICLES
Lars T. Lih Letter from Afar, Corrections from Up Close: The Bolshevik Consensus of 1917 … 799
Susanne Schattenberg Trust, Care, and Familiarity in the Politburo: Brezhnev’s Scenario of Power … 835
FORUM: DOES ECONOMIC HISTORY MATTER?
George Grantham Economic History in a Russian Manner: The Gaidar Variations … 859
Richard E. Ericson Economic History, Economic Theory, and Soviet Institutions: A Response to George Grantham … 891
HISTORY AND HISTORIANS
Leonid Gorizontov Anatolii Remnev and the Regions of the Russian Empire … 901
REVIEW FORUM: EURASIAN BORDERLANDS AND EMPIRES—A GRAND VIEW
Brian P. Farrell The Wide-Angle Lens? The Centrality of Russia in the Histories of Eurasia, Empires, and Borderlands … 917
Peter C. Perdue Geopolitics and Its Discontents … 925
Huri Islamoglu Is Eurasian State Building Reducible to Cultural Politics? … 935
John P. LeDonne Definitions, Methodology, and Argument … 943
Alfred J. Rieber Struggle over the Borderlands … 951
REVIEW ESSAY
Oleg Khlevniuk No Total Totality: Forced Labor, Stalinism, and De-Stalinization … 961
REVIEWS
Theodore R. Weeks Higher Education for Imperial Russian Jews … 975
Lynn Ellen Patyk Ambivalent Reflections—Obshchestvo in the Time of Terrorism … 980
Daniel Leese Identity Discourses and the Sino-Soviet Split … 988
Stephen M. Norris Soviet Sound … 997
Katherine Zubovich Housing and Meaning in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia … 1003
MEMORIA
Simon Dixon Isabel de Madariaga (1919–2014) … 1012
Contributors to This Issue … 1019