CONTENTS
From the Editors The Vibrant 18th Century … 237
Forum: Decrees and the Limits of Autocracy in 18th-Century Russia
EVGENII V. AKELEV The Barber of All Russia: Lawmaking, Resistance, and Mutual Adaptation during Peter the Great’s Cultural Reforms … 241
SERGEY CHERNIKOV Noble Landownership in 18th-Century Russia: Revisiting the Economic and Sociopolitical Consequences of Partible Inheritance … 277
ELENA MARASINOVA Punishment by Penance in 18th-Century Russia: Church Practices in the Service of the Secular State … 305
LORENZ ERREN Feofan Prokopovich’s Pravda voli monarshei as Fundamental Law of the Russian Empire … 333
Reaction
RICHARD S. WORTMAN Intentions and Realities in 18th-Century Monarchy: New Insights and Discoveries … 361
History and Historians
INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM CRAFT BRUMFIELD Faded Glory in Full Color: Russia’s Architectural History … 379
David L. Ransel FROM THE DEL´VIG HOUSE TO THE GAS-SCRAPER: THE FIGHT TO Preserve St. Petersburg … 405
Review Essays
MICHAEL D. GORDIN Reflexivity and the Russian Professoriate … 433
VOLODYMYR RYZHKOVSKYI Beyond the Binaries: The Postwar Soviet Intelligentsia in History and Memory … 447
Reviews
GEORGE G. WEICKHARDT Criminal Law in Muscovy … 461
JONATHAN W. DALY Perlustration in Imperial Russia … 466
FRANÇOIS-XAVIER NÉRARD Stalinism as Traditional Political Culture … 475
Letters
JUSTIN YOO To the Editors … 483
ISAAC SCARBOROUGH To the Editors … 484
Contributors to This Issue … 486