Contents
From the Editors Failing the Grade: The Craze for Ranking Humanities Journals 1
Articles
DANA SHERRY Social Alchemy on the Black Sea Coast, 1860–65 7
FELIX WEMHEUER Regime Changes of Memory: Creating the Official History of the Ukrainian and Chinese Famines under State Socialism and after the Cold War 31
KAREL C. BERKHOFF “Total Annihilation of the Jewish Population”: The Holocaust in the Soviet Media, 1941–45 61
Review Forum: Occupiers and Eyewitnesses— The Holocaust in the East CATHERINE EPSTEIN Nazi Occupation Strategies 107
DAVID SHNEER Probing the Limits of Documentation 121
ZOЁ WAXMAN The Unknown Black Book 135
Review Article CLAUDIO SERGIO NUN INGERFLOM Lenin Rediscovered, or Lenin Redisguised? 139
Reviews
DAVID GOLDFRANK Tom E. Dykstra, Russian Monastic Culture, “Josephism,” and the Iosifo-Volokolamsk Monastery, 1479–1607; Nikolai Konstantinovich Nikol´skii, Kirillo-Belozerskii monastyr´ i ego ustroistvo do vtoroi chetverti XVII veka (1397–1625) [The Kirillo-Belozerskii Monastery and Its Organization up to the Second Quarter of the 17th Century (1397–1625)], 2 169
PAUL KEENAN Tat´iana Vladimirovna Artem´eva, Ot slavnogo proshlogo k svetlomu budushchemu: filosofiia istorii i utopiia v Rossii epokhi Prosveshcheniia [From a Glorious Past to a Bright Future: Philosophy of History and Utopia in Russia in the Age of Enlightenment]; Vera Proskurina, Mify imperii: Literatura i vlast´ v epokhu Ekateriny II [Myths of Empire: Literature and Power in the Age of Catherine II] 176
CHRIS J. CHULOS M. A. Babkin, ed., Rossiiskoe dukhovenstvo i sverzhenie monarkhii v 1917 godu: Materialy i arkhivnye dokumenty po istorii Russkoi pravoslavnoi tserkvi [The Russian Clergy and the Downfall of the Monarchy in 1917: Materials and Archival Documents on the History of the Russian Orthodox Church]; Iu. E. Kondakov, Gosudarstvo i pravoslavnaia tserkov´ v Rossii: Evoliutsiia otnoshenii v pervoi polovine XIX veka [The State and the Orthodox Church in Russia: The Evolution of Relations in the First Half of the 19th Century]; Mark D. Steinberg and Heather J. Coleman, eds., Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia; Sergei I. Zhuk, Russia’s Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830–1917 184
DEBORAH YALEN Arkadii Zel´tser, Evrei sovetskoi provintsii: Vitebsk i mestechki 1917–1941 [Jews of the Soviet Provinces: Vitebsk and the Shtetls, 1917–41] 194
STEPHEN LOVELL Evgenii Dobrenko, Politekonomiia sotsrealizma, trans. as Evgeny Dobrenko, Political Economy of Socialist Realism by Jesse M. Savage; Katharina Kucher, Der Gorki-Park: Freizeitkultur im Stalinismus 1928–1941 [Gor´kii Park: Leisure Culture under Stalinism, 1928-41]; Svetlana Iur´evna Malysheva, Sovetskaia prazdnichnaia kul´tura v provintsii: Prostranstvo, simvoly, istoricheskie mify (1917–1927) [Soviet Festival Culture in the Provinces: Space, Symbols, Historical Myths, 1917-27] 205
In Memoriam
ELISE KIMERLING WIRTSCHAFTER Marc Raeff (1923–2008): “A Pebble in the Water” 216
Letters
ORLANDO FIGES To the Editors 221 ANTONY BEEVOR To the Editors 223 Contribut