CONTENTS:

FROM THE EDITORS
What Makes a “Big Book”? … 1

FORUM: THE SOVIET ORDER AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1939–61

Amir Weiner and Aigi Rahi-Tamm
Getting to Know You: The Soviet Surveillance System, 1939–57 … 5

Alexey Tikhomirov
Symbols of Power in Rituals of Violence: The Personality Cult and Iconoclasm on the Soviet Empire’s Periphery (East Germany, 1945–61) … 47

Jeffrey S. Hardy
“The Camp Is Not a Resort”: The Campaign against Privileges in the Soviet Gulag, 1957–61 … 89

FORUM: THE SOVIET FIRST PERSON

Andrew B. Stone
“The Differences Were Only in the Details”: The Moral Equivalency of Stalinism and Nazism in Anatolii Bakanichev’s Twelve Years behind Barbed Wire … 123

Benjamin Tromly
Intelligentsia Self-Fashioning in the Postwar Soviet Union: Revol’t Pimenov’s Political Struggle, 1949–57 … 151

Benjamin Nathans
Thawed Selves: A Commentary on the Soviet First Person … 177

CLASSICS IN RETROSPECT

Addis Mason
Isaiah Berlin’s Russian Thinkers and the Argument for Inclusion … 185

REVIEW ESSAYS

Donald Ostrowski
Inner Asia: Empires and Silk Roads … 201

Mikhail Loukianov and Mikhail Suslov
Defenders of the Motherland or Defenders of the Autocracy? … 217

REVIEWS

Anton Fedyashin
Andrei Borisovich Zubov, ed., Istoriia Rossii: XX vek [A History of Russia: The 20th Century], 2 vols. … 233

Alexei Kojevnikov
Jay Bergman, Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov … 243

LETTERS

Kevin Murphy
To the Editors … 251

Contributors to This Issue … 253