FROM THE EDITORS Siberia: Colony and Frontier … 1
FORUM: REDISCOVERING SIBERIA
DANIEL BEER The Exile, the Patron, and the Pardon: The Voyage of the Dawn (1877) and the Politics of Punishment in an Age of Nationalism and Empire … 5
LEWIS SIEGELBAUM Those Elusive Scouts: Pioneering Peasants and the Russian State, 1870s–1950s … 31
ALBERTO MASOERO Territorial Colonization in Late Imperial Russia: Stages in the Development of a Concept … 59
REVIEW ESSAYS
SUSAN SMITH-PETER Russian America in Russian and American Historiography … 93
HUBERTUS F. JAHN Politics at the Margins and the Margins of Politics in Imperial Russia … 101
CYNTHIA V. HOOPER Bosses in Captivity? On the Limitations of Gulag Memoir … 117
REVIEWS
RUSSELL E. MARTIN Iurii Moiseevich Eskin, Ocherki istorii mestnichestva v Rossii XVI–XVII vv. (Essays in the History of Precedence in 16th- and 17th-Century Russia); Irina Borisovna Mikhailova, I zdes´ soshlis´ vse tsarstva…: Ocherki po istorii Gosudareva dvora v Rossii XVI v. Povsednevnaia i prazdnichnaia kul´tura, semantika, etiketa i obriadnosti (And Here All Kingdoms Met: Essays in the History of the Sovereign’s Court in 16th-Century Russia. Everyday and Celebratory Culture, Semantics, Etiquette, and Ritual) … 143
ERIKA MONAHAN Andrew Gentes, Exile to Siberia, 1590–1822: Corporeal Commodification and Administrative Systematization in Russia; V. D. Puzanov, Voennye faktory russkoi kolonizatsii zapadnoi Sibiri, konets XVI–XVII vv. (Military Factors in the Russian Colonization of Western Siberia in the Late 16th and 17th Centuries); Christoph Witzenrath, Cossacks and the Russian Empire, 1598–1725: Manipulation, Rebellion, and Expansion into Siberia … 151
ELISE KIMERLING WIRTSCHAFTER Hubertus F. Jahn, Armes Russland: Bettler und Notleidende in der russische Geschichte vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart (Russia’s Poor: Beggars and the Needy in Russian History from the Middle Ages to the Present); Natal´ia Vadimovna Kozlova, Liudi driakhlye, bol´nye, ubogie v Moskve XVIII veka (The Infirm, the Sick, and the Poor in 18th-Century Moscow) … 164
DANIEL ORLOVSKY Boris Kolonitskii, “Tragicheskaia erotika”: Obrazy imperatorskoi sem´i v gody Pervoi mirovoi voiny (“Tragic Eroticism”: Images of the Imperial Family during World War I) … 172
MONICA RÜTHERS Tim Harte, Fast Forward: The Aesthetics of Speed in Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910–1930; Corinna Kuhr-Korolev and Dirk Schlinkert, eds., Towards Mobility: Varieties of Automobilism in East and West; Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile … 182
VLADIMIR TISMANEANU Cristina Vatulescu, Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times … 192
MICHAEL WILDT Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin … 197
ALEXIS PERI Nicholas Ganson, The Soviet Famine of 1946–47 in Global and Historical Perspective; Serguei Alex. Oushakine, The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia … 207
TIM B. MÜLLER Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, eds., The Cambridge History of the Cold War, 3 vols… . 213
CHRISTINE EVANS Paulina Bren, The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring; Leonid Parfenov, Namedni: Nasha era (Recently: Our Era), 4 vols.; Kristin Roth-Ey, Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire That Lost the Cold War … 225
Contributors to This Issue … 235