CONTENTS
From the Editors
The Kritika Review Demystified … 483
Articles
JAMES H. MEYER Speaking Sharia to the State: Muslim Protesters, Tsarist Officials, and the Islamic Discourses of Late Imperial Russia … 485
ANTON FEDYASHIN Sergei Witte and the Press: A Study in Careerism and Statecraft … 507
MAYA HABER Concealing Labor Pain: The Evil Eye and the Psychoprophylactic Method of Painless Childbirth in Soviet Russia … 535
GREGORY AFINOGENOV Andrei Ershov and the Soviet Information Age … 561
Review Essays
EUGENE M. AVRUTIN Pogroms in Russian History … 585
STEPHEN V. BITTNER A Negentropic Society? Wartime and Postwar Soviet History … 599
JULIANE FÜRST Where Did All the Normal People Go? Another Look at the Soviet 1970s … 621
Reviews
DAVID GOLDFRANK New on the Piety of Yore … 641
MARCUS C. LEVITT Personality and Place in Russian Culture—or Not … 650
FRANÇOISE LESOURD Russian Philosophy as a Defense of Human Dignity … 659
JULIA OBERTREIS Soviet Urban Planning, Housing Policies, and De-Stalinization … 673
TANJA PENTER Coming to Terms with a Violent Past … 683
In Memoriam
GARY MARKER Viktor Markovich Zhivov (1945–2013) … 691
Letters
PETER RUGGENTHALER To the Editors … 697
Contributors to This Issue … 699