CONTENTS

FROM THE EDITORS

Open Letter on Open Access … 1

Forum: Stalinism and the Economy

ANDREW SLOIN AND OSCAR SANCHEZ-SIBONY
Economy and Power in the Soviet Union, 1917–39 … 7

OSCAR SANCHEZ-SIBONY
Depression Stalinism: The Great Break Reconsidered … 23

ANDREW SLOIN
The Politics of Crisis: Economy, Ethnicity, and Trotskyism in Belorussia … 51

BENJAMIN LORING
“Colonizers with Party Cards”: Soviet Internal Colonialism in Central Asia, 1917–39 … 77

MARCIE K. COWLEY
The Right of Inheritance and the Stalin Revolution … 103

Reaction

ANDREI MARKEVICH
Economics and the Establishment of Stalinism … 125

Classics in Retrospect

MAUREEN PERRIE
Uspenskii and Zhivov on Tsar, God, and Pretenders: Semiotics and the Sacralization of the Monarch … 133

Review Essay

WILLIAM G. WAGNER
Religion in Modern Russia: Revival and Survival … 151

Reviews

PHILIP J. SWOBODA
Belief and Unbelief in Russia … 169

LOUISE MCREYNOLDS
Putting the Dacha in Its Place … 180

MARTIN SCHULZE WESSEL
Confessional Politics and Religious Loyalties in the Russian–Polish Borderlands … 184

CHARLES STEINWEDEL
Jews and the State in the Russian Empire … 197

EILEEN KANE
World War I on the Eastern Front … 207

WILLIAM TOMPSON
Leadership Transition and Policy Change in the USSR after Stalin … 217

Contributors to This Issue … 229