Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History is, as its name suggests, dedicated to critical inquiry into the history and culture of Russia and Eurasia. Since 2000 Kritika has been dedicated to internationalizing the field and making it relevant to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The journal regularly publishes forums, discussions, and special issues; it often translates important works by Russian and European scholars into English; and it publishes in every issue in-depth, lengthy review articles, review essays, and reviews of Russian, Eurasian, and European works that are rarely, if ever, covered in North American Russian studies journals.
CONTENTS
From The Editors
The Ukrainian Crisis and History … 1
Articles
Mikhail A. Kiselev State Metallurgy Factories and Direct Taxes in the Urals, 1700-50: Paths to State Building in Early Modern Russia … 7
Michael Denner Resistance Is Futile, but Nonresistance Might Work: The East and Russia in Tolstoi’s Political Imagination, 1905-10 … 37
Danielle Ross Caught in the Middle: Education Reform and Youth Rebellion in Russia’s Madrasas, 1900-10 … 57
Johanna Conterio Inventing the Subtropics: An Environmental History of Sochi, 1929-36 … 91
Forum: The Ukrainian Crisis, Past And Present
Faith Hillis Intimacy and Antipathy: Ukrainian-Russian Relations in Historical Perspective … 121
John-Paul Himka The History behind the Regional Conflict in Ukraine … 129
William Jay Risch What the Far Right Does Not Tell Us about the Maidan … 137
Alexei Miller The “Ukrainian Crisis” and Its Multiple Histories … 145
Georgiy Kasianov How a War for the Past Becomes a War in the Present … 149
Review / Essay
Randall A. Poole Nineteenth-Century Russian Liberalism: Ideals and Realities … 157
Reviews
Ann M. Kleimola Medieval Visual Metaphors and Beasts Noble and Savage … 183
Heather J. Coleman Region and Nation in Late Imperial Russian Ukraine … 194
Jan Hennings World Revolution and International Diplomacy, 1900-39 … 204
Arkadi Zeltser Soviet Jews in Belorussia and Ukraine … 211
Karsten Brüggemann The Lithuanian Cultural Elite and the End of the Soviet Union … 219
Contributors to This Issue … 227