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 EDITORSThe Call of the Vozhd’ … 1
ARTICLES
Dmitrii Liseitsev Reconstructing the Late 16th- and 17th-Century Muscovite State Budget … 5
Maria Mayofis The Thaw and the Idea of National Gemeinschaft: The All-Russian Choral Society … 27
Alexey Golubev Time in 1:72 Scale: Plastic Historicity of Soviet Models … 69
Chris Miller Gorbachev’s Agriculture Agenda: Decollectivization and the Politics of Perestroika … 95
REVIEW FORUM: THE GREAT DICTATOR REVISITED
Michael David-Fox The Leader and the System … 119
Jörg Baberowski Master of Power: Stalin and the Evolution of the Soviet System of Terror … 131
REVIEW FORUM: IMPERIAL RUSSIA IN THE WORLD
Martin Aust New Perspectives on Russian History in World History … 139
Alessandro Stanziani Russian Economic Growth in Global Perspective … 151
REVIEW ESSAYS
Stephen M. Norris A Biographical Turn? … 163
Alexander V. Reznik Lev Trotskii as the Mirror of the Russian Revolution … 181
REVIEWS
Alexander M. Martin Constructing Identity in Pushkin’s Russia … 193
Elena I. Campbell Foreign Faiths, Toleration, and Religious Freedom in the Russian Empire … 205
Galina Ulianova Private Lives and Public Spaces in Imperial Russia … 215
Artemy M. Kalinovsky Nationalism, Triumphalism, and the Final Months of the Soviet Union … 228
Contributors to This Issue … 233