CONTENTS

FROM THE EDITORS
Revisiting Old Wars … 489

FORUM: SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA IN AND AFTER WORLD WAR II

Moritz Florin
Becoming Soviet through War: The Kyrgyz and the Great Fatherland War … 495

Charles Shaw
Soldiers’ Letters to Inobatxon and O’g’ulxon: Gender and Nationality in the Birth of a Soviet Romantic Culture … 517

Timothy Nunan
A Union Reframed: Sovinformbiuro, Postwar Soviet Photography, and Visual Orders in Soviet Central Asia … 553

Artemy M. Kalinovsky
Central Planning, Local Knowledge? Labor, Population, and the “Tajik School of Economics” … 585

REACTION

Adrienne Lynn Edgar
Central Asian History as Soviet History … 621

REVIEW ESSAYS

Julia Leikin
Across the Seven Seas: Is Russian Maritime History More Than Regional History? … 631

Jared McBride
Who’s Afraid of Ukrainian Nationalism? … 647

Anna Ivanova
Socialist Consumption and Brezhnev’s Stagnation: A Reappraisal of Late Communist Everyday Life … 665

REVIEWS

David L. Ransel
Imperial Property Law and Its Consequences … 679

Eric Lohr
The Russian Army in World War I … 688

Scott Gehlbach
Taxes and Citizenship, 1850s–1920s … 698

Vladimir Solonari
Soviet Foreign Relations “Hard” and “Soft,” 1917–45 … 702

Contributors to This Issue … 712