CONTENTS

FROM THE EDITORS

Within and Beyond the Ivory Tower: Worlds without Nationalist Blinders
pp. 1

FORUM: A DIFFERENT WORLD ORDER? THE USSR AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH

Masha Kirasirova
The “East” as a Category of Bolshevik Ideology and Comintern Administration: The Arab Section of the Communist University of the Toilers of the East
pp. 7

Samuel J. Hirst
Soviet Orientalism across Borders: Documentary Film for the Turkish Republic
pp. 35

Katerina Clark
Indian Leftist Writers of the 1930s Maneuver among India, London, and Moscow: The Case of Mulk Raj Anand and His Patron Ralph Fox
pp. 63

REACTION

Bruce Grant
Communist Internationals
pp. 89

ARTICLES

Charles Halperin
Contemporary Russian Perceptions of Ivan IV’s Oprichnina
pp. 95

Claire Knight
Enemy Films on Soviet Screens: Trophy Films during the Early Cold War, 1947–52
pp. 125

REVIEW ESSAYS

Ian W. Campbell
Writing Imperial Lives: Biography, Autobiography, and Microhistory
pp. 151

Ilya Kukulin
Russian Literature on the Shoah: New Approaches and Contexts
pp. 165

Dietrich Beyrau
A Bird’s Eye View of Soviet and World Communism
pp. 177

REVIEWS

Mary Schaeffer Conroy
Imperial Russia’s Civil Society, 1750–1917
pp. 193

Kirill Rossiianov
Ivan Pavlov and the Moral Physiology of Self
pp. 203

Frank Henschel
Youth Cultures in Eastern Europe
pp. 210

Vladimir Solonari
Stalinist Purges during and after World War II as Retribution
pp. 216

IN MEMORIAM

Paul W. Werth
Thomas Barrett (1960–2016)
pp. 222

Contributors to This Issue
pp. 226