From the Editors

Interview with the Editors of Quaestio Rossica . . . 1

Articles

SAMUEL J. HIRST
Comrades on Elephants: Economic Anti-Imperialism, Orientalism, and Soviet Diplomacy in Afghanistan, 1921–23 . . . 13

ROBERT DALE
Remobilizing the Dead: Wartime and Postwar Soviet Burial Practices and the Construction of the Memory of the Great Patriotic War . . . 41

ERIN HUTCHINSON
Ivan Denisovich on Trial: Soviet Writers, Russian Identity, and Solzhenitsyn’s Failed Bid for the 1964 Lenin Prize . . . 75

Documents and Source Analysis

ARTEMY M. KALINOVSKY AND ISAAC SCARBOROUGH
The Oil Lamp and the Electric Light: Progress, Time, and Nation in Central Asian Memoirs of the Soviet Era . . . 107

Review Article

PATRYK REID
The Lands beyond the Rivers: Directions and Potentials in Riparian Histories of Russian and Soviet Eurasia . . . 137

Review Essays
JULIA LEIKIN
From Comparative to Entangled Histories . . . 173

SARAH MATUSCHAK
In Apollo’s Sphere: Stalin and the Arts . . . 183

Reviews

MARK VINCENT
Crime, Punishment, and the Early Soviet Camps . . . 195

OLENA PALKO
Soviet Democracy and Repression in the Late 1930s . . . 201

NIKOLAUS KATZER
Obsessed by Efficiency and Productivity in Agriculture? . . . 210

Contributors to This Issue . . . 219