FROM THE EDITORSInterview with Carolyn J. Pouncy . . . 229–42
ARTICLESDaniel Scarborough The Embodiment of Orthodox Christianity in Central Asia: Sacred Objects and Orthodox Nationalism in Revolutionary Turkestan . . . 243–71
Iurii A. Demin The Bolsheviks and the Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran (1920–21): Moscow’s Politics and the Ambitions of Regional and Local Political Actors . . . 273–98
Oleg V. Khlevniuk Power and Ownership under a Dictatorship: Early Forms of Nomenklatura Privatization in Stalin’s USSR . . . 299–325
Laurie Manchester The Legacy of the Cold War: Post-Colonial Identity among Former Russophone Residents of Harbin . . . 327–58
HISTORY AND HISTORIANSTimothy K. Blauvelt and Jeremy Smith E. H. Carr and the Soviet Nationalities . . . 359–80
REVIEW ESSAYSSimon Franklin Scholarship and Myth in the Shaping of East Slavic Premodernity . . . 381–89
Russell E. Martin Filling the Empty Container: Microhistory and the Challenges of Narrative . . . 390–405
Alexander M. Martin Central Asia in the Imperial Russian Mind . . . 406–17
Anatoly Pinsky The Meaning of Consciousness in the Early Soviet Union: Thoughts, Feelings, Bodies . . . 418–33
Robert Dale Whose War Was It, Anyway? Writing Histories of the Soviet Union in World War II . . . 434–52
IN MEMORIAMAlexander M. Martin, Colleen M. Moore, and Willard Sunderland Ben Eklof (1946–2023) . . . 453–64
Irina Reyfman and Hilde Hoogenboom Cynthia Hyla Whittaker (1941–2023) . . . 465–71
Contributors to This Issue . . . 472–74