From the Editors

Walled Worlds: “Illiberal Democracy” and the CEU Affair . . . 1

Forum: “National Indifference” in the Russian Empire

Andrei Cusco
Russians, Romanians, or Neither? Mobilization of Ethnicity and “National Indifference” in Early 20th-Century Bessarabia . . . 7

Karsten Brüggemann and Katja Wezel
Nationally Indifferent or Ardent Nationalists? On the Options for Being German in Russia’s Baltic Provinces, 1905–17 . . . 39

Alexei Miller
“National Indifference” as a Political Strategy? . . . 63

Articles

John M. Romero
Soviet Music as National Achievement: The Development of Professional Music in the Tatar ASSR, 1928–59 . . . 73

Simone A. Bellezza
The “Transnationalization” of Ukrainian Dissent: New York City Ukrainian Students and the Defense of Human Rights, 1968–80 . . . 99

Review Essays

Luba Golburt
Private Affairs: Histories of the Russian Age of Sensibility . . . 121

Theodore R. Weeks
Jews and Russians from Imperial to Soviet Times . . . 133

Tarik Cyril Amar
Politics, Starvation, and Memory: A Critique of Red Famine . . . 145

Reviews

Ricarda Vulpius
The Russian Variant of Enlightenment . . . 171

Boris Kolonitskii
Before and after the Revolution . . . 179

Vitalij Fastovskij
In Search of Soviet Podlinnost´ . . . 184

Barbara Martin and Clemens Günther
Psychiatry in Late Soviet Literature . . . 191

Karl D. Qualls
Making Spaces, Building Socialism, Transforming People . . . 198

Andreas Hilger
The Global Cold War and Its Legacies . . . 208

Contributors to This Issue . . . 219