From the Editors The Imperial Turn 705
Articles GEORGE G. WEICKHARDT Muscovite Judicial Duels as a Legal Fiction 713
NATHANIEL KNIGHT Was the Intelligentsia Part of the Nation? Visions of Society in Post-Emancipation Russia 733
DOUGLAS R. WEINER Dzherzhinskii and the Gerd Case: The Politics of Intercession and the Evolution of “Iron Felix” in NEP Russia 759
IRINA PAPERNO Dreams of Terror: Dreams from Stalinist Russia as a Historical Source 793
Review Essays KONSTANTIN SHNEIDER Was There an “Early Russian Liberalism”? Perspectives from Russian and Anglo-American Historiography 825
PAUL W. WERTH Toward “Freedom of Conscience”: Catholicism, Law, and the Contours of Religious Liberty in Late Imperial Russia 843
ADEEB KHALID Between Empire and Revolution: New Work on Soviet Central Asia 865
Reviews STEVE SMITH Reginald E. Zelnik, The Perils of Pankratova: Some Stories from the Annals of Soviet Historiography 885
RICHARD TARUSKIN Boris M. Gasparov, Five Operas and a Symphony: Words and Music in Russian Culture 893
THEODORE R. WEEKS Arnold Bartetzky, Marina Dmitrieva, and Stefan Troebst, eds., Neue Staaten—neue Bilder? Visuelle Kultur im Dienst staatlicher Selbstdarstellung in Zentral- und Osteuropa seit 1918 [New States—New Images? Visual Culture in the Service of State Self-Representation in Central and Eastern Europe since 1918] 899
LARS T. LIH Marc Angenot, Jules Guesde, ou: Le Marxisme orthodoxe [Jules Guesde, or Orthodox Marxism] 905
JOHN CONNELLY Richard Overy, The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia 919
In Memoriam EDWARD L. KEENAN Omeljan Pritsak (1919–2006) 931
Contributors to This Issue 937