Volume 1, Number 4 (Fall 2000)
From the Editors
Some Paradoxes of the “New Imperial History” . . . 623
Forum: Reconsidering the Russian Peasantry
Boris Gorshkov
Serfs on the Move: Peasant Seasonal Migration in Pre-Reform Russia, 1800–61 . . . 627
David Kerans
Toward a Wider View of the Agrarian Problem in Russia, 1861–1930 . . . 657
Reaction
David Moon
Russia’s Rural Economy, 1800–1930 . . . 679
Ex Tempore: Orientalism and Russia
Adeeb Khalid
Russian History and the Debate over Orientalism . . . 691
Nathaniel Knight
On Russian Orientalism: A Response to Adeeb Khalid . . . 701
Maria Todorova
Does Russian Orientalism Have a Russian Soul? A Contribution to the Debate between Nathaniel Knight and
Adeeb Khalid . . . 717
Review Article
John Randolph
The Old Mansion: Revisiting the History of the Russian Country Estate . . . 729
Review Essays
Sean Pollock
“We Slavishly Request…”: Invitations to Empire and Russian Political Patronage in the Balkans . . . 751
Marc Raeff
The 18th-Century Nobility and the Search for a New Political Culture in Russia . . . 769
Reviews
Lindsey Hughes
Nikolai Pavlenko, Vokrug trona . . . 783
Gary Marker
Martina Petrovna Mokhnacheva, Zhurnalistika i istoricheskaia nauka, vols. 1–2 . . . 789
Olga Leonteva
Thomas Sanders, ed., Historiography of Imperial Russia: The Profession and Writing of History in a Multinational
State . . . 794
Marina Sorokina
Minuvshee: Istoricheskii al´manakh 25: Soderzhanie tomov 1–24 . . . 805
Sergei Kapterev
Graham Roberts, Forward Soviet! History and Non-Fiction Film in the USSR; Lev A. Parfenov, ed. Zhivye golosa kino: govoriat vydaiushchiesia mastera otechestvennogo kinoiskusstva (30-e–40-e gody). Iz neopublikovannogo . . . 815
Richard S. Wortman
Sergei Iur´evich Nekliudov, ed., Moskovsko-tartuskaia semioticheskaia shkola. Istoriia, vospominaniia,
razmyshleniia . . . 821
To the Editors
Charles J. Halperin, with a response by Donald Ostrowski . . . 830
Contributors to This Issue . . . 833