Volume 15, Number 1 (Winter 2014)
From the Editors
Open Letter on Open Access . . . 1
Forum: Stalinism and the Economy
Andrew Sloin and Oscar Sanchez-Sibony
Economy and Power in the Soviet Union, 1917–39 . . . 7
Oscar Sanchez-Sibony
Depression Stalinism: The Great Break Reconsidered . . . 23
Andrew Sloin
The Politics of Crisis: Economy, Ethnicity, and Trotskyism in Belorussia . . . 51
Benjamin Loring
“Colonizers with Party Cards”: Soviet Internal Colonialism in
Central Asia, 1917–39 . . . 77
Marcie K. Cowley
The Right of Inheritance and the Stalin Revolution . . . 103
Reaction
Andrei Markevich
Economics and the Establishment of Stalinism . . . 125
Classics in Retrospect
Maureen Perrie
Uspenskii and Zhivov on Tsar, God, and Pretenders: Semiotics and the Sacralization of the Monarch . . . 133
Review Essay
William G. Wagner
Religion in Modern Russia: Revival and Survival . . . 151
Reviews
Philip J. Swoboda
Belief and Unbelief in Russia . . . 169
Louise McReynolds
Putting the Dacha in Its Place . . . 180
Martin Schulze Wessel
Confessional Politics and Religious Loyalties in the Russian–Polish Borderlands . . . 184
Charles Steinwedel
Jews and the State in the Russian Empire . . . 197
Eileen Kane
World War I on the Eastern Front . . . 207
William Tompson
Leadership Transition and Policy Change in the USSR after Stalin . . . 217
Contributors to This Issue . . . 229