Volume 15, Number 2 (Spring 2014)
From the Editors
Making Russian History Up . . . 231
Forum: 1812—The War in Words
Nikolai Promyslov
The Image of Russia in French Public Opinion, 1811–12 . . . 235
Victor Taki
The Horrors of War: Representations of Violence in European, Oriental, and “Patriotic” Wars . . . 263
Reaction
Alexander M. Martin
The Last “War in Lace” or the First “Total War”? . . . 293
Article
Zhivka Valiavicharska
How the Concept of Totalitarianism Appeared in Late Socialist Bulgaria: The Birth and Life of Zheliu Zhelev’s Book Fascism . . . 303
Reaction
Vladislav Zubok
How the Late Socialist Intelligentsia Swapped Ideology . . . 335
Forum: Fiction and the Historical Imagination
Carolyn J. Pouncy
History, Real and Invented . . . 343
Alfred J. Rieber
A Tale of Three Genres: History, Fiction, and the Historical Detektiv . . . 353
Julius Wachtel
The Road to Stalin’s Witnesses: Seeking Truth through Fiction . . . 365
History and Historians
Joshua Rubenstein
A Jewish Radical, A Jewish Liberal, and Russian History . . . 377
Review Article
Glennys Young
To Russia with “Spain”: Spanish Exiles in the USSR and the Longue Durée of Soviet History . . . 395
Review Essay
Frances Nethercott
Reevaluating Russian Historical Culture . . . 421
Reviews
Elizabeth Kendall
Opera, Ballet, and Political Power . . . 441
Isabelle Kaplan
Speaking Soviet in Kyrgyzstan . . . 451
Stephen Brain
How the Soviets Explored the Cosmic Void and Found … Nothing . . . 458
Letters
Peter B. Brown
To the Editors
With a response by Anna Joukovskaia . . . 466
Contributors to This Issue . . . 468