Volume 18, Number 1 (Winter 2017)

From the Editors

Within and Beyond the Ivory Tower: Worlds without Nationalist Blinders . . . 1

Forum: A Different World Order? The USSR and the Global South

Masha Kirasirova

The “East” as a Category of Bolshevik Ideology and Comintern Administration: The Arab Section of the Communist University of the Toilers of the East . . . 7

Samuel J. Hirst

Soviet Orientalism across Borders: Documentary Film for the Turkish Republic . . . 35

Katerina Clark

Indian Leftist Writers of the 1930s Maneuver among India, London, and Moscow: The Case of Mulk Raj Anand and His Patron Ralph Fox . . . 63

Reaction

Bruce Grant

Communist Internationals . . . 89

Articles

Charles Halperin

Contemporary Russian Perceptions of Ivan IV’s Oprichnina . . . 95

Claire Knight

Enemy Films on Soviet Screens: Trophy Films during the Early Cold War, 1947–52 . . . 125

Review Essays

Ian W. Campbell

Writing Imperial Lives: Biography, Autobiography, and Microhistory . . . 151

Ilya Kukulin

Russian Literature on the Shoah: New Approaches and Contexts . . . 165

Dietrich Beyrau

A Bird’s Eye View of Soviet and World Communism . . . 177

Reviews

Mary Schaeffer Conroy

Imperial Russia’s Civil Society, 1750–1917 . . . 193

Kirill Rossiianov

Ivan Pavlov and the Moral Physiology of Self . . . 203

Frank Henschel

Youth Cultures in Eastern Europe . . . 210

Vladimir Solonari

Stalinist Purges during and after World War II as Retribution . . . 216

In Memoriam

Paul W. Werth

Thomas Barrett (1960–2016) . . . 222

Contributors to This Issue . . . 226