Volume 2, Number 1 (Winter 2001)
From the Editors
The Herd Mentality and Russian Studies . . . 1
Forum: Christianity and Bolshevism
Avram Brown
The Bolshevik Rejection of the “Revolutionary Christ” and Dem´ian Bednyi’s The Flawless New Testament of the Evangelist Dem´ian . . . 5
Igal Halfin
The Demonization of the Opposition: Stalinist Memory and the “Communist Archive” at Leningrad Communist
University . . . 45
Reaction
Robert C. Williams
Orthodoxy and Eschatology in Post-Bolshevik Culture . . . 81
Articles
Theodore R. Weeks
Religion and Russification: Russian Language in the Catholic Churches of the “Northwest Provinces” after 1863 . . . 87
Stephen Kotkin
Modern Times: The Soviet Union and the Interwar Conjuncture . . . 111
Review Essay
Alexander Etkind
Russian Sects Still Seem Obscure . . . 165
Reviews
Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
B. N. Mironov, Sotsial´naia istoriia Rossii perioda imperii (XVIII–nachalo XX v.) Genezis lichnosti, demokraticheskoi
sem´i, grazhdanskogo obshchestva i pravovogo gosudarstva . . . 183
Susan P. McCaffray
V. I. Bovykin, ed., Inostrannoe predprinimatel´stvo i zagranichnye investitsii v Rossii. Ocherki; V. I. Bovykin, Frantsuzskie banki v Rossii. Konets XIX–nachalo XX v.; Jonathan A. Grant, Big Business in Russia: The Putilov Company in Late Imperial Russia, 1868–1917 . . . 190
Eric Lohr
N. N. Smirnov et al., eds. Rossiia i pervaia mirovaia voina (Materialy mezhdunarodnogo nauchnogo kollokviuma) . . . 196
Gábor T. Rittersporn
E. V. Kodin, “Smolenskii Arkhiv” i amerikanskaia sovetologiia . . . 204
Jan Plamper
A. N. Artizov and O. N. Naumov, eds., Vlast´ i khudozhestvennaia intelligentsiia; E. S. Gromov, Stalin: vlast´ i iskusstvo;
L. V. Maksimenkov, Sumbur vmesto muzyki. Stalinskaia kul´turnaia revoliutsiia 1936–1938 . . . 211
To the Editors
David Kerans . . . 219
Contributors to This Issue . . . 223