Volume 25, Number 2 (Spring 2024)

From the Editors

Interview with Carolyn J. Pouncy . . . 229–42

Articles

Daniel Scarborough

The Embodiment of Orthodox Christianity in Central Asia: Sacred Objects and Orthodox Nationalism in Revolutionary Turkestan . . . 243–71

Iurii A. Demin

The Bolsheviks and the Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran (1920–21): Moscow’s Politics and the Ambitions of Regional and Local Political Actors . . . 273–98

Oleg V. Khlevniuk

Power and Ownership under a Dictatorship: Early Forms of Nomenklatura Privatization in Stalin’s USSR . . . 299–325

Laurie Manchester

The Legacy of the Cold War: Post-Colonial Identity among Former Russophone Residents of Harbin . . . 327–58

History and Historians

Timothy K. Blauvelt and Jeremy Smith

E. H. Carr and the Soviet Nationalities . . . 359–80

Review Essays

Simon Franklin

Scholarship and Myth in the Shaping of East Slavic Premodernity . . . 381–89

Russell E. Martin

Filling the Empty Container: Microhistory and the Challenges of Narrative . . . 390–405

Alexander M. Martin

Central Asia in the Imperial Russian Mind . . . 406–17

Anatoly Pinsky

The Meaning of Consciousness in the Early Soviet Union: Thoughts, Feelings, Bodies . . . 418–33

Robert Dale

Whose War Was It, Anyway? Writing Histories of the Soviet Union in World War II . . . 434–52

In Memoriam

Alexander M. Martin, Colleen M. Moore, and Willard Sunderland

Ben Eklof (1946–2023) . . . 453–64

Irina Reyfman and Hilde Hoogenboom

Cynthia Hyla Whittaker (1941–2023) . . . 465–71

Contributors to This Issue . . . 472–74