Volume 6, Number 1 (Winter 2005)

From the Editors

The Rule of Law in Russia: Invitation to a Discussion on e-Kritika . . . 1

Forum: Monumental Stalinist Publications

Elaine Mackinnon
Writing History for Stalin: Isaak Izrailevich Mints and the Istoriia grazhdanskoi voiny . . . 5

Brian Kassof
A Book of Socialism: Stalinist Culture and the First Edition of the Bol´shaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia . . . 55

Reaction

Serhy Yekelchyk
The Archeology of Bolshevik Knowledge, or the Birth of Stalinism from the Spirit of Grand Cultural Projects . . . 97

Review Forum: The Revival of Russian Conservatism

G. M. Hamburg
The Revival of Russian Conservatism . . . 107

Mikhail Loukianov
The Rise and Fall of the All-Russian National Union . . . 129

Johannes Remy
Russian Conservatism in Its International Context . . . 135

Review Article

Richard Wortman
Russian Monarchy and the Rule of Law: New Considerations of the Court Reform of 1864 . . . 145

Review Essays

Alexander Etkind
Soviet Subjectivity: Torture for the Sake of Salvation? . . . 171

David Brandenberger
Stalin’s Last Crime? Recent Scholarship on Postwar Soviet Antisemitism and the Doctors’ Plot . . . 187

Reviews

Russell E. Martin
Margarita Evgen´evna Bychkova and Maksim Igorevich Smirnov, Genealogiia v Rossii: Istoriia i perspektivy (Genealogy in Russia: History and Perspectives); Iurii Moiseevich Eskin, Mestnichestvo v Rossii XVI–XVII vv.: Khronologicheskii reestr (Precedence in Russia in the 16th and 17th centuries: A Chronological Register); Nancy Shields Kollmann, By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia . . . 205

W. F. Ryan
A. N. Filimon, Iakov Brius (James Bruce); Aleksandr Kiriukhin, Tot samyi kudesnik Brius (That Magician Bruce) . . . 217

Corinne Gaudin
Viktor Grigor´evich Tiukavkin, Velikorusskoe krest´ianstvo i stolypinskaia agrarnaia reforma (The Great Russian Peasantry and the Stolypin Agricultural Reform) . . . 223

Sergei Kapterev
Liudmila Dzhulai, Dokumental´nyi illiuzion: Otechestvennyi kinodokumentalizm—opyty sotsial´nogo tvorchestva (Documentary Illusion: Russian Film Documentaries as Experiments in Social Creativity); Roza Dmitrievna Kopylova et al., eds., Poetika kino (2-e izdanie): Perechityvaia “Poetiku kino” (The Poetics of Cinema (2nd ed.): Rereading The Poetics of Cinema); Nikolai A. Izvolov, Fenomen kino: Istoriia i teoriia (The Phenomenon of Cinema: History and Theory) . . . 231

Ilya Vinkovetsky
Stephen Kotkin, Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970–2000; Robert D. English, Russia and the Idea of the West; Iurii M. Baturin et al., Epokha El´tsina: Ocherki politicheskoi istorii (The Yeltsin Years: Essays in Political
History) . . . 241

Contributors to This Issue . . . 253