Volume 16, Number 4 (Fall 2015)
Photographs supplied by Janet M. Hartley
From the Editors
Memorials, Memorials: Closing in on the 1917 Centenary . . . 729
State of the Field: 1917 on the Eve of the Centenary
S. A. Smith
The Historiography of the Russian Revolution 100 Years On . . . 733
Boris I. Kolonitskii
On Studying the 1917 Revolution: Autobiographical Confessions and Historiographical Predictions . . . 751
Liudmila Novikova
The Russian Revolution from a Provincial Perspective . . . 769
Reaction
Donald J. Raleigh
The Russian Revolution after All These 100 Years . . . 787
Articles
Lars T. Lih
Letter from Afar, Corrections from Up Close: The Bolshevik Consensus of 1917 . . . 799
Susanne Schattenberg
Trust, Care, and Familiarity in the Politburo: Brezhnev’s Scenario of Power . . . 835
Forum: Does Economic History Matter?
George Grantham
Economic History in a Russian Mirror: The Gaidar Variations . . . 859
Richard E. Ericson
Economic History, Economic Theory, and Soviet Institutions: A Response to George Grantham . . . 891
History and Historians
Leonid Gorizontov
Anatolii Remnev and the Regions of the Russian Empire . . . 901
Review Forum: Eurasian Borderlands and Empires – A Grand View
Brian P. Farrell
The Wide-Angle Lens? The Centrality of Russia in the Histories of Eurasia, Empires, and Borderlands . . . 917
Peter C. Perdue
Geopolitics and Its Discontents . . . 925
Huri Islamoglu
Is Eurasian State Building Reducible to Cultural Politics? . . . 935
John P. LeDonne
Definitions, Methodology, and Argument . . . 943
Alfred J. Rieber
Struggle over the Borderlands . . . 951
Review Essay
Oleg Khlevniuk
No Total Totality: Forced Labor, Stalinism, and De-Stalinization . . . 961
Reviews
Theodore R. Weeks
Higher Education for Imperial Russian Jews . . . 975
Lynn Ellen Patyk
Ambivalent Reflections—Obshchestvo in the Time of Terrorism . . . 980
Daniel Leese
Identity Discourses and the Sino-Soviet Split . . . 988
Stephen M. Norris
Soviet Sound . . . 997
Katherine Zubovich
Housing and Meaning in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia . . . 1003
Memoria
Simon Dixon
Isabel de Madariaga (1919–2014) . . . 1012
Contributors to This Issue . . . 1019