Volume 16, Number 1 (Winter 2015)
From the Editors
The Ukrainian Crisis and History . . . 1
Articles
Mikhail A. Kiselev
State Metallurgy Factories and Direct Taxes in the Urals, 1700-50: Paths to State Building in Early Modern Russia . . . 7
Michael Denner
Resistance Is Futile, but Nonresistance Might Work: The East and Russia in Tolstoi’s Political Imagination, 1905-10 . . . 37
Danielle Ross
Caught in the Middle: Education Reform and Youth Rebellion in Russia’s Madrasas, 1900-10 . . . 57
Johanna Conterio
Inventing the Subtropics: An Environmental History of Sochi, 1929-36 . . . 91
Forum: The Ukrainian Crisis, Past and Present
Faith Hillis
Intimacy and Antipathy: Ukrainian-Russian Relations in Historical Perspective . . . 121
John-Paul Himka
The History behind the Regional Conflict in Ukraine . . . 129
William Jay Risch
What the Far Right Does Not Tell Us about the Maidan . . . 137
Alexei Miller
The “Ukrainian Crisis” and Its Multiple Histories . . . 145
Georgiy Kasianov
How a War for the Past Becomes a War in the Present . . . 149
Review Essay
Randall A. Poole
Nineteenth-Century Russian Liberalism: Ideals and Realities . . . 157
Reviews
Ann M. Kleimola
Medieval Visual Metaphors and Beasts Noble and Savage . . . 183
Heather J. Coleman
Region and Nation in Late Imperial Russian Ukraine . . . 194
Jan Hennings
World Revolution and International Diplomacy, 1900-39 . . . 204
Arkadi Zeltser
Soviet Jews in Belorussia and Ukraine . . . 211
Karsten Brüggemann
The Lithuanian Cultural Elite and the End of the Soviet Union . . . 219
Contributors to This Issue . . . 227