Volume 17, Number 2 (Spring 2016)
From the Editors
The Vibrant 18th Century . . . 237
Forum: Decrees and the Limits of Autocracy in 18th-Century Russia
Evgenii V. Akelev
The Barber of All Russia: Lawmaking, Resistance, and Mutual Adaptation during Peter the Great’s Cultural Reforms . . . 241
Sergey Chernikov
Noble Landownership in 18th-Century Russia: Revisiting the Economic and Sociopolitical Consequences of Partible Inheritance . . . 277
Elena Marasinova
Punishment by Penance in 18th-Century Russia: Church Practices in the Service of the Secular State . . . 305
Lorenz Erren
Feofan Prokopovich’s Pravda voli monarshei as Fundamental Law of the Russian Empire . . . 333
Reaction
Richard S. Wortman
Intentions and Realities in 18th-Century Monarchy: New Insights and Discoveries . . . 361
History and Historians
Interview with William Craft Brumfield
Faded Glory in Full Color: Russia’s Architectural History . . . 379
David L. Ransel
From the Del´vig House to the Gas-Scraper: The Fight to Preserve St. Petersburg . . . 405
Review Essays
Michael D. Gordin
Reflexivity and the Russian Professoriate . . . 433
Volodymyr Ryzhkovskyi
Beyond the Binaries: The Postwar Soviet Intelligentsia in History and Memory . . . 447
Reviews
George G. Weickhardt
Criminal Law in Muscovy . . . 461
Jonathan W. Daly
Perlustration in Imperial Russia . . . 466
François-Xavier Nérard
Stalinism as Traditional Political Culture . . . 475
Letters
Justin Yoo
To the Editors . . . 483
Isaac Scarborough
To the Editors . . . 484
Contributors to This Issue . . . 486