Volume 26, Number 1 (Winter 2025)
From the Editors
Borders and Borderlands: Call for Papers . . . 1–3
Articles
Mollie Arbuthnot
Heritage Modernism: Museums and Craft Revival in Early Soviet Tashkent . . . 5–34
Mirjam Voerkelius
Darwinism and the Human-Animal Boundary in the Soviet Union . . . 35–61
Darina Volf
The Thorny Road to a Handshake: The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project as a Challenge to the US and Soviet Space Programs . . . 63–90
State of the Field: Central Asian History
Adeeb Khalid
The Historiography of Modern Central Asia Today . . . 91–108
Scott C. Levi
Research Trends in the Study of Early Modern Central Asia . . . 109–32
Nari Shelekpayev
Thinking beyond Soviet Teleologies: Perspectives for the Study of Central Asia . . . 133–59
Sarah Cameron
New Directions in the Study of Modern Central Asian History . . . 161–76
Reaction
Adrienne Edgar
Central Asia: Ever More Central? . . . 177–88
Sourcework
Yana Kirey-Sitnikova
Using the Past to Save the Present: Soviet Transgender History and Its Implications for Present-Day Trans Rights in Russia . . . 189–202
Review Essays
Ivan A. Abramkin
The Wedding Ritual and Court Ceremonies as “Scenarios of Power” in Eighteenth-Century Russian Political Culture . . . 203–12
Anton Fedyashin
Alexander III as Conservative Modernizer . . . 213–30
James Ryan
To the Reckless, the Spoils: On the Durability of Revolutionary
Regimes . . . 231–43
In Memoriam
Michael D. Gordin
The Social and Intellectual Roots of Loren Graham . . . 244–49
Contributors to This Issue . . . 250–52