ToC: Kritika 15, no. 2 (Spring 2014)

Carolyn Pouncy Discussion

Posted by Carolyn Pouncy, Managing Editor, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian Studies

 

Contents, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Spring 2014)

 

From the Editors

Making Russian History Up . . .  231

 

Forum: 1812—The War in Words

Nikolai Promyslov

The Image of Russia in French Public Opinion, 1811–12 . . . 235

Victor Taki

The Horrors of War: Representations of Violence in European, Oriental, and “Patriotic” Wars . . . 263

Reaction

Alexander M. Martin

The Last “War in Lace” or the First “Total War”? . . . 293

 

Article

Zhivka Valiavicharska

How the Concept of Totalitarianism Appeared in Late Socialist Bulgaria: The Birth and Life of Zheliu Zhelev’s Book Fascism . . . 303

Reaction

Vladislav Zubok

How the Late Socialist Intelligentsia Swapped Ideology . . . 335

 

Forum: Fiction and the Historical Imagination

Carolyn J. Pouncy

History, Real and Invented . . . 343

Alfred J. Rieber

A Tale of Three Genres: History, Fiction, and the Historical Detektiv . . . 353

Julius Wachtel

The Road to Stalin’s Witnesses: Seeking Truth through Fiction . . . 365

 

History and Historians

Joshua Rubenstein

A Jewish Radical, A Jewish Liberal, and Russian History . . . 377

 

Review Article

Glennys Young

To Russia with “Spain”: Spanish Exiles in the USSR and the Longue Durée of Soviet History . . . 395

 

Review Essay

Frances Nethercott

Reevaluating Russian Historical Culture . . . 421

 

Reviews

Elizabeth Kendall

Opera, Ballet, and Political Power . . . 441

Isabelle Kaplan

Speaking Soviet in Kyrgyzstan . . . 451

Stephen Brain

How the Soviets Explored the Cosmic Void and Found … Nothing . . . 458

 

Letters

Peter B. Brown

To the Editors

With a response by Anna Joukovskaia . . . 466

 

Contributors to This Issue  . . .  468