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Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies 



EDITOR 

MARK D. STEINBERG 

M A N A G I N G E D I T O R , J A N E T. H E D G E S 

E D I T O R I A L ASSISTANTS 

STEVEN G. J U G OLEKSANDRA S H C H U R R O B E R T L. W H I T I N G 

EDITORIAL BOARD 

History 
J o h n Connelly, University of California, Berkeley • Yaroslav Hrytsak, L'viv National 
University a n d Central European University, Budapest • A d e e b Khalid, Carleton College 
• William Rosenberg, University of Michigan • Maria Todorova, University of Illinois • 
Stefan Troebst, University of Leipzig • Lynne Viola, University of Toronto • Mark von 
Hagen, Arizona State University • Sergei Zhuravlev, Institute of Russian History of the Rus-
sian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 

Literature, Film, and the Arts 
Clare Cavanagh, Northwestern University • Gregory Freidin, Stanford University • 
Catriona Kelly, Oxford University • Christina Kiaer, Northwestern University • J u d i t h 
Kornblatt, University of Wisconsin, Madison • Michal Pawel Markowski, University of 
Illinois, Chicago and Jagellonian University, Krakow • Eric Naiman, University of Califor-
nia, Berkeley • Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Columbia University • Andrei Zorin, Oxford 
University 

Social Sciences 
J u d i t B o d n a r , Central European University, Budapest' M. Steven Fish, University of Cali-
fornia, Berkeley • Susan Gal, University of Chicago • Elena Gapova, European Humanities 
University, Vilnius-Minsk a n d Western Michigan University • Grigorii Golosov, European 
University, St. Petersburg • Bruce Grant, New York University • Jan Kubik, Rutgers University • 
Pauline J o n e s Luong, Brown University • Blair Ruble, Kennan Institute 

Cover image: Poster advertising the Plovdiv fair, Bulgaria, 1892. Courtesy of the State Archive 
in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. 

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CONTRIBUTORS vi 

ABSTRACTS viii 

NATIONS ON DISPLAY: WORLD'S FAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL 
EXHIBITIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE AND BEYOND 

Mary Neuburger, Special Section Guest Editor 

Introduction: Exhibiting Eastern Europe 539 
MARY N E U B U R G E R 

Fair Encounters: Bulgaria and the "West" at International 
Exhibitions from Plovdiv to St. Louis 547 
MARY N E U B U R G E R 

Articulating Identity through the Technological Rearticulation 
of Space: The Hungarian Millennial Exhibition as World's 
Fair and the Disordering of Fin-de-Siecle Budapest 571 
D O R O T H Y B A R E N S C O T T 

Rodin in Prague: Modern Art, Cultural Diplomacy, and 
National Display 591 
C A T H L E E N M. G I U S T I N O 

ARTICLES 

Witnessing for the Defense: The Adversarial Court and 
Narratives of Criminal Behavior in Nineteenth-Century Russia 620 
L O U I S E M C R E Y N O L D S 

The Economy of Nerves: Health, Commercial Culture, 
and the Self in Late Imperial Russia 645 
SUSAN K. M O R R I S S E Y 



Too Much Trust: Regional Party Leaders and Local 
Political Networks under Brezhnev 676 
YORAM GORLIZKI 

Pronatalism, Gender Politics, and the Renewal of Family 
Support in Russia: Toward a Feminist Anthropology 
of "Maternity Capital" 701 
MICHELE RIVKIN-FISH 

FEATURED REVIEWS 

Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism (Timothy Snyder) 725 

Sergei Alex. Oushakine, The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, 
and Loss in Russia (Sascha Goluboff) 727 

FILM REVIEW 

Victor Dashuk, dir., Long Knives Night (1999) and Reporting 
from a Rabbit Hutch (2001) (Grigory Ioffe) 731 

BOOK REVIEWS 

Withold Bonner and Arja Rosenholm, eds., Recalling the Past— 
(Re) constructing the Past: Collective and Individual Memory 
of World War II in Russia and Germany (Nina Tumarkin) 733 

J o h n Czaplicka, Nida Gelazis, and Blair A. Ruble, eds., Cities 
after the Fall of Communism: Reshaping Cultural Landscapes and 
European Identity (Chad Bryant) 

Valerie Sperling, Altered States: The Globalization of Accountability 
(Robert A. Saunders) 

Adi Kuntsman, Figurations of Violence and Belonging: Queerness, 
Migranthood and Nationalism in Cyberspace and Beyond 
(Caryn Aviv) 

Laimonas Briedis, Vilnius: City of Strangers (John Czaplicka) 

Georgiy Kasianov and Philipp Ther, eds., A Laboratory of 
Transnational History: Ukraine and Recent Ukrainian 
Historiography (David R. Marples) 

Karin Friedrich and Barbara M. Pendzich, eds., Citizenship and 
Identity in a Multinational Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania 
in Context, 1550-1772 (Piotr S. Wandycz) 

Peter J. Klassen, Mennonites in Early Modern Poland and Prussia 
(Paul W. Knoll) 

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Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak, The Warsaiu Ghetto: 
A Guide to the Perished City, trans. Emma Harris (Piotr Wrobel) 744 

Andrea Orzoff, Battle for the Castle: The Myth of Czechoslovakia in 
Europe, 1914-1948 (James Ramon Felak) 745 

Sabina Ferhadbegovic, Prekdre Integration: Serbisches Staatsmodell und 
regionale Selbstverwaltung in Sarajevo und Zagreb 1918-1929 
(John K. Cox) 746 

Piotr Piotrowski, In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-Garde 
in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989, trans. Anna Bryzski 
(Pat Simpson) 748 

Aniko Imre, Identity Games: Globalization and the Transformation 
of Media Cultures in the New Europe (Dina lordanova) 749 

Nadya Nedelsky, Defining the Sovereign Community: The Czech and 
Slovak Republics (Andrew C. Janos) 750 

Kristen Ghodsee, Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity, 
and the Transformation of Islam in Post-Socialist Bulgaria 
(Mary Neuburger) 751 

Ivana Macek, Sarajevo under Siege: Anthropology in Wartime 
(Pamela Ballinger) 752 

David N. Gibbs, First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention 
and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (Robert J. Donia) 754 

Jelena Subotic, Hijacked Justice: Dealing with the Past in the Balkans 
(Robert M. Hayden) 755 

Matthew P. Romaniello and Tricia Starks, eds., Tobacco in 
Russian History and Culture: From the Seventeenth Century 
to the Present (William Moskoff) 756 

Ekaterina Brancato, Markets versus Hierarchies: A Political Economy 
of Russia from the 10th Century to 2008 (Stefan Hedlund) 757 

Leonard G. Friesen, Rural Revolutions in Southern Ukraine: 
Peasants, Nobles and Colonists, 1774-1905 (Shane O'Rourke) 758 

Joseph Bradley, Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia: Science, 
Patriotism, and Civil Society (Gregory L. Freeze) 759 

Ol'ga Elina, Ot tsarskikh sadov do sovetskikh polei: Istoriia 
sel'skokhoziaistvennykh opytnykh uchrezhdenii XVIII-20-e 
gody XX veka, 2 vols. (Brian Bonhomme) 760 

G. D. Gloveli, Geopoliticheskaia ekonomiia v Rossiia: Ot diskussii o 
samobytnosti k global'nym modeliam (XIX v.-pervaia 
tret' XX v.) (Susan P. McCaffray) 762 

Leonid Heretz, Russia on the Eve of Modernity: Popular Religion and 
Traditional Culture under the Last Tsars (Robert H. Greene) 763 



Daniel Beer, Renovating Russia: The Human Sciences and the Fate of 
Liberal Modernity, 1880-1930 (Amy Nelson) 764 

Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor, Naming Infinity: A True 
Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity 
(Catherine Evtuhov) 765 

James T. Andrews, Red Cosmos: K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of 
Soviet Rocketry (Michael R. Katz) 767 

Sergei Kan, Lev Shternberg: Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish 
Activist (Marina Mogilner) 768 

Dan Healey, Bolshevik Sexual Forensics: Diagnosing Disorder in the 
Clinic and Courtroom, 1917-1939 (Tricia Starks) 769 

Marc Junge, Die Gesellschaft ehemaliger politischer Zwangsarbeiter und 
Verbannter in der Sowjetunion: Grundung, Entwicklung und 
Liquidierung (1921-1935) (Jonathan W. Daly) 770 

Paul Hagenloh, Stalin's Police: Public Order and Mass Repression 
in the USSR 1926-1941 (J. Arch Getty) 771 

David R. Shearer, Policing Stalin's Socialism: Repression and Social 
Order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953 (Marcjansen) 773 

Niels Erik Rosenfeldt, The "Special" World: Stalin's Power Apparatus 
and the Soviet System's Secret Structures of Communication, 2 vols. 
(David Shearer) 774 

Ber Boris Kotlerman, In Search of Milk and Honey: The Theater 

of "Soviet Jewish Statehood " (1934 -49) (Robert Weinberg) 775 

Yitzhak Arad, The Holocaust in the Soviet Union (Joshua Rubenstein) 776 

Vladislav Zubok, Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia 
(Stuart Finkel) 777 

Per Brodersen, Die Stadt im Westen: Wie Konigsberg Kaliningrad 
wurde, foreword, Haug von Kuenheim (Gabor T. Rittersporn) 778 

Natalia Baschmakoffand Mari Ristolainen, eds., The Dacha 
Kingdom: Summer Dwellers and Dwellings in the Baltic Area 
(Emily D.Johnson) 780 

Donald E. Davis and Eugene P. Trani, Distorted Mirrors: 
Americans and Their Relations with Russia and China in 
the Twentieth Century (Gordon H. Chang) 781 

A. Danilov, A. I. Utkin, and A. V. Filippov, eds., Istoriia Rossii 
1945-2008. 11 Klass, Uchebnik dlia uchashchikhsia 
obshcheobrazovatel'nikh uchrezhdenii; A. V Filippov, ed., 
Noveishaia istoriia Rossii 1945-2006 gg.: Kniga dlia uchitel'ia 
(Janet G. Vaillant) 782 



Irene Masing-Delic, Exotic Moscow under Western Eyes (Diane 
Oenning Thompson) 783 

Ilya Vinitsky, Ghostly Paradoxes: Modern Spiritualism and Russian 
Culture in the Age of Realism (Richard Peace) 785 

Janet G. Tucker, Profane Challenge and Orthodox Response in 
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (Gary Cox) 786 

Joost van Baak, The House in Russian Literature: A Mythopoetic 
Exploration (Linda Ivanits) 787 

Martha Weitzel Hickey, The Writer in Petrograd and the House of 
the Arts (Jeffrey Brooks) 788 

Donald Loewen, The Most Dangerous Art: Poetry, Politics, and 
Autobiography after the Russian Revolution (Elena 
Glazov-Corrigan) 789 

Paul du Quenoy, Stage Fright: Politics and the Performing Arts in 
Late Imperial Russia (Cynthia Marsh) 790 

Norbert Lynton, Tatlin's Tower: Monument to Revolution 
(Roann Barris) 791 

Masha Salazkina, In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein's Mexico 
(Richard Taylor) 792 

Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova, Television and 
Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control (John Downing) 793 

Marlene Laruelle, ed., Russian Nationalism and the National 
Reassertion of Russia (Ben Fowkes) 794 

Vicken Cheterian, War and Peace in the Caucasus: Ethnic Politics 
and the New Geopolitics (Stephen F. Jones) . 796 

REFERENCE BOOKS OF 2008-2009: A SELECTION 798 

COLLECTED ESSAYS 802 

OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST 805 

IN MEMORIAM 807