From the Editors Citing the Archival Revolution 227
Articles MICHAEL C. PAUL Secular Power and the Archbishops of Novgorod before the Muscovite Conquest 231
REBECCA GOULD Transgressive Sanctity: The Abrek in Chechen Culture 271
MADHAVAN K. PALAT Casting Workers as an Estate in Late Imperial Russia 307
Ex Tempore: Back to the Future? Social History and Soviet Society MARK EDELE Soviet Society, Social Structure, and Everyday Life: Major Frameworks Reconsidered 349
JEAN-PAUL DEPRETTO Stratification without Class 375
Review Essays CHERIE WOODWORTH The Venerated Image among the Faithful: Icons for Historians 389 THEODORE R. WEEKS The “Jewish Question” in Eastern Europe 409
Reviews DONALD OSTROWSKI Christopher P. Atwood, Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire; Peter Jackson, The Mongols and the West, 1221–1410; George Lane, Daily Life in the Mongol Empire; Igor de Rachewiltz, trans. and ed., The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century, 2 vols. 431
CAROL B. STEVENS Ivan Rostislavovich Sokolovskii, Sluzhilye “inozemtsy” v Sibiri XVII veka (Tomsk, Eniseisk, Krasnoiarsk) [“Foreign” Servicemen in Siberia in the 17th Century (Tomsk, Eniseisk, Krasnoiarsk)] 442
LUCIEN J. FRARY Lora Aleksandrovna Gerd, Konstantinopol´ i Peterburg: Tserkovnaia politika Rossii na pravoslavnom Vostoke, 1878–1898 [Constantinople and Petersburg: Russian Religious Policy in the Orthodox East, 1878–98] 445
OKSANA BULGAKOWA Leonid Valentinovich Maksimenkov and Kirill Mikhailovich Anderson, eds. in chief; Liudmila Pavlovna Kosheleva and Larisa Aleksandrovna Rogovaia, eds., Kremlevskii kinoteatr, 1929–1953: Dokumenty [The Kremlin’s Movie Theater, 1929–53: Documents] 453
ILYA UTEKHIN Christina Kiaer and Eric Naiman, eds., Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside; Nataliia Lebina, Entsiklopediia banal´nostei: Sovetskaia povsednevnost´. Kontury, simvoly, znaki [Encyclopedia of Banalities: Soviet Everyday Life. Shapes, Symbols, Signs] 461
In Memoriam ABBOTT GLEASON Daniel Field (1938–2006) 471
Contributors to This Issue 475