CONTENTS:
From the Editors An Interview with Geoffrey A. Hosking … 257
Articles
RICHARD WORTMAN The Representation of Dynasty and "Fundamental Laws" in the Evolution of Russian Monarchy … 265
FAITH HILLIS Ukrainophile Activism and Imperial Governance in Russia's Southwestern Borderlands … 301
ALEXANDER MORRISON Metropole, Colony, and Imperial Citizenship in the Russian Empire … 327
DAVID BRANDENBERGER "Simplistic, Pseudosocialist Racism": Debates over the Direction of Soviet Ideology within Stalin’s Creative Intelligentsia, 1936-39 … 365
SETH BERNSTEIN Valedictorians of the Soviet School: Professionalization and the Impact of War in Soviet Chess … 395
Forum: Empire, Nation, and Society in the Work of Geoffrey Hosking
ALEXEI MILLER Nation and Empire: Reflections in the Margins of Geoffrey Hosking's Book … 419
ADRIENNE EDGAR Rulers and Victims Reconsidered: Geoffrey Hosking and the Russians of the Soviet Union … 429
MARK EDELE Stalinism as a Totalitarian Society: Geoffrey Hosking's Socio-Cultural History … 441
CATRIONA KELLY "The Communal Experience": The Role of Groups in Geoffrey Hosking's Understanding of Russian Society … 453
GEOFFREY A. HOSKING Response … 459
Errata … 466
Reviews
CHARLES J. HALPERIN V. N. Temushev, Gomel'skaia zemlia v kontse XV-pervoi polovine XVI v.: Territorial´nye transformatsii v pogranichnom regione (The Gomel' Land in the Late 15th and First Half of the 16th Centuries: Territorial Transformation in a Border Region); M. M. Krom, "Vdovstvuiushchee tsarstvo": Politicheskii krizis v Rossii 30-40-kh godov XVI veka (The "Widowed Kingdom": The Political Crisis in Russia during the 1530s and 1540s) … 467
NIKOLAY MITROKHIN Aleksei Beglov, V poiskakh "Bezgreshnykh katakomb": Tserkovnoe podpol'e v SSSR (In Search of "Sinless Catacombs": The Church Underground in the USSR) … 476
MAYHILL C. FOWLER Iurii Shapoval, ed., Poliuvannia na Val'dshnepa: Rozsekrechenyi Mykola Khvyl'ovyi (Hunting for "Woodcock": Mykola Khvyl'ovyi Declassified) … 491
OKSANA NAGORNAYA Iren Andreeva, Chastnaia zhizn' pri sotsializme: Otchet sovetskogo obyvatelia (Private Life under Socialism: The Account of an Ordinary Soviet Person); Oleg Leibovich, V gorode M: Ocherki politicheskoi povsednevnosti sovetskoi provintsii v 40-50-kh gg. (In the Town of M: Essays on Everyday Political Life in the Soviet Provinces in the 1940s and 1950s) … 501
Contributors to This Issue … 506