From the Editors
Late Soviet Politics as Patron-Client Relations … 237
Forum: Late Soviet Regional Leadership
YORAM GORLIZKI Scandal in Riazan: Networks of Trust and the Social Dynamics of Deception … 243
WILLIAM A. CLARK Khrushchev’s “Second” First Secretaries: Career Trajectories after the Unification of Oblast Party Organizations … 279
MARC ELIE Coping with the “Black Dragon”: Mudflow Hazards and the Controversy over the Medeo Dam in Kazakhstan, 1958-66 … 313
SAULIUS GRYBKAUSKAS The Role of the Second Party Secretary in the “Election” of the First: The Political Mechanism for the Appointment of the Head of Soviet Lithuania in 1974 … 343
History and Historians
SHEILA FITZPATRICK T. H. Rigby Remembered … 367
Review Essays
ANNA FISHZON When Music Makes History … 381
RANDALL A. POOLE Gustav Shpet: Russian Philosopher of the Human Level of Being … 395
JOHN-PAUL HIMKA Encumbered Memory: The Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33 … 411
KEVIN M. F. PLATT Writing Avant-Garde and Stalinist Culture, or How Cultural History Is Made: Three Examples and a Meditation … 437
Reviews
ALISON K. SMITH Natal´ia Anatol´evna Ivanova and Valentina Pavlovna Zheltova, Soslovnoe obshchestvo Rossiiskoi imperii (XVIII-nachalo XX veka) (Soslovie Society of the Russian Empire [18th-Early 19th Centuries]) … 457
MAUREEN PERRIE Kevin M. F. Platt, Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths; Natal´ia Nikolaevna Mut´ia, Ivan Groznyi: Istorizm i lichnost´ pravitelia v otechestvennom iskusstve XIX-XX vv. (Ivan the Terrible: Historicity and the Personality of the Ruler in Russian Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries) … 463
TOBIAS RUPPRECHT Tony Shaw and Denise J. Youngblood, Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds … 473
FRANK UEKÖTTER Klaus Gestwa, Die Stalinschen Großbauten des Kommunismus: Sowjetische Technik- und Umweltgeschichte, 1948–1967 (Stalinist Large-Scale Construction Sites of Communism: A Soviet Environmental History and History of Technology, 1948–67) … 477
Contributors to This Issue … 481