CONTENTS
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
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