CONTENTS
From the Editors Soviet Jewry and Soviet History in the Time of War and Holocaust … 471
Articles
ANNA SHTERNSHIS Between Life and Death: Why Some Soviet Jews Decided to Leave and Others to Stay in 1941 … 477
VLADIMIR SOLONARI Hating Soviets—Killing Jews: How Antisemitic Were Local Perpetrators in Southern Ukraine, 1941–42? … 505
ANIKA WALKE Jewish Youth in the Minsk Ghetto: How Age and Gender Mattered … 535
ARKADI ZELTSER Differing Views among Red Army Personnel about the Nazi Mass Murder of Jews … 563
Reaction
JAN T. GROSS A Colonial History of the Bloodlands … 591
History and Historians
VICTORIA SMOLKIN-ROTHROCK “The Confession of an Atheist Who Became a Scholar of Religion”: Nikolai Semenovich Gordienko’s Last Interview … 597
Review Essays
MARK GAMSA Cities and Identity, War, and Memory in the Baltic Region … 621
POLLY JONES Socialist Worlds of Dissent and Discontent after Stalinism … 637
Reviews
PAUL BUSHKOVITCH The Testament of Ivan the Terrible … 653
ELISE KIMERLING WIRTSCHAFTER Power and the 18th-Century Nobility … 657
YANNI KOTSONIS Citizenship in Russia and the Soviet Union … 665
HIROAKI KUROMIYA Stalin’s Rule of Terror … 670
Contributors to This Issue … 676