KRITIKA 9 (2008), 3

(Read the full column at web.mac.com/kritika/iWeb/ekritika/Marketing/
Marketing.html or muse.jhu.edu/journals/kri (Project MUSE).

This "From the Editors" column discusses a worrying trend in the
field of Russian history: the mass-market commercialization of
scholarly publishing. The nexus of literary agents, sales pressures,
and the prospect of financial gain (in some cases even a movie
contract) can have a corrosive effect on scholarly pursuits. Possible
pitfalls include the prospect that popularization is passed off as
innovative scholarship; topics are restricted to what supposedly
interests general readers; and authors become careless about citing
sources, use hired researchers and translators instead of doing the
work themselves, and otherwise cut corners. Academia itself is not
immune, with many university departments looking favorably on mass-
market trade publishing.

From the opposite standpoint, high-quality popularization is
important and valuable, and commercial publishing is now becoming the domain of some of the profession's leading practitioners.

How much of a threat is the blending of scholarship with business to
the integrity of the profession? Readers are invited to contribute
their opinions and comments.

Please join the debate at web.mac.com/kritika/iWeb/ekritika/Marketing/
Marketing.html , either by clicking the link on the page or by
sending an e-mail directly to ekritikamac.com .

Carolyn Pouncy
Managing Editor
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
cpouncyumd.edu

Contents

From the Editors
Marketing Russian History 497

Forum: Tolstoi, Orthodoxy, and Terrorism
INESSA MEDZHIBOVSKAYA
Tolstoi’s Response to Terror and Revolutionary Violence 505

PÅL KOLSTØ
The Elder at Iasnaia Poliana: Lev Tolstoi and the Orthodox Starets Tradition 533

Reaction
WILLIAM NICKELL
New Directions in Tolstoi Scholarship 555

Article
STEPHEN LOVELL
From Genealogy to Generation: The Birth of Cohort Thinking in Russia 567

Review Essays
WILLARD SUNDERLAND
The Last of the White Moustaches: Recent Books on the Anti-Bolshevik Commanders of the East 595

MALTE GRIESSE
Soviet Subjectivities: Discourse, Self-Criticism, Imposture 609

MICHAEL D. GORDIN
Was There Ever a “Stalinist Science”? 625

Reviews
NADIESZDA KIZENKO
John-Paul Himka and Andriy Zayarnyuk, eds., Letters from Heaven:
Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine; M. V. Korogodina, Ispoved´ v Rossii v XIV–XIX vekakh: Issledovanie i teksty [Confession in 14th- to 19th-Century Russia: A Study and Primary Texts] 641

Martina Winkler
Mary W. Cavender, Nests of the Gentry: Family, Estate, and Local Loyalties in Provincial Russia; John Randolph, The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism; Richard Stites, Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power 655

GREGORY VITARBO
Stephen M. Norris, A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812–1945; Pavel Petrovich Shcherbinin, Voennyi faktor v povsednevnoi zhizni russkoi zhenshchiny v XVIII–nachale XX vekov [The War Factor in the Everyday Life of Russian Women from the 18th to the Beginning of the 20th Centuries]; David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye and Bruce W. Menning, eds., Reforming the Tsar’s Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution 668

ALEXEI MILLER
Theodore R. Weeks, From Assimilation to Antisemitism: The “Jewish Question” in Poland, 1850–1914 679

SARAH BADCOCK
Peter Gatrell, Russia’s First World War: A Social and Economic History; Ol´ga Sergeevna Porshneva, Krest´iane, rabochie i soldaty Rossii nakanune i v gody Pervoi mirovoi voiny [Peasants, Workers, and Soldiers of Russia before and during World War I] 685

MAIKE LEHMANN
El´dar Rafik ogly Ismailov, Azerbaidzhan: 1953–1956 gg. Pervye gody “ottepeli” [Azerbaijan, 1953–56: The First Years of the “Thaw”] 694

Contributors to This Issue 701