Kritika. Volume 14, Number 2 (Spring 2013)

Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
Volume 14, Number 2 (Spring 2013)

CONTENTS

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