Editors
Issue 2/2007 The Politics of Comparison
Methodology and Theory
Andreas Kappeler
The Center and Peripheral Elites in the Habsburg, Russian and Ottoman Empires, 1700-1918
Michael Werner, Bénédicte Zimmermann
Beyond Comparison: Histoire croisée and the Challenge of Reflexivity
Interview with Matthias Middell
The Centrality of Comparison
Glennys Young
Emotions, Contentious Politics, and Empire: Some Thoughts about the Soviet Case
History
Kristin Vitalich
Dictionary as Empire: Vladimir Dal'’s Interpretive Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language
Steven Seegel
Metageography Unbound: Late Nineteenth-century European Borderland Cartography and the Geopolitical Construction of Space
Svetlana Gorshenina
Is the Marginality of Russian Colonial Turkestan Perpetual, or Whether Central Asia Will Be Included One Day into the Sphere of “Post-Studies”
Xavier Le Torrivellec
Tatars and Bashkirs: A History in the Mirror. Ethnic Composition, Historiographic Debates, and Political Power in the Republic of Bashkortostan
Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Newest Mythologies
Book Reviews
Amy Nelson
Boris Gasparov, Five Operas and a Symphony: Word and Music in Russian Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). xxii+268 pp. Musical exs., Notes, Index. ISBN: 0-300-10650-5.
R-Forum: Russian Music, Modernism, and Power
Irina Kotkina
Amy Nelson, Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004). xvi+330 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 0-271-02369-4 (hardcover edition).
R-Forum: Russian Music, Modernism, and Power
Serhy Yekelchyk
Kiril Tomoff, Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939 – 1953 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006). xiv+321 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8014-4411-X (hardcover edition).
R-Forum: Russian Music, Modernism, and Power
