Vol. 2 2008 Tom 2 2008

The NEP Era: Soviet Russia 1921-1928

TABLE OF CONTENTS/ОГЛАВЛЕНИЕ

Editor’s Statement iii

Guidelines for Reviewers iv

DISCUSSION/ОБСУЖДЕНИЕ

Zinoviev: Populist Leninist 1 Lars T. Lih

Zinoviev Re-examined: Comments on Lars Lih’s “Populist Leninist” 25 Clayton Black

ARTICLES/СТАТЬИ

Communists vs. Clerics: The Smolensk Choral Synagogue, the Khislavichi Rov Shtibel Synagogue, and the NEP Antireligious Campaign 39 Michael C. Hickey

Petitioners and Their Discontents: The Lost Generation of the 1920s 61 Elizabeth A. Harry

BOOK REVIEWS/КНИЖНЫЕ РЕЦЕНЗИИ

Vladlen Terent’evich Loginov. Vladimir Lenin: vypor puti: biografii. Moscow: Respublika, 2005 (Lars T. Lih) 81

Igal Halfin. Intimate Enemies: Demonizing the Bolshevik Opposition, 1918-1928. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007 (Christopher Monty) 83

Stalin: A New History. Edited by Sarah Davies and James Harris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006; Nikolai Ivanovich Kapchenko. Politicheskaia biografiia Stalina. Volume 1: 1879-1924 gg. Tver’: “Severnaia Korona,” 2004; Simon Sebag Montefiore. Young Stalin. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007 (Alexis Pogorelskin) 86

Piggy Foxy and the Sword of Revolution: Bolshevik Self-Portraits. Translated by Vadim A. Staklo. Edited by Alexander Vatlin and Larisa Malashenko. Foreword by Simon Sebag Montefiore. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006 (Clayton Black) 89

Iurii Pavlovich Sharapov. Pervaia “ottepel”: Nepovskaia Rossiia v 1921-1928 gg.: voprosy ideologii i kul’tury [The first “thaw”: Russia under NEP. 1921-1928: Questions of ideology and culture]. Moscow: Institut rossiiskoi istorii RAN, 2006 (Georg Wurzer) 92

Kate Transchel. Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1895-1932. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006 (Barbara Allen) 93

Anna Shternshis. Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006 (Michael C. Hickey) 97

Heather J. Coleman. Russian Baptists and Spiritual Revolution, 1905-1929. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005 (Benjamin J. Stellwagen) 100

Amy Nelson. Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004 (Sharon A. Kowalsky) 102