EDITOR ELLIOTT MOSSMAN ASSOCIATE EDITOR, JEAN GURLEY BOOKS EDITORS BEN EKLOK, INDIANA UNIVERSITY CATHERINE ALBRECHT, UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FILM EDITOR, SVETLANA BOYM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY ASSISTANT EDITORS, BRONWYN GURLEY and RICHARD FROST EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS VITALY CHERNETSKY BARBARA KENDA GORDANA KOSTIC LESLEY RIMMEL IVANA VULETIC EDITORIAL BOARD History Laura Engelstein, Princeton University • Boris Mironov, Institute of Russian History, St. Petersburg • Norman Naimark, Stanford University • Nancy Shields Kollmann, Stanford University • Ronald G. Suny, University of Michigan • Roman Szporluk, Harvard University • Gale Stokes, Rice University • Richard S. Wortman, Columbia University Literature & Linguistics Caryl Emerson, Princeton University • Vyacheslav Ivanov, Moscow University & UCLA • Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University • Stephanie Sandler, Amherst College Social Sciences Mark R. Beissinger, University of Wisconsin • Ellen T. 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BARANY Moldovan Identity and the Politics of Pan-Romanianism 345 CHARLES KING The British Foreign Office and Macedonian National Identity, 1918-1941 369 ANDREW ROSSOS Problems of Persuasion: Communist Agitation and Propaganda in Post-war Yugoslavia, 1944-1948 395 CAROL S. LILLY The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism 414 YURI SLEZKINE The Balkans: From Discovery to Invention 453 MARIA TODOROVA Publics Meet Market Democracy in Central and East Europe, 1991-1993 483 MARY E. McINTOSH, MARTHA ABELE MAC IVER, DANIEL G. ABELE, DINA SMELTZ COMMENT Kuropaty: The Investigation of a Stalinist Historical Controversy 513 DAVID R. MARPLES RESPONSE Was There Private Property in Muscovite Russia? RICHARD PIPES responds 524 GEORGE G. WEICKHARDT replies 531 REVIEW ARTICLE The End of Communism? 539 ALFRED G. MEYER FILM REVIEWS Save Us and Keep Us (Spasi i sokhrani) (Inna Broude) 547 Close to Eden (Urga) (Anna A. Tavis) 549 FEATURED REVIEWS Odnodnevnye gazety SSSR 1917-1983 (Jeffrey Brooks) 551 Vahan D. Barooshian, V.V. Vereshchagin: Artist at War (Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier) 552 Michael Glenny and Richard Taylor, eds., Michael Glenny, trans., S.M. Eisenstein: Selected Writings, vol. 2 Towards a Theory of Montage; David Bordwell, The Cinema of Eisenstein (Mikhail Yampolsky) 553 David Shepherd, Beyond Metafiction: Self-Consciousness in Soviet Literature (Irina Gutkin) 556 Thomas Lahusen and Gene Kuperman, eds., Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika (Edith W. Clowes) 557 Loren R. Graham, The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union (Timothy E. O'Connor) 559 Holland Hunter and Janusz M. Szyrmer, Faulty Foundations: Soviet Economic Policies, 1928-1940 (Joseph S. Berliner) 560 Anthony B. Atkinson, ed., Alternatives to Capitalism: The Economics of Partnership (Alec Nove) 561 BOOK REVIEWS Robert Louis Jackson, ed., Reading Chekhov's Text (George Pahomov) 563 Ronald E. Peterson, A History of Russian Symbolism (Joachim T. Baer) 565 David M. Bethea, ed., Puskin Today (Barbara Heldt) 566 Gavriel Shapiro, Nikolai Gogol and the Baroque Cultural Heritage (Stephen C. Hutchings) 567 Susanne Fusso, Dead Souls: An Anatomy of Disorder in Gogol (Sven Spieker) 569 Donna T. Orwin, Tolstoy's Art and Thought, 1847-1880 (Rimvydas Silbajoris) 570 David Rampton, Vladimir Nabokov (Priscilla Meyer) 571 Linda H. Scatton, Mikhail Zoshchenko: Evolution of a Writer (Rachel May) 573 Peter Henry, Jim MacDonald and Halina Moss, eds., Scotland and the Slavs: Selected Papers from the Glasgow-90 East-West Forum (Dale E. Peterson) 574 Denise J. Youngblood, Movies for the Masses: Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s (Jeffrey Brooks) 575 Oleg Prokofiev, trans, and ed., Sergei Prokofiev: Soviet Diary 1927 and Other Writings (David Montgomery) 576 Susan Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books, 1917-34 (John E. Bowlt) 577 William C. Brumfield, A History of Russian Architecture (Janet Kennedy) 578 Lazlo Honti, Sirkka-Liisa Hahmo, Tette Hofstra, Jolanta Jastrzebska and Osmo Nikkila, eds., Finnisch-Ugrische Sprachen zwischen dem germanischen und dem slavishchen Sprachraum (Daniel Abondolo) 579 Arnold McMillin, ed., Under Eastern Eyes: The West as Reflected in Recent Russian Emigre Writing; John Glad, ed., Conversations in Exile: Russian Writers Abroad, Richard and Joanna Robin, trans.; Sergei Chakovsky and M. Thomas Inge, eds., Russian Eyes on American Literature (Olga Peters Hasty) 581 Paul Mojzes, Religious Liberty in Eastern Europe and the USSR: Before and after the Great Transformation (Jane Ellis) 584 Carlo Ginzburg, Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath, trans. Raymond Rosenthal (Dianne E. Farrell) 585 Yaroslav N. Shchapov, State and Church in Early Russia, 10th- 13th Centuries, trans. Vic Schneierson (David M. Goldfrank) 586 Walter Leitsch, Berichte uber den Moskauer Staat in italienischer Sprache aus dem 16. Jahrhundert (Marshall Poe) 587 Evgenii V. Anisimov, The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress through Coercion in Russia, trans. John T. Alexander (Nicholas V. Riasanovsky) 588 Joseph de Maistre, St. Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence, trans, and ed. Richard A. Le Brun (Raymond McNally) 589 A.K. Afanas'ev, N.B. Bystrova, N.L. Zubova, F.A. Petrov, M.V. Falaleeva and A.D. Ianovskii, eds., 1812-1814: Sekretnaia perepiska generala P.I. Bagrationa, Lichnye pis'ma generala N.N. Raevskogo, Zapiski generala M.S. Vorontsova, Dnevniki ofitserov russkoi armii (E. Willis Brooks) 590 G.M. Hamburg, Boris Chicherin and Early Russian Liberalism, 1828-1866 (Priscilla Roosevelt) 591 Bruce W. Menning, Bayonets before Bullets: The Imperial Russian Army, 1861-1914 (W. Bruce Lincoln) 592 John C.K. Daly, Russian Seapower and "The Eastern Question," 1827-41 (Christopher C. Lovett) 594 Olga S. Tian-Shanskaia, Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia, ed. David L. Ransel, trans. David L. Ransel and Michael Levine (Stephen P. Frank) 595 M.G. Vandalkovskaia, P.N. Miliukov, A.A. Kizevetter: Istoriia i politika (G.M. Hamburg) 596 Michael Kettle, Churchill and the Archangel Fiasco, November 1918-July 1919 (Christine A. White) 598 Charles J. Weeks, Jr., An American Naval Diplomat in Revolutionary Russia: Vice Admiral Newton A. McCully (George Nekrasov) 599 Svend Aage Christensen, Carsten Pape, Lars Poulsen-Hansen and Niels E. Rosenfeldt, Imperiets sammenbrud, 1982-1992 (Helene C. Isotalo and Birgitta Ingemanson) 600 Robert Weinberg, The Revolution of 1905 in Odessa: Blood on the Steps (Henry Reichman) 601 George Nekrasov, North of Gallipoli: The Black Sea Fleet at War, 1914-1917 (Charles J. Weeks) 603 Vadim Rogovin, Byla li al'ternativa? "Trotskizm": Vzgliad cherez gody (Philip Pomper) 604 William G. Rosenberg and Lewis H. Siegelbaum, eds., Social Dimensions of Soviet Industrialization (William B.