Contents
Editors' Foreword
Forum 8: Nationalism and Xenophobia as Research Topics
Maria Akhmetova, Elena Berezovich, Jovan Byford, Albina Garifzyanova, Roger Griffin, Douglas R. Holmes, Sebastian Job, Paul Manning, Jelena Obradović, Elena Omelchenko, Alexander Osipov, Alexander Panchenko, Hilary Pilkington, David Raskin, Yury Shabaev, Eleonora Shafranskaya, Nona Shakhnazaryan, Stephen Shenfield, Viktor Shnirelman, Sergei Sokolovsky, Detelina Tocheva, Andreas Umland, Valentin Vydrin
Sergei Shtyrkov. On The Problem of Professional Schizophrenia, or ‘This is No Bus in Paris’
Articles
Mikhail Sokolov. The End of Russian Radical Nationalism?
Soviet Culture in Retrospect
Konstantin Bogdanov. The Rhetoric of the Ritual: The Soviet Sociolect in Ethnolinguistic Perspective
Albert Baiburin, Alexandra Piir. When We Were Happy: Remembering Soviet Festivals
Catriona Kelly, Svetlana Sirotinina. 'I Didn't Understand, But It Was Funny': Late Soviet Festivals and their Impact on Children
Vitaly Bezrogov. Between Stalin and Christ
Rural Culture, Urban Culture
Mikhail Lurye. Sadistic Verse as a Genre of Russian Urban Folklore: Typical and Specific Features, Child and Adult Audiences
Olga Brednikova, Olga Tkach. 'The Dirty Countryside' and ‘The Littered City' (Everyday Practices of Dealing with Rubbish in Different Communities)
Aleksandr Manuylov. The Practices of 'Privacy' in the Russian Village
Conference Report
Vlada Baranova. Soyuz.ru, or What Shall We Do with Russian Anthropology
In memoriam
Albert Baiburin. Kirill Vasilyevich Chistov
Reviews
Andrei Toporkov. What Do You Find in the Bathhouse if You Go There at Midnight? (Review of W. F. Raiyan [Ryan]. Banya v polnoch. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2006)
W. F. Ryan. Reply to Andrei Toporkov
Sergei Abashin. Curative Empire? (Review of Paula Michaels. Curative Power: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003)
Oleg Ken. Existential Empathy (Review of Catherine Merridale. Ivan's War. London: Faber and Faber, 2005)
Connor Doak. Men's Tears and Other Extreme Situations (Review of I. A. Morozov et al. (eds), Muzhskoi sbornik. 3 vols. M./SPb.: Labirint/Indrik, 2001-2007)
Andy Byford. Mother Russia (Review of Helena Goscilo and Andrea Lanoux (eds.), Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture, De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006; Oleg Ryabov, ‘Rossiya-Matushka': Natsionalizm, gender i voina v Rossii XX veka, ibidem-Verlag: Stuttgardt, 2007)
List of contributors
