Contents
Editors' Foreword
Forum 9: Authority and Prestige in Russian Scholarship
Mikhail Sokolov. The Failed Consolidation of Academic Authority in Post-Soviet Scholarship: The Case of Sociology
Aleksey Elfimov, Katerina Guba, Vladimir Guelman, Peter Rutland, Sergei Sokolovsky, Andrei Starodubtsev, Kirill Titaev, Marina Volokhonskaya, Vladimir Volokhonsky, Jane Zavisca, Elena Zdravomyslova, Tatjana Zimenkova
Mikhail Sokolov. Response
Popular Concepts of the Sacred
Jeanne Kormina, Sergei Shtyrkov. Believers’ Letters as Advertising: St Xenia of Petersburg’s 'National Reception Centre'
Svetlana Ryzhakova. Representations of Holiness and the Sacred in Latvian Folklore
Migrancy and Diaspora
Andy Byford. Eurasia on the Move
Anne de Tinguy. Post-Soviet States and their Migrations in Reflection
Siobhan Peeling. Displacement, Deviance and Civic Identity: Migrants into Leningrad at the End of the Second World War
Amandine Regamey. Representations of Migrants and the Politics of Migration in Russia
Reviews
From the Editorial Board
Review of Marina Mogilner. Homo imperii: istoriya fizicheskoi antropologii v Rossii [Homo Imperii: A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia]. M.: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2008. Reviewer: Aleksandr Kozintsev
Review of Marina Mogilner. Homo imperii: istoriya fizicheskoi antropologii v Rossii [Homo Imperii: A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia]. M.: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2008. Reviewer: Ekaterina Melnikova
Forum 10: Dialogue in the Academic World
Yuri Berezkin, Michael David-Fox, Evgeny Dobrenko, Dina Khapaeva, Eve Levin, Stephen Lovell, Aleksandr Lvov, Svetlana Ryzhakova, Tatyana Shchepanskaya, Nariman Skakov, Steve Smith, Mark D. Steinberg
From the Editorial Board