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INDEX TO VOLUME 58 Contents of Volume 58 Number I, Spring 1999 DISCUSSION New Approaches to Old Problems: The Well-Being of the Population of Russia from 1821 to 1910 as Measured by Physical Stature Boris N. Mironov The Great Leap Upwards: Anthropometric Data and Indicators of Crises and Secular Change in Soviet Welfare Levels, 1880-1960 Stephen G. Wheatcroft Tall Tales: Anthropometric Measures of Well-Being in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, 1821-1960 Steven L. Hoch On the Biological Standard of Living in Russia and the Soviet Union John Komlos Tall Requirements and “Small” Reality Boris N. Mironov Toward an Objective Evaluation of the Complexities of Soviet Social Reality under Stalin Stephen G. Wheatcroft ARTICLES Making Sense of the Sensual in Pavel Florenskii’s Aesthetics: The Dialectics of Finite Being Stephen C. Hutchings The Ambivalence of Authenticity, or How the Moldovan Language Was Made Charles King Singing on the Steppes for Stalin: Ivan Pyr’ev and the Kolkhoz Musical in Soviet Cinema Richard Taylor The Rudolf Slansky Affair: New Evidence Igor Lukes BOOK REVIEWS COLLECTED ESSAYS BOOKS RECEIVED LETTERS Number 2, Summer 1999 SPECIAL ISSUE Aleksandr Pushkin 1799-1999 Stephanie Sandler, Guest Editor Introduction Stephanie Sandler 283 Historicism or Providentialism? Pushkin’s History of Pugachev in the Context of French Romantic Historiography Alexander Dolinin 291 The Ace in the “Queen of Spades” Sergei Davydov 309 Adding to the “Guest” List: Hugo’s Hernani and Pushkin’s Don Juan David Shengold 329 Slavic Review 58, no. 4 (Winter 1999) INDEX TO VOLUME 58 Contents of Volume 58 Number I, Spring 1999 DISCUSSION New Approaches to Old Problems: The Well-Being of the Population of Russia from 1821 to 1910 as Measured by Physical Stature Boris N. Mironov The Great Leap Upwards: Anthropometric Data and Indicators of Crises and Secular Change in Soviet Welfare Levels, 1880-1960 Stephen G. Wheatcroft Tall Tales: Anthropometric Measures of Well-Being in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, 1821-1960 Steven L. Hoch On the Biological Standard of Living in Russia and the Soviet Union John Komlos Tall Requirements and “Small” Reality Boris N. Mironov Toward an Objective Evaluation of the Complexities of Soviet Social Reality under Stalin Stephen G. Wheatcroft ARTICLES Making Sense of the Sensual in Pavel Florenskii’s Aesthetics: The Dialectics of Finite Being Stephen C. Hutchings The Ambivalence of Authenticity, or How the Moldovan Language Was Made Charles King Singing on the Steppes for Stalin: Ivan Pyr’ev and the Kolkhoz Musical in Soviet Cinema Richard Taylor The Rudolf Slansky Affair: New Evidence Igor Lukes BOOK REVIEWS COLLECTED ESSAYS BOOKS RECEIVED LETTERS Number 2, Summer 1999 SPECIAL ISSUE Aleksandr Pushkin 1799-1999 Stephanie Sandler, Guest Editor Introduction Stephanie Sandler 283 Historicism or Providentialism? Pushkin’s History of Pugachev in the Context of French Romantic Historiography Alexander Dolinin 291 The Ace in the “Queen of Spades” Sergei Davydov 309 Adding to the “Guest” List: Hugo’s Hernani and Pushkin’s Don Juan David Shengold 329 Slavic Review 58, no. 4 (Winter 1999) Index Pushkin’s The Bronze Horseman and Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”: A Curious Case of Cultural Cross-Fertilization? Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy Love, Friendship, and Poetic Voice in Aleksandr Pushkin’s Lycée Elegies James L. Morgan IV Pushkin’s Ironic Performances as a Gambler lan M. Helfant Writing the Story of Pushkin’s Death Leslie O’ Bell The Patriots’ Pushkin Wendy Slater REVIEW ESSAYS The New Academy Pushkin: Toward a Definitive Text Andrew Kahn Phus Spoke Moskovskii Pushkinist: Aleksandr Pushkin in Contemporary Russian Scholarship Brian Horowitz lurii Lotman’s Pushkiniana Irina Reyfman Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin on the World Wide Web: An Annotated Bibliography Ann Marsh-Flores A. S. PUSHKIN BOOK REVIEWS BOOKS RECEIVED Number 3, Fall 1999 ARTICLES The Nonconformists: Dobrica Cosié and Miéa Popovi¢é Envision Serbia NicholasJ . Miller Body of the Nation: Mothering, Prostitution, and Women’s Place in Postcommunist Latvia Daina Stukuls Aleksandr Polezhaev and Remembrance of War in the Caucasus: Constructions of the Soldier as Victim Susan Layton 559 The Passion of Dmitrii Karamazov Carol A. Flath 584 Boundaries of Art in Nabokov’s The Gift: Reading as Transcendence Stephen H. Blackwell 600 REVIEW ESSAYS The Icebreaker Controversy: Did Stalin Plan to Attack Hitler? Teddy J. Uldricks In Search of a Vanished World Boris Gasparov BOOK REVIEWS REFERENCE BOOKS OF 1997-98: A SELECTION COLLECTED ESSAYS BOOKS RECEIVED LETTERS Slavic Review Number 4, Winter 1999 SPECIAL ISSUE Ten Years after 1989: What Have We Learned? Philip G. Roeder, Guest Editor ARTICLES The Revolution of 1989: Postcommunism and the Social Sciences Philip G. Roeder The Political Economy of Postsocialism Valerie Bunce Postcommunist Subversion: Social Science and Democratization in East Europe and Eurasia M. Steven Fish Geography and Transition: Reconceptualizing Systemic Change in the Former Soviet Union NicholasJ . Lynn Comrades into Citizens? Russian Political Culture and Public Support for the Transition Donna Bahry Peoples and States after 1989: The Political Costs of Incomplete National Revolutions Philip G. Roeder FILM REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS, 1998 951 COLLECTED ESSAYS 966 BOOKS RECEIVED 971 OBITUARIES 974 INDEX 976