PART I: SHEILA FITZPATRICK AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY Writing Russia: The Work of Sheila Fitzpatrick; R.Suny Sheila Fitzpatrick: An Interpretive Essay; J.Hessler The Two Faces of Tatiana Matveevna; Y.Slezkine PART II: EXAMINING THE SOVIET PAST: CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND THE STATE Military Occupation and Social Unrest: Daily Life in Russian Poland at the Start of the WWI; J.A.Sanborn Seeing Like a Soviet State: Settlement of Nomadic Kazakhs, 1928-34; M.Payne Counter-Narratives of Soviet Life: Kulak Special Settlers in the First Person; L.Viola Gender, Marriage, and Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union; M.Nakachi Collective Action in Soviet Society: The Case of War Veterans; M.Edele Shostakovich et al. and The Iron Curtain : Intellectual Property and the Development of a Soviet Strategy of Cultural Confrontation, 1948-1949; K.Tomoff A Torture Memo: Reading Violence in the Gulag; G.Alexopoulos Stalin, Khrushchev, and the Spaceman; J.Andrews PART III: REMINISCENCES Peter Nicholls David Fitzpatrick Barbara Gillam Jerry Hough Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kozlov Leora Auslander Alison Edwards Katerina Clark Kiril Tomoff