Branding the exile as other / Abby M. Schrader -- Ethnicity, nationality and the masses / Nathaniel Knight -- To make a difference / Charles Steinwedel -- What's so revolutionary about the Russian revolution? / Peter Holquist -- Cutting and counting / Kenneth M. Pinnow -- Dictatorship of sex / Frances L. Bernstein -- Modernization or neo-tradionalism? / Terry Martin -- Narratives of October and the issue of legitimacy / Frederick C. Corney -- Victim talk / Golfo Alexopoulos -- Self-realization in the Stalinist system / Jochen Hellbeck -- European modernity and Soviet socialism.