Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction Mark D. Steinberg Valeria Sobol 3
1 "The Queen of Lofty Thoughts": The Cult of Melancholy in Russian Sentimentalism Ilya Vinitsky 18
2 Leaving Your Family in 1797: Two Identities of Mikhail Murav'ev Andrei Zorin 44
3 Radicals and Feeling: The 1860s Victoria Frede 62
4 Shame and Modern Subjectivities: The Rape of Elizaveta Cheremnova Alexandra Oberländer 82
5 Thinking about Feelings: Affective Dispositions and Emotional Ties in Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire Ronald Grigor Suny 102
6 Bolsheviks and Emotional Hermeneutics: The Great Purges, Bukharin, and the February-March Plenum of 1937 Glennys Young 128
7 Breaking the Silence: Iurii Bondarev's Quietness between the "Sincerity" and "Civic Emotion" of the Thaw Polly Jones 152
8 Emplaced and Displaced: Theorizing the Emotions of Space in the Former Yugoslavia Judith Pintar 177
9 A Genealogy of Working-Class Anger: History, Emotions, and Political Economy in Romania's Jiu Valley Jack R. Friedman 201
10 Music, Emotion, and the "Other": Balkan Roma and the Negotiation of Exoticism Carol Silverman 224
11 Emotional Blueprints: War Songs as an Affective Medium Serguei Alex. Oushakine 248
Bibliography 277
Contributors 281
Index 285