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Acknowledgments Research for this publication was supported by grants (in 1989 and 1992) from the International Research and Exchanges Board, with funds provided by the U.S. Department of State (Title VIII program) and the National Endowment for the Humanities. None of these organizations is responsible for the views expressed. My colleagues in Moscow, Olga Borovaia and Sergei Lezov, provided invaluable leads, tips, and general assistance. A quarter-long fellowship during 1991 at the Humanities Institute at the University of California at Davis enabled me to present an initial stage of my work in an interdisciplinary setting. Austin Sarat gave his enthusiastic encouragement to the project. I wish to thank my research assistants, Victoria Shinbrot and Anna Kaladiouk, for their patient and able help. I'm also grateful to the anonymous readers at the University of Michigan Press for their insightful comments. Thanks are due to the staff of the Interlibrary Loan Department at the UC Davis Library, who supplied me with hardto -find newspapers, journals, and monographs crucial to this study. Finally, my love and thanks to my husband, Bruce Rosenstock, for the innumerable conversations about and readings of the manuscript, for his support, and best of all, for his unflagging interest in the project. ...

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