Russian Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Russian Review is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Peripheries, Ideologies, and the Origins of War5
Russia Against Modernity by AlexanderEtkind.Cambridge: Polity, 2023. 176 pp. $64.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5095‐5657‐14
Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture By EdwardTyerman. Studies of the Harriman Institute of Columbia University. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022, xiv + 353 pp. $35.00 3
Ayn Rand and the Russian Intelligentsia: The Origins of an Icon of the American Right By DerekOfford. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, xiii + 17 pp. $17.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐3502‐8394‐72
State Laughter: Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture by EvgenyDobrenko and NataliaJonsson‐Skradol. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 448 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐884041‐12
Listening to the Soviet Union’s “Silent” Majority: The Evasion of Labor Obligations on the Home Front, 1941–452
Crimean Quagmire. Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare by GregoryCarleton. London: Hurst, 2024. 264 pp. £27.50. ISBN 978‐1‐9117‐2363‐91
Russia/USSR in the World1
Zagadka naroda‐sfinksa: Rasskazy o krest'ianakh i ikh sotsiokul'turnye funktsii v Rossiiskoi imperii do otmeny krepostnogo prava by AlekseiVdovin. Intellektual'naia istoriia. Moscow: Novoe literaturno1
Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919–1943 by KaterinaClark. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 464 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐26110‐51
Negotiated Borders, Contested Identities, and States Done and Undone: Mapping Ukraine and Russia beyond War and Empire1
Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice by Xenia A.Cherkaev. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. 189 pp. $26.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐7030‐21
Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty by Mark G.Pomar. Lincoln:Potomac Books, 2022. 344 pp. $28.60. ISBN 978‐1‐6401‐2514‐81
Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century by GabriellaSafran. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. 300 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6632‐91
Welfare Nationalism in Europe and Russia: The Politics of 21st Century Exclusionary and Inclusionary Migrations by Linda J.Cook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 280 pp. $34.99. ISBN 978‐11
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Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room: Domestic Architecture before and after 1991 by Kateryna Malaia. Ithaca: Northern Illinois Press, 2023. xvii + 181 pp. $36.95. ISBN 978‐1‐501771200.1
Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies By AlanBarenberg, Emily D.Johnson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022, 320 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐253‐05961‐11
A Story about One Hapless Baptism: Christianization of the Buryats and the Dymbilov Affair, 1841–480
Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism By SusanGrant. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022, 336 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6259‐80
Borders in a Borderland: The Buryat‐Cossacks and the Buryat National Movement, 1917–210
Kul'turnost' Meets Kultur: Lyusya’s Testimony on Russian‐German Sexual Relations in Occupied Smolensk0
Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao By JosephTorigian. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022, 312 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐0‐3000
Visualizing Russia in Early Modern Europe by Nancy S.Kollmann. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 342 pp. $39.99. ISBN 978‐1‐009‐41868‐30
Reading Darwin in Imperial Russia: Literature and Ideas by Andrew M.Drozd, Brendan G.Mooney, and Stephen M.Woodburn, eds. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023. vi + 292 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐1‐66692‐084‐00
Publications Received0
M. N. Pokrovskii and the Origins of Soviet Historiography by James D.White. Historical Materialism Book Series. Leiden: Brill, 2024. 279 pp. $140.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐70387‐20
L’État quotidien: Administrer la Russie au XVIIIe siècle by AnnaJoukovskaia. Collection “En temps & lieux,” vol. 126. Paris: Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 0
Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars by Elena PedigoClark. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023. 270 pp. $149.99. ISBN 978‐1‐64469‐426‐80
Russia in Africa: Resurgent Great Power or Bellicose Pretender? by SamuelRamani. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. vi + 320 pp. $60.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19774‐459‐80
Energy Culture: Work, Power, and Waste in Russia and the Soviet Union by JillianPorter and MayaVinokour, eds. Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 342 pp. $10
A TRIBUTE TO MANAGING EDITOR KURT SCHULTZ0
Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting for the Soviet Union by VickyDavis. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 408 pp. $31.45 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐350‐37228‐30
Atomic Visitors from Outer Space: The Tunguska Nuclear Hypothesis in Soviet Technological Imagination0
Soviet Dissent, or Dissent in Soviet Russia?0
Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post‐Soviet Region By ScottRadnitz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, xx + 244 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐19‐757354‐90
Collecting Things, Gathering People: A Late Soviet Menagerie0
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cross Rhythms of the Soul by Valeria Z.Nollan. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022. 398 pp. $125.00. ISBN 978‐1‐66691‐759‐80
The Russian Review0
Pigs, Wheat, Whales, and other Nonhumans in Russia and the Soviet Union0
Family and the State in Soviet Lithuania: Gender, Law, and Society By DaliaLeinarte. Library of Modern Russia. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, 226 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐13609‐00
The Russian Review0
Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds by TatyanaGershkovich. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2023. xii + 225 pp. $32.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐4553‐50
The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present by Serhii Plokhy. Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies, 81. Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2023. xvii + 400 pp. $19.95. ISBN 978‐0‐0
Education Policy in the Kingdom of Poland after 1905: The Nationalizing Empire at an Impasse0
The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia by AnnaSchur. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2022. xii + 224 pp. $39.95 0
Esfir Shub: Pioneer of Documentary Filmmaking by IlanaSharp. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 344 pp. $130.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5013‐7651‐10
Remembering the Victims of the Gulag: Images of Dokhodiagi in Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago and Shalamov's Kolyma Stories0
Late Soviet Music in a Time of Russia’s War0
Discipline Made Visible: Abram Room’s The Ghost That Never Returns and the Fantastic Origins of Foucault’s Panopticon0
For Putin and for Sharia: Dagestani Muslims and the Islamic State by IwonaKaliszewska. Translated by ArthurBarys. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Northern Illinois U0
Provincializing Prostitution0
Studies in the History of Russian‐Israeli Literature by RomanKatsman and Maxim D.Shrayer. Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe and Their Legacy. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023. 432 pp. $65.00. ISBN0
The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800–1880 by Anna A.Berman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 272 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1928‐6662‐20
Aryan or Semitic? On the Racial Origins of “Tolstoy vs. Dostoevsky”0
Russia’s Social Gospel: The Orthodox Pastoral Movement in Famine, War, and Revolution by DanielScarborough. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. 320 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐299‐33724‐70
The Martyr Cult of Grand Duke Sergei Aleksandrovich0
The First Cold War: Anglo‐Russian Relations in the 19th Century by BarbaraEmerson. London: Hurst and Company, 2024. xviii + 549 pp. $54.99. ISBN 978‐1‐8052‐6057‐80
The Russian‐American Company as a Corporation0
Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin‐de‐Siècle St. Petersburg By OlgaPetri. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022, xx + 254 pp. $48.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6377‐90
Pushkin, The Decembrists and Civic Sentimentalism by EmilyWang. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 210 pp. $99.95. ISBN 978‐0‐2993‐4580‐80
Heretical Orthodoxy: Lev Tolstoi and the Russian Orthodox Church by PålKolstø. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 340 pp. $99.99. ISBN 978‐1‐00‐926040‐40
From the Editor0
Nabokov’s Secret Trees by Stephen H.Blackwell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024. 302 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐5444‐60
Nijinksy’s Feeling Mind: The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances by NicoleSvobodny. Crosscurrents: Russia’s Literature in Context. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023. 373 pp. $125.00. ISBN 978‐1‐7936‐5353‐60
Tracking a Revolutionary: Soso to Koba to Stalin0
Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West by EbonyNilsson. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2024. 272 pp. $103.50. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐37839‐10
The Poetics of Hunger: Responding to Rupture in the Wake of the 1932–33 Famine (Holodomor) in Soviet Ukraine0
Seeing Red: Russian Propaganda and American News by SarahOates and Gordon NeilRamsay. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 216 pp. $99.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐769642‐20
School, Empire, and the Provincial Roots of Civil Activism in Late Nineteenth‐Century Russia0
Hybrid Warriors: Proxies, Freelancers and Moscow’s Struggle for Ukraine by AnnaArutunyan, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 352 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐1‐78738‐795‐90
Russia’s Army: A History from the Napoleonic Wars to the War in Ukraine by Roger R. Reese. Campaigns & Commanders. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2023. xiv + 225 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978‐0‐80610
The Many Nationalities of Tamara Khanum: Friendship of the Peoples at Home, Abroad, and Within0
Forged in War: A Military History of Russia from Its Beginnings to Today by MarkGaleotti. New York: Osprey Publishing, 2024. 368 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4728‐6251‐80
Stalin’s Millennials: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism by TinatinJaparidze. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022. 159 pp. $95.00. ISBN 978‐1‐7936‐4186‐10
Propaganda and Ideology in the Russian‐Ukrainian War by JonRoozenbeek. Contemporary Social Issues. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 234 pp. $34.99. ISBN 978‐1‐00‐924400‐80
The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently by Olga V.Solovieva. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 338 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐286600‐40
From Mushtra to Conscious Movement: Pyotr Lesgaft’s Science‐Based Physical Education for the Russian Cadet Corps0
The Tsar’s Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia’s Rulers, 1495–1745 by Russell E.Martin. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Cornell University P0
Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin by AnnaToropova. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xv + 257 pp. $88.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐883109‐90
Companion to Victor Pelevin by SofyaKhagi, ed. Companions to Russian Literature. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2022. 244 pp. $32.95. ISBN 978‐1‐64469‐775‐70
Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, Exploring and Describing Early Modern Russia, 1613–1825 by Denis J. B.Shaw. London: UCL Press, 2024. xvii + 204 pp. $30.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐80008‐591‐60
Getting Russia Right by ThomasGraham. Washington: Polity Press, 2023. 272 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5095‐5689‐20
Reds in Blue: UNESCO, World Governance, and the Soviet Internationalist Imagination by Louis HowardPorter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 320 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1976‐5630‐30
Russian Realist Fiction in the Shadow of Autocratic Power0
From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union by Susan C. I.Grunewald. Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024. xii0
The Russian Review0
Perception of Surroundings: Materiality and Affect in the Russian Kustar Arts Revival0
Moscow Conceptualism, 1975–1985: Words, Deeds, Legacies by Mary A.Nicholas. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024. 238 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐22786‐60
The Russian State and Russian Energy Companies, 1992–2018 By Ingerid M.Opdahl. New York: Routledge, 2020, 324 pp. $128.00. ISBN 978‐0‐815‐35405‐50
Ideology and Meaning‐Making under the Putin Regime by MarleneLaruelle. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025. xii + 402 pp. $35.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5036‐4159‐40
“We Know What War Is”: Veterans, Soldiers, and Military Masculinity in the Soviet “Fight for Peace,” c. 1955–650
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Everyday Foreign Policy: Performing and Consuming the Russian Nation after Crimea by ElizavetaGaufman. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 200 pp. $130.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5261‐5541‐20
What Was the Gulag? New Books on the History and Memory of Soviet Repressions0
Freedom from Violence and Lies: Anton Chekhov’s Life and Writings By Michael C.Finke. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021, 256 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78914‐430‐70
“A True Russian Soldier”: Fabius Larionovich’s Less‐Is‐More Art of War0
The Russian Intelligentsia: From the Monastery to the Mir Space Station by ChristopherRead. The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. x + 324 pp. $115.00. ISBN0
Russian Food since 1800: Empire at Table by CatrionaKelly. Russian Shorts. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2024. 160 pp. $16.15. ISBN 978‐1‐3501‐9278‐20
Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland By JulianeFürst. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, xvii + 477 pp. $82.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐878832‐40
The Multiethnic Soviet Union and its Demise by BrigidO’Keeffe. Russian Shorts. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 152 pp. $17.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐3501‐3677‐90
The Broken Years: Russia’s Disabled War Veterans, 1904–1921 by AlexandreSumpf. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 322 pp. $99.990
Red Star over the Black Sea: Nâzım Hikmet and His Generation by James H.Meyer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 400 pp. £100.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1928‐7117‐60
Public Patterns in Private Writing: Computational Insights into Russophone Diaries0
Russian Warfare and Influence: States in the Intersection between East and West by NiklasNilsson and MikaelWeissmann, eds. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 195 pp. $24.25 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐350‐30
Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia By AnastasiaShesterinina. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021, 258 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐5376‐30
The Judicial System of Russia by KathrynHendley and Peter H.Solomon, Jr. Judicial Systems of the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 272 pp. $105.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐289535‐60
The Path to a Soviet Nation: The Policy of Belarusization by AlenaMarková. Translated by Paval Turchaninau. Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2022. xviii + 261 pp. $124.00. ISBN 978‐3‐506‐79181‐80
Soviet Self‐Hatred: The Secret Identities of Postsocialism in Contemporary Russia by EliotBorenstein. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. 204 pp. $22.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6988‐70
The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917–1945: Repressed Children by Boris B. Gorshkov. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 232 pp. $103.50. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐09867‐10
On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia by JenniferKeating. Oxford Studies in Modern European History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 272 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐0
On the Edge: Life along the Russia‐China Border By FranckBillé, CarolineHumphrey. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021, 400 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐97948‐20
Starlight and Stargazers: Slavic Screen Celebrities by HelenaGoscilo, ed. Film and Media Studies. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024. 374 pp. $129.00. ISBN 979‐8‐8871‐9499‐80
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Russians in Cold War Australia by SheilaFitzpatrick and PhillipDeery, eds. The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. 338 pp. $130.00. ISBN 978‐1‐66694‐499‐00
Goncharov in the Twenty‐First Century By IngridKleespies, LyudmilaParts. Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021, xxviii + 234 pp. $109.00
The Russian Review0
Picturing Russian EmpireValerieKivelson, SergeiKozlov, and JoanNeuberger, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 592 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐760052‐80
The Art and Science of Making the New Soviet Man in Early 20th‐Century Russia By YvonneHowell, NikolaiKrementsov. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, 296 pp. $103.50. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐23283‐90
The History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia by GennadyEstraikh. Russian Shorts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 152 pp. $61.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐29624‐40
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The Russian Review0
Publications Received0
Charlottengrad: Russian Culture in Weimar Berlin by RomanUtkin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 256 pp. $99.95. ISBN 978‐0‐299‐34440‐50
Being a Woman and Being Tatar: Intersectional Perspectives on Identity and Tradition by AlenaLange. New York: Routledge, 2025. 170 pp. $190.00. ISBN 978‐1‐03‐260340‐70
Corporate Solidarity in Stalin’s USSR: Arrests and Release of NKVD Officers in the 1930s–1940s0
The Case of the DOXA Four: A Year in the School of Political Prisoners0
The Russian Review0
Illiberal Vanguard: Populist Elitism in the United States and Russia by AlexandarMihailovic. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. 282 pp. $79.95. ISBN 978‐0‐299‐34050‐60
The Military History of the Russian Empire from Peter the Great until Nicholas II by John W.Steinberg. The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. x + 329 pp. $10
Soviet Economic Experts and Economic Policy from Reform to Collapse0
Women Scholars of Akademgorodok: Everyday Life in a Soviet University Town during the Thaw0
Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania by NeringaKlumbyté. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. 306 pp. $32.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6669‐50
Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism by Julie A. Cassiday. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 270 pp. $79.95. ISBN 978‐0‐2993‐4670‐60
Sociality – or Death: Belinskii's Phenomenological Realism and the Emergence of the Russian Intelligentsia0
Nabokov in Motion: Modernity and Movement by YuriLeving. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 352 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5013‐8654‐10
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Victor Pelevin and Eurasianist Geopolitics0
From “the Ukraine” to Ukraine: A Contemporary History of 1991–2021 by MatthewRojansky, GeorgiyKasianov, and MykhailoMinakov, eds. Hannover: ibidem‐Verlag, 2021. 398 pp. €45.90. ISBN 978‐3‐8382‐1514‐30
Roy and Zhores Medvedev: Loyal Dissent in the Soviet Union by BarbaraMartin. Modern Biographies. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023. 244 pp. $149.00. ISBN 979‐8‐8871‐9181‐20
“To Indulge the Tears of Women and Children”: Masculinity, Violence, and Mercy in the Conquest of the Caucasus0
The Moscow Factor: U.S. Policy toward Sovereign Ukraine and the Kremlin by Eugene M.Fishel. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022. 336 pp. $59.95. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐27917‐90
Oil in Putin's Russia: The Contests over Rents and Economic Policy By AdnanVatansever. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021, 348 pp. $44.95. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐2281‐00
Varieties of Russian Activism: State‐Society Contestation in Everyday Life by JeremyMorris, AndreiSemenov, and ReginaSmyth, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. 314 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978‐00
Coerced Liberation: Muslim Women in Soviet Tajikistan by Zamira Abman. Toronto: University of Toronto Press2024. xii + 221 pp. $42.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐5318‐00
Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia: Biography for the Masses by Ludmilla A.Trigos and CarolUeland, eds. Crosscurrents: Russia’s Literature in Context. Lanham: Lexi0
From Dynamism to Repression: The Many Possibilities of the Soviet Union’s Long 1960s0
Thinking Russia’s History Environmentally by CatherineEvtuhov, JuliaLajus, and DavidMoon, eds. Environment in History: International Perspectives. New York: Berghahn Books, 2023. 344 pp. $145.00. ISBN0
Bakhtin + x, through a Modernist Mask0
The Karamazov Case: Dostoevsky’s Argument for His Vision by Terrence W.Tilley. London: T&T Clark, 2023, 172 pp. $103.50. ISBN 978‐0‐567‐70437‐50
Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia0
Soaring to New Heights: Problematic Policy, Planning, and Unintended Consequences0
Moving beyond Expectations0
Samoderzhavie na perelome: 1894 god v istorii dinastii i vlasti by Dmitri A.Andreev. Trudy istoricheskogo fakulʹteta MGU 207, Seriia II, Istoricheskie issledovaniia 138. St. Petersburg: Aleteiia, 20220
Power and the Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus: Periphery Unbound, 1920–29 by Sara C.Brinegar. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 224 pp. $103.50. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐28669‐60
Revolutionary Philanthropy: Aid to Political Prisoners and Exiles in Late Imperial Russia by StuartFinkel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. ix + 336 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐891610‐90
Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union by Christina E.Crawford. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. 424 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐5919‐20
Co‐temporality and Sovremennost': Late Imperial and Early Soviet Photographs0
“Following Our Own Path”: Pavel Katenin’s Political Theater0
Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine by Greta LynnUehling. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. 210 pp. $125.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6759‐30
Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union By Eliyana R.Adler. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020, 456 pp. $51.00. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐98802‐60
States of Anxiety: Scarcity and Loss in Revolutionary Russia by William G.Rosenberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 600 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐761015‐20
The Charisma of World Revolution: Revolutionary Internationalism in Early Soviet Society, 1917–1927 by Gleb J.Albert. Translated by ZacharyKing. Historical Materialism Book Series. Leiden: Brill, 20230
Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin by JeronimPerović. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. xvi + 250 pp. $34.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐0094‐4914‐40
The Women's Side of the Story: Soviet “Displaced Persons” and Postwar Repatriation0
Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan by ElisabethLeake. London: Oxford University Press, 2022. 368 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978‐0‐1988‐4601‐70
Babyn Yar: History and Memory by Vladyslav Hrynevych and Paul Robert Magocsi, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. 440 pp. $44.95. ISBN 978‐0‐7727‐5116‐40
The Making & Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post‐Soviet City by DenysGorbach. Dislocations, Vol. 36. New York: Berghahn Books, 2024. 346 pp. $1350
Land, Community, and the State in the Caucasus: Kabardino‐Balkaria from Tsarist Conquest to Post‐Soviet Politics by IanLanzillotti. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. xii + 313 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐10
Correction to: Rewriting the Russo‐Japanese War: A Centenary Retrospective0
Mapping Russia, but Finding Some Blind Spots0
The Whole World Was Watching: Sport in the Cold War By RobertEdelman, ChristopherYoung. Cold War International History Project Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020, 352 pp. $65.00. ISBN 90
Decision Paralysis0
Midwifing Modernity: Popularizing Modern Health Care for Women in Late Imperial Russia0
A Dialectical Skazka: Depicting Nature’s Transformation during the First Five‐Year Plan0
The Demands of the Disabled: Masculinity, Disability, and Citizenship in the Late Imperial Russian Military0
I Try Not To Think of Afghanistan: Lithuanian Veterans of the Soviet War by AnnaReich. With an introduction by Paul Robinson. Afterword by Adrian Bonenberger. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and 0
“A Seditious and Sinister Tribe”: The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate by DonaldRayfield. Chicago: Reaktion Books, 2024. 352 pp. $40.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78914‐909‐80
Lenin Lives? by ChristopherRead. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 208 pp. $40.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐886608‐40
The Geopolitics of Culture: James Billington, the Library of Congress, and the Failed Quest for a New Russia by John VanOudenaren. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: No0
Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great by Rosalind P.Blakesley. London: Lund Humphries, 2023. 152 pp. $64.99. ISBN 978‐1‐84822‐545‐90
World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinities, and Solidarities in the Global Cold War by MashaSalazkina. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. $34.95 (paper). 388 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐520‐39375‐20
Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War0
The Soviet Union in the Cold War: A Third Way0
Specters of a Marxist: Boris Arvatov and His Art of Insubstantial Presence0
Why Did Nadezhdin Publish Chaadaev? Interests vs. Ideas in the Literary Politics of the 1830s0
Boisterous Utopia: Soviet Sonic Culture and Dziga Vertov's Enthusiasm0
The Vortex That Unites Us: Versions of Totality in Russian Literature by JacobEmery. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, 2023. 228 pp. $54.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6938‐20
Intimate Empire: The Mansurov Family in Russia and the Orthodox East, 1855–1936 By AlexaVon Winning. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 240 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐284441‐50
Putin’s Dark Ages: Political Neomedievalism and Re‐Stalinization in Russia by DinaKhapaeva. London: Routledge, 2023. xvi + 275 pp. $49.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐032‐57148‐50
Evacuee Encounters on the Soviet Home Front during the Second World War by NatalieBelsky. Routledge Studies in Second World War History. New York: Routledge, 2024. 224 pp. $190.00. ISBN 978‐1‐03‐233210
History of Law in Russia: From the Council Code (Ulozhenie) of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich of 1649 to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 by Ferdinand J. M.Feldbrugge. Law in Eastern Europe, vol. 700
Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century By ElenaFratto. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021, xii + 259 pp. $30.000
Russia’s War against Ukraine: The Early Historiography of an Escalation0
The Russia That We Have Lost: Pre‐Soviet Past as Anti‐Soviet Discourse by PavelKhazanov. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 191 pp. $89.95. ISBN 978‐0‐299‐34510‐50
Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman by Susanne Schattenberg. Translated by JohnHeath. London: I. B. Tauris, 2021. $30.92. 512 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐8386‐0638‐10
Slova i konflikty: Iazyk protivostoianiia i eskalatsiia grazhdanskoi voiny v Rossii by B. I.Kolonitskii. St. Petersburg: Izdatel'stvo Evropeiskogo Universiteta v Sankt‐Peterburge, 2022. 327 pp. ₽500. 0
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Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia by Alexander SashaKondakov. London: University College London Press, 2022. 244 pp. £20.00. ISBN 978‐1‐80008‐294‐60
Putin’s Holy War of the Fatherland: Sacred Memory and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine0
The Russian Revolution of 1917 – Memory and Legacy by Carol S.Leonard, DanielOrlovsky, and JurejPetrov, eds. BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies. New York: Routledge, 2024. 320
The Kumys Cure: Sergei Aksakov on Frontier Medicine, Settler Colonialism, and Imperial Rejuvenation0
Let's Sharpen Our Optic Nerves0
Introduction0
The Russian Review0
“A hitherto unheard‐of and harmful thing”: Breastfeeding and Violence in Russian Literature0
Praskovia Uvarova’s Archeological Ambitions: Sex, Science, and Empire in Nineteenth‐Century Russia0
Siberian Exile and the Invention of Revolutionary Russia, 1825–1917: Exiles, Émigrés, and the International Reception of Russian Radicalism by BenPhillips. New York: Routledge, 2022. 210 pp. $170.00. 0
Staging Democracy: Political Performance in Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond by JessicaPisano. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, 2022. 20
Chastnaia zhizn' v Rossii XVII veka: Zapisnye knigi Dukhovnogo prikaza Riazanskogo mitropolich'ego doma 1660–1670‐kh godov by V. N.Kozliakov. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2023. 823 pp. ₽6,375.00. ISBN 978‐50
Affected Realism and Imitated Perception: Ekphrasis and Orthodox Space in Leskov and Chekhov0
From the Editor0
Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic by CharlotteWrigley. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. xiv + 237 pp. $22.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5179‐1182‐90
The Ukrainian‐Russian Borderland: History vs. Geography by Volodymyr V.Kravchenko. Quebec: McGill‐Queen’s University Press, 2022. 352 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐0‐2280‐1199‐60
An Air Map for World Cinema: Aeroflot as an Infrastructure for Cinematic Internationalism0
A Chto Sluchilos'?: Ethnographies of Holding It Together0
Voina patriotizmov: Propaganda i massovye nastroeniia v Rossii perioda krusheniia imperii by VladislavAksenov. Chto takoe Rossiia. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2023. 488 pp. ₽660.00. ISBN 9780
It Takes a Village0
For a United Russia? The White Movement’s Rejection of National Self‐Determination, 1918–200
The Russian Review0
How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War, 1939–1950 by KimmoRentola. Translated by RichardRobinson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. 304 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐3002‐7361‐80
The Ruble: A Political History by EkaterinaPravilova. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 560 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐766371‐40
Biopolitics and the Cinema of Extremes0
Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War by Michael de Groot. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024. 324 pp. $53.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐7411‐90
A War Made in Russia by Sergei Medvedev. Translated by StephenDalziel. Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 2023. 192 pp. $59.95. ISBN 978‐1‐509‐55839‐10
The Uses of Rupture in Medieval Northern Eurasian History0
The Soviet Suppression of Academia: The Case of Konstantin Azadovsky By Peter A.Druzhinin. Translated by Sarah Vitali. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 280 pp. $150.00. ISBN 978‐1‐3501‐3613‐70
Russian Children's Literature and Childhood Research in the Post‐Soviet Age: Past‐Present‐Future0
The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations by MichaelDavid‐Fox, ed. Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. 429 pp. $55.00. ISBN 0
Cinema of Rupture: Urbicide, Eastern European Rubble Films, and the Documentary Impulse0
The Foundations of Russian Law by MariannaMuravyeva, ed. London: Hart Publishing, 2023. 464 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78225‐648‐90
On the Threshold of a New Political Era: A (Re)Appreciation of Jonathan Frankel's Prophecy and Politics0
The Afterlife of the “Soviet Man”: Rethinking Homo Sovieticus by GulnazSharafutdinova. Russian Shorts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 136 pp. $61.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐16771‐10
Introduction: Power in Pelevin10
The Most Essential Workers0
Getting the Facts Straight: Materialism and Method in Devin Fore’s Soviet Factography0
Gorbachev's Nationalities Policy and the Negotiations over a New Union Treaty, 1987–910
Communism, Christianity, and Translating Russian Jews: Liudmila Ulitskaia's Daniel Stein and Aleksandr Meilakhs's Bentsion Shamir0
Crucibles of Power: Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule by MichaelDavid‐Fox. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2025. 460 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐24746‐80
Kindheit als Privileg: Bildungsideale und Erziehungspraktiken in Russland (1750–1920) by KatharinaKucher. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag,2022. 480 pp. €49.00. ISBN 978‐3‐5935‐1433‐80
Storms over the Balkans during the Second World War by Alfred J.Alfred. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 320 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐285803‐00
Holding Back the End of the World: Russian Apocalyptic Interpretations of the War in Ukraine0
Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia by ClareGriffin. Intoxicating Histories no. 4. Montreal: McGill‐Queen’s University Press, 2022. 248 pp. $34.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐2280‐0
Georgian and Soviet: Entitled Nationhood and the Specter of Stalin in the Caucasus by Claire P.Kaiser. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. vi + 275 pp. $43.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6680‐00
Photography and Political Repressions in Stalin’s Russia: Defacing the Enemy by DenisSkopin. New York: Routledge, 2022. 168 pp. $150.00. ISBN 978‐1‐03‐202705‐00
The Urban Life of Workers in Post‐Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggle by AlexandrinaVanke. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2024. 256 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5261‐6763‐70
Afterword0
After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia's Far North by Tyler C.Kirk. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. 308 pp. $70.00. ISBN 978‐0‐2530‐6749‐40
Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus by FranziskaExeler. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. 360 pp. $35.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6273‐40
Brodsky in English by ZakharIshov. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2023. 296 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐4599‐30
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