Russian Review

Papers
(The TQCC 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.)
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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
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
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
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
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
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
The Case of the DOXA Four: A Year in the School of Political Prisoners0
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
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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
Introduction: Power in Pelevin10
The Most Essential Workers0
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
The Foundations of Russian Law by MariannaMuravyeva, ed. London: Hart Publishing, 2023. 464 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78225‐648‐90
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
On the Threshold of a New Political Era: A (Re)Appreciation of Jonathan Frankel's Prophecy and Politics0
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
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
Holding Back the End of the World: Russian Apocalyptic Interpretations of the War in Ukraine0
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Gorbachev's Nationalities Policy and the Negotiations over a New Union Treaty, 1987–910
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
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
From Dynamism to Repression: The Many Possibilities of the Soviet Union’s Long 1960s0
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
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
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
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
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Moving beyond Expectations0
Publications Received0
A Story about One Hapless Baptism: Christianization of the Buryats and the Dymbilov Affair, 1841–480
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
Borders in a Borderland: The Buryat‐Cossacks and the Buryat National Movement, 1917–210
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
Co‐temporality and Sovremennost': Late Imperial and Early Soviet Photographs0
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Atomic Visitors from Outer Space: The Tunguska Nuclear Hypothesis in Soviet Technological Imagination0
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Midwifing Modernity: Popularizing Modern Health Care for Women in Late Imperial Russia0
Education Policy in the Kingdom of Poland after 1905: The Nationalizing Empire at an Impasse0
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
Aryan or Semitic? On the Racial Origins of “Tolstoy vs. Dostoevsky”0
Remembering the Victims of the Gulag: Images of Dokhodiagi in Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago and Shalamov's Kolyma Stories0
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
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
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
Provincializing Prostitution0
Pushkin, The Decembrists and Civic Sentimentalism by EmilyWang. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 210 pp. $99.95. ISBN 978‐0‐2993‐4580‐80
From the Editor0
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
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
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
Boisterous Utopia: Soviet Sonic Culture and Dziga Vertov's Enthusiasm0
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
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
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
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
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
Russia’s War against Ukraine: The Early Historiography of an Escalation0
Tracking a Revolutionary: Soso to Koba to Stalin0
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
Praskovia Uvarova’s Archeological Ambitions: Sex, Science, and Empire in Nineteenth‐Century Russia0
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 Kumys Cure: Sergei Aksakov on Frontier Medicine, Settler Colonialism, and Imperial Rejuvenation0
The Many Nationalities of Tamara Khanum: Friendship of the Peoples at Home, Abroad, and Within0
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
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
From Mushtra to Conscious Movement: Pyotr Lesgaft’s Science‐Based Physical Education for the Russian Cadet Corps0
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
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
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 Ruble: A Political History by EkaterinaPravilova. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 560 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐766371‐40
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
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
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
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
Perception of Surroundings: Materiality and Affect in the Russian Kustar Arts Revival0
“A True Russian Soldier”: Fabius Larionovich’s Less‐Is‐More Art of War0
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 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
“We Know What War Is”: Veterans, Soldiers, and Military Masculinity in the Soviet “Fight for Peace,” c. 1955–650
Cinema of Rupture: Urbicide, Eastern European Rubble Films, and the Documentary Impulse0
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
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
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
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
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
Getting the Facts Straight: Materialism and Method in Devin Fore’s Soviet Factography0
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
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
Communism, Christianity, and Translating Russian Jews: Liudmila Ulitskaia's Daniel Stein and Aleksandr Meilakhs's Bentsion Shamir0
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
Picturing Russian EmpireValerieKivelson, SergeiKozlov, and JoanNeuberger, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 592 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐760052‐80
Corporate Solidarity in Stalin’s USSR: Arrests and Release of NKVD Officers in the 1930s–1940s0
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
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Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism By SusanGrant. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022, 336 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6259‐80
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
Kul'turnost' Meets Kultur: Lyusya’s Testimony on Russian‐German Sexual Relations in Occupied Smolensk0
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
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
Sociality – or Death: Belinskii's Phenomenological Realism and the Emergence of the Russian Intelligentsia0
The Russian Review0
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
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
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
Women Scholars of Akademgorodok: Everyday Life in a Soviet University Town during the Thaw0
“To Indulge the Tears of Women and Children”: Masculinity, Violence, and Mercy in the Conquest of the Caucasus0
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
Nabokov in Motion: Modernity and Movement by YuriLeving. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 352 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5013‐8654‐10
Pigs, Wheat, Whales, and other Nonhumans in Russia and the Soviet Union0
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
Soviet Dissent, or Dissent in Soviet Russia?0
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
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
Esfir Shub: Pioneer of Documentary Filmmaking by IlanaSharp. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 344 pp. $130.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5013‐7651‐10
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
The Russian Review0
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
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
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
Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia0
Late Soviet Music in a Time of Russia’s War0
Soaring to New Heights: Problematic Policy, Planning, and Unintended Consequences0
“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
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
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 Martyr Cult of Grand Duke Sergei Aleksandrovich0
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
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
The Poetics of Hunger: Responding to Rupture in the Wake of the 1932–33 Famine (Holodomor) in Soviet Ukraine0
Correction to: Rewriting the Russo‐Japanese War: A Centenary Retrospective0
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
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
The Women's Side of the Story: Soviet “Displaced Persons” and Postwar Repatriation0
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 Demands of the Disabled: Masculinity, Disability, and Citizenship in the Late Imperial Russian Military0
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
“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
Mapping Russia, but Finding Some Blind Spots0
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
Decision Paralysis0
A Dialectical Skazka: Depicting Nature’s Transformation during the First Five‐Year Plan0
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
Specters of a Marxist: Boris Arvatov and His Art of Insubstantial Presence0
Lenin Lives? by ChristopherRead. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 208 pp. $40.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐886608‐40
Getting Russia Right by ThomasGraham. Washington: Polity Press, 2023. 272 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5095‐5689‐20
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
Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War0
The Soviet Union in the Cold War: A Third Way0
The Russian Review0
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
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
Why Did Nadezhdin Publish Chaadaev? Interests vs. Ideas in the Literary Politics of the 1830s0
Russian Realist Fiction in the Shadow of Autocratic Power0
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
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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
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
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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
What Was the Gulag? New Books on the History and Memory of Soviet Repressions0
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
“A hitherto unheard‐of and harmful thing”: Breastfeeding and Violence in Russian Literature0
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 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
Let's Sharpen Our Optic Nerves0
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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
The Russian Review0
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
An Air Map for World Cinema: Aeroflot as an Infrastructure for Cinematic Internationalism0
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
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
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
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
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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
Biopolitics and the Cinema of Extremes0
A Chto Sluchilos'?: Ethnographies of Holding It Together0
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
It Takes a Village0
For a United Russia? The White Movement’s Rejection of National Self‐Determination, 1918–200
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
The Russian Review0
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