Slavic Review

Papers
(The TQCC of Slavic 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland. By Joshua D. Zimmerman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2022. 623 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Maps. $39.95, hard bound.9
Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Exotic. By Karla Huebner. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. xx, 408 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Plates. Photographs. $100.005
Contributors4
Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia. By Sarah Riccardi-Swartz. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. xvi, 283 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. In4
Julia Sutton-Mattocks. Cures for Modernity: Medicine in Interwar Russian and Czech Literature and Cinema. Cultural History and Literary Imagination, vol. 35. Lausanne, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2
Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change. By Thane Gustafson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2021. xiv, 312 pp. Notes. Index. Figures. Maps. $39.95, hard bound.2
Jan Musekamp. Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands: Mobilities and Migration Along the Prussian Eastern Railroad. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2024. xiii, 293 pp. Notes. Bibliography2
Victor Neumann. Kin, People, or Nation? On European Political Identities. Trans. Gabi Reigh, Neil Titman, ed. London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd, 2021. 176 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index2
Karin Roginer Hofmeister. Remembering Suffering and Resistance: Memory Politics and the Serbian Orthodox Church. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2024. ix, 271 pp. Notes. Bibliograp2
Rima Praspaliauskiene. Enveloped Lives: Caring and Relating in Lithuanian Health Care. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. vi, 146 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95, paper.2
On Violence: A Response to Comments1
Our Blackface Sounds Familiar: Historical Imitations of Blackness in Poland1
Other Books of Interest1
Defining Latvia: Recent Explorations in History, Culture, and Politics. Ed. Michael Loader, Siobhan Hearne, and Mathew Kott. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2022. 269 pp. Notes. Glossary.1
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius. Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Sarmatia Europea to Post-Communist Bloc. Advances in Art and Visual Studies. New York: Routledge, 2021. xvi, 235 pp. Notes. Bibliograp1
Brigid O'Keefe. The Multiethnic Soviet Union and its Demise. Russian Shorts. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. x, 134 pp. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. $17.95, paper.1
Cold War Networks and the Scholarly Byt: How Russian Formalism Became an American Thing1
Provincial Revolution and Regional Anti-Colonialism: The Soviets in Iran, 1920–19211
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky. Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024. xix, 340 pp. 1
Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Through Much Tribulation. By Leonard G. Friesen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. xix, 401 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustratio1
Koen Slootmaeckers. Coming In: Sexual Politics and EU Accession in Serbia. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. xiii, 234 pp. Bibliography. Index. Figures. £85.00, hard bound.1
Mother Tongue, Other Tongue: Soviet-born Jewish Writers in Their New Language Environment. By Sergii Gurbych. Heidelberg: Universitätverlag Winter, 2021. 225 pp. Notes. Bibliography. €32.00, hard boun1
Soviet Architects and the Zhdanovshchina at Home and Abroad1
Katie L. Stewart. Legitimating Nationalism: Political Identity in Russia’s Ethnic Republics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2024. xvii, 293 pp. 1
Ed. Andrei Cusco and Victor Taki. Imperial Designs, Postimperial Extremes: Studies in Interdisciplinary and Comparative History of Russia and Eastern Europe 1
Polygynous Marriages among the Kyrgyz: Institutional Change and Endurance. By Michele E. Commercio. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. ix, 268 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. $51
Ocherki sovetskoi ekonomicheskoi politiki v 1965–1989 godakh. 2 vols. By Nikolai Mitrokhin. Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2023. Vol. 1: 504 pp. Notes. Index. ₽840.00, hard bound. Vol. 2: 608 p1
SLR volume 82 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels and Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels. Dir. Mila Turajlić. Poppy Pictures & Survivance in collaboration with Filmske Novosti, Bel1
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In the Kingdom of Shoes: Bata, Zlín, Globalization, 1894–1945. By Zachary Austin Doleshal. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. xv, 272 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photograph0
Delphine Rumeau. Comrade Whitman: From Russian to International Icon. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024. xix, 354 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Figure0
SLR volume 83 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Partizanskii logos: Proekt Dmitriia Aleksandrovicha Prigova. By Mark Lipovetski and Ilya Kukulin. Moscow: Novoe literaturoe obozrenie, 2022. 704 pp. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. ₽800, hard bound.0
Slova i konflikty: Iazyk protivostoianiia i eskalatsiia grazhdanskoi voiny v Rossii–sbornik statei. Ed. Boris Kolonitskii. Epokha voin i revoliutsiia, no. 16. St Petersburg: Izdatel΄stvo Evropeiskogo 0
Magdalena Waligórska. Cross Purposes: Catholicism and the Political Imagination in Poland. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xii, 376 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. $1200
Une histoire de la psychiatrie soviétique. By Grégory Dufaud. Paris: Éditions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2021. 314 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Photograp0
Captivating Cartoons: Normalizing Hatred0
The Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin. By Ken Hirschkop. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Index. xvii, 194 pp. Notes. Chronology. Index. $24.99, paper.0
Russia in the Early Modern World: The Continuity of Change. By Donald Ostrowski. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022, xiv, 559 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. $155.00, hard bound.0
Alessandro Stanziani. Tensions of Social History: Sources, Data, Actors and Models in Global Perspective. Global History: European Perspectives and Approaches. London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 0
Glenn Diesen. The Ukraine War & the New Eurasian World Order. Atlanta: Clarity Press, Inc., 2024. xvi, 314 pp. Bibliography. Index. Paper.0
Oleg Rusakovskiy. European Military Books and Intellectual Cultures of War in 17th-Century Russia: From Translation to Adaption . Leiden: Brill, 2024. xi0
Rosamund Johnston. Red Tape: Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945–1969. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024. xv, 308 pp. Notes. Bibliography.0
Xenia A. Cherkaev. Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. xv, 189 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. $10
Kate Korycki. Weaponizing the Past: Collective Memory and Jews, Poles, and Communists in Twenty-First Century Poland. New York: Berghahn, 2023, xii, 218 pp. Bibliography. Index. Tables. $135.000
Ed. Kata Bohus, Peter Hallama, and Stephan Stach. Growing in the Shadow of Antifascism: Remembering the Holocaust in State-Socialist Eastern Europe. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2022. 0
Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century. By Gabriella Safran. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. ix, 288 pp. Notes. Index. Photographs. $44.95, hard bound.0
Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic. By Katherine Bowers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. xvi, 264 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00, hard bound.0
Anthony J. Amato. The Stark Carpathians: Ritual, Text, and Authority among Ukraine’s Hutsuls. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2024. xxvii, 447 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photograph0
Dovbush. Dir. Oles Sanin. Kyiv: Pronto Film, 2023. 124 min., Color. Ukrainian and Polish.0
Other Books of Interest0
Sheila Miyoshi Jager. The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023. xvii, 602 pp. Notes. Index. M0
Evil, Theodicy, and Jewishness in Fridrikh Gorenshtein0
Valerii Vʹiugin. “Poboltaem i razoidemsia ” : Kratkaia istoriia Vtorogo Vsesoiuznogo sʹʹezda sovetskikh pisatelei. 1954 god 0
Maksim Hanukai. Tragic Encounters: Pushkin and European Romanticism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. ix, 246 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. $89.95, hard bound.0
Staging the “Stolen Transition”: Conspiracy and Collusion in Postsocialist Crime Fiction0
Denisa Kostovičova. Reconciliation by Stealth: How People Talk about War Crimes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. vii, 246 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. $51.85, har0
Jonathan Otto Pohl. The Years of Great Silence: The Deportation, Special Settlement, and Mobilization into the Labor Army of Ethnic Germans in the USSR, 1941–1955. Stuttgart: ibidem Verlag, 2022. 286 0
Stephan Karl Sander-Faes. Lordship and State Transformation: Bohemia and the Habsburg Fiscal-Financial-Military Regime, 1650–1710 Montreal: McGill-Queen’0
William Zimmerman IV0
Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties. By Marko Dumančić. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. xvi, 322 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs.0
Mixing Medicines: Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia. By Tatiana Chudakova. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021. x, 346 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. $32.00, paper; $31.99 e-boo0
Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship, and Personhood. By Jessica C. Robbins. Global Perspectives on Aging. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021. xi, 211 pp. Notes. Bib0
Tobias Brinkmann. Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe . New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. ix, 318 pp. Appendix. Notes.0
George Pattison. Conversations with Dostoevsky: On God, Russia, Literature, and Life . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 307 pp. Bibliography. Index0
Ed. Reima Välimäki. Medievalism in Finland and Russia: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Aspects. New Directions in Medieval Studies. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. xxiv, 238 pp. Appendixes. Note0
Reference Books 2023–24: A Selection0
Simone Attilio Bellezza. The Shore of Expectations: A Cultural Study of the Shistdesiatnyky . Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 200
Irina Shevelenko. Russian Archaism: Nationalism and the Quest for a Modernist Aesthetic . NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Itha0
A Poet among Languages: The Multilingual Identity of Karolina Pavlova0
Prague: Belonging in the Modern City. By Chad Bryant. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2021. 332 pp. Notes. Index. Photographs. Maps. $29.95, hard bound.0
Paramilitarism, Social Transformation, and the Nation in Greece during the Civil War and Its Aftermath (1940s–50s)0
Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg. By Olga Petri. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. xxii, 254 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs.0
AI as a Historical Lens: An Experiment in Periodization of Russia’s State Photography Archive with Neural Networks0
Alexander M. Martin. From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars: One Family’s Odyssey, 1768–1870. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. xiv, 393 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Phot0
Julia Vaingurt. Soft Matter: The Poetics of Weakness in Late Soviet Socialism . Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2025. xv, 270 pp. Notes. Bib0
Christopher Ely. Russian Populism: A History . The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. x, 255 pp. No0
The Children's Republic of Gaudiopolis: The History and Memory of a Budapest Children's Home for Holocaust and War Orphans. By Gergely Kunt. Budapesty: Central European University Press, 2022. xii, 230
Boris Prassoloff. Tsars sans Empire: Les Romanov en Exil 1919–1992. Paris: Perrin, 2024. 414 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Appendixes. $16.99, paper.0
The Alphabet of Discord: The Ideologization of Writing Systems on the Balkans since the Breakup of Multiethnic Empires. By Giustina Selvelli. Balkan Politics and Society. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2020
Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture. By Molly Thomasy Blasing. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. xxiii, 328 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. $55.00, hard bou0
SLR volume 84 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Anna Joukovskaia. L’État quotidien: Administrer la Russie au XVIII siècle . Editions de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2024. xvi, 281 pp0
Thomas Seifrid. Staging the Absolute: Ritual in Russia’s Modern Era. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. xiv, 250 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index.0
Klára Pinerová, Michal Louč, and Kristýna Haluzíková Bušková. Prison as a Mirror of Society: The Unequal Battle between Politics, Science, and Humanity, Czechoslovakia 1965–1992. Frankfurt am Main: CE0
Körperkommunikation: Das Auftreten falscher Mitglieder der Dynastie im frühneuzeitlichen Russland. By Daniela Mathuber. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Verlage, 2022. 422 pp. Notes. Bibliography. 0
Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonization. Ed. James Mark and Paul Betts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. v, 367 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. P0
Russian Exiles and the International Refugee Regime - Sheila Fitzpatrick. Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War . Princeton:0
Anna Müller. An Ordinary Life? The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918–1996. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2023. xix, 376 pp. Notes. Index. Photographs. Maps. $50.00, hard bound.0
Jekaterina Dunajeva. Constructing Identities Over Time: “Bad Gypsies” and “Good Roma” in Russia and Hungary. Central European University Press, 2021. xiii, 223 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. I0
Feeding Upon the Double-Headed Eagle: A Zhivovian Reading of Kheraskov's Rossiad0
Contributors0
“Anecdote in the Vein of Herodotus”: Shuttling between Particulars and the Universal in Boris Slutskii's and Ian Satunovskii's War Poetry0
The Potential and Limitations of Sport: Insights from Recent Scholarship - Przemysław Strożek. Picturing the Workers’ Olympics and the Spartakiads: Modernist and Avant-Garde Eng0
The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia. By Anna Schur. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2022. xii, 240 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $120.00, hard bound;0
An Adventure for All Ages: History, Post-Memory, and Romance in Tomasz Różycki's Twelve Stations0
Unmaking Détente: Yugoslavia, the United States, and the Global Cold War, 1968–1980. By Milorad Lazić. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. vii, 281 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $100.00, hard bound.0
Collected Essays0
Discourse, Hegemony, and Populism in the Visegrád Four. By Seongcheol Kim. Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. 2022. xviii, 316 pp. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Fi0
Per Anders Rudling. Tarnished Heroes: The Organization of UkrainianNationalists in the Memory Politics of Post-Soviet Ukraine. Soviet and Post-Soviet Societies, vol. 207. Stuttgart: ibidem Verl0
Oleg Budnitskii, David Engel, Gennady Estraikh, and Anna Shternshis. War, Conquest, and Catastrophe, 1939–1945. Jews in the Soviet Union: A History, Vol. 3. Gennady Estraikh and David Engel, ed0
Ed. Katarina Gephardt, Charles Sabatos, and Ivana Taranenková. Home and the World in Slovak Writing: A Small Nation’s Literature in Context . Montreal: M0
Simon Morrison. Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024. xiii, 384 pp. Notes. Index. Illu0
Giving Back the Gift: Predicaments of Patronage and an Offering from Włodzimierz Borowski0
Evgenii Akel΄ev. Russkii misopogon. Petr I, bradobritie i desiat΄ millionov “Moskovitov.” Intellektual΄naia istoriia / Mikroistoriia. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2023. 623 pp. Appendixes. No0
Revisiting the Revolution: The Unmaking of Russia's Official History of 1917. By Larry Holmes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021. xix, 195 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. £22.000
Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West. By Thomas M. Prymak. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 2021. xxxi, 306 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Plates. Photographs. $130
Page Herrlinger. Holy Sobriety in Modern Russia: A Faith Healer and His Followers. Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Northern Illinois Press, an Imprint of Cornell University Press,0
Howard N. Lupovitch. Transleithanian Paradise: A History of the Budapest Jewish Community, 1738–1938. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2023. xiv, 306 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photog0
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Eternal Memory: Monuments and Memorials of the Holodomor. By Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek, trans. Guy Russell Torr. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2021. 409 pp. Notes. Bibliograph0
Introduction to Critical Discussion Forum: Socialist Sound Worlds0
James Peterson and Jacek Lubecki. Globalization, Nationalism, and Imperialism: A New History of Eastern Europe. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2023. vi, 166 pp. Bibliography. Inde0
Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975. By Natalia Telepneva. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. xxi, 277 pp. Note0
Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR. By Tricia Starks. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2022. ix, 302 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustr0
Mikhail Vladimirovich Bezrodnyi0
Tanja Petrović. Utopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People’s Army. Theory in Forms. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024. xii, 243 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustr0
Ed. Carole S. Leonard, Daniel Orlovsky, and Jurej Petrov. The Russian Revolution of 1917—Memory and Legacy. London: Routledge, 2024. xix, 302 pp. Notes. 0
Remembering Gendered Histories of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia and Goli otok in Eva Grlić's Memories and Ženi Lebl's White Violets0
Anne O’Donnell. Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. xix, 370 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Ph0
Esther Levinger. Constructivism in Central Europe: Painting, Typography, Photomontage. Leiden Brill, 2022. 370 pp. Notes. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Appendixes. Hard bound, $187.22.0
Ed. Ostap Kin. Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond. Trans. John Hennesy and Ostap Kin. Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 2022. ix, 269 pp. Bibliography. Chronology. 0
Rentier Capitalism and its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia. By Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. xxvi, 321 pp. Notes. Bibliography0
Alexey Tikhomirov. The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945–1961. Trans. Jacqueline Friedlaender. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books an imprint of Rowman & Little0
Three Challenges to Racial Innocence - Ed. Catherine Baker, Bogdan C. Iacob, Anikó Imre, and James Mark. Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race0
Tom Cubbin. Soviet Critical Design: Senezh Studio and the Communist Surround. Cultural Histories of Design. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. vii, 226 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Index. Plates. $135.00, h0
Ed. Norihiro Naganawa. Dreams of Emancipation: A Transnational History of Revolutionary Russia . Newton, Mass.: Academic Studies Press, 2024. 275 pp. Ind0
From Europe's East to the Middle East: Israel's Russian and Polish Lineages. Ed. Kenneth Moss, Benjamin Nathans, and Taro Tsurumi. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 396 pp. Notes. 0
Making Sense of the Violent Past: War Veterans’ Organizations in Post-Stalinist Czechoslovakia0
E. Susanna Weygandt. From Metaphor to Direct Speech: Contemporary Russophone Drama and Performance Theory . Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2025.0
Rotem Kowner. Great Battles: Tsushima. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xxviii, 297. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Maps $27.95, hard bound.0
SLR volume 82 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Loren Raymond Graham0
Communism's Public Sphere: Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany. By Kyrill Kunakhovich. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. xiii, 337 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs0
Elaine Rusinko. Andy Warhol’s Mother: The Woman behind the Artist . Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 2024. xx, 505 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Inde0
Stephanie Sandler. The Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound, 1989–2022 . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. xxv, 398 pp. Notes. Index. Illus0
Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling. By Ryan Tucker Jones. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. xvii, 269 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Illustrations. Photograph0
Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture. By Edward Tyerman. New York: Columbia University, 2022. xiv, 354 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $35.00, paper.0
Ivan the Terrible in Russian Historical Memory since 1991. By Charles J. Halperin. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021. xvi, 290 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. $119.00, hard bound.0
Ed. Judit Pál, Vlad Popovici, Oana Sorescu-Iudean. Elites, Groups, and Networks in East-Central and South-East Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century. Central and Eastern Europe: Regional Perspectives 0
Till Hilmar. Deserved: Economic Memories After the Fall of the Iron Curtain. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 263 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. $140.00, hard bound. $35.00, paper.0
“Islam, Imeiushchii mirnuiu i dobruiu sushchnost”: Disckurs o traditsionnom islame v srede tiurok-musul΄man evropeiskoi chasti rossii i kryma. Ed. R. I. Bekkin. Studia Religiosa. Moscow: Novoe Literat0
The Church, Politics, and Demography in Late Imperial Russia0
Reading Faster: The Emergence of Postsocialist Productivity Practices in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, 1970s–2000s0
Nadège Ragaru. Bulgaria, the Jews, and the Holocaust: On the Origins of a Heroic Narrative . Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2023. xxiv, 406 pp0
First Nationalism Then Identity: On Bosnian Muslims and Their Bosniak Identity. By Mirsad Kriještorac. Ethnic Conflict: Studies in Nationality, Race, and Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Pre0
Abstracts0
Tolstoy in Context. Ed. Anna A. Berman. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xxxiv, 357 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Chronology. Index. Photographs. $105.00, hard bound.0
Everburning Pilot. By Leonid Schwab. Alexander Spektor, Anton Tenser, and Sibelan Forrester, eds. New York: Cicada Press, 2022. 176 pp. $20.00, paper.0
Stefan Hedlund. Ukraine, Russia, and the West: When Value Promotion Met Hard Power. London: Routledge, 2023. vii, 284 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $160.00, hard bound; $44.95, paper.0
The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food. By Darra Goldstein. California Studies in Food and Culture, vol. 77. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. xviii, 200 pp. Notes. Bibliogra0
Christopher Read. Lenin Lives? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. vii, 191 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. $40.00, hard bound.0
SLR volume 84 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Marina Klyshko. Das politische Imaginäre eurasischer Fiktionsräume. Imperiale (Gegen-)Diskurse im postsowjetischen Russland . Schnittstellen. Studien zum0
Samuel Ramani. Russia in Africa: Resurgent Great Power or Bellicose Pretender? London: Hurst Publishers, 2023. v, 445 pp., Notes. Index. £45.00, hard bound.0
Joanna Tokarska-Bakir. Cursed: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom. Trans. Ewa Wampuszyc. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. xv, 570 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Ta0
No Song for Birds in Flight: The Life and Afterlife of Suicide in the Warsaw Ghetto0
Adelina Stefan. Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024. xix0
Valerii Zolotukhin. Golos i vosk. Zvuchashchaia khudozhestvennaia rechʹ v Rossii v 1900–1930-e gody: Poeziia, zvukozapisʹ, performans. Moscow: Novoe Lite0
Molding the Mass Viewer: New Insights into the Early Soviet Art System - Samuel Johnson. El Lissitzky on Paper: Print Culture, Architecture, Politics, 1919–1933 0
The Politics of Anti-Imperial Nostalgia: South Africa's Response to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine0
Paul Josephson. Nuclear Russia: The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture. Russian Shorts. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. vii, 134 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Tables. $16.15, paper.0
Ian Satunovskii: Identity and Biography, from the War to the Lyric0
Changing Subjects, Moving Objects. Status, Mobility, and Social Transformation in Southeastern Europe, 1700–1850. By Constanƫa Vintilă. Balkan Studies Library, vol. 31. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2020
Martin Marinos. Free to Hate: How Media Liberalization Enabled Right-Wing Populism in Post-1989 Bulgaria. The Geopolitics of Information. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023. xii, 289 pp0
James M. Robertson. Mediating Spaces: Literature, Politics, and the Scales of Yugoslav Socialism, 1870–1995 . Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s Uni0
Popular Dictatorships: Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism. By Aleksandar Matovski. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xvi, 316 pp. Notes. Bibliography. In0
On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border. By Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2021. xii, 376 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Maps. $20
The Putin Predicament: Problems of Legitimacy and Succession in Russia. By Bo Petersson. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2021. 219 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index0
Michael Minkenberg and Zsuzsanna Végh. Depleting Democracies: Radical Right Impact on Parties, Policies, and Polities in Eastern Europe. Global Studies of the Far Right. Manchester: Manchester 0
Katarzyna Nowak. Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023. x, 343 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Il0
Letters0
Lukáš Babka. The Slavonic Library, Prague 1924–2024: A Guide to Its History, Funds and Services . Publikace Slovanské knihovny, no. 88. Prague: National 0
An Artistic Challenge to the Culture of Forgetting in Serbia: Audiovisual Discontinuity in Ognjen Glavonić's Depth 20
Milan Babić. The Rise of State Capital: Transforming Markets and International Politics. Comparative Political Economy. Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2023. v, 173 pp. Notes. Bibliography. In0
Kampf um die Brester Festung 1941: Ereignis—Narrativ—Erinnerungsort. By Christian Ganzer. Krieg in der Geschichte (KRiG), vol. 115. Paderborn, Germany: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, an imprint of Brill 0
Ewa Stańczyk. Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2024. ix, 270 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. 0
Sounding Plastic: The “Great Career” of the Flexidisc in Socialist Poland0
The Misadventures of a Dagestani Merchant: Empire and Muslim Mobility in Central Asia0
The Chronicle of Halych-Volhynia and Historical Collections in Medieval Rus΄. By Adrian Jusupović. Trans. Miłka Stępień. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2022. xxiv, 244 pp. Plates. Chronological Table. Bi0
Susan Grant. Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. xx, 314 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Photographs. $24.95, paper.0
Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia. By Brigid O'Keeffe, London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. xii, 252 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photograph0
Allen J. Frank. Kazakh Muslims in the Red Army, 1939–1945. Brill's Inner Asian Library 42. Leiden: Brill, 2022. v, 216 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. $108.00, hard bound.0
Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union. By Mie Nakachi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xvi, 327 pp. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95, hard bou0
Ionuţ Holubeanu. Christianity in Roman Scythia: Ecclesiastical Organization and Monasticism (4th to 7th Centuries). Vol. 90. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle 0
Archeologists Imagine Ukraine: Social Scientists and Nation Building in the Nineteenth Century0
Ed. Kristin Roth-Ey. Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular: Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. xi, 279 pp. Bibliography. Index.0
Russkii vsadnik v paradigme vlasti. By Bella Shapiro. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2021. 704 pp. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Tables. ₽900, hard bound.0
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Lisaveta Kasmach. Belarusian Nation-Building in Times of War and Revolution. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2023. xii, 276 pages. Bibliography. Index. Tables. $79.00, hard bound.0
Odejdź: Rzecz o polskim rasizmie. By Agnieszka Kościańska and Michał Petryk. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, 2022. 320 pp. Notes. Photographs. PLN 49.90.0
Esfir Shub: Pioneer of Documentary Filmmaking. By Ilana Shub Sharp. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. xii, 334 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Filmography. Illustrations. Figures. $130.00, hard bou0
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Diana Mishkova. Rival Byzantiums: Empire and Identity in Southeastern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. v, 357 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $120.00, hard bound.0
Ideologies of Multilingualism in Contemporary Russia: Debates on Ethnolinguistic Diversity From a Critical-Discursive Perspective. By Ekaterina Pankova. Interdisziplinäre Studien zum östlichen Europa,0
The Dark Double: Russian Orthodoxy in Andrei Zviagintsev's Leviathan0
Eds. Jeffers Engelhardt and Katherine Pukinskis. Baltic Musics Beyond the Post-Soviet . Tartu, Estonia: University of Tartu Press, 2024. 231 pp. Bibliogr0
Ed. Ferenc Hörcher and Kálmán Tóth. 19th-Century Hungarian Political Thought and Culture: Towards Settlement with Austria, 1790–1867. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, xiii, 245 pp. Index. $115.00, h0
Evgeny Sergeev. The Bolsheviks and Britain during the Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917–1924. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. xxi, 270 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Chronology.0
Stepping Stones: Towards a History of Russian Colonialism0
Julieta Rotaru and David Gaunt. The Wallachian Gold-Washers: Unlocking the Golden Past of the Rudari Woodworkers. Roma History and Culture, vol. 2. Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2023. xxi, 285 pp. Appen0
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John Nelson. The Political in Rimsky-Korsakov's Operas. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. viii, 254 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Illustrations. Plates. Figures. £64.99,0
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Louis Howard Porter. Reds in Blue: UNESCO, World Governance, and the Soviet Internationalist Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. xiv, 299 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illus0
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Ed. Tracey German, Stephen F. Jones, and Kornely Kakachia. Georgia's Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: Challenges for a Small State. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. v, 261 pp. Notes.0
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The Catacazy Affair and the Uneasy Path of Russian-American Relations. By Lee A. Farrow. London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2022. ix, 202 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $115.00, hard bound.0
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