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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Politics of Uncertainty: The United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union by UnaBergmane. Oxford Studies in International History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 253
Sex Work in Contemporary Russia: A Cultural Perspective by EmilySchuckman Matthews. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023. 292 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐1‐66691‐594‐52
Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century by SaraKarpukhin and JoséVergara, eds. Amherst: Amherst College Press, 2022. xxi + 208 pp. $21.99. ISBN 978‐1‐943208‐50‐01
From Stage to Page and Back Again: Remediating Petrushka in Early Soviet Children's Culture1
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 978‐1‐3502‐8394‐71
The Karamazov Case: Dostoevsky’s Argument for His Vision by Terrence W.Tilley. London: T&T Clark, 2023, 172 pp. $103.50. ISBN 978‐0‐567‐70437‐51
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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 978‐1‐4875‐2281‐01
Official Education as Counterrevolution1
Letter to the Editor1
On Russian Poems, Poets, and Prizes, Late in 20201
Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language By JuliaKristeva. Translated by Jody Gladding. Foreword by Rowan Williams. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022, xxvi + 67 pp. $20.00. ISBN 978‐0‐231‐20332‐61
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
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 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
SPQR in the USSR: Elena Shvarts’s Classical Antiquity by GeorginaBarker. Cambridge: Legenda, 2021. 372 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐839540‐52‐30
Power and the Aerial Sublime in Victor Pelevin0
Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism By SusanGrant. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022, 336 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6259‐80
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
Intermediaries as Change Agents: Translating, Interpreting, and Expanding Socialism0
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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
Developments in Russian Politics 10 by HenryHale, JulietJohnson, and Tomila V.Lankina, eds. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024. 384 pp. $30.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐4780‐3025‐60
Hero Projects: The Russian Empire and Big Technology from Lenin to Putin by Paul R.Josephson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 344 pp. $45.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐769839‐60
The Universe behind Barbed Wire: Memoirs of a Ukrainian Soviet Dissident By MyroslavMarynovych. Edited by Katherine Younger. Translated by Zoya Hayuk. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2021, 40
Tracking a Revolutionary: Soso to Koba to Stalin0
Chronicle of the Left Hand: An American Black Family’s Story from Slavery to Russia’s Hollywood by JamesLloydovich Patterson. Washington: New Academia Publishing, 2022. 192 pp. $24.00 (paper). ISBN 970
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
Legacies of the Stone Guest: The Don Juan Legend in Russian Literature by AlexanderBurry. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. x + 239 pp. $99.95. ISBN 978‐0‐299342‐10‐40
Olga Friedenberg’s Theory‐Diary of Everyday Terror0
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Public Patterns in Private Writing: Computational Insights into Russophone Diaries0
School, Empire, and the Provincial Roots of Civil Activism in Late Nineteenth‐Century Russia0
Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740–1940 by MariaTaroutina and AllisonLeigh, eds. Rethinking Art's Histories. Manchester: Manchester University Pres0
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Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR by RustamAlexander. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 288 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978‐1‐5261‐6745‐30
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
On the Threshold of a New Political Era: A (Re)Appreciation of Jonathan Frankel's Prophecy and Politics0
Correction to: Rewriting the Russo‐Japanese War: A Centenary Retrospective0
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
Asymmetries of Internationalism: Performing and Remembering Subnational Internationalism in the Age of Developed Socialism0
The Russian Review0
The Foundations of Russian Law by MariannaMuravyeva, ed. London: Hart Publishing, 2023. 464 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78225‐648‐90
Atomic Visitors from Outer Space: The Tunguska Nuclear Hypothesis in Soviet Technological Imagination0
The Russian Review0
What Was the Gulag? New Books on the History and Memory of Soviet Repressions0
Dostoevsky as a Translator of Balzac by JuliaTitus. Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2022. xxiii + 128 pp. $119.00. ISBN 978‐1‐64469‐779‐50
Global and Transnational in Form, Soviet in Content: The Changing Semantics of Internationalism in Official Soviet Discourse, 1917–19910
The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880–1936 By ChartersWynn. Historical Materialism Book Series 253. Leiden: Brill, 2022, x + 457 pp. $192.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐51490
Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution by AnneO’Donnell. Histories of Economic Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. $39.95. xviii + 370 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐6912‐0554‐00
Varieties of Tatar Esotericism in Post‐Soviet Russia0
Chaadaevskoe delo: Ideologiia, ritorika i gosudarstvennaia vlast' v nikolaevskoi Rossii by MikhailVelizhev. Intellektual'naia istoriia. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2022. 392 pp. ₽840.00. ISB0
Critical Climate Histories of Eurasia: An Introduction0
Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State by VladimirHamed‐Troyansky. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024. 360 pp. $32.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5036‐3774‐00
Moving beyond Expectations0
Gathering the Nation in the Village: Intellectuals and the Cultural Politics of Nationality in the Late Soviet Period0
Stalled at Friendship Station: Under Ancient Desert Skies, the Socialist Silk Road, and Cinematic Collaboration on the Eve of the Sino‐Soviet Split0
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 Demands of the Disabled: Masculinity, Disability, and Citizenship in the Late Imperial Russian Military0
The Yenisei Makes the Weather: The Microclimate of the Krasnoyarsk Dam and Its Research, 1960s–1990s0
A Woman’s Empire: Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia by Katya Hokanson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. x + 344 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐4560‐40
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
Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Through Much Tribulation by Leonard G.Friesen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 401 pp. $42.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐2465‐40
Russia’s Turkish War: The Tsarist Army and the Balkan Peoples in the Nineteenth Century by VictorTaki. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024. 306 pp. $95.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0163‐10
Business Culture, Bank Credit, and Corporations in the Russian Empire: Deconstruction of a Russian Banking History Discourse0
Bakhtin + x, through a Modernist Mask0
Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War by JonathanDimbleby. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 640 pp. $34.99. ISBN 978‐0‐1977‐6531‐90
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
Belarus in Crisis: From Domestic Unrest to the Russia‐Ukraine War by PaulHansbury. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xii + 326 pp. $32.50. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐774770‐40
Tolstoi: Art and Influence By RobertReid and JoeAndrew, eds. Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, Vol. 66. Leiden: Brill, 2023. vii + 240 pp. $119.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐51129‐30
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Let's Sharpen Our Optic Nerves0
News from Moscow: Soviet Journalism and the Limits of Postwar Reform By SimonHuxtable. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, 272 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1928‐5769‐90
The Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences by AllaVronskaya. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. xxxii + 281 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5179‐1227‐70
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Russian‐Arab Worlds: A Documentary History by EileenKane, MashaKirasirova, and MargaretLitvin, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 408 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1976‐0576‐90
The Women's Side of the Story: Soviet “Displaced Persons” and Postwar Repatriation0
Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022 by DominiqueArel and JesseDriscoll. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 273 pp. $34.99. ISBN 978‐1‐316‐5119‐70
To Make a Village Soviet: Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Transformation of a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland by Emily B.Baran. Toronto: McGill‐Queen’s University Press, 2022. 256 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐0‐2280
Growing Deserts and Shrinking Glaciers: The Desiccation Debates and Climate Change in the Late Nineteenth Century0
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
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
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
Chekhov in Context by YuriCorrigan, ed. Literature in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 372 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐1‐108‐84235‐80
The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom by ChristianRaffensperger and DonaldOstrowski. Dynasties. London: Reaktion Books, 2023. 320 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78914‐715‐50
Revolutionary Aftereffects: Material, Social, and Cultural Legacies of 1917 in Russia Today by MeganSwift, ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. vi + 253 pp. $75.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐2956‐70
Revolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography By PollyJones. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, ix + 296 pp. $105.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐880434‐50
Ukrainian New Drama after the Euromaidan Revolution by MollyFlynn, ed. New York: Methuen Drama, 2023. 280 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐33592‐90
VladimirNabokov as an Author‐Translator: Writing and Translating between Russian, English and French by JulieLoison‐Charles. Bloomsbury Advances in Translation. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 280
More Than Alive: The Dead, Orthodoxy and Remembrance in Post‐Soviet Russia by ZuzannaBogumił and TatianaVoronina. Eastern European Culture, Politics and Societies 22. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2023. 246 pp.0
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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
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 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
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The Soviet‐Polish War and Its Legacy: Lenin’s Defeat and the Rise of Stalinism by Peter Whitewood. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 233 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐23894‐70
The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food By DarraGoldstein. California Studies in Food and Culture. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022, 200 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978‐0‐520‐38389‐00
Invasive Species: Immunity and Community in Contemporary Outbreak Narratives0
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
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Victims, Perpetrators, Justice, and the Question of Genocide by DianaDumitru and A. DirkMoses, eds. New York: Routledge, 2025. 271 pp. $190.00. ISBN 978‐1‐0328‐0323‐40
Orthodox Sisters: Religion, Community, and the Challenge of Modernity in Imperial and Early Soviet Russia by William G.Wagner. NIU Series in Orthodox Christian Studies. Ithaca: Northern Illinois Unive0
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
Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Others by AngelaBrintlinger. Russian Shorts. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 136 pp. $12.56 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐350‐242140
Racism in Modern Russia: From the Romanovs to Putin By Eugene M.Avrutin. Russian Shorts. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 160 pp. $16.15 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐350‐09728‐50
Art and Irreconciliation, or Cubist Ruptures of Soviet Postwar Aesthetics0
The Gendered Ambiguity of the Postcommunist Transitions0
The Politics of Realism By ThomasDocherty. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 288 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐22853‐50
Gorbachev's Nationalities Policy and the Negotiations over a New Union Treaty, 1987–910
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
Jews, Race, and the Politics of Difference: The Case of Vladimir Jabotinsky against the Russian Empire by Marina B. Mogilner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. 234 pp. $70.00. ISBN 978‐0‐250
“It is Strange to Call an Uzbek, a Jew, or a Latvian, Russian”: Stalin’s Nationalities Policy and the Question of Jewish Assimilation Revisited0
The Russian Review0
Pigs, Wheat, Whales, and other Nonhumans in Russia and the Soviet Union0
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 Russian FSB: A Concise History of The Federal Security Service by Kevin P. Riehle. Concise Histories of Intelligence. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2024. 197 pp. $74.95. ISBN 978‐1‐64710
Russian Liberalism by PaulRobinson. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Cornell University, 2023. x + 289 pp. $17.99 (e‐book). ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐7215‐30
Affected Realism and Imitated Perception: Ekphrasis and Orthodox Space in Leskov and Chekhov0
It Takes a Village0
Midwifing Modernity: Popularizing Modern Health Care for Women in Late Imperial Russia0
Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc by AnnaToropova and ClaireShaw, eds. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 264 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐3502‐7126‐50
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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
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
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
Communism, Christianity, and Translating Russian Jews: Liudmila Ulitskaia's Daniel Stein and Aleksandr Meilakhs's Bentsion Shamir0
Discipline Made Visible: Abram Room’s The Ghost That Never Returns and the Fantastic Origins of Foucault’s Panopticon0
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
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
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
Reflections on Stalinism by J.Arch Getty and Lewis H.Siegelbaum, eds. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press2024. 232 pp. $130.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐0
A Dialectical Skazka: Depicting Nature’s Transformation during the First Five‐Year Plan0
The Russian Review0
Nabokov’s Secret Trees by Stephen H.Blackwell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024. 302 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐5444‐60
Trans‐Formations: Old Books as New Media0
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
“We Know What War Is”: Veterans, Soldiers, and Military Masculinity in the Soviet “Fight for Peace,” c. 1955–650
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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
The 1942 “Egg Expeditions” to Novaia Zemlia and the Struggle for Food in the Wartime Soviet Union0
Victor Pelevin and Eurasianist Geopolitics0
Women Scholars of Akademgorodok: Everyday Life in a Soviet University Town during the Thaw0
The Russian Review0
“A True Russian Soldier”: Fabius Larionovich’s Less‐Is‐More Art of War0
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 DJ Who “Brought Down” the USSR: The Life and Legacy of Seva Novgorodsev by Michelle S.Daniel. Modern Biographies. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023. 308 pp. $149.00. ISBN 978‐1‐64469‐647‐70
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
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
Why Did Nadezhdin Publish Chaadaev? Interests vs. Ideas in the Literary Politics of the 1830s0
Letter to the Editor0
Specters of a Marxist: Boris Arvatov and His Art of Insubstantial Presence0
A Common Space of International Work: Disability Activism, Socialist Internationalism, and the Russian Union of the Blind0
Flipping the Colonialist Paradigm: Grigorii Chkhartishvili’s Akunin0
The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin’s Labour Camps By DanHealey. Yale University Press, 2024. 368 pp. $38.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐18713‐70
From Representation to Sabotage: The New Practices of Russian Antiwar Groups0
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
Stalin’s Gamble: The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930–1936 by Michael JabaraCarley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. xxii + 614 pp. $95.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐441‐60
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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
Dostoevsky’s The Gambler: The Allure of the Wheel by SvetlanaEvdokimova, ed. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2024. 306 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐66694‐529‐40
A Petrovich Inside of Every New Russian: The Disciplinary Regime of the Capitalist “Vanguard Group” at 1990s Kommersant0
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
Metabolic Modernities: Digestion, Energy Transformations, and the Making and Unmaking of the World in Early Soviet Literature0
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
Operation Friendship: Soviet and British Pen‐Pals Discuss War, Work, and Womanhood0
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 Most Essential Workers0
The Zelensky Effect by OlgaOnuch and Henry E.Hale. New Perspectives on Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 224 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐768451‐10
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
Soaring to New Heights: Problematic Policy, Planning, and Unintended Consequences0
Publications Received0
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
Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context by MirjaLecke and EfraimSicher, eds. Ukrainian Studies. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023. 352 pp. $149.00. ISBN 979‐8‐8871‐9256‐70
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
Of Mice, Rats, and Underground Men: Dostoevsky's Podpol'e in the Writings of Viktor Krivulin0
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 Age of Revolution in Microhistory0
Slum Bodies: Leo Tolstoy’s What Should We Do Then?, the Moscow Poor, and Late Nineteenth‐Century Russian Slum Literature0
From Enemy to Hero: Andrei Krems and the Legacy of Stalinist Repression in Russia’s Far North, 1964–820
The Intergenerational Transmission of Memory: Soviet Photographs and Practices0
Learning the Steppes: Climate Adaptation and Agriculture on the Kazakh Steppe in the Russian Empire, 1880s–19170
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
A Chto Sluchilos'?: Ethnographies of Holding It Together0
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
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
Laboratories for Organizing People: Selected Essays on Art and Byt0
Levin Article Prize Essay0
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
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
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
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 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
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
Ukrainians as “Aliens” (Inorodtsy): Governmental Regulation of Ukrainian Cultural Associations, 1905–170
Comrade Whitman: From Russian to Internationalist Icon by DelphineRumeau. Newton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2024. 376 pp. $150.00. ISBN 979‐8‐887‐19460‐80
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 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
Introduction: Power in Pelevin10
Russian Colonization of Alaska: From Heyday to Sale, 1818–1867 by AndreiVal'terovich Grinev. Translated by Richard L.Bland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. xi + 415 pp. $70.00. ISBN 978‐10
Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors: The Duvakin Interviews, 1967–1974 By Slav N.Gratchev, MargaritaMarinova, IrinaEvdokimova. Translated by Slav N. Gratchev and Margarita Marinova. Tor0
The Motherland and the Fight with Fascism: War Cult and War Film under Brezhnev (1965–82)0
Nature, Hares, and Nikolay Nekrasov: The Poetics and Economics of Russian Ecocriticism0
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Sounds Beyond: Arvo Pärt and the 1970s Soviet Underground by Kevin C.Karnes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. xii + 193 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐226‐80190‐20
Remembering the Victims of the Gulag: Images of Dokhodiagi in Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago and Shalamov's Kolyma Stories0
Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR by DianaCucuz. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. 336 pp. $85.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0377‐20
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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
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The Lessons of Russian Literature?0
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
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
Charlottengrad: Russian Culture in Weimar Berlin by RomanUtkin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 256 pp. $99.95. ISBN 978‐0‐299‐34440‐50
The Pushkin Project: Russia’s Favorite Writer, Modern Evolutionary Thought, and Teaching Inner‐City Youth by DavidBethea. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2003, 206 pp. $24.95. ISBN 979‐8‐8871‐9202‐40
Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and his Books By GeoffreyRoberts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022, viii + 259 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐17904‐00
The Russian Review0
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
Stories of Survival: State and Society on the Soviet Home Front0
Negative Dialectics on the Baltic Frontier: Russophone Communities of Latvia as a Touchstone for “Grand Narratives”0
Victor Pelevin and the Aesthetics of Neoreaction0
Reply to Letter to the Editor0
Films of the Printed Page: Transmedial Books for Early Soviet Children0
(Dis)play: Paper Showrooms of Soviet Labor0
Education Policy in the Kingdom of Poland after 1905: The Nationalizing Empire at an Impasse0
Provincializing Prostitution0
Putin's War on Ukraine: Russia's Campaign for Global Counter‐Revolution by SamuelRamani. London: Hurst Publishers, 2023. 592 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐1‐78738‐851‐20
Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia0
From Ambivalence to Accuracy: The Provisional Government’s Grain Registration in an Intermediary Province, Penza 19170
Without the Soviet Union: Fighting Inequality from the Left in Ukraine0
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
Monuments for Posterity: Self‐Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time by AntonyKalashnikov. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. 216 pp. $48.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6863‐70
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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
Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR by Isaac McKeanScarborough. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. 294 pp. $59.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐7102‐60
Kul'turnost' Meets Kultur: Lyusya’s Testimony on Russian‐German Sexual Relations in Occupied Smolensk0
Reframing Avant‐Garde Texts as Visual Objects0
The Russian Review0
From Mushtra to Conscious Movement: Pyotr Lesgaft’s Science‐Based Physical Education for the Russian Cadet Corps0
Return to the Motherland: Displaced Soviets in WWII and the Cold War by SethBernstein. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. 292 pp. $46.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6739‐50
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 Holocaust and Soviet War Crimes Trials in the Cold War Context: The 1964 Klaipėda War Crimes Trial by GintarėMalinauskaitė. Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe. New York: Routledge, 0
Xiao San, Intermediary between Soviet Literature and Leftist Chinese Literature0
Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War by Maria Cristina Galmarini. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Northern Illin0
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
Nuclear History0
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