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 2021-04-01 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
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
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
What Was the Gulag? New Books on the History and Memory of Soviet Repressions0
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
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
Nature, Hares, and Nikolay Nekrasov: The Poetics and Economics of Russian Ecocriticism0
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
Atomic Visitors from Outer Space: The Tunguska Nuclear Hypothesis in Soviet Technological Imagination0
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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Critical Climate Histories of Eurasia: An Introduction0
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
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
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Varieties of Tatar Esotericism in Post‐Soviet Russia0
Charlottengrad: Russian Culture in Weimar Berlin by RomanUtkin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 256 pp. $99.95. ISBN 978‐0‐299‐34440‐50
Invasive Species: Immunity and Community in Contemporary Outbreak Narratives0
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
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Everyday Foreign Policy: Performing and Consuming the Russian Nation after Crimea by ElizavetaGaufman. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 200 pp. $130.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5261‐5541‐20
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
Victor Pelevin and the Aesthetics of Neoreaction0
Art and Irreconciliation, or Cubist Ruptures of Soviet Postwar Aesthetics0
The Yenisei Makes the Weather: The Microclimate of the Krasnoyarsk Dam and Its Research, 1960s–1990s0
Films of the Printed Page: Transmedial Books for Early Soviet Children0
Pigs, Wheat, Whales, and other Nonhumans in Russia and the Soviet Union0
Gorbachev's Nationalities Policy and the Negotiations over a New Union Treaty, 1987–910
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
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
Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia0
“It is Strange to Call an Uzbek, a Jew, or a Latvian, Russian”: Stalin’s Nationalities Policy and the Question of Jewish Assimilation Revisited0
Bakhtin + x, through a Modernist Mask0
Without the Soviet Union: Fighting Inequality from the Left in Ukraine0
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
The Women's Side of the Story: Soviet “Displaced Persons” and Postwar Repatriation0
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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
It Takes a Village0
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
Reframing Avant‐Garde Texts as Visual Objects0
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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Chekhov in Context by YuriCorrigan, ed. Literature in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 372 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐1‐108‐84235‐80
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
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
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
Growing Deserts and Shrinking Glaciers: The Desiccation Debates and Climate Change in the Late Nineteenth Century0
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
Communism, Christianity, and Translating Russian Jews: Liudmila Ulitskaia's Daniel Stein and Aleksandr Meilakhs's Bentsion Shamir0
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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
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
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
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
Power and the Aerial Sublime in Victor Pelevin0
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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
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
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
“We Know What War Is”: Veterans, Soldiers, and Military Masculinity in the Soviet “Fight for Peace,” c. 1955–650
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 1942 “Egg Expeditions” to Novaia Zemlia and the Struggle for Food in the Wartime Soviet Union0
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
The Gendered Ambiguity of the Postcommunist Transitions0
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
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Olga Friedenberg’s Theory‐Diary of Everyday Terror0
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
The History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia by GennadyEstraikh. Russian Shorts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 152 pp. $61.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐29624‐40
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Letter to the Editor0
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
Flipping the Colonialist Paradigm: Grigorii Chkhartishvili’s Akunin0
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
Midwifing Modernity: Popularizing Modern Health Care for Women in Late Imperial Russia0
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
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The Foundations of Russian Law by MariannaMuravyeva, ed. London: Hart Publishing, 2023. 464 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78225‐648‐90
A Petrovich Inside of Every New Russian: The Disciplinary Regime of the Capitalist “Vanguard Group” at 1990s Kommersant0
Affected Realism and Imitated Perception: Ekphrasis and Orthodox Space in Leskov and Chekhov0
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
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
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
Gathering the Nation in the Village: Intellectuals and the Cultural Politics of Nationality in the Late Soviet Period0
Operation Friendship: Soviet and British Pen‐Pals Discuss War, Work, and Womanhood0
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
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
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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
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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
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
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
Stalled at Friendship Station: Under Ancient Desert Skies, the Socialist Silk Road, and Cinematic Collaboration on the Eve of the Sino‐Soviet Split0
Of Mice, Rats, and Underground Men: Dostoevsky's Podpol'e in the Writings of Viktor Krivulin0
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
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
Slum Bodies: Leo Tolstoy’s What Should We Do Then?, the Moscow Poor, and Late Nineteenth‐Century Russian Slum Literature0
The Intergenerational Transmission of Memory: Soviet Photographs and Practices0
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
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
Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War by JonathanDimbleby. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 640 pp. $34.99. ISBN 978‐0‐1977‐6531‐90
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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
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
Levin Article Prize Essay0
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
Women Scholars of Akademgorodok: Everyday Life in a Soviet University Town during the Thaw0
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
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
“A True Russian Soldier”: Fabius Larionovich’s Less‐Is‐More Art of War0
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
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
From Representation to Sabotage: The New Practices of Russian Antiwar Groups0
Why Did Nadezhdin Publish Chaadaev? Interests vs. Ideas in the Literary Politics of the 1830s0
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
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
Specters of a Marxist: Boris Arvatov and His Art of Insubstantial Presence0
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
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
The Motherland and the Fight with Fascism: War Cult and War Film under Brezhnev (1965–82)0
Metabolic Modernities: Digestion, Energy Transformations, and the Making and Unmaking of the World in Early Soviet Literature0
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
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
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
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
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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Soaring to New Heights: Problematic Policy, Planning, and Unintended Consequences0
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
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
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
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 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 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
The Age of Revolution in Microhistory0
From Enemy to Hero: Andrei Krems and the Legacy of Stalinist Repression in Russia’s Far North, 1964–820
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
Stories of Survival: State and Society on the Soviet Home Front0
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
Reply to Letter to the Editor0
(Dis)play: Paper Showrooms of Soviet Labor0
Picturing Russian EmpireValerieKivelson, SergeiKozlov, and JoanNeuberger, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 592 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐760052‐80
The Politics of Realism By ThomasDocherty. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 288 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐22853‐50
Provincializing Prostitution0
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
From Ambivalence to Accuracy: The Provisional Government’s Grain Registration in an Intermediary Province, Penza 19170
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
From Mushtra to Conscious Movement: Pyotr Lesgaft’s Science‐Based Physical Education for the Russian Cadet Corps0
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
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
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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
Kul'turnost' Meets Kultur: Lyusya’s Testimony on Russian‐German Sexual Relations in Occupied Smolensk0
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 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
Discipline Made Visible: Abram Room’s The Ghost That Never Returns and the Fantastic Origins of Foucault’s Panopticon0
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
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Xiao San, Intermediary between Soviet Literature and Leftist Chinese Literature0
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
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
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
Remembering the Victims of the Gulag: Images of Dokhodiagi in Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago and Shalamov's Kolyma Stories0
Nabokov’s Secret Trees by Stephen H.Blackwell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024. 302 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐5444‐60
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
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
SPQR in the USSR: Elena Shvarts’s Classical Antiquity by GeorginaBarker. Cambridge: Legenda, 2021. 372 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐839540‐52‐30
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A Dialectical Skazka: Depicting Nature’s Transformation during the First Five‐Year Plan0
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
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
Victor Pelevin and Eurasianist Geopolitics0
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Trans‐Formations: Old Books as New Media0
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
The Lessons of Russian Literature?0
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
Tracking a Revolutionary: Soso to Koba to Stalin0
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
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
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
Red Star over the Black Sea: Nâzım Hikmet and His Generation by James H.Meyer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 400 pp. £100.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1928‐7117‐60
Public Patterns in Private Writing: Computational Insights into Russophone Diaries0
Negative Dialectics on the Baltic Frontier: Russophone Communities of Latvia as a Touchstone for “Grand Narratives”0
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
Asymmetries of Internationalism: Performing and Remembering Subnational Internationalism in the Age of Developed Socialism0
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
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
Education Policy in the Kingdom of Poland after 1905: The Nationalizing Empire at an Impasse0
A Common Space of International Work: Disability Activism, Socialist Internationalism, and the Russian Union of the Blind0
Correction to: Rewriting the Russo‐Japanese War: A Centenary Retrospective0
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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
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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
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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
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
Global and Transnational in Form, Soviet in Content: The Changing Semantics of Internationalism in Official Soviet Discourse, 1917–19910
Brodsky in English by ZakharIshov. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2023. 296 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐4599‐30
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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