Book Reviews

L iterature and F ine A rts Osokina, Elena. Nebesnaia golubizna angel'skikh odezhd: Sud'ba proizvedenii drevnerusskoi zhivopisi, 1920–1930‐e gody . Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2018. 664 pp. R1,020.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐0778‐1. Apollonio, Carol, and Radislav Lapushin. Chekhov's Letters: Biography, Context, Poetics . New York: Lexington Books, 2019. xxxiv + 323 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐7044‐2. Corrigan, Yuri. Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self . Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2017. viii + 238 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐3569‐7. Semenova, Natalya, with André Delocque. The Collector: The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces . Translated by Anthony Roberts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. xvi + 288 pp. $32.50. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐23477‐0. Feldman, Leah. On the Threshold of Eurasia: Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus . Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2018. xvi + 276 pp. $59.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐2650‐7. Gratchev, Slav N., and Irina Evdokimova, eds. Dialogues with Shklovsky: The Duvakin Interviews, 1967–1968 . Translated by Slav. N. Gratchev. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. xii + 146 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐9618‐3. Popoff, Alexandra. Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. xii + 398 pp. $32.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐22278‐4. Nicholls, Simon, ed. The Notebooks of Alexander Skryabin . Translated by Simon Nicholls Michael Pushkin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xxiv + 263 pp. $74.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1908‐6366‐1. Zoshchenko, Mikhail. Sentimental Tales . Translated by Boris Dralyuk. Russian Library. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xxii + 214 pp. $14.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐231‐18379‐6. Etty, John. Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil's Political Cartoons . Jackson: University of Mississippi, 2019. vii + 268 pp. $30.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐4968‐2108‐9. Reischl, Katherine M. H. Photographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. xx + 300 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐2436‐7. Livak, Leonid. In Search of Russian Modernism . Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. xii + 375 pp. $54.95. ISBN 978‐1‐4214‐2641‐9. Kabakov, Ilya. On Art . Edited with an introduction by Matthew Jesse Jackson. Translated by Antonina W. Bouis and Cynthia Martin, with Matthew Jesse Jackson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. xii + 367 pp. $35.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐226‐38473‐3. H istory Goehrke, Carsten. Lebenswelten Sibiriens: Aus Natur und Geschichte des Jenissei‐Stromlandes . Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 2016. 687 pp. €71.00. ISBN 978‐3‐0340‐1348‐2. Darrow, David. Tsardom of Sufficiency, Empire of Norms: Statistics, Land Allotments, and Agrarian Reform in Russia, 1700–1921 . Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2018. xiv + 361 pp. $44.95. ISBN 978‐0‐7735‐5507‐5. Starks, Tricia. Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia . Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2018. xvi + 320 pp. $42.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐2205‐9. Mathew, Tobie. Greetings from the Barricades: Revolutionary Postcards in Imperial Russia . London: Four Corners Books, 2018. 480 pp. £20.00. ISBN 978‐1‐909829‐12‐1. Romaniello, Matthew P. Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth‐Century Eurasia . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xvi + 306 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐1‐108‐49757‐2. Breyfogle, Nicholas, B., ed. Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History . Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. xx + 401 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8229‐6563‐3. Park, Alyssa M. Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945 . Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xxii + 284 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐3836‐4. Loginov, Vladlen. Vladimir Lenin: How to Become a Leader . Translated by Lewis White. London: Glagoslav Publications, 2019. 336 pp. €21.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐78267‐061‐2. White, James D. Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov . Historical Materialism Book Series 172. Leiden: Brill, 2018. xiv + 494 pp. $204.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐26890‐6. Brandenberger, David, and Mikhail Zelenov, eds. Stalin's Master Narrative: A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course . Annals of Communism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. xiv + 746 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐15536‐5. Bernstein, Seth. Raised under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017. xi + 254 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐0988‐3. Hoffmann, David L. The Stalinist Era . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiv + 202 pp. $26.99. ISBN 978‐0‐521‐18837‐1. Kindler, Robert. Stalin's Nomads: Power and Famine in Kazakhstan . Translated by Cynthia Klohr. Central Eurasia in Context. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. xvi + 360 pp. $28.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8229‐6543‐5. Thomas, Alun. Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin . London: I. B. Tauris, 2018. xii + 260 pp. $94.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78831‐155‐7. Shaw, Claire L. Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917–1991 . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017. xviii + 292 pp. $49.99. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐1366‐8. Hale‐Dorrell, Aaron. Corn Crusade: Khrushchev's Farming Revolution in the Post‐Stalin Soviet Union . New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xii + 328 pp. $74.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1906‐4467‐3. Oparin, Dmitrii. Bol'shaia Sadovaia,10: Istoriia moskovskogo doma, rasskazannaia ego zhitel'iami . Moscow: Kuchkovo pole, 2017; ABCdesign, 2017. $17.49. 320 pp. ISBN 978‐5‐9950‐0768‐5. Gilburd, Eleonory. To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture . Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. xii + 458 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐98071‐6. Martin, Barbara. Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union: From De‐Stalinization to Perestroika . Library of Modern Russia. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. xvi + 293 pp. $114.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78831‐053‐6. Goeckel, Robert F. Soviet Religious Policy in Estonia and Latvia: Playing Harmony in the Singing Revolution . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018. xvi + 256 pp. $35.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐253‐03611‐7. Geist, Edward M. Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945–1991 . The New Cold War History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. xiv + 323 pp. $34.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐4696‐4525‐4. Foley, David. The Legacy Structure of Russia's One Hundred Year Transformation . Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018. vi + 316 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐7178‐4. S ocial S cience , C ontemporary R ussia, and O ther Ferguson, Jenanne. Words Like Birds: Sakha Language Discourses and Practices in the City . Borderlands and Transcultural Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. xvii + 316 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4962‐0888‐0. Torbakov, Igor. After Empire: Nationalist Imagination and Symbolic Politics in Russia and Eurasia in the Twentieth and Twenty‐First Century . Stuttgart, Germany: Ibidem Verlag, 2018. 356 pp. $30.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐83821‐217‐3. Kharkhordin, Oleg. Republicanism in Russia: Community Before and After Communism . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. vi + 307 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐97672‐6. Lebedeva, Maria M. Russian Studies of International Relations: From the Soviet Past to the Post‐Cold‐War Present . Lancaster: Gazelle Book Services, Ltd., 2018. 200 pp. £35.00. ISBN 978‐3‐83820‐851‐0. Cohen, Stephen F. War with Russia? From Putin and Ukraine to Trump and Russiagate . New York: Hot Books, 2019. xii + 225 pp. $18.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5107‐4581‐0. Kustanovich, Konstantin V. Russian and American Cultures: Two Worlds a World Apart . Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018. xx + 217 pp. $95.00. ISBN 97

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