Book Reviews

Literature and Fine Arts Jensen, Claudia, Ingrid Maier, and Stepan Shamin, with Daniel C. Waugh. Russia's Theatrical Past: Court Entertainment in the Seventeenth Century. Russian Music Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021. xviii + 295 pp. $38.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐2530‐5634‐4. Balina, Marina, and Serguei A. Oushakine, eds. The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children. Studies in Book and Print. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 569 pp. $95.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0668‐1. Olenina, Ana Hedberg. Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xliii + 366 pp. $36.95. ISBN 978‐0‐1900‐5126‐6. Toymentsev, Sergey, ed. ReFocus: The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. xii + 278 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4744‐3723‐3. History Bushkovitch, Paul. Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia: The Transfer of Power 1450–1725. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xv + 397 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐1‐108‐47934‐9. Tairova‐Yakovleva, Tatiana. Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire. Translated by Jan Surer. Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research Monograph Series, vol. 11. Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2020. xiv + 496 pp. $49.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐2280‐0174‐4. Kizenko, Nadieszda. Good for the Souls: A History of Confession in the Russian Empire. Oxford Studies in Modern European History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 327 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐289679‐7. Sartori, Paolo, and Danielle Ross, eds. Sharia in the Russian Empire: The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1500–1900. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. 448 pp. $130.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4744‐4429‐3. Eden, Jeff. God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. vii + 253 pp. $99.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐007627‐6. White, J. M. Unity in Faith? Edinoverie, Russian Orthodoxy, and Old Belief, 1800–1918. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. xvii+ 271 pp. $35.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐253‐04972‐8. Engel, Barbara Alpern. Marriage, Household, and Home in Modern Russia from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin. The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. xiii + 268 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐3500‐1446‐6. Friedman, Rebecca. Modernity, Domesticity and Temporality in Russia: Time at Home. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. 240 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐3501‐1243‐8. Khalid, Adeeb. Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. 576 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐691‐16139‐6. Miller, Chris. We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 384 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐674‐91644‐9. Morrison, Alexander. The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 613 + xiv pp. $99.00. ISBN 978‐1‐107‐03030‐5. Laycock, Jo, and Francesca Piana. Aid to Armenia: Humanitarianism and Intervention from the 1890s to the Present. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 216 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5261‐4220‐7. Margolin, Julius. Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag. Translated by Stefani Hoffman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 600 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐1975‐0214‐3. Kis, Oksana. Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag. Translated by Lidia Wolanskyj. Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 652 pp. $94.00. ISBN 978‐0‐6742‐5828‐0. Holmes, Larry E. Revising the Revolution: The Unmaking of Russia's Official History of 1917. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2021. 220 pp. $28.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐253‐05479‐1. Rendle, Matthew. The State versus the People: Revolutionary Justice in Russia's Civil War, 1917–1922. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 336 pp. $85.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐884042‐8. Aronova, Elena. Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. vii + 243 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978‐0‐226‐76138‐1. Fainberg, Dina. Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. viii + 359 pp. $64.95. ISBN 978‐1‐4214‐3844‐3. Smith, Alison K. Cabbage and Caviar: A History of Food in Russia. London: Reaktion Books, 2021. 352 pp. $39.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78914‐364‐5. Wegren, Stephen K., with Alexander Nikulin and Irina Trotsuk. Russia's Food Revolution: The Transformation of the Food System. Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series. New York: Routledge, 2020. 240 pp. $128.00. ISBN 978‐0‐3674‐7424‐9. Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and Other Kivinen, Markku, and Brendan G. Humphreys, eds. Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm. New York: Routledge, 2020. 394 pp. $160.00. ISBN 978‐0‐367‐56725‐5. Zvonareva, Olga. Pharmapolitics in Russia: Making Drugs and Rebuilding the Nation. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020. 204 pp. $95.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4384‐7991‐0. Harding, Luke. Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2020. 336 pp. $28.99. ISBN 978‐0‐0629‐6600‐1. Bechev, Dimitar, Nicu Popescu, and Stanislav Secrieru, eds. Russia Rising: Putin's Foreign Policy in the Middle East and North Africa. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021. 224 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐0‐7556‐3664‐8. Channell‐Justice, Emily, ed. Decolonizing Queer Experience: LGBT+ Narratives from Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. 220 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐1‐7936‐3030‐8.

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