Book Reviews

L iterature and F ine A rts Vinitskii, Il'ia. Graf Sardinskii: Dmitrii Khvostov i russkaia kul'tura . Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie: Nauchnoe prilozhenie 159. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2017. 352 pp. R455.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐0607‐4. Grigoryan, Bella. Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762–1861 . Studies of the Harriman Institute. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2018. x + 189 pp. $39.00. ISBN 978‐0‐87580‐774‐4. Posner, Dassia N. The Director's Prism: E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Russian Theatrical Avant-Garde . Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016. xxvi + 314 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐3355‐6. Caplan, Debra. Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. xiv + 327 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐0‐472‐03725‐4. Zvonkine, Eugénie. Cinéma russe contemporain, (r)évolutions . Arts du spectacle – Images et sons. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2017. €23.00. 288 pp. ISBN 978‐2‐7574‐1799‐7. Emery, Jacob. Alternative Kinships: Economy and Family in Russian Modernism . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2017. vii + 193 pp. $49.00. ISBN 978‐0‐87580‐751‐5. Zuk, Patrick, and Marina Frolova‐Walker, eds. Russian Music since 1917: Reappraisal and Rediscovery . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiv + 434 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐726615‐1. Lane, Tora. Andrey Platonov: The Forgotten Dream of the Revolution . Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018. xii + 147 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐4775‐8. H istory Murphy, Curtis G. From Citizens to Subjects: City, State, and the Enlightenment in Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus . Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. xxiv + 320 pp. $28.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8229‐6462‐9. Bilenky, Serhiy. Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands: Kyiv, 1800–1905 . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. xxii + 489 pp. $71.25. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0172‐3. Bonwetsch, Bernd. Mit und ohne Russland: Eine familiengeschichtliche Suprensuche . Veröffentlichungen zur Kulur und Geschichte im östlichen Europa, Band 50. Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2017. 168 pp. €29.95. ISBN 978‐3‐8375‐1770‐5. Shafiyev, Farid. Resettling the Borderlands: State Relocations and Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus . Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2018. xx + 330 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐7735‐5353‐9. Bojanowska, Edyta M. A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada . Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. x + 373 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐97640‐5. Nicolosi, Riccardo, and Anne Hartmann, eds. Born to Be Criminal: The Discourse on Criminality and the Practice of Punishment in Late Imperial Russia and Early Soviet Union: Interdisciplinary Approaches . Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2017. 249 pp. $40.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐8376‐4159‐2. Wortman, Richard S. The Power of Language and Rhetoric in Russian Political History: Charismatic Words from the 18 th to the 21 st Centuries . New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. x + 241 pp. $114.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐04066‐3. Jacob, Frank. The Russo‐Japanese War and Its Shaping of the Twentieth Century . London: Routledge, 2018. 171 pp. $144.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐138‐21187‐2. Robbins, Richard G., Jr. Overtaken by the Night: One Russian's Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, & Terror . Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. xviii + 564 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐822‐94516‐1. Ssorin‐Chaikov, Nikolai. Two Lenins: A Brief Anthropology of Time . The Malinowski Monographs. Chicago: HAU books, 2017. ix + 153 pp. $25.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐9973675‐3‐9. Statiev, Alexander. At War's Summit: The Red Army and the Struggle for the Caucasus Mountains in World War II . Cambridge Military Histories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). xvi + 440 pp. $34.99. ISBN 978‐1‐108‐42462‐2. McCallum, Claire E. The Fate of the New Man: Representing and Reconstructing Masculinity in Soviet Visual Culture, 1945–1965 . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2018. 324 pp. $60.00. ISBN 978‐0‐87580‐783‐6. Plokhy, Serhii. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe . New York: Basic Books, 2018. xvi + 404 pp. $32.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5416‐1709‐4. Burke, Kyle. Revolutionaries for the Right: Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War . The New Cold War History. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 351 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4696‐4073‐0. Van Ree, Erik. Boundaries of Utopia – Imagining Communism from Plato to Stalin . Routledge Comtemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series. London: Routledge, 2018. xiv + 234 pp. $38.47 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8153‐6432‐0. S ocial S cience , C ontemporary R ussia , and O ther Fridman, Ofer. Russian “Hybrid Warfare”: Resurgence and Politicisation . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii + 237 pp. $40.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐087737‐8. Richardson, Paul B. At the Edge of the Nation: The Southern Kurils and the Search for Russia's National Identity . Perspectives on the Global Past. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018. xvi + 244 pp. $68.00. ISBN 978‐0‐8248‐7262‐5. Appel, Hilary, and Mitchell A. Orenstein. From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 254 pp. $32.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐1084‐3505‐5. Schimpfössl, Elisabeth. Rich Russians: From Oligarchy to Bourgeoisie . New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiv + 234 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐067776‐3. Peterson, James W. Russian‐American Relations in the Post‐Cold War World . Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. xii + 181 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5261‐0579‐0.

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