Book Reviews

Literature and Fine Arts Dement, Sidney Eric. Pushkin's Monument and Allusion: Poem, Statue, Performance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. xii + 275 pp. $75.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0552‐3. Guay, Robert E., ed. Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xv + 220 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐046402‐8 Shkandrij, Myroslav. Avant‐garde Art in Ukraine, 1910–1930: Contested Memory. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018. 202 pp. $99.00. ISBN 978‐1‐6181‐1975‐9. Ament, Suzanne. Sing to Victory! Song in Soviet Society during World War II. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2019. xxii + 301 pp. $109.00. ISBN 978‐1‐61811‐839‐4. Fairclough, Pauline. Critical Lives of Dmitri Shostakovich. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. 190 pp. £11.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐78914‐127‐4. Morse, Ainsley, Maria Vassileva, and Maya Vinokur, eds. Linor Goralik: Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview. Russian Library. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. xvii + 377 pp. $14.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐2311‐8351‐2. Salys, Rimgaila, ed. The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader, 2005–2016. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019. 402 pages. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐6181‐1964‐3. Tihanov, Galin. The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. xiv + 258 pp. $60.00. ISBN 978‐0‐8047‐8522‐8. Kostetskaya, Anastasia. Russian Symbolism in Search of Transcendental Liquescence: Iconizing Emotion by Blending Time, Media, and the Senses. Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. xxviii + 156 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐9182‐9. Reese, Kevin. Celestial Hellscapes: Cosmology as the Key to the Strugatskiis' Science Fictions. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019. 278 pp. $109.00. ISBN 978‐1‐6181‐1979‐7. Lenkhoff, Geil [Gail Lenhoff]. Kniaz' Feodor Chernyi v russkoi istorii i kul'ture: Issledovanie i teksty. Moscow: Al'ian‐Arkheo, 2019. 350 pp. R750.00. ISBN 978‐5‐98874‐168‐8. Halperin, Charles J. Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. 360 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978‐0‐8229‐4591‐8. Berelovich, Vladimir, Vladislav Rzheutskii, and Igor' Fediukin, eds. Ideal vospitaniia dvorianstva v Evrope, XVII–XIX veka. Historia Rossica. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2018. 492 pp. R320.00. ISBN 978‐5‐444‐80780‐4. Libbey, James K. Foundations of Russian Military Flight, 1885–1925. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2019. xii,+ 244 pp. $38.00. ISBN 978‐1‐68247‐423‐5. Lomb, Samantha. Stalin's Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution. London: Routledge, 2018. xiii + 178 pp. $101.47. ISBN 978‐1‐138‐72184‐5. Waterlow, Jonathan. It's Only a Joke, Comrade! Humour, Trust and Everyday Life under Stalin. Oxford: n.p., 2018. xxii + 285 pp. £14.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐9856‐3582‐1. Rimmington, Anthony. Stalin's Secret Weapon: The Origins of Soviet Biological Warfare. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiv + 262 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐092885‐8. Launius, Roger D. Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. viii + 248 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐23046‐8. Pazderka, Josef, ed. The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968: The Russian Perspective. Harvard Cold War Studies. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. xvi + 288 pp. $95.00. ISBN 978‐1‐7936‐0292‐3. Bykova, Marina F., and Vladislav A. Lektorsky, eds. Philosophical Thought in Russia in the Second Half of the 20th Century: A Contemporary View from Russia and Abroad. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. xii + 430 pp. $176.00. ISBN 978‐1‐3500‐4058‐8. Hudson, Jennifer M. Iron Curtain Twitchers: Russo‐American Cold War Relations. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. xxx + 338 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐5926‐3. Lakhtikova, Anastasia, Angela Brintlinger and Irina Glushchenko. Seasoned Socialism: Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. xvii + 373 pp. $35.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐253‐04096‐1. Siegelbaum, Lewis H. Stuck on Communism: Memoir of a Russian Historian. Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, 2019. x + 202 pp. $27.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐4737‐3. Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and Other Schechter, Brandon M. The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects. Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xxvi + 315 pp. $36.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐3979‐8. Epstein, Mikhail. The Phoenix of Philosophy: Russian Thought of the Late Soviet Period (1953–1991). New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. viii + 300 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5013‐1639‐5. Reddaway, Peter. The Dissidents: A Memoir of Working with the Resistance in Russia, 1960–1990. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2019. vii + 316 pp. $29.99. ISBN 978‐0‐8157‐3773‐5. Kovalev, Andrei. Russia's Dead End: An Insider's Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin. Translated by Steven I. Levine. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. xliv + 347 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐64012‐233‐8. Grant, Thomas D. International Law and the Post‐Soviet Space I: Essays on Chechnya and the Baltic States. Soviet and Post‐Soviet Politics and Society 199. Stuttgart: ibidem‐Verlag, 2019. xxxv + 405 pp. $50.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐83821‐279‐1. Grant, Thomas D. International Law and the Post‐Soviet Space II: Essays on Ukraine, Intervention, and Non‐Proliferation. Soviet and Post‐Soviet Politics and Society 200. Stuttgart: ibidem‐Verlag, 2019. xlii + 480 pp. $50.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐83821‐280‐7. Nordenman, Magnus. The New Battle for the Atlantic: Emerging Competition with Russia in the Far North. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2019. xv + 244 pp. $38.00. ISBN 978‐1‐68247‐285‐5. Güney, Nurşin Ateşoğlu, ed. The New Geopolitical Realities for Russia: From the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. xviii + 143 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐1‐7936‐0244‐2. Van der Pijl, Kees. Flight MH17, Ukraine and the New Cold War: Prism of Disaster. Geopolitical Economy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. 208 pp. £18.99. ISBN 978‐1‐5261‐3109‐6. Rubin, Dominic. Russia's Muslim Heartlands: Islam in the Putin Era. London: Hurst and Company, 2018. xi + 345 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐1‐84904‐896‐5. Adamsky, Dmitry. Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics, and Strategy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 376 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5036‐0864‐1. Medvedev, Sergei. The Return of the Russian Leviathan. New York: Polity Books, 2019. 250 pp. $69.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5095‐3604‐7. Rowley, Alison. Putin Kitsch in America. Quebec: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2019. ix + 197 pp. $27.95. ISBN 978‐0‐7735‐5901‐1. Smith, Mark B. The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xxv + 480 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐0‐1908‐8605‐9.

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