Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Miroslav Labunka The Legend of the Novgorodian White Cowl (The Study of its “Prologue” and “Epilogue”) Faith Wigzell Reading Russian Fortunes: Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765 Michael Wachtel The Development of Russian Verse: Meter and Its Meanings Deborah A. Martinsen, ed. Literary Journals in Imperial Russia David M. Bethea Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet Martin Schneider Postmeister und Stationsaufseher: Eine Studie zur deutschen Puskin‐Rezeption Vladimir Golstein Lermontov's Narratives of Heroism Paul M. Austin The Exotic Prisoner in Russian Romanticism Christopher Putney Russian Devils and Diabolic Conditionality in Nikolai Gogol's Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka Beth Holmgren Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland Liza Knapp, ed. Dostoevsky's “The Idiot”: A Critical Companion Aileen M. Kelly Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers between Necessity and Chance Harriet Murav Russia's Legal Fictions Hilary L. Fink Bergson and Russian Modernism, 1900–1930 David Haas Leningrad's Moderists: Studies in Composition and Musical Thought, 1917–1932 Christopher Barnes Boris Pasternak: A Literary Bibliography, Vol. 2, 1928–1960 Nicholas Rzhevsky, ed. The Cambridge Companion toModern Russian Culture Richard Hellie The Economy and Material Culture ofRussia Maria Ågren, ed. Iron‐Making Societies: Early IndustrialDevelopment in Sweden and Russia, 1600–1725 Martin Malia Russia under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horsemen to the Lenin Mausoleum Francesco Benvenuti Storia della Russia contemporanea, 1853–1996 Thomas Sanders, ed. Historiography and Imperial Russia: The Professionalization and Writing of History in a Multinational State Adeeb Khalid The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia Mary Schaeffer Conroy, ed. Emerging Democracy in Late Imperial Russia: Case Studies on Local Self‐Government (the Zemstvos), State Duma Elections, the Tsarists Government and the State Council before and during World War I Esther Kingston‐Mann In Search of True West: Culture, Economics, and Problems of Russian Development Jeremy Smith The Bolsheviks and the National Question, 1917–1923 Michael G. Smith Language and Power in the Creation of USSR, 1917–1953 Vladimir Brovkin Russia after Lenin: Politics, Culture, and Society, 1921–1929 E. A. Osokina Za fasadom “stalinskogo izobiliia”: Raspredelenie i rynok v snabzhenii naselenie v gody industrializatsii, 1927–1941 Odd Arne Westad, ed. Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of Sino‐Soviet Alliance, 1945–1963 Yitzhak M. Brudny Reinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953–1991 Anthony D'Agostino Gorbachev's Revolution Rose Brady Kapitalism: Russia's Struggle to Free Its Economy Hilary Pilkington Migration, Displacement and Identity in Post‐Soviet Russia