Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Strumiński, Bohdan. LinguisticInterrelations in Early Rus': Northmen, Finns, and East Slavs (Ninth to Eleventh Centuries) Gnammankou, Dieudonné, ed. Alexandre S. Pouchkine et le Monde Noir: “Moia Afrika, Mon Afrique, My Africa” Rayfield, Donald. Understanding Chekhov: A Critical Study of Chekhov's Prose and Drama Mihailovic, Alexandar, ed. Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries: ACentennial Symposium Rancour‐Laferriere, Daniel. Tolstoy on the Couch: Misogyny, Masochism, and the Absent Mother Cornwell, Neil, ed. The Gothic‐Fantastic in Nineteenth‐Century Russian Literature Carnicke, Sharon M. Stanislavsky in Focus Sandler, Stephanie, ed. Rereading Russian Poetry Hutchings, Stephen C. Russian Modernism: The Transfiguration of theEveryday Youngblood, Denise J. The Magic Mirror: Moviemaking in Russia,1908–1918 Coates, Ruth. Christianity in Bakhtin: God and the ExiledAuthor Emerson, Caryl, ed. Critical Essays on Mikhail Bakhtin Malmstad, John E. and Nikolay Bogomolov. Mikhail Kuzmin: A Life in Art Baudin, Antoine. Le réalisme socialiste soviétique de la période jdanovienne (1947–1953): Les arts plastiques et leurs institutions Pospielovsky, Dimitry. The Orthodox Church in the History of Russia Kollmann, Nancy Shields. By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia Chubarov, Alexander. The Fragile Empire: A History of Imperial Russia Whelan, Heide W. Adapting to Modernity: Family, Caste and Capitalismamong the Baltic German Nobility West, James L. and Iurii A. Petrov, eds. Merchant Moscow: Images of Russia's Vanished Bourgeoisie Fic, Victor M. The Rise of Constitutional Alternative to Soviet Rule in 1918: Provisional Governments of Siberia and All Russia: Their Quest for Allied Intervention Kuromiya, Hiroaki. Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian‐Russian Borderland, 1870s–1990s Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times; Soviet Russia in the 1930s Knight, Amy. Who Killed Kirov? The Kremlin'sGreatest Mystery McCannon, John. Red Arctic: Polar Exploration and the Myth of the North in the Soviet Union, 1932–1939 Gorodetsky, Gabriel. Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia Chiari, Bernhard. Alltag hinter der Front: Besatzung, Kollaboration und Widerstand in Weiβruβland, 1941–1944 Zubkova, Elena. Russia after the War: Hopes, Illusions, and Disappointments, 1945–1957 Smith, Gordon, ed. State‐Building in Russia: The Yeltsin Legacy and the Challenge of the Future Ellis, Frank. From Glasnost to the Internet: Russia's New Infosphere Hopf, Ted, ed. Understandings of Russian Foreign Policy Cooper, Leo. Russia and the World: New State‐of‐Play on the International Stage Woodruff, David. Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism White, Anne. Democratization in Russia under Gorbachev, 1985–1991: The Birth of a Voluntary Sector Andrews, David R. Sociocultural Perspectives onLanguage Diaspora: Soviet Immigrants in the United States Goldschmidt. Paul W. Pornography and Democratization: Legislating Obscenity in Post‐Communist Russia