Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Levitt, Marcus C. and Andrei L. Toporkov, eds., Eros and Pornography in Russian Culture / Eros i pornografiia v russkoi kul'ture Peterson, Dale E., Up from Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American Soul Spiegel, John (Jnos), Dimensions of Laughter in “Crime and Punishment” Brandist, Craig and Galin Tihanov, eds., Materializing Bakhtin: The Bakhtin Circle and Social Theory Von Gardner, Johann, Russian Church Singing. Vol. 2. History from the Origins to the Mid‐Seventeenth Century Faraday, George, Revolt of the Filmmakers: The Struggle for Artistic Autonomy and the Fall of the Russian Film Industry Vasil'ev, M. A., Iazychestvo vostochnykh slavian nakanune kreshcheniia Rusi. Religiozno‐mifologicheskoe vzaimodeistvie iranskim mirom: Iazycheskaia reforma kniazia Vladimira Hrushevsky, Mykhailo, History of Ukraine‐Rus'. Vol. 7. The Cossack Age to 1625 Thomson, Francis J., The Reception of Byzantine Culture in Mediaeval Russia Kagan, Frederick W., The Military Reforms of Nicholas I: The Origins of the Modern Russian Army Znamenski, Andrei A., Shamanism and Christianity: Native Encounters with Russian Orthodox Missions in Siberia and Alaska, 1820–1917 Baumgart, Winfried, The Crimean War, 1853–1856 Tuminez, Astrid S., Russian Nationalism since 1856: Ideology and the Making of Foreign Policy Gorizontov, L. E., Paradoksy imperskoi politiki: Poliaki v Rossii I russkie v Pol'she (XIX–nachalo XX v.) O'Rourke, Shane, Warriors and Peasants: The Don Cossacks in Late Imperial Russia Clark, Charles E., Uprooting Otherness: The Literacy Campaign in NEP‐Era Russia Wehner, Markus, Bauernpolitik improletarischen Staat: Die Bauernfrage als zentrales Problem der sowjetischen Innenpolitik 1921–28 Zhuravlev, Sergei, “Malen'kie liudi” I, “bol'shaia istoriia”: Inostrantsy moskovskogo Elektrozavoda v sovetskom obshchestve 1920‐kh–1930‐kh gg. Husband, William B., “Godless Communists”: Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia, 1917–1932 Brooks, Jeffrey, Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War Barber, John and Mark Harrison, eds., The Soviet Defence‐Industry Complex from Stalin to Khrushchev Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam, The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective Kay, Rebecca, Russian Women and Their Organizations: Gender, Discrimination and Grassroots Women's Organizations, 1991–1996 Sperling, Valerie, Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia: Engendering Transition Colton, Timothy J., Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia Markowitz, Fran, Coming of Age in Post‐Soviet Russia Alexander, James, Political Culture in Post‐Communist Russia: Formlessness and Recreation in a Traumatic Transition