Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Landmarks of Russian Architecture: A Photographic Survey , by William Craft Brumfield Die Kirchen und Klösters Moskaus: Ein landeskundliches Handbuch , by Sebastian Kempgen Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia , by Irina Paperno The Returns of History: Russian Nietzscheans after Modernity , by Dragan Kujundzic Marina Tsvetaeva: The Double Beat of Heaven and Hell , by Lily Feiler Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology , by Eric Naiman The Origins of the Old Rus' Weights and Monetary Systems: Two Studies in Western Eurasian Metrology and Numismatics in the Seventh to Eleventh Centuries , by Omeljan Pritsak Handelskontrolle “Derivation” Eindämmerung: Schwedische Moskaupolitik 1617–1661 , by Stefan Troebst The Petrine Revolution in Russian Imagery , by James Cracraft The Tsars and the Jews: Reform, Reaction and Anti‐Semitism in Imperial Russia, 1772–1917 , by Heinz‐Dietrich Löwe L'Islam de Russie: Conscience communautaire et autonomie politique chez les Tatars de la Volga et l'Oural, depuis le XVIIIe siècle , edited by Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Dämir Is'haqov and Räfyq Möhämmätshin Peasant Dreams and Market Politics: Labor Migration and the Russian Village, 1861–1905 , by Jeffrey Burds Pod vlast'iu ober‐prokurora: Gosudarstvo i tserkov' v epokhy Aleksandra III , by A. Iu Polunov Nicholas II: The Life and Reign of Russia's Last Monarch , by Robert D. Warth N. Kh. Bunge: Sud'ba reformatora , by Valerii Leonidovich Stepanov Diplomacy and Deception: The Secret History of Sino‐Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917–1927 , by Bruce Elleman Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier , by S. C. M. Paine Rossiiskaia emigratsiia v Kitae (1917–1924 gg.) , by G. V. Melikhov Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia: Religious Activists in the Village , by Glennys Young Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin , by Victoria E. Bonnell Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison , edited by Ian Kershaw and Moshe Lewin, eds. La fabbrica del mito: Storia e politica nell'URSS staliniana , by Fabio Bettanin The Religious Policy of the Stalinist State: A Case Study: The Central Standing Commission on Religious Questions, 1929–1938 , by Arto Luukkanen GULAG v sisteme totalitarnogo gosudarstva , by Galina Mikhailovna Ivanova Obshchestvennoe mnenie v Sovetskoi Rossii v 30‐e gody (Po materialam Severo‐zapada) , by S. A. Shinkarchuk Flucht in die Verfolgung: Deutsche Emigranten im sowjetischen Exil, 1933 bis 1945 , by Carola Tischler Golod v SSSR 1946–1947 godov: Proiskhozhdenie i posledstviia , by V. F. Zima Kremlin Capitalism: Privatizing the Russian Economy , by Joseph R. Blasi, Maya Kroumova, and Douglas Kruse Russia's Transformation: Snapshots of a Crumbling System , by Robert Vincent Daniels Gorbachev's Reforms: De‐Stalinization through Demilitarization , by Susanne Sternthal Russian Talk: Culture of Conversation during Perestroika , by Nancy Ries Beyond the Monolith: The Emergence of Regionalism in Post‐Soviet Russia , edited by Peter J. Stavrakis, Joan DeBardeleben, and Larry Black Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus , by Carlotta Gall and Thomas de Waal Russia's Politics of Uncertainty , by Mary McAuley