Book Reviews

Literature and Fine Arts Kelly, Catriona. Refining Russia: Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin Schönle, Andreas. Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey, 1790–1840 Pomeroy, Jordana, Rosalind Blakesley, Vladimir Matveyev, and Elizaveta Renne, eds. An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum Moeller‐Sally, Stephen. Gogol's Afterlife: The Evolution of a Literary Classic in Imperial and Soviet Russia Freeborn, Richard. Furious Vissarion: Belinskii's Struggle for Literature, Love and Ideas Knapp, Liza and Amy Mandelker, eds. Approaches to Teaching Tolstoy's Tumanov, Alexander. The Life and Artistry of Maria Olenina‐d'Alheim Kot, Joanna. Distance Manipulation: The Russian Modernist Search for a New Drama Pakhmuss, Temira. Zinaida Gippius: Hypatia dvadtsatogo veka Nice, David. Prokofiev—A Biography: From Russia to the West, 1891–1935 Shapiro, Gavriel, ed. Nabokov at Cornell History Kämpfer, Frank and Reinhard Frötschner, eds. 450 Jahre Sigismund von Herbersteins Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii, 1549–999 . Schriften zur Geistesgeschichte des östlichen Europa Snyder, Timothy. The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999 Marks, Steven G. How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti‐Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism Pipes, Richard. The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia McReynolds, Louise. Russia at Play: Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist Era Nathans, Benjamin. Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia Wartenweiler, David. Civil Society and Academic Debate in Russia, 1905–1914 Korros, Alexandra S. A Reluctant Parliament: Stolypin, Nationalism, and the Politics of the Russian Imperial State Council, 1906–1911 Lauchlan, Iain. Russian Hide‐and‐Seek: The Tsarist Secret Police in St. Petersburg, 1906–1914 Lohr, Eric. Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign against Enemy Aliens during World War I Brower, Daniel. Turkestan and the Fate of the Russian Empire Redlich, Shimon. Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919–1945 Ilič, Melanie, ed. Women in the Stalin Era. Rüting, Torsten. Pavlov und der Neue Mensch: Diskurse über Disziplinierung in Sowjetrußland Obolonsky, Alexander V. The Drama of Russian Political History: System against Individuality Gitelman, Zvi, with Musya Giants and Marshall I. Goldman. Jewish Life after the USSR Social Science, Contemporary Russia, and Other Bacon, Edwin and Mark Sandle, eds. Brezhnev Reconsidered Becker, Jonathan A. Soviet and Russian Press Coverage of the United States: Press, Politics and Identity in Transition Neidhart, Christoph. Russia's Carnival: The Smells, Sights, and Sounds of Transition Nichols, Thomas M. The Russian Presidency: Society and Politics in the Second Russian Republic Smith, Sebastian. Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya