Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Lovell, Stephen. Summerfolk, 1710–2000. A History of the Dacha Wirtschafter, Elise Kimerling. The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theater Artsybashev, Mikhail. Sanin: A Novel Liber, George O. Alexander Dovzhenko: A Life in Soviet Film Brandist, Craig. The Bakhtin Circle: Philosophy, Culture and Politics Paperny, Vladimir. Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two Golden, Peter B. Nomads and Their Neighbors in the Russian Steppe: Turks, Khazars, and Qipchags Lohr, Eric and Marshall Poe, eds. The Military and Society in Russia, 1450–1917 Kappeler, A., et al., eds. Culture, Nation, and Identity: The Ukrainian Russian Encounter, 1600–1945 Zuckerman, Frederic. The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad: Policing Europe in a Modernising World Nathans, Benjamin. Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia Siegel, Jennifer. Endgame: Britain, Russia, and the Final Struggle for Central Asia Litoshenko, L. N. Sotsializatsiia zemli v Rossii Steinberg, Mark D. Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910–1925 Vucinich, Alexander. Einstein and Soviet Ideology Halfin, Igal. Terror in My Soul: Communist Autobiographies on Trial Chernykh, Alla. Stanovlenie Rossii sovetskoi: 20‐e gody v zerkale sotsiologii Martin, Terry. The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 Brandenberger, David. National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931–1956 Bertrand, Frédéric. L'Anthropologie Soviétique des Années 20–30: Configuration d'une Rupture Alexopoulos, Golfo. Stalin's Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens and the Soviet State, 1926–1936 Rees, E. A., ed. Centre‐Local Relations in the Stalinist State, 1928–1941 Studer, Brigitte, Berthold Unfried, and Irène Herrmann, eds. Parler de soi sous Staline: La construction identitaire dans le communisme des annees trente McLoughlin, Barry and Kevin McDermott, eds. Stalin's Terror: High Politics and Mass Repression in the Soviet Union Weeks, Albert L. Stalin's Other War: Soviet Grand Strategy, 1939–1941 Altshuler, Mordechai. Soviet Jewry on the Eve of the Holocaust: A Social and Demographic Profile Miner, Steven Merritt. Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941–1945 Critchlow, Donald T. and Agnieszka Critchlow, eds. Enemies of the State: Personal Stories from the Gulag Bardach, Janusz and Kathleen Gleeson. Surviving Freedom: After the Gulag Kulavig, Erik. Dissent in the Years of Khrushchev: Nine Stories about Disobedient Russians Litvin, Alter A. Writing History in Twentieth‐Century Russia: A View from Within Rossman, Vadim. Russian Intellectual Antisemitism in the Post‐Communist Era Cronberg, Tarja. Transforming Russia: From a Military to a Peace Economy Kahn, Jeffrey. Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia Osamu, Ieda, ed. Transformation and Diversification of Rural Societies in Eastern Europe and Russia Gel'man, Vladimir, et al. Making and Breaking Democratic Transitions: The Comparative Politics of Russia's Regions Edwards, Vincent, Gennady Polonsky, and Avgust Polonsky. The Russian Province after Communism: Enterprise, Continuity, and Change Davis, Sue. The Russian Far East: The Last Frontier? Kolstø, Pål, ed. National Integration and Violent Conflict in Post‐Soviet Societies: The Cases of Estonia and Moldova Balmaceda, Margarita M., James I. Clem, and Lisbeth L. Tarlow, eds. Independent Belarus: Domestic Determinants, Regional Dynamics, Implications for the West Troxel. Tiffany A. Parliamentary Power in Russia, 1994–2001: President vs Parliament Herspring, Dale R., ed. Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain.