BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. L iterature and F ine A rts Schönle, Andreas, ed. Lotman and Cultural Studies: Encounters and Extensions. Frazier, Melissa. Romantic Encounters: Writers, Readers, and the “Library for Reading.” Taylor, Philip S. Anton Rubinstein: A Life in Music. Vassena, Raffaella. Reawakening National Identity: Dostoevskii's Sicher, Efraim. Jews in Russian Literature after the October Revolution: Writers and Artists between Hope and Apostasy. Grelz, Karina. Beyond the Noise of Time: Readings of Marina Tsvetaeva's Memories of Childhood. Stock, Ute. The Ethics of the Poet: Marina Tsvetaeva's Art in the Light of Conscience. Efron, Ariadna and Ada Federolf. Unforced Labors. Krieger, Verena. Kunst als Neuschöpfung der Wirklichkeit: Die Anti‐Ästhetik der russischen Moderne. Pavlov, Evgenii. Shok pamiati: Avtobiograficheskaia poetika Val'tera Ben'iamina i Osipa Mandel'shtama. Kummer, Renate. Nicht mit Gewehren, sondern mit Plakaten wurde der Feind geschlagen! Eine semiotisch‐linguistische Analyse der Agitationsplakate der russischen Telegrafenagentur ROSTA. White, Frederick H. Memoirs and Madness: Leonid Andreev through the Prism of the Literary Portrait. Brintlinger, Angela and Ilya Vinitsky, eds. Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture. Tode, Thomas and Barbara Wurm, eds. Dziga Vertov: Die Vertov‐Sammlung im Osterreichischen Filmmuseum / The Vertov Collection at the Austrian Film Museum. Beumers, Birgit, ed. The Cinema of Russia and the Former Soviet Union. Hashamova, Yana. Pride and Panic: Russian Imagination of the West in Post‐Soviet Film. H istory Shusherin, Ioann. From Peasant to Patriarch: Account of the Birth, Uprising, and Life of His Holiness Nikon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. Medvedkova, Olga. Jean‐Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond: Architecte 1679‐1719: De Paris à Saint‐Pétersbourg.The Memoirs of Catherine the Great. Translated by Mark Cruse and Hilde Hoogenboom. Crews, Robert D. For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia. Uyama, Tomohiko, ed. Empire, Islam, and Politics in Central Eurasia. Bitis, Alexander. Russia and the Eastern Question: Army, Government and Society, 1815‐1833. Fuller, William C., Jr. The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason and the End of Imperial Russia. Cadiot, Juliette. Le laboratoire imperial: Russie‐URSS 1860‐1940. Serrano, Silvia. Géorgie: Sortie d'Empire. Staliūnas, Darius. Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863. Sergeev, Evgeny. Russian Military Intelligence in the War with Japan, 1904‐05: Secret Operations on Land and at Sea. Coleman, Heather J. Russian Baptists and Spiritual Revolution, 1905‐1929. Halfin, Igal. Intimate Enemies: Demonizing the Bolshevik Opposition, 1918‐1928. Chuikina, Sof'ia. Dvorianskaia pamiat ': “Byvshie” v sovetskom gorode (Leningrad, 1920‐30‐egody). Zel'tser, Arkadii. Evrei sovetskoi provintsii: Vitebsk i mestechki 1917‐1941 / The Jews of the Soviet Provinces: Vitevsk and the Shtetls, 1917‐1941. Werth, Nicolas. Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag. McLoughlin, Barry. Left to the Wolves: Irish Victims of Stalinist Terror. Stern, Ludmila. Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 1920‐40: From Red Square to the Left Bank. Senn, Alfred Erich. Lithuania 1940: Revolution from Above. McCauley, Martin. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union. Kohen, Stiven. “Vopros voprosov”: Pochemu ne stalo Sovetskogo Soiuza. De Keghel, Isabelle. Die Rekonstruktion der vorsowjetischen Geschichte: Identitätsdiskurse im neuen Russland. Skoda, Diane. La Propriété dans le Code civil de la Fédération de Russie: un système entre deux traditions. S ocial S cience , C ontemporary R ussia, and O ther Brown, Archie. Seven Years that Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective. Aron, Leon. Russia's Revolution: Essays 1989‐2006. Gel'man, V. Ia., ed. Tretii elektoral'nyi tsikl v Rossii 2003‐2004 gody. Hale, Henry E. Why Not Parties in Russia? Democracy, Federalism, and the State. Grzymala‐Busse, Anna. Rebuilding Leviathan: Party Competition and State Exploitation in Post‐Communist Democracies. Verkhovskii, Aleksandr, ed. Russkii natsionalizm: Ideologiia i nastroenie. Hahn, Gordon M. Russia's Islamic Threat. Hemment, Julie. Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, Aid, and NGOs. Dobrenko, Evgeny. Political Economy of Socialist Realism.