BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. L iterature and F ine A rts Briggs, Anthony. Brief Lives: Leo Tolstoy . Bullock, Philip Ross. Rosa Newmarch and Russian Music in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth‐Century England . Grossman, Joan Delaney. Ivan Konevskoi: “Wise Child” of Russian Symbolism . Hickey, Martha Weitzel. The Writer in Petrograd and the House of Arts . Cavanagh, Clare. Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland and the West . Kuhn, Judith. Shostakovich in Dialogue: Form, Imagery and Ideas in Quartets 1–7 . Tsvetaeva, Marina. Art in the Light of Conscience: Eight Essays on Poetry . Depretto, Catherine. Le formalisme en Russie . Jackson, Matthew Jesse. The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant‐Gardes . Morris, Paul D. Vladimir Nabokov: Poetry and the Lyric Voice . Naiman, Eric. Nabokov, Perversely . Lunde, Ingunn and Martin Paulsen, eds. From Poets to Padonki: Linguistic Authority and Norm Negotiation in Modern Russian Culture . H istory Jahn, Hubertus F. Armes Russland: Bettler und Notleidende in der russischen Geschichte vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart . Gerasimov, Ilya, Jan Kusber and Alexander Semyonov, eds. Empire Speaks Out: Languages of Rationalization and Self‐Description in the Russian Empire . Greene, Robert H. Bodies like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia . Boeck, Brian J. Imperial Boundaries: Cossack Communities and Empire Building in the Age of Peter the Great . Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David. Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration . Pietrov‐Ennker, B. and G. N. Ul'ianova, eds. Grazhdanskaia identichnost'i sfera grazhdanskoi deiatel'nosti v Rossiiskoi imperii: Vtoraia polovina XIX–nachalo XX veka . Loeffler, James. The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire . Arad, Yitzhak. The Holocaust in the Soviet Union . Holmes, Larry E. Grand Theater: Regional Governance in Stalin's Russia, 1931–1941 . Halfin, Igal. Stalinist Confessions: Messianism and Terror at the Leningrad Communist University . Brandenberger, David, ed. Political Humor under Stalin: An Anthology of Unofficial Jokes and Anecdotes . Krylova, Anna. Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front . Gestwa, Klaus. Die Stalinschen Großbauten des Kommunismus: Sowjetische Technik‐ und Umweltgeschichte, 1948–1967 . Edemskii, A. B. Ot konflikta k normalizatsii: Sovetsko‐iugoslavskie otnosheniia v 1953–1956 godakh . Zhuk, Sergei I. Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960–1985 . Rogers, Douglas. The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals . Bodin, Per‐Arne. Language, Canonization and Holy Foolishness: Studies in Postsoviet Russian Culture and the Orthodox Tradition . Pons, Silvio and Robert Service, eds. A Dictionary of 20 th Century Communism . S ocial S ciences , C ontemporary R ussia , and O ther Bordyugov, Gennady and Leonid Dobrokhotov, eds. Stephen Cohen, the Soviet Union, and Russia: Tributes and Comments by Russian Colleagues . Translated by George Shriver. Norros, Merja. Judicial Cooperation in Civil Matters with Russia and Methods of Evaluation . Seierstad, Asne. The Angel of Grozny: Orphan of a Forgotten War . Henry, Laura A. Red to Green: Environmental Activism in Post‐Soviet Russia . Ciobanu, Ceslav. Frozen and Forgotten Conflicts in Post‐Soviet States: Genesis, Political Economy and Prospects for Solutions . Simons, Greg. Mass Media and Modern Warfare: Reporting on the War on the Russian War on Terrorism . Bugajski, Janusz. Dismantling the West: Russia's Atlantic Agenda .