BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. L iterature and F ine A rts Frank, Joseph. Between Religion and Rationality: Essays in Russian Literature and Culture. Reid, Robert, and Joe Andrew, eds. Turgenev: Art, Ideology and Legacy. Rosneck, Karen. Undertanding Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia's Short Story Collection An Album: Groups and Portraits: The Literary Innovations of a Nineteenth‐Century Writer. Browning, Gary L. A “Labyrinth of Linkages” in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Nickell, William. The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910. Haldey, Olga. Mamontov's Private Opera: The Search for Modernism in Russian Theater. Nicholas, Mary A. Writers at Work: Russian Production Novels and the Construction of Soviet Culture. Bartlett, Djurdja. FashionEast: The Spectre that Haunted Socialism. Yazykova, Irina. Hidden and Triumphant: The Underground Struggle to Save Russian Iconography. Alaniz, José. Komiks: Comic Art in Russia. Kukulin, I., M. Lipovetskii, and M. Maiofis, eds. and comps. Veselye chelovechki: Kul'turnie geroi sovetskogo detstva. H istory Cadiot, Juliette, Dominique Arel, and Larissa Zakharova. Cacophanies d'empire: Le gouvernement des langues dans l'Empire russe et l'Union soviétique. Avrutin, Eugene M. Jews in the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia. Biktasheva, A. N. Kazanskie gubernatory v dialogakh vlastei (pervaia polovina XIX veka ). Andreeva, Elena. Russia and Iran in the Great Game: Travelogues and Orientalism. Maiorova, Olga. From the Shadow of Empire: Defining the Russian Nation through Cultural Mythology, 1855–1870. Volodin, A. Iu. Istoriia fabrichnoi inspektsii v Rossii, 1882–1914 gg. Marples, David R. Russia in the Twentieth Century. Weeks, Theodore R. Across the Revolutionary Divide: Russia and the USSR, 1861–1945. Petrovsky‐Shtern, Yohanan. Lenin's Jewish Question. Chiasson, Blaine R. Administering the Colonizer: Manchuria's Russians under Chinese Rule, 1918–29. Poliakov, Iu. A., and O. V. Budnitskii, eds. Periodicheskaia pechat’ rossiiskoi emigratsii, 1920–2000: Sbornik statei. Denisova, Liubov. Rural Women in the Soviet Union and Post‐Soviet Russia. Edited and Translated by Irina Mukhina. Litvin, A. L., et al., eds. Dnevnik istorika S. A. Piontkovskogo (1927–1934 ). Stronski, Paul. Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966. Naimark, Norman M. Stalin's Genocides. Liekis, Šarūnas. 1939: The Year that Changed Everything in Lithuania's History. On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics. Stone, David R., ed. The Soviet Union at War, 1941–1945. Schmitz‐Hertzberg, Friedrich. The Night is Full of Stars: An Account by a German Physician as a Prisoner of War in the Soviet Union, 1945–1949. Translated by Kathleen Schmitz‐Hertzberg with Evelyn Schmitz‐Hertzberg. Filtzer, Donald. The Hazards of Urban Life in Late Stalinist Russia: Health, Hygiene, and Living Standards, 1943–1953. Autio‐Sarasmo, Sari, and Brendan Humphreys, eds. Winter Kept Us Warm: Cold War Interactions Reconsidered. Aleksanteri Cold War Series 1/2010. Crowley, David, and Susan E. Reid, eds. Pleasures in Socialism: Leisure and Luxury in the Eastern Bloc. Polmar, Norman, and Michael White. Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of the K‐129. Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan. Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War. S ocial S ciences , C ontemporary R ussia, and O ther Oittinen, Vesa, ed. Max Weber and Russia. Aleksanteri Series 2/2010. Kahla, Elina, ed. The Unlimited Gaze: Essays in Honour of Professor Natalia Baschmakoff. Aleksanteri Series 2/2009. Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam, ed. Religion and Politics in Russia: A Reader. Baer, Brian James. Other Russias: Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post‐Soviet Identity. Gel'man, Vladimir, and Cameron Ross, eds. The Politics of Sub‐National Authoritarianism in Russia. Post‐Soviet Politics. Akhmadov, Ilyas, and Miriam Lanskoy. The Chechen Struggle: Independence Won and Lost. Robertson, Graeme B. The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent in Post‐Communist Russia. Hønneland, Geir. Borderland Russians: Identity, Narrative and International Relations. Sixsmith, Martin. Putin's Oil: The Yukos Affair and the Struggle for Russia. Dannreuther, Roland, and Luke March, eds. Russia and Islam: State, Society and Radicalism. BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies. Pope, Amanda, and Tchavdar Georgiev, dirs. The Desert of Forbidden Art. DVD, 80 min., 2010.