BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue L iterature and F ine A rts Polyakova, Olga A. Icons: Masterpieces of Russian Art ( 16 th –19 th Centuries, from the Collection of the Moscow State Integrated Museum‐Reserve at Kolomenskoye ). Steiner, Lina. For Humanity's Sake: The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture . Diment, Galya. A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky . Roubakine, Alexandre. La Cité . Translated into French by Wladimir Berelowitch. Gillespie, Alyssa Dinega, ed. Taboo Pushkin: Topics, Texts, Interpretations . Frank, Siggy. Nabokov's Theatrical Imagination . Young, George M. The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers . H istory Gruber, Isaiah. Orthodox Russia in Crisis: Church and Nation in the Time of Troubles . Davies, Richard, and Matilda Moreton. Wooden Churches: Travelling in the Russian North . Polunov, A. Iu. K. P. Pobedonostsev v obshchestvenno‐politicheskoi i dukhovnoi zhizni Rossii . Johnson, Emily D. How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie . Evtuhov, Catherine. Portrait of a Russian Province: Economy, Society, and Civilization in Nineteenth‐Century Nizhnii Novgorod . Romaniello, Matthew P. The Elusive Empire and the Creation of Russia, 1552–1671 . Tomohiko, Uyama, ed. Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts . Etkind, Alexander. Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience . Baraban, Elena V., Stephan Jaeger, and Adam Muller, eds. Fighting Words and Images: Representing War across the Disciplines . Petrone, Karen. The Great War in Russian Memory . Lutz, Martin. Siemens im Sowjetgeschäft: Eine Institutionengeschichte der deutsch‐sowjetischen Beziehhungen 1917–1933 . Dieckmann, Christoph. Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen 1941–1944 . 2 vols. Chervinsky, Julie, ed. Lives of the Great Patriotic War: The Untold Stories of Soviet Jewish Soldiers in the Red Army during World War II / Sud'by v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny: Neopublikovannye istorii sovetskikh krasnoarmeitsev‐evreev, uchastnikov Vtoroi Mirovoi voiny . Boriak, Tetiana. Dokumental'na spadshchyna ukraïns'koï emigratsiï v Ievropi: Praz'kyi arkhiv (1945–2010) . Andreev, A. I., and D. Savelli, eds. Rerikhi: Mify i fakty . Roman, Meredith L. Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928–1937 . Hudson, Hugh D., Jr. Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State: Surveillance and Accommodation under the New Economic Policy . Fedor, Julie. Russia and the Cult of State Security: The Chekist Tradition from Lenin to Putin . Johnston, Timothy. Being Soviet: Identity, Rumour, and Everyday Life under Stalin, 1939–1953 . Jenks, Andrew L. The Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling: The Life and Legend of Yuri Gagarin . S ocial S ciences , C ontemporary R ussia, and O ther Ianitskii, O. N. Semeinaia khronika 1853–2002 gg . 2nd ed. Satter, David. It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past . Aalto, Pami, ed. Russia's Energy Policies: National, Interregional, and Global Levels . Panibratov, Andrei. Russian Multinationals: From Regional Supremacy to Global Lead . Hankivsky, Olena, and Anastasiya Salnykova, eds. Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine . Ališauskienė, Milda, and Ingo W. Schröder, eds. Religious Diversity in Post‐Soviet Society: Ethnographies of Catholic Hegemony and the New Pluralism in Lithuania . Zavisca, Jane R. Housing the New Russia . Roberts, Sean P. Putin's United Russia Party . Stewart, Susan, et al., eds. Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats: Forms of Rule in the Post‐Soviet Space . Shevel, Oxana. Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in Postcommunist Europe . Cooley, Alexander. Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia .