BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue L iterature and F ine A rts Hunt, Priscilla and Svitlana Kobets. Holy Foolishness in Russia: New Perspectives . Chulkov, Mikhail, Matvei Komarov, and Nikolai Karamzin. Three Russian Tales of the Eighteenth Century: The Comely Cook, Vanka Kain, and “Poor Liza .” Translated by David Gasperetti. Schur, Anna. Wages of Evil: Dostoevsky and Punishment . Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Lapushin, Radislav. “ Dew on the Grass”: The Poetics of Inbetweenness in Chekhov . Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature. Du Quenoy, Paul. Stage Fright: Politics and the Performing Arts in Late Imperial Russia . Ezrahi, Christina. Swans of the Kremlin: Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia . Platonov, Rachel S. Singing the Self: Guitar Poetry, Community, and Identity in the Post‐Stalin Period . Tsvetaeva, Marina. Phaedra: A Drama in Verse, with New Year's Letter and Other Long Poems . Translated by Angela Livingstone. H istory Sullivan, John. Russian Cloth Seals in Britain: Trade, Textiles and Origins . Boeck, Brian J., Russell E. Martin, and Daniel Rowland, eds. Dubitando: Studies in History and Culture in Honor of Donald Ostrowski . Clements, Barbara Evans. A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest Times to the Present . Plokhy, Serhii, ed. Poltava 1709: The Battle and the Myth . Fedyashin, Anton A. Liberals under Autocracy: Modernization and Civil Society in Russia, 1866–1904 . Selunskaia, Natal'ia, and Rolf Torstendahl. The Birth of Democratic Culture in Late Imperial Russia: Reforms and Elections to the First Two National Legislatures, 1905–1907 . Translated by Geraldine Kelley. Ury, Scott. Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry . Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Gorshenina, Svetlana. Asie centrale: L'invention des frontières et l'héritage russo‐soviétique . Novikova, Liudmila. Provintsial'naia “kontrrevoliutsiia”: Beloe dvizhenie i Grazhdanskaia voina na russkom Severe, 1917–1920 . Seres, Attila. Hungarian‐Soviet Economic Relations, 1920–1941 . Translated by J. Thomas and Helen D. DeKornfeld. Gogun, Aleksandr. Stalinskie kommandos: Ukrainskie partizanskie formirovaniia, 1914–1944 . Budnitskii, O. V., and G. S. Zelenina, comps. and eds. “ Svershilos': Prishli nemtsy!” Ideinyi kollaboratsionizm v SSSR v period Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny . David‐Fox, Michael, Peter Holquist, and Alexander M. Martin, eds. Fascination and Enmity: Russia and Germany as Entangled Histories, 1914–1945 . Zetterling, Niklas, and Andreas Frankson. The Drive on Moscow 1941: Operation Taifun and Germany's First Great Crisis in World War II . Lehmann, Maike. Eine sowjetische Nation: Nationale Sozialismusinterpretationen in Armenien seit 1945 . Tołczyk, Dariusz. Gułag w oczach Zachodu . Semenenko‐Basin, I. V. Sviatost'v Russkoi pravoslavnoi kul'ture XX veka: Istoriia personifikatsii . Etkind, Alexander, and Rory Finnin, et al. Remembering Katyn . S ocial S ciences , C ontemporary R ussia , and O ther Argounova‐Low, Tatiana. The Politics of Nationalism in the Republic of Sakha (Northwestern Siberia) 1900–2000 . Gustafson, Thane. Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia . Hill, Fiona, and Clifford G. Gaddy. Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin . Casula, Philipp. Hegemonie und Populismus in Putins Russland: Eine Analyse des russischen politischen Diskurses . Fournier, Anna. Forging Rights in a New Democracy: Ukrainian Students between Freedom and Justice . Easter, Gerald M. Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States . Pursiainen, Christer, ed. At the Crossroads of Post‐Communist Modernization: Russia and China in Comparative Perspective . Appel, Hilary. Tax Politics in Eastern Europe: Globalization, Regional Integration, and the Democratic Compromise . Freire, Maria Raquel, and Roger E. Kanet, eds. Russia and Its Near Neighbours: Identity, Interests and Foreign Policy . Curanović, Alicja. The Religious Factor in Russia's Foreign Policy . Zvereva, Vera. Setevye razgovory: Kul'turnye kommunikatsii v Runete .