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L iterature and F ine A rts Jackson, Robert Louis. Close Encounters: Essays On Russian Literature . Salden, Peter. Russische Literatur in Polen (1864–1904) . Rosenshield, Gary. Challenging the Bard: Dostoevsky and Pushkin, a Study of Literary Relationship . Connolly, Julian W. Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Academic's Reader's Guide Series. Avramenko, Richard, and Lee Trepanier, eds. Dostoevsky's Political Thought . Carnicke, Sharon Marie. Checking out Chekhov: A Guide to the Plays for Actors, Directors, and Readers . Bellow, Juliet. Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant‐Garde . Oppo, Andrea, ed. Shapes of Apocalypse: Arts and Philosophy in Slavic Thought . Anemone, Anthony, and Peter Scotto, trans. and eds. “ I am a Phenomenon Quite out of the Ordinary”: The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms . Fedorova, Milla. Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York : America and Americans in Russian Literary Perception . Laursen, Eric. Toxic Voices: The Villain from Early Soviet Literature to Socialist Realism . Loseff, Lev. Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life . Translated by Jane Anne Miller. H istory Josephson, Paul, et al. An Environmental History of Russia . Mogilner, Marina. Homo Imperii: A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia . Malinova‐Tziafeta, Ol'ga. Iz goroda na dachu: Sotsiokul'turnye faktory osvoeniia dachnogo prostranstva vokrug Peterburga (1860–1914 ). Miller, David B. Saint Sergius of Radonezh, His Trinity Monastery, and the Formation of the Russian Identity . Jones, Robert E. Bread upon the Waters: The St. Petersburg Grain Trade and the Russian Economy, 1703–1811 . Barry, Quintin. War in the East: A Military History of the Russo‐Turkish War 1877–78 . Zhuravleva, V. I. Ponimanie Rossii v SShA: Obrazy i mify, 1881–1914 . Dunaeva, A. Iu. Reformy politsii v Rossii nachala XX veka i Vladimir Fedorovich Dzhunkovskii . Kovalev, M. B. Russkie istoriki‐emigranty v Prage (1920–1940 gg.) . Eremeeva, A. N. Kul'turnaia zhizn’Kubani v XX veke . Lyandres, Semion. Fall of Tsarism: Untold Stories of February 1917 Revolution . Boer, Roland. Lenin, Religion, and Theology: New Approaches to Religion and Power . Koenker, Diane P. Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream . DeHaan, Heather D. Stalinist City Planning: Professionals, Performance, and Power . Klid, Bohdan, and Alexander J. Motyl, comps. and eds. The Holodomor Reader: A Sourcebook on the Famine of 1932–33 in Ukraine . Storella, C. J., and A. K. Sokolov. The Voice of the People: Letters from the Soviet Village, 1918–1932 . Goldman, Stuart D. Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory that Shaped World War II . Hrynevych, Vladyslav. Nepryborkane riznogolossia: Druga svitova viina i suspil'no‐politychni nastroi v Ukraini, 1939–cherven’1941 r . Shrayer, Maxim D. I Saw It: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah, with Translations of Major Works . Kozlov, Denis. The Readers of Novyi mir: Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past . Kotliarchuk, Andrei. “ V kuznitse Stalina”: Shvedskie kolonisty Ukrainy v totalitarnykh eksperimentakh XX veka . Bullough, Oliver. The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation . Hewitt, George. Discordant Neighbours: A Reassessment of the Georgian‐Abkhaz and Georgian‐South Ossetian Conflicts . Hill, William H. Russia, the Near Abroad, and the West: Lessons from the Moldova‐Transdniestria Conflict . S ocial S ciences , C ontemporary R ussia , and O ther Yaroshinskaya, Alla A. Chernobyl: Crime without Punishment . Ledeneva, Alena V. Can Russia Modernise? Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Government . Hedlund, Stefan. Invisible Hands, Russian Experience, and Social Science: Approaches to Understanding Systemic Failure . Tsygankov, Andrei P. Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin: Honor in International Relations . Pilkington, Hilary, Elena Omel'chenko, and Al'bina Garifzianova. Russia's Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives . Pringle, Tim, and Simon Clarke. The Challenge of Transitions: Trade Unions in Russia, China and Vietnam . Gill, Graeme. Symbolism and Regime Change in Russia . Herrera, Yoshiko M. Mirrors of the Economy: National Accounts and International Norms in Russia and Beyond . Luerhmann, Sonja. Secularism Soviet Style: Teaching Atheism and Religion in a Volga Republic . Black, J. L., and Michael Johns, eds. Russia after 2012: From Putin to Medvedev to Putin – Continuity, Change, or Revolution? Assisted by Alanda Theriault. Menzel, Birgit, et al., eds. The New Age of Russia: Occult and Esoteric Dimensions .