BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue L iterature and F ine A rts Steffen, James. The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov . Ewington, Amanda, ed. and trans. Russian Women Poets of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: A Bilingual Edition . Edmond, Jacob. A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross‐Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature . Mantovan, Daniela, ed. Yiddish Poets and the Soviet Union, 1917–1948 . Lotman, Juri M. The Unpredictable Workings of Culture . Translated by Brian James Baer. Edited by Igor Pilschchikov and Silvi Salupere. Leving, Yuri and Frederick H. White. Marketing Literature and Posthumous Legacies: The Symbolic Capital of Leonid Andreev and Vladimir Nabokov . Garrard, John and Carol. The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman . Blake, Elizabeth A. Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground . Shapiro, Gavriel. The Tender Friendship and the Charm of Perfect Accord: Nabokov and His Father . Senelick, Laurence, ed. Stanislavsky: A Life in Letters . Morson, Gary Saul. Prosaics and Other Provocations: Empathy, Open Time, and the Novel . Wortman, Richard. Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule . Zayarnyuk, Andriy. Framing the Ukrainian Peasantry in Habsburg Galicia, 1846–1914 . Malysheva, Svetlana. “ Professionalki,” “Arfistki,” “Liubitel'nitsy”: Publichnye doma i prostitutki v Kazani vo vtoroi polovine XIX–nachala XX veka . Hillis, Faith. Children of Rus': Right‐Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation . Lohr, Eric. Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union . Mücke, Lukas. Die allgemeine Altersrentenversorgung in der UdSSR, 1956–1972 . Podehl, Markus. Architektura Kaliningrada, 1917–1991: Wie aus Königsberg Kaliningrad wurde . Cohen, Laurie R. Smolensk under the Nazis: Everyday Life in Occupied Russia . Bren, Paulina, and Mary Neuburger, eds. Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe . Harris, James, ed. The Anatomy of Terror: Political Violence under Stalin . Jersild, Austin. The Sino‐Soviet Alliance: An International History . Kozlov, Denis, and Eleonory Gilburd, eds. The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s . Chernyshova, Natalya. Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era . Ershova, E. B. Skvoz'cheredu vremen (Rossiiskaia sem'ia v XVIII–XXI vv .). Borisova, Tatiana, and William Simons, eds. The Legal Dimension in Cold‐War Interactions: Some Notes from the Field . Kappeler, Andreas. Die Kosaken: Geschichte und Legenden . Smith, Jeremy. Red Nations: The Nationalities Experience in and after the USSR . S ocial S ciences , C ontemporary R ussia, and O ther Judah, Ben. Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin . Shlapentokh, Vladimir, and Anna Arutunyan. Freedom, Repression, and Private Property in Russia . Godzimirski, Jakub M., ed. Russian Energy in a Changing World: What is the Outlook for the Hydrocarbons Superpower ? Yefremova, Maria, Svetlana Yakovleva, and Jane Henderson. Contract Law in Russia . Nosenko‐Stein, Elena. Peredaite ob etom detiam vashim, a ikh deti sleduiushchemu rodu: Kul'turnaia pamiat'u rossiiskikh evreev v nashi dni .