BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue L iterature and F ine A rts Morris, Marcia A. Russian Tales of Demonic Possession: Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia . Cooke, Brett, ed. Critical Insights: War and Peace . Kaufman, Andrew D. Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times . Martinsen, Deborah, Cathy Popkin, and Irina Reyfman, eds. Teaching Nineteenth‐Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Belknap . Rebecchini, Damiano, and Raffaella Vassena, eds. Reading in Russia: Practices of Reading and Literary Communication, 1760–1930 . Mancosu, Paolo. Inside the Zhivago Storm: The Editorial Adventures of Pasternak's Masterpiece . Kriza, Elisa. Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Cold War Icon, Gulag Author, Russian Nationalist? A Study of the Western Reception of his Literary Writings, Historical Interpretations, and Political Ideas . Ross, Janice. Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia . Gan, Aleksei. Constructivism . Semenenko, Aleksei. The Texture of Culture: An Introduction to Yuri Lotman's Semiotic Theory . Kushner, Aleksandr. Apollo in the Snow: Selected Poems . Seržant, Ilja A., and Björn Wiemer, eds. Contemporary Approaches to Dialectology: The Area of North, North‐West Russian and Belarusian Dialects . Chernetsov, Aleksei V., ed. Staraia Riazan': Klad 2005 goda . Verkholantsev, Julia. The Slavic Letters of St. Jerome: The History of the Legend and Its Legacy, or, How the Translator of the Vulgate Became an Apostle of the Slavs . Mouchard, Florent. La Maison de Smolensk: Une dynastie princière du Moyen Âge russe, 1125–1404 . Menger, Philipp. Die Heilige Allianz: Religion und Politik bei Alexander I. (1801–1825) . Rolf, Malte. Imperiale Herrschaft im Weichselland: Das Königreich Polen im Russischen Imperium (1864–1915) . Aust, Martin, and Julia Obertreis, eds. Osteuropäische Geschichte und Globalgeschichte . Gorshenina, Svetlana. L'invention de l'Asie centrale: Histoire du concept de la Tartarie à l'Eurasie . Meyer, James H. Turks across Empires: Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian‐Ottoman Borderlands, 1856–1914 . Gibson, James R., Alexei A. Istomin, and Valery A. Tishkov, eds. Russian California, 1806–1860: A History in Documents . Smith, Alison K. For the Common Good and Their Own Well‐Being: Social Estates in Imperial Russia . Rabinovitch, Simon. Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia . Tumanova, A. S. Obshchestvennye organizatsii Rossii v gody Pervoi mirovoi voiny (1914–fevral’ 1917 g.) . Sanborn, Joshua A. Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War & the Destruction of the Russian Empire . Kent, Neil. The Sámi Peoples of the North: A Social and Cultural History . Siegelbaum, Lewis H., and Leslie Page Moch. Broad Is My Native Land: Repertoires and Regimes of Migration in Russia's Twentieth Century . Saparov, Arsène. From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus: The Soviet Union and the Making of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh . Todes, Daniel P. Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science . Velikanova, Olga. Popular Perceptions of Soviet Politics in the 1920s: Disenchantment of the Dreamers . Maddox, Steven. Saving Stalin's Imperial City: Historic Preservation in Leningrad, 1930–1950 . Shearer, David R., and Vladimir Khaustov. Stalin and the Lubianka: A Documentary History of the Political Police and Security Organs in the Soviet Union, 1922–1953 . Ginsborg, Paul. Family Politics: Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900–1950 . Hausbacher, Eva, Elena Huber, and Julia Hargaßner, eds. Fashion, Consumption and Everyday Culture in the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1985 . Jones, Polly. Myth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953–70 . Mitrokhin, Nikolay. Die “Russische Partei”: Die Bewegung der russischen Nationalisten in der UdSSR 1953–1985 . Risch, William Jay, ed. Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc: Youth Cultures, Music, and the State in Russia and Eastern Europe . Mukhina, Irina. Women and the Birth of Russian Capitalism: A History of the Shuttle Trade . Dowling, Timothy C., ed. Russia at War: From the Mongol Conquest to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Beyond . Pons, Silvio. The Global Revolution: A History of International Communism 1917–1991 . Greene, Samuel A. Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin's Russia . Sperling, Valerie. Sex, Politics, & Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia . Dugin, Alexander. Putin vs Putin: Vladimir Putin Viewed from the Right . Hutchings, Stephen, and Vera Tolz. Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television: Mediating Post‐Soviet Difference . Stella, Francesca. Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post‐Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities . Åslund, Anders, and Simeon Djankov. The Great Rebirth: Lessons from the Victory of Capitalism over Communism . Ioffe, Grigory. Reassessing Lukashenka: Belarus in Cultural and Geopolitical Context . Obydenkova, Anastassia, and Alexander Libman, eds. Autocratic and Democratic External Influences in Post‐Soviet Eurasia . Hale, Henry E. Patronal Politics: Eurasian Regime Dynamics in Comparative Perspective .