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Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the russian review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9434
pISSN - 0036-0341
DOI - 10.1111/russ.12157
Subject(s) - philosophy
L iterature and F ine A rts Kuzmic, Tatiana. Adulterous Nations: Family Politics and National Anxiety in the European Novel . Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016. xvi + 229 pp. $34.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐3397‐6. Reyfman, Irina. How Russia Learned to Write: Literature and the Imperial Table of Ranks . Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. ix + 237 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐0‐299‐30830‐8. Tolstoy, Leo. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories . Edited and translated by Kirsten Lodge. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2017. 184 pp. $12.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5448‐13223. Panova, Lada. Mnimoe sirotstvo: Khlebnikov i Kharms v kontekste russkogo i evropeiskogo modernizma . Issledovaniia kul'tury. Moscow: Izdatel'skii dom Vysshei shkoly ekonomiki, 2017. 608 pp. R601.00. ISBN 978‐5‐7598‐1509‐9. Kharms, Daniil. Russian Absurd: Selected Writings . Northwestern World Classics. Translated by Alex Cigale. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2017. xxv + 254 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐3457‐7. Berlina, Alexandra, ed. and trans. Viktor Shklovsky: A Reader . New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. x + 399 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5013‐1037‐9. Sandler, Stephanie, Margarita Krimmel, Oleg Novikov, and Maria Khotimsky, eds. Ol'ga Sedakova: Stikhi, Smysly, Prochteniia. Sbornik nauchnykh statei . Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2017. 552 pp. R585.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐0611‐1. Frolova‐Walker, Marina. Stalin's Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. xi + 369 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐20884‐9. Mazierska, Ewa, Matilda Mroz, and Elżbieta Ostrowska, eds. The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia: Between Pain and Pleasure . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. 272 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4744‐0514‐0. Beumers, Birgit, ed. A Companion to Russian Cinema . Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas. West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2016. xvi + 656 pp. $195.00. ISBN 978‐1‐118‐41276‐3. H istory North, Michael. The Baltic: A History . Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. xi + 427 pp. $22.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐674‐97083‐0. Antonov, Sergei. Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy . Harvard Historical Studies 187. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. x + 387 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐97148‐6. Remy, Johannes. Brothers or Enemies: The Ukrainian National Movement and Russian from the 1840s to the 1870s . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. x + 344 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0046‐7. Schedrin, Vassilli. Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds: Jewish Bureaucracy and Policymaking in Late Imperial Russia, 1850–1917 . Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2016. xi + 292 pp. $49.99. ISBN 978‐0‐8143‐4043‐4. Stockdale, Melissa Kirschke. Mobilizing the Russian Nation: Patriotism and Citizenship in the First World War . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 284 pp. $99.99. ISBN 978‐1‐107‐09386‐7 House, John M. Wolfhounds and Polar Bears: The American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918–1920 . Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2016. xviii + 243 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐0‐8173‐1889‐5. Horowitz, Brian. The Russian‐Jewish Tradition: Intellectuals, Historians, Revolutionaries . Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2017. 292 pp. $82.00. ISBN 978‐1‐6181‐1556‐0. Brenton, Tony, ed. Was Revolution Inevitable? Turning Points of the Russian Revolution . New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xx + 364 pp. $17.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐19‐065891‐5. Saburova, Tat'iana, and Ben Eklof. Druzhba, sem'ia, revoliutsiia: Nikolai Charushin i pokolenie narodnikov 1870‐kh godov . Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2016. 444 pp. $23.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐0558‐9. Baberowski, Jörg. Scorched Earth: Stalin's Reign of Terror . The Yale‐Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes. Translated by Steven Gilbert, Ivo Komljen, and Samantha Jeanne Taber. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. xii + 500 pp. $40.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐13698‐2. Holmes, Larry E. Stalin's World War II Evacuations: Triumphs and Troubles in Kirov . Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2017. xiv + 231 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐7006‐2395‐2. Glantz, David M., with Mary Elizabeth Glantz. The Battle for Belorussia: The Red Army's Forgotten Campaign of October 1943–April 1944 . Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016. xxvi + 760 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐7006‐23299‐7. Dumitru, Diana. The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xvii + 268 pp. $99.99. ISBN 978‐1‐107‐13196‐5. Hrynevych, Vladyslav, and Paul Robert Magocsi, eds. Babyn Yar: History and Memory . Kiev: Dukh i Litera, 2016. 328 pp. Hrn200.00. ISBN 978‐966‐378‐470‐0. Heftrich, Urs, Robert Jacobs, Bettina Kaibach, and Karoline Thaidigsmann, eds. Images of Rupture between East and West: The Perception of Auschwitz and Hiroshima in Eastern European Arts and Media . Beiträge zur Neueren Literaturgeschichte Band 347. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. 547 pp. €68.00. ISBN 978‐3‐8253‐6548‐6. Lovell, Stephen. Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio, 1919–1970 . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 272 pp. $59.95. ISBN 978‐0‐198‐72526‐8. Miller, Chris. The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR . The New Cold War History. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016. xx + 244 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐1‐4696‐3017‐5. Service, Robert. The End of the Cold War, 1985–1991 . London: Macmillan, 2015. 562 pp. £35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐230‐74808‐8. S ocial S ciences , C ontemporary R ussia , and O ther Schulmeister‐André, Irina. Internationale strafgerichtsbarkeit unter sowjetischem Einfluss: Der Beitrag der UdSSR zum Nürnberger Hauptkriegsverbrecherprozess . Studies in International and European Criminal Law and Procedure 27. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 2016. 580 pp. €107.90. ISBN 978‐3‐428‐14867‐7. Burgess, John P. Holy Rus': The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. xiv + 264 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐22224‐1. Kurilla, Ivan, and Victoria I. Zhuravleva, eds. Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, Amerikanistika in Russia: Mutual Representations in Academic Projects . Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016. xix + 286 pp. $95.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4895‐1798‐0. Marchenia, P. P., and S. Iu. Razin, eds. Rossiiskaia mnogopartiinost’ i rossiiskie krizisy XX–XXI vv: Sbornik nauchnykh statei i materialov kruglykh stolov. Narod i vlast’ v rossiiskoi smute . Narod i vlast': Istoriia Rossii i ee fal'sifikatsii, Vol. 6. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Ippolitova, 2016. 948 pp. ISBN 978‐5‐90363‐102‐5. Reisinger, William M., and Bryon J. Moraski. The Regional Roots of Russia's Political Regime . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. xii + 268 pp. $75.00. ISBN 978‐0‐472‐13018‐4. Tönsmann, Susanne. What Is Citizenship For? Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts‐Verlag, 2017. 218 pp. €49.00. ISBN 978‐3‐8305‐3595‐9. Gabowitsch, Mischa. Protest in Putin's Russia . Cambridge: Polity, 2016. 300 pp. $69.95. ISBN 978‐0‐7456‐9625‐6. Trenin, Dmitri. Should We Fear Russia? Cambridge: Polity, 2016. 144 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5095‐1090‐0. Raikhel, Eugene. Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post‐Soviet Clinic . Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. xiv + 232 pp. $26.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐105017‐0313‐3. Pallot, Judith, and Elena Katz. Waiting at the Prison Gate: Women, Identity and the Russian Penal System . London: I. B. Tauris, 2017. xx + 252 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78453‐660‐2.

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