Book Reviews

L iterature and F ine A rts Khvoshchinskaya, Sofia. City Folk and Country Folk . Russian Library. Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. xxxviii + 234 pp. $14.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐231‐18303‐1. Flier, Michael S., and Andrea Graziosi, eds. The Battle for Ukrainian: A Comparative Perspective . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. × + 625 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐1‐932650‐17‐4. Finke, Michael C., and Michael Holquist, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Anton Chekhov . Approaches to Teaching World Literature. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2016. viii + 233 pp. $24.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐60329‐268‐9. Stromberg, David. Narrative Faith: Dostoevsky, Camus, and Singer . Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018. xxviii + 197pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐1‐61149‐664‐2. An‐sky, S. A. 1915 Diary of S. An‐sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front . Translated by Polly Zavadivker. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. xii + 187 pp. $28.00. ISBN 978‐0‐25302‐045‐1. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. The Red Wheel: March 1917, Node III, Book 1 . The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series. Translated by Marian Schwartz. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017. xx + 663 pp. $39.00. ISBN 978‐0‐268‐10265‐4. Forrester, Sibelan E. S., ed. A Companion to Marina Cvetaeva: Approaches to a Major Russian Poet . Brill's Companions to the Slavic World. New York: Brill, 2017. 254 pp. $138.00. ISBN 978‐9‐004‐33294‐2. Walworth, Catherine. Soviet Salvage: Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism . Refiguring Modernism. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. xiv + 234 pp. $94.95. ISBN 978‐0‐271‐07769‐7. Haber, Erika. Oz Behind the Iron Curtain: Aleksandr Volkov and His Magic Land Series . Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. xviii + 259 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4968‐1360‐2. Barskova, Polina. Besieged Leningrad: Aesthetic Responses to Urban Disaster . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2017. 200 pp. $49.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐87580‐772‐0. Sarkisova, Oksana. Screening Soviet Nationalities: Kulturfilms from the Far North to Central Asia . Kino Series. London: I. B. Tauris, 2017. xx + 299 pp. $99.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78453‐573‐5. H istory Carleton, Gregory. Russia: The Story of War . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. 304 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐0‐67497‐248‐3. Bushnell, John. Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry: Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th–19th Centuries . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. × + 339 pp. $40.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐253‐02996‐6. Eklof, Ben, and Tatiana Saburova. A Generation of Revolutionaries: Nikolai Charushin and Russian Populism from the Great Reforms to Perestroika . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. xvi + 394 pp. $40.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0 253‐03121‐1. Brisku, Adrian. Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires: A Comparative Approach . Europe's Legacy in the Modern World. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. vi + 266 pp. $114.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4742‐3856‐4. Campbell, Ian W. Knowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731–1917 . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017. xiv + 274 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐0079‐8. McAdams, A. James. Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 584 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐691‐16894‐4. Eremeeva, Anna N. “Nakhodias’ po usloviiam vremeni v provintsii …”: Praktiki vyzhivaniia rossiiskikh uchenykh v gody Grazhdanskoi voiny . Krasnodar: Izdatel’ Platonov I., 2017. 208 pp. ISBN 978‐5‐904316‐47‐1. Raab, Nigel. All Shook Up: The Shifting Soviet Response to Catastrophes, 1917–1991 . Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2017. xiv + 290 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐7735‐5002‐5. Kappeler, Andreas. Ungleiche Brüder: Russen und Ukrainer vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart . Berlin: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2017. $$16.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐406‐71410‐8. Von Weikersthal, Felicitas Fischer, and Karoline Thaidigsmann, eds. (Hi‐)Stories of the Gulag: Fiction and Reality . Akademiekonferenzen 21. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. 382 pp. $$48.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐8253‐6534‐9. Rogacheva, Maria A. The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xii + 211 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978‐1‐1078‐19636‐0. Healey, Dan. Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi . New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. xxii + 286 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐350‐00077‐3. Etkind, Alexander. Roads Not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt . Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2017. xiv + 290 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐822‐96503‐9. McGuire, Elizabeth. Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution . New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii + 462 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐064055‐2. Fenzel, Michael R. No Miracles: The Failure of Soviet Decision‐Making in the Afghan War . Stanford Security Studies. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. xii + 180 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐0‐8047‐9818‐1. Balci, Bayram. Renouveau de l'islam: En Asie centrale et dans le Caucase . Reseau Asie. Paris, CNRS Editions, 2017. 318 pp. $$25.00. ISBN 978‐2‐271‐09340‐0. S ocial S ciences , C ontemporary R ussia , and O ther Piffer, Tommaso, and Vladislav Zubok, eds. Totalitarian Societies and Democratic Transitions . Budapest: Central European University Press, 2017. 442 pp. $70.00. ISBN 978‐963‐386‐130‐1. Miszczynski, Milosz, and Adriana Helbig, eds. Hip Hop at Europe's Edge: Music, Agency, and Social Change . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. xii + 311 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978‐0‐253‐02304‐9. Golts, Aleksandr. Voennaia reforma i rossiiskii militarizm . Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala Studies in Eastern Europe, No. 7. Uppsala: Kph Trcksakbolaget, 2017. pp. 315. ISBN 978‐91‐554‐9936‐5. Bechev, Dimitar. Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. xviii + 300 pp. $27.50. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐21913‐5. Kolstø, Pål, and Helge Blakkisrud, eds. Russia Before and After Crimea: Nationalism and Identity, 2010–17 . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. 352 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978‐1‐474‐43385‐3. Pieniążek, Paweł. Greetings from Novorossiya: Eyewitness to the War in Ukraine . Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2017. xviii + 206 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐822‐96510‐7. Martus, Ellie. Russian Environmental Politics: State, Industry and Policymaking . New York: Routledge, 2018. 200 pp. $170.00. ISBN 978‐1‐1387‐3719‐8.