Book Reviews

L iterature and F ine A rts Adams, Amy Singleton, and Vera Shevzov, eds. Framing Mary: The Mother of God in Modern, Revolutionary, and Post‐Soviet Russian Culture . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2018. xiii + 344 pp. $39.00. ISBN 978‐0‐87580‐776‐8. Kokobobo, Ani. Russian Grotesque Realism: The Great Reforms and the Gentry Decline . Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2018. x + 154 pp. $64.95. ISBN 978‐0‐8142‐1363‐6. Groys, Boris, ed. Russian Cosmism . Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2018. x + 252 pp. $27.95. ISBN 978‐0‐2620‐3743‐3. Arns, Inke, Igor Chubarov, and Sylvia Sasse, eds. Nikolai Evreinov & Others: “The Storming of the Winter Palace” . Translated by Bernard Heise, David Riff, and Jordan Lee Schnee. Think Art. Berlin: Diaphanes, 2016. 320 pp. $40.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐03734‐8991‐5. Stone, Jonathan. The Institutions of Russian Modernism: Conceptualizing, Publishing, and Reading Symbolism . Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2017. xiv + 304 pp. $39.95 (paper). 978‐0‐8101‐3572‐7. Dobrenko, Evgeny, and Natalia Jonsson‐Skradol. Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin: Institutions, Dynamics, Discourses . London: Anthem Press, 2018. 372 pp. $175.00. ISBN 978‐1‐783‐08697‐9. Sharov, Vladimir. The Rehearsals . Translated by Oliver Ready. Gardena: Dedalus Books, 2018. 359 pp. $19.99. ISBN 978‐1910213148. Naumenko, Tatyana. Textological Aspects of Musicology in Russia and the Former Soviet Union . Moscow: Progress‐Tradition, 2017. 448 pp. ISBN 978‐5‐89826‐495‐1. Lunde, Ingunn. Language on Display: Writers, Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post‐Soviet Russia . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. 232 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978‐1‐474‐42156‐0. Arvatov, Boris. Art & Production . Edited by John Roberts, and Alexei Penzin. Translated by Shushan Avagyan. London: Pluto Press, 2017. viii + 146 pp. $28.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐7453‐3736‐4. H istory Feldbrugge, Ferdinand J. A History of Russian Law: From Ancient Times to the Council Code (Ulozhenie) of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich of 1649 . Law in Eastern Europe. Leiden: Brill, 2018. xix + 1097 pp. €399.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐34642‐0. O'Neill, Kelly. Claiming Crimea: A History of Catherine the Great's Southern Empire . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. xx + 361 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐21829‐9. Friesen, Leonard G., ed. Minority Report: Mennonite Identities in Imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine Reconsidered, 1789–1945 . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. xii + 338 pp. $56.25. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0194‐5. Perabo, Betsy. Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo‐Japanese War . New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. viii + 219 pp. $114.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4742‐5375‐8. Matsuzato, Kimitaka, ed. Russia and Its Northeast Asian Neighbors: China, Japan, and Korea, 1858–1945 . Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. xvii + 185 pp. $85.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐3704‐9. Porter, Thomas Earl, and Lawrence W. Lerner. Prince George L'vov: The Zemstvo, Civil Society, and Liberalism in Late Imperial Russia . Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. xviii + 257 pp. $105.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐1867‐3. Albert, Gleb J. Das Charisma der Weltrevolution: Revolutionärer Internationalismus in der frühen Sowjetgesellschaft 1917–1927 . Cologne: Boehlau‐Verlag, 2017. 631 pp. €85.00. ISBN 978‐3‐412‐50754‐1. Engelstein, Laura. Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914–1921 . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxx + 823 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐199‐79421‐8. Lee, Eric. The Experiment: Georgia's Forgotten Revolution, 1918–1921 . Chicago: Zed Books, 2017. xxvi + 259 pp. $18.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐786‐99092‐1. Kelly, Catriona. Socialist Churches: Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2016. 440 pp. $59.00. ISBN 978‐0‐87580‐743‐0. Viola, Lynne. Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine . New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxii + 268 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐067416‐8. Krueger, Marcel. Babushka's Journey: The Dark Road to Stalin's Wartime Camps . London: I. B. Tauris, 2018. xvi + 222 pp. £18.99. ISBN 978‐1‐78453‐801‐9. Edele, Mark, Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Atina Grossmann, eds. Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union . Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2017. viii + 306 pp. $34.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8143‐4267‐1. Kotljarchuk, Andrej, and Olle Sundström, eds. Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Stalin's Soviet Union: New Dimensions of Research . Södertörn Academic Studies. Stockholm: Södertörn University, 2017. 292 pp. SEK213.00. ISBN 978‐91‐7601‐777‐7. Stotland, Daniel. Purity and Compromise in the Soviet Party‐State: The Struggle for the Soul of the Party, 1941–1952 . Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. xl + 273 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐4062‐9. Heinzen, James. The Art of the Bribe: Corruption under Stalin, 1943–1953 . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 416 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐17525‐7. Ginor, Isabella, and Gideon Remez. The Soviet‐Israeli War, 1967–1973: The USSR's Military Intervention in the Egyptian‐Israeli Conflict . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxxiv + 506 pp. $37.50. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐069348‐0. Erdozain, Dominic, ed. The Dangerous God: Christianity and the Soviet Experiment . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2017. 336 pp. $39.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐87580‐770‐6. Shore, Marci. The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. xxiii + 290 pp. $26.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐21868‐8. S ocial S ciences , C ontemporary R ussia , and O ther Travin, Dmitrii, Vladimir Gel'man, and Andrei Zaostrovtsev. Rossiiskii put': Idei, Interesy, Instituty, Illiuzii . St. Petersburg: European University of St. Petersburg Press, 2017. 304 pp. R3,100.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐5‐94380‐241‐6. Schlögel, Karl. Das Sowjetische Jahrhundert: Archäologie einer untergegangenen Welt . Munich: C. H. Beck, 2017. 912 pp. €38.00. ISBN 978‐3‐406‐71511‐2. Harris, Robin P. Storytelling in Siberia: The Olonkho Epic in a Changing World . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. xviii + 234 pp. $60.00. ISBN 978‐0‐252‐04128‐0. Shrayer, Maxim D. With or Without You: The Prospect for Jews in Today's Russia . Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2017. 99 pp. $19.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐61811‐659‐8. Zakharov, Nikolay. Race and Racism in Russia . Mapping Global Racisms. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. viii + 233 pp. $105.00. ISBN 978‐1‐137‐481119‐1. Miller, Chris. Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. xx + 217 pp. $28.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4696‐4066‐2. Buckley, Mary. The Politics of Unfree Labour in Russia: Human Trafficking and Labour Migration . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xviii+ 331 pp. £26.00. ISBN 978‐1‐108‐41270‐4. Schulze, Jennie L. Strategic Frames: Europe, Russia, and Minority Inclusion in Estonia and Latvia . Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. xxii + 394 pp. $31.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐822‐96511‐4. Eltchaninoff, Michel. Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin . Trans. James Ferguson. London: Hurst Publishers, 2018. viii + 195 pp. $19.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐84904‐933‐7. Monaghan, Andrew. Power in Modern Russia: Strategy and Mobilisation . Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. 112 pp. £9.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5261‐2641‐2. Douglas, Nadja. Public Control of Armed Forces in the Russian Federation . London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. xxi + 361 pp. $169.00. ISBN 978‐3‐319‐56383‐1. Galeotti, Mark. The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. xiii + 344pp. $28.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐18682‐6.