Book Reviews

L iterature and F ine A rts Morris, Marcia A. Writing the Time of Troubles: False Dmitry in Russian Literature . Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018. 192pp. $99.00. ISBN 978‐1‐6181‐1863‐9. Batyushkov, Konstantin. Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry . Presented and Translated by Peter France. Russian Library. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. xiv + 239 pp. $19.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐231‐18541‐7. Bowers, Katherine, Connor Doak, and Kate Holland, eds. A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts . Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2018. 535 pp. $149.00. ISBN 978‐1‐6181‐1727‐4. Orwin, Donna Tussing. Simply Tolstoy . Great Lives. New York: Simply Charly, 2017. xviii + 121 pp. $7.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐943657‐16‐2. Lahti, Katherine. The Russian Revival of the Dithyramb: A Modernist Use of Antiquity . Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2018. vi + 374 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐3669‐4. Sinkó, Ervin. The Novel of a Novel: Abridged Diary Entries from Moscow, 1935–1937 . Edited and Translated by George Deák. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018. xxxvi + 343 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐4636‐2. Barskova, Polina, and Riccardo Nicolosi, eds. Blokadnye narrativy: Sbornik statei . Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2017. 336 pp. R336.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐0667‐8. Berggolts, Olga. Daytime Stars: A Poet's Memoir of the Revolution, the Siege of Leningrad, and the Thaw . Translated and edited by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum. Foreword by Katharine Hodgson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. xxv + 198 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978‐0‐299‐31600‐6. Bartig, Kevin. Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky . Oxford Keynotes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xii + 161 pp. $14.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐19‐026957‐9. Polyudova, Elena. Soviet War Songs in the Context of Russian Culture . Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. × + 239 pp. £47.99. ISBN 978‐1‐4438‐8888‐2. Bethea, David M., and Siggy Frank, eds. Vladimir Nabokov in Context . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvi + 320 pp. $99.99. ISBN 987‐1‐107‐10864‐6. Parts, Lyudmila. In Search of the True Russia: The Provinces in Contemporary Nationalist Discourse . Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. xiv + 200 pp. $69.95. ISBN: 978‐0299‐31760‐7. H istory Raffensperger, Christian. Conflicts, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe . Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018. xiv + 223 pp. $95.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐6852‐4. Rakhimzianov, Bulat Raimovich. Moskva i tatarskii mir: Sotrudnichestvo i protivostoianie v epokhu peremen, XV–XVI vv . St. Petersburg: Evraziia, 2016. 396 pp. ISBN 978‐5‐91852‐155‐7. Gorshkov, Boris B. Peasants in Russia from Serfdom to Stalin: Accommodation, Survival, Resistance . The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. xiv + 236pp. $114.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4742‐5481‐6. Kozelsky, Mara. Crimea in War and Transformation . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xii + 280 pp. $74.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐064471‐0. Andreyev, Alexandre, Mikhail Baskhanov, and Tatiana Yusupova. The Quest for Forbidden Lands: Nikolai Przhevalskii and his Followers on Inner Asian Tracks . Eurasian Studies Library, Vol. 10. Leiden: Brill, 2018. 392 + xviii pp. $159.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐30398‐0. Gorovits, Braian [Brian Horowitz]. Evreiskie intellektualy Rossiiskoi imperii: XIX–nachalo XX vv . Translated by Iurii Tabak. Moscow: Tri Kvadrata, 2017. 368 pp. ISBN 978‐5‐94607‐217‐5. White, James D. Marx and Russia: The Fate of a Doctrine . The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. viii+226 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐1‐4742‐2406‐2. Paert, Irina, ed. Pravoslavie v Pribaltike: Religiia, politika, obrazovanie 1840‐e–1930‐e gg . Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2018. 527 pp. €20.00. ISBN 978‐9949‐77‐679‐5. Perović, Jeronim. From Conquest to Deportation: The North Caucasus under Russian Rule . New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xxiv + 466 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐0‐190‐88989‐0. Zhuk, Sergei I. Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR: Peoples Diplomacy in the Cold War . Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. xviii + 275 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐5124‐3 Zhuk, Sergei I. Soviet Americana: The Cultural History of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists . London: I. B. Tauris, 2018. xxvi + 323 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐1‐784‐53910‐8. Altstadt, Audrey. The Politics of Culture in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1920–1940 . New York: Routledge, 2016. xxii + 234 pp. $128.00. ISBN 978‐1‐138‐63900‐3. Clement, Victoria. Learning to Become Turkmen: Literacy, Language, and Power, 1914–2014 . Central Eurasia in Context. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. xii + 259 pp. $28.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8229‐6463‐6. Kalinovsky, Artemy M. Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan . Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2018. xiii + 306 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐50171‐556‐3. Westrate, Michael T. Living Soviet in Ukraine from Stalin to Maidan: Under the Falling Red Star in Kharkiv . Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016. xx +229 pp. $85.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐2340‐0. S ocial S ciences , C ontemporary R ussia , and O ther Tlostanova, Madina. What Does It Mean to Be Post‐Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire . Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. viii + 145pp. $22.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8223‐7124‐4. Laruelle, Marlene, and Jean Radvanyi. Understanding Russia: The Challenges of Transformation . Lantham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019. vi + 171 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5381‐1485‐8. Zweynert, Joachim. When Ideas Fail: Economic Thought, the Failure of Transition and the Rise of Institutional Instability in Post‐Soviet Russia . Routledge Studies in the European Economy. New York: Routledge, 2018. 144 pp. $112.00. ISBN 978‐1‐138‐55927‐1. Matza, Thomas. Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well‐Being in Postsocialist Russia . Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. xx + 305 pp. $26.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8223‐7076‐5. Aleksashenko, Sergey. Putin's Counterrevolution . Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2018. 220 pp. $37.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐81573‐276‐1. Taylor, Brian D. The Code of Putinism . New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiv + 250 pp. $27.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐1908‐6732‐4. Slavtcheva‐Petkova, Vera. Russia's Liberal Media: Handcuffed but Free . Routledge Research in Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2018. 222 pp. $150.00. ISBN 978‐1‐1382‐3728‐5. Moser, Nat. Oil and the Economy of Russia: From the Late‐Tsarist to the Post‐Soviet Period . London: Routledge, 2017. 190 pp. $170.00. ISBN 978‐1‐138‐24287‐6. Connolly, Richard. Russia's Response to Sanctions: How Western Economic Statecraft Is Reshaping Political Economy in Russia . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvi + 227 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978‐1‐108‐41502‐6. Zilinskas, Raymond A., and Philippe Mauger. Biosecurity in Putin's Russia . Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2018. × + 385 pp. $89.95. ISBN 978‐1‐62637‐698‐4. Caldwell, Melissa. Living Faithfully in an Unjust World: Compassionate Care in Russia . Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xviii + 260 pp. $85.00. ISBN 978‐0‐520‐28583‐5.