Book Reviews

L iterature and F ine A rts Givens, John. The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2018. 329 pp. $60.00. ISBN 978‐0‐87580‐779‐9. Helfant, Ian M. That Savage Gaze: Wolves in the Nineteenth‐Century Russian Imagination . Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018. 177 pp. $99.00. ISBN 978‐1‐6181‐1843‐1. Bergelson, David. Judgment: A Novel . Translated by Harriet Murav and Sasha Senderovich. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2017. xxxvii + 222 pp. $18.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐3591‐8. Rodgers, Michael. Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives . New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. xii + 176 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5013‐3957‐8. Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund. That Third Guy: A Comedy from the Stalinist 1930s, with Essays on Theater . Translated and edited by Alisa Ballard Lin. Foreword by Caryl Emerson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. xxii + 301 pp. $79.95. ISBN 978‐0‐299‐31710‐2. Arsenjuk, Luka. Movement, Action, Image, Montage: Sergei Eisenstein and the Cinema in Crisis . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. vii + 251 pp. $27.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5179‐0320‐6. Taroutina, Maria. The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo‐Byzantine Revival . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. xvi + 271 pp. $89.95. ISBN 978‐0‐271‐08104‐5. Minkova, Yuliya. Making Martyrs: The Language of Sacrifice in Russian Culture from Stalin to Putin . Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018. viii + 237 pp. $85.00. ISBN 978‐1‐58046‐914‐2. Khapaeva, Dina. The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. vii + 256 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐0‐472‐13026‐9. McQuillen, Colleen, and Julia Vaingurt, eds. The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Russia . Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018. viii + 268 pp. $119.00. ISBN 978‐1‐6181‐1732‐8. H istory Grinev, Andrei Val'terovich. Russian Colonization of Alaska: Preconditions, Discovery, and Initial Development, 1741–1799 . Translated by Richard L. Bland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2018. xvi + 328 pp. $70.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4962‐0762‐3. Gerasimov, Ilya. Plebeian Modernity: Social Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia 1906–1916 . Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018. xii + 275 pp. $70.00. ISBN 978‐1‐58046‐905‐0. Le Blanc, Paul. October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy, 1917–1924 . Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017. xvii + 479 pp. $27.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐60846‐848‐5. Douds, Lara. Inside Lenin's Government: Ideology, Power, and Practice in the Early Soviet State . London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. viii + 228 pp. $114.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4742‐8670‐1. Harry, Elizabeth A. Permanent Revolution: A Study of the Early Soviet State . Minnesota Mediterranean and East European Monographs XXII. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. xvii + 301 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐9791218‐8‐3. Cameron, Sarah. The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. xiv +77 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐3043‐6. Velikanova, Olga. Mass Political Culture under Stalinism: Popular Discussion of the Soviet Constitution of 1936 . Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. xv + 260 pp. $109.00. ISBN 978‐3‐319‐78422‐7. Enstad, Johannes Due. Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II . New Studies in European History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xviii + 255 pp. $99.99. ISBN 978‐1‐108‐42126‐3. Pinskii, Anatolii, ed. Posle Stalina: Pozdnesovetskaia sub“ektivnost' (1953–1985) . St. Petersburg: Izdatel'stvo Evropeiskogo universiteta v Sankt‐Peterburge, 2018. 454 pp. R460.00. ISBN 978‐5‐94380‐242‐3. Kohonen, Ilina. Picturing the Cosmos: A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor . Bristol: Intellect, 2017. 132 pp. £27.50 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐783‐20742‐8. Iunakov, Oleg. Arkhitektor Iosif Karakis: Zhizn', tvorchestvo i sud'ba . New York: “Almaz,” 2016. 544 pp. $49.00. ISBN 978‐1‐68082‐000‐3. Malik, Hassan. Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. xx + 296 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐69117‐016‐9. Pomeranz, William E. Law and the Russian State: Russia's Legal Evolution from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin . The Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. x + 228 pp. $114.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4724‐2422‐2. Bailey, Anna L. Politics under the Influence: Vodka and Public Policy in Putin's Russia . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. xi + 247 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐2440‐4. S ocial S ciences , C ontemporary R ussia , and O ther Balci, Bayram. Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus since the Fall of the Soviet Union . Translated by Gregory Elliott. Introduction by Olivier Roy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. ix + 248 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐091727‐2. Ohanyan, Anna, ed. Russia Abroad: Driving Regional Fracture in Post‐Communist Eurasia and Beyond . Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2018. viii + 220 pp. $36.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐62616‐620‐2. De La Pedraja, Rene. The Russian Military Resurgence: Post‐Soviet Decline and Rebuilding, 1992–2018 . Jefferson, NC: McFarland Books, 2019. x + 382 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4766‐6991‐5. Trudolyubov, Maxim. The Tragedy of Property: Private Life, Ownership and the Russian State . Translated by Arch Tait. Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 2018. xii + 237 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐509‐52701‐4. Robinson, Neil. Contemporary Russian Politics: An Introduction . Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2018. xiv + 290 pp. $28.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐7456‐3137‐0. Renz, Bettina. Russia's Military Revival . Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 2018. 240 pp. $64.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5095‐1614‐8. Huskey, Eugene. Encounters at the Edge of the Muslim World: A Political Memoir of Kyrgyzstan . Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. xiii + 251 pp. $68.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5381‐1707‐1.