Book Reviews

L iterature and F ine A rts Silverman, Marissa. Gregory Haimovsky: A Pianist's Odyssey to Freedom . Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018. x + 256 pp. $99.00. ISBN 978‐1‐58046‐931‐9. Zenkin, Konstantin. Music – Eidos – Time: Aleksey Losev and Scope of Contemporary Discipline of Music . Moscow: Progress‐Tradition, 2018. 530 pp. ISBN 978‐5‐8926‐573‐1. Fairclough, Pauline. Classics for the Masses: Shaping Soviet Musical Identity under Lenin and Stalin . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 296 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978‐0‐3002‐1719‐3. Khitrova, Daria. Lyric Complicity: Poetry and Readers in the Golden Age of Russian Literature . Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2019. x + 296 pp. $79.95. ISBN 978‐0‐299‐32210‐6. Shemetova, Tat'iana. Pushkin v russkoi literature XX veka: Ot Akhmatovoi do Brodskogo . Moscow: Izdatel'skie resheniia, 2017. 324 pp. ISBN 978‐5‐4485‐0872‐1. Knapp, Liza. Leo Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xxii + 146 pp. $11.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐881393‐4. Vidugirytė, Inga. Gogol and the Geographical Imagination of Romanticism . Translated by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler. Vilnius: Vilnius University Press, 2018. 276 pages. £35.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐609‐459‐945‐3. Blake, Elizabeth A., ed. Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia: Encounters with Polish Literary Exiles . Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019. 226 pp. $35.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐6446‐9021‐5. Romberg, Kristin. Gan's Constructivism: Aesthetic Theory for an Embedded Modernism . Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. x + 297 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐0‐5202‐9853‐8. Mihailovic, Alexander. The Mitki and the Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia . Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. xviii + 254 pp. $79.95. ISBN 978‐0‐299‐31490‐3. Gratchev, Slav N., and Margarita Marinova, eds. Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973 . Translated by Margarita Marnova. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019. viii + 332 pp. $19.95. ISBN 978‐1‐68448‐090‐6. Drieu, Cloé. Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan, 1919–1937 . Translated by Adrian Morfee. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018. xvi + 296 pp. $42.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐253‐03784‐8. Neuberger, Joan. This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xxi + 404 pp. $48.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐3276‐8. Mancosu, Paolo. Moscow Has Ears Everywhere: New Investigations on Pasternak and Ivinskaya . Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2019. xxiv + 266 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978‐0‐8179‐2244‐3. Kamovnikova, Natalia. Made under Pressure: Literary Translation in the Soviet Union, 1960–1991 . Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019. xiv + 272 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐1‐62534‐341‐3. Rutten, Ellen. Sincerity after Communism: A Cultural History . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. xiv + 271 pp. $40.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐21398‐0. H istory Pollock, Ethan. Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse . New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. x + 360 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978‐0‐1953‐9548‐8. Berezhnaya, Liliya, and Heidi Hein‐Kircher, eds. Rampart Nations: Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism . New Perspectives on Central and Eastern European Studies. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. vx + 406 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78920‐147‐5. Rekun, Michael. How Russia Lost Bulgaria, 1878–1886: Empire Unguided . Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. xxiv + 216 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐5963‐8. Riley, Alexander, and Alfred Kentingern Siewers, eds. The Totalitarian Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution . Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. xxxiv + 102 pp. $85.00. ISBN 978‐1‐7936‐0533‐7. Peterson, Maya K. Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia's Aral Sea Basin . Studies in Environment and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xxii + 399 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐1‐108‐47547‐1. Ruder, Cynthia. Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space . Library of Modern Russia. London: I. B. Tauris, 2018. xxii + 330 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78453‐947‐4. Hill, Alexander. The Red Army and the Second World War . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xviii + 738 pp. $19.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐107‐68815‐5. Bell, Wilson T. Stalin's Gulag at War: Forced Labour, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory in the Second World War . Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2019. xiv + 266 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐2309‐1. Zeltser, Arkadi. Unwelcome Memory: Holocaust Monuments in the Soviet Union . Jerusalem: Offset Natan Shlomo Press, 2018. 390 pp. $58.00. ISBN 978‐965‐308‐573‐2. Rebitschek, Immo. Die disziplinierte Diktatur: Stalinismus und Justiz in der sowjetischen Provinz, 1938 bis 1956 . Beiträge zur Geschichte Osteuropas, Band 51. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2018. 454 pp. $69.26. ISBN 978‐3‐4125‐1127‐2. Applebaum, Rachel. Empire of Friends: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xiv + 276 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐3557‐8. Magnúsdóttir, Rósa. Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945–1959 . New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii + 240 pp. $74.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐068146‐3. Nelson, Lawrence J., and Mathew G. Schoenbachler. Nikita Khrushchev's Journey into America . Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. xii +284 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978‐0‐7006‐2788‐2. Smolkin, Victoria. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. xviii + 339 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978‐0‐691‐17427‐3. Poole, Randall A., and Paul W. Werth, eds. Religious Freedom in Modern Russia . Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. 314 pp. $50.00. ISBN 978‐0‐8229‐4549‐9. S ocial S ciences , C ontemporary R ussia , and O ther Vasiliev, Alexei. Russia's Middle East Policy: From Lenin to Putin . Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series. New York: Routledge, 2018. 544 pp. $146.00. ISBN 978‐1‐1385‐6360‐5. Lagutina, Maria L. Russia's Arctic Policy in the Twenty‐First Century: National and International Dimensions . Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Politics. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. viii + 201 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐5157‐1. Hansen, Arve, Andrei Rogatchevski, Yngvar Steinholt, and David‐Emil Wickström. A War of Songs: Popular Music and Recent Russia‐Ukraine Relations . Soviet and Post‐Soviet Politics and Society 203. Stuttgart: Ibidem‐verlag, 2019. 247 pp. $40.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐83821‐173‐2. Surzhko‐Harned, Lena, and Ekaterina Turkina. Post‐Soviet Legacies and Conflicting Values in Europe: Generation WhY . Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Politics. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. xxiv + 144 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐3197‐9. Kurilla, Ivan. Zakliatye druz'ia: Istoria mnenii, fantazii, kontaktov, vzaimo(ne)ponimaniia Rossii i SShA . Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2018. 424 pp. R300.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐0718‐7. Tsygankov, Andrei P. The Dark Double: U.S. Media, Russia, and the Politics of Values . New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xviii + 160 pp. $27.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐19‐091934‐4. Giles, Keir. Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West . Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2018. 240 pp. $34.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8157‐3574‐8. Yablokov, Ilya. Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in Post‐Soviet Russia . Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 2018. ix + 232 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5095‐2266‐8. Borenstein, Eliot. Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xviii + 288 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐3577‐6. Yavlinsky, Grigory. The Putin System: An Opposing View . New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xxiv + 231 pp. $28.00. ISBN 978‐0‐231‐19030‐5. Greene, Samuel A., and Graeme B. Robertson. Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. viii +287 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐23839‐6. Krasheninnikov, Pavel. The 12 Apostles of Russian Law: Lawyers Who Changed Law, State and Society . Translated from the Russian by Christopher Culver. London: Glagoslav Publications Ltd., 2019. 164 pp. €19.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐911414‐93‐3. Bogomił, Zuzanna. Gulag Memories: The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia's Repressive Past . Translated by Philip Palmer. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. x + 238 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78533‐927. Schiffauer, Leonie. Marketing Hope: Get‐Rich‐Quick Schemes in Siberia . New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. $120.00. 186 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐78920‐012‐6. Åslund, Anders. Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. x + 326 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐24309‐3. Bernstein, Anya. The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia . Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xviii + 272 pp. $22.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐691‐18260‐5.