Book Reviews

L iterature and F ine A rts Brooks, Jeffrey. The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under the Tsars and Bolsheviks . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xvii + 330 pp. $39.99. ISBN 978‐1‐108‐48446‐6. Frank, Joseph. Lectures on Dostoevsky . Edited by Marina Brodskaya and Marguerite Frank. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. xxv + 227 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐0‐691‐17896‐7. Wozniuk, Vladimir, ed. and trans. The Karamazov Correspondence: Letters of Vladimir S. Soloviev . Brookline: Academic Studies Press, 2019. 388 pp. $129.00. ISBN 978‐1‐64469‐053‐6. Lounsbery, Anne. Life is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 . Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, 2019. xii + 344 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐4792‐2. Hasty, Olga. How Women Must Write: Inventing the Russian Woman Poet . Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020. xiv + 227 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐4093‐6. Seinen, Nathan. Prokofiev's Soviet Operas . Music since 1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xiv + 255 pp. $99.99. ISBN 978‐1‐107‐08878‐8. Toker, Leona. Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontextual Reading . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. $39.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐253‐04353‐5. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. The Red Wheel. Node III: March 1917, Book 2 . Translated by Marian Schwartz. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019. 728 pp. $39.00. ISBN 978‐0‐2681‐0685‐0. Shvabrin, Stanislav. Between Rhyme and Reason: Vladimir Nabokov, Translation, and Dialogue . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. xv + 419pp. $75.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0299‐7. Flynn, Molly. Witness Onstage: Documentary Theatre in Twenty‐first Century Russia . Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. 200 pp. $120.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐5261‐2619‐1. Lépinay, Vincent Antonin. Art of Memories: Curating at the Hermitage . New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xiv + 273 pp. $30.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐231‐19189‐0. H istory Goff, Krista A., and Lewis H. Siegelbaum, eds. Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xiv + 266 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐3613‐1. Afinogenov, Gregory. Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia's Quest for World Power . Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. xii + 367 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978‐0‐6742‐4185‐5. Reese, Roger R. The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917 . Modern War Studies. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. xviii + 494 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978‐0‐7006‐2860‐5. Freeze, Chaeran Y. A Jewish Woman of Distinction: The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova . The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2019. xvi + 397 pp. $29.99 (paper). ISBN 987‐1‐68458‐001‐9. McGeever, Brendan. Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xi + 247 pp. $99.99. ISBN 978‐1‐107‐19599‐8. Lindenmeyr, Adele. Citizen Countess: Sofia Panina and the Fate of Revolutionary Russia . Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019. xviii + 386 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐299‐32530‐5. Allen, Barbara C., ed. Leaflets of the Russian Revolution: Socialist Organizing in 1917 . Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2019. xiv + 154 pp. $13.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1 60846‐970‐3. Gross, Gerhard P., ed. The Forgotten Front: The Eastern Theater of World War I, 1914–1915 . Translated by Janice W. Ancker. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2018. x + 388 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978‐0‐8131‐7541‐6. Stone, David R. The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914–1917 . Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015. viii + 359 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978‐0‐7006‐2095‐1. Gerasimov, V. V., ed. Vooruzhennye sily Rossii v Pervoi mirovoi voine (1914–1917) . 2 vols. Moscow: Megapolis, 2014. 744 and 786 pp. ISBN 978‐5‐9906160‐0‐4 (vol. 1), ISBN 978‐5‐9906160‐1‐1 (vol. 2). Sdvizhkov, Igor'. Prelude to Stalingrad. The Red Army's Attempt to Derail the German Drive to the Caucasus in World War II . Edited and Translated by Stuart Britton. Lanham: Stackpole Books, 2019. 420pp. £15.95. ISBN 978‐0‐8117‐3866‐8. Fraser, Erica L. Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. xiv + 252 pp. $48.74. ISBN 978‐1‐4426‐3720‐7. Boterbloem, Kees, ed. Life in Stalin's Soviet Union . London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. xii + 247 pp. $31.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐4742‐8552‐0. Reich, Rebecca. State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent after Stalin . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2018. 280 pp. $60.00. ISBN 978‐0‐87580‐775‐1. Sahadeo, Jeff. Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 288 pp. $42.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐3820‐3. Lebina, Nataliia. Passazhiry kolbasnogo poezda: Etiudy k kartine byta rossiiskogo goroda: 1917–1991 . Kul'tura povsednevnosti. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2019. 584 pp. $22.95. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐0948‐8. Rogacheva, Maria A. Soviet Scientists Remember: Oral Histories of the Cold War Generation . Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. xxii + 177 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐7434‐1. S ocial S ciences , C ontemporary R ussia , and O ther Trenin, Dmitri. Russia . New York: Polity Books, 2019. 200 pp. $59.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5095‐2766‐3. Robinson, Paul. Russian Conservatism . Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, 2019. vii + 288 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐4734‐2. Kim, Oksana. The Development and Challenges of Russian Corporate Governance I: The Roles and Functions of Boards of Directors . Soviet and Post‐Soviet Politics and Society 198. Stuttgart: ibidem‐Verlag, 2019. 182 pp. $35.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐83821‐287‐6. Henderson, James, and Arild Moe. The Globalization of Russian Gas: Political and Commercial Catalysts . Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019. 200 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78990‐037‐8. Gustafson, Thane. The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. 520 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐6749‐8795‐1. Salzman, Rachel S. Russia, BRICS, and the Disruption of Global Order . Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2019. xxii + 173 pp. $32.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐6261‐6661‐5. Sundstrom, Lisa McIntosh, Valerie Sperling, and Melike Sayoglu, Melike. Courting Gender Justice: Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights . New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xvii + 287 pp. $85.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1909‐3283‐1. D'Anieri, Paul. Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xi + 282 pp. $29.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐108‐71395‐5. Maksimovtsova, Ksenia. Language Conflicts in Contemporary Estonia, Latvia, and Ukraine: A Comparative Exploration of Discourses in Post‐Soviet Russian‐Language Digital Media . Soviet and Post‐Soviet Politics and Society 205. Stuttgart: ibidem‐Verlag, 2019. 507 pp. $60.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐83821‐282‐1. Burghart, Daniel L., and Theresa Sabonis‐Helf, eds. Central Asia in the Era of Sovereignty: The Return of Tamerlane ? Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. xxii + 521 pp. $49.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐7268‐2. Laruelle, Marlene, ed. The Nazarbayev Generation: Youth in Kazakhstan . Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. vi + 335 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐7936‐0913‐7.