Book Reviews

L iterature and F ine A rts Coker, Adam. Russia's French Connection: A History of the Lasting French Imprint on Russian Culture . New York: Routledge, 2020. 360 pp. $43.16 (e‐book). ISBN 978‐1‐0030‐1123‐1. Wanner, Adrian. The Bilingual Muse: Self‐Translation among Russian Poets . Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020. 240 pp. $39.95 (e‐book). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐4125‐4. Matzner‐Gore, Greta. Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form: Suspense, Closure, Minor Characters . Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020. ix + 147 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐4199‐5. Rylkova, Galina. Breaking Free from Death: The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer . Brookline: Academic Studies Press, 2020. 204 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐1‐6446‐9264‐6. Beasley, Rebecca. Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, 1881–1922 . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xvi + 533 pp. $105.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1988‐0212‐9. Condee, Nancy, Alexander Prokhorov, and Elena Prokhorova, eds. Cinemasaurus: Russian Film in Contemporary Context . Film and Media Studies. Brookline: Academic Studies Press. 310 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐1‐6446‐9270‐7. H istory Rosik, Stanisław. The Slavic Religion in the Light of 11 th ‐ and 12 th ‐Century German Chronicles (Thietmar of Merseburg, Adam of Bremen, Helmold of Bosau). Studies on the Christian Interpretation of pre‐Christian Cults and Beliefs in the Middle Ages . Translated by Anna Tyszkiewicz. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, vol. 60. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 390 pp. $153.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐33148‐8. Manchester, L., and D. A. Sdvizhkov, eds. Vera i lichnost’ v meniaiushchemsia obshchestve: Avtobiografika i pravoslavie v Rossii kontsa XVII–nachala XX veka . Historica Rossica. Studia Europaea. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2019. 408 pp. R360.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐1138‐2. Bailey, Heather L. The Public Image of Eastern Orthodoxy . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. 312 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐4951‐3. Rohdewald, Stefan, Stephan Conermann, and Albrecht Fuess, eds. Transottomanica—Osteuropäisch‐osmanisch‐persische Mobilitätsdynamiken: Perspektiven und Forschungsstand . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. 280 pp. €40.00. ISBN 978‐3‐8471‐0886‐3. Bellows, Amanda Brickell. American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post‐Emancipation Imagination . Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 320 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4696‐5553‐6. Zaretsky, Robert. Catherine and Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. 258 pp. $27.95. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐73790‐7. Horowitz, Brian. Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years, 1900–1925 . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. 290 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐2530‐4768‐7. Linkhoeva, Tatiana. Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism . Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. xii + 281 pp. $27.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐4808‐0. Lee, Eric. Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April–May 1945 . Barnsley: Greenhill Books, 2020. 323 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐1‐7843‐8468‐5. Edele, Mark. Debates on Stalinism . Issues in Historiography. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 312 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978‐1‐7849‐9431‐0. Soldatov, Andrei, and Irina Borogan. The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Emigres, and Agents Abroad . New York: Public Affairs, 2019. 361 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5417‐3016‐8. S ocial S ciences , C ontemporary R ussia, and O ther Bennich‐Björkman, Li, and Sergiy Kurbatov, eds. When the Future Came: The Collapse of the USSR and the Emergence of National Memory in Post‐Soviet History Textbooks . Soviet and Post‐Soviet Politics and Society 211. Hanover: Ibidem‐verlag, 2019. 195 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐3‐8382‐7335‐8. Brown, Archie. The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xi + 501 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1987‐4870‐0. Lewis, David G. Russia's New Authoritarianism: Putin and the Politics of Order . Edinburgh University Press, 2020. 334 pp. £85.00. IBSN 978‐1‐4744‐5476‐6. Koesel, Karrie, Valerie Bunce, and Jessica Weiss, eds. Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing China and Russia . New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 336 pp. $31.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐1900‐9349‐5. Lovotti, Chiara, Eleonara Tarfuro Ambrosetti, Christopher Hartwell, and Alexandra Chmielewska, eds. Russia in the Middle East and North Africa: Continuity and Change . Europa Regional Perspectives. Philadelphia: Routledge, 2020. 188 pp. $139.50 (e‐book). ISBN 978‐0‐4292‐8623‐0. Hryb, Olexander. Understanding Contemporary Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism: The Post‐Soviet Cossack Revival and Ukraine's National Security . Ukrainian Voices, vol. 2. Stuttgart: ibidem‐Verlag, 2020. 320 pp. $40.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐8382‐1377‐4. Johnsson, Oscar. The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace . Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2019. 200pp. $98.95. ISBN 978‐1‐6261‐6733‐9. Jasper, Scott. Russian Cyber Operations: Coding the Boundaries of Conflict . Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2020. 232 pp. $32.95. ISBN 978‐1‐6261‐6797‐1. Habeck, Joachim Otto, ed. Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North . Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2019. xix + 465 pp. £25.95. ISBN 978‐1‐78374‐717‐7.