Book Reviews

L iterature and F ine A rts Ronner, Amy D. Dostoevsky as Suicidologist: Self‐Destruction and the Creative Process. Crosscurrents: Russian Literature in Context. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. xii + 341 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐1‐7936‐0781‐2. Hodge, Thomas. Hunting Nature: Ivan Turgenev and the Organic World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. 320 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐150‐175‐084‐7. Hurlt, E., and K. Tender. Izobilie i askeza v russkoi literature: Stolknoveniia, perekhody, sovpadeniia. Nauchnaia biblioteka. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2020. 376 pp. R336.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐1215‐0. Gratchev, Slav N., ed. The Poetics of the Avant‐garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. xii + 234 pp. $105.00. ISBN 978‐1‐7936‐1574‐9. Zotova, Yelena. Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia: Envy and Authorship in the 1920s. Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. xiv + 281 pp. £92.00. ISBN 978‐1‐7936‐0558‐0. Meyer, Priscilla. Nabokov and Indeterminacy: The Case of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2018. x + 188 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐3743‐1. Lipovetskii, M., and A. de Lia Fortel', eds. Vladimir Sharov: Po tu storonu istorii. Sbornik statei i materialov. Nauchnaia biblioteka. Moscow: Novoe literatunoe obozreniia, 2020. 704 pp. R900.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐1224‐2. Rulyova, Natasha. Joseph Brodsky and Collaborative Self‐Translation. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 216 pp. £ 90.00. ISBN 978‐1‐50‐136392‐4. Hicks, Jeremy. The Victory Banner over the Reichstag: Film, Document, and Ritual in Russia's Contested Memory of World War II. Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. xv + 285 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978‐0‐8229‐4650‐2. Majsova, Natalija. Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age: Memorable Futures. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. xxxvi + 219 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐1‐7396‐0931‐1. Blasing, Molly Thomasy. Snapshots of the Soul: Photo‐Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 328 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐5369‐5. H istory Steller, Georg Wilhelm. Eastbound through Siberia: Observations from the Great Northern Expedition. Translated and annotated by Margritt A. Engel and Karen E. Willmore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. xxv + 220 pp. $32.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐253‐04778‐6. Issiyeva, Adalyat. Representing Russia's Orient: From Ethnography to Art Song. AMS Studies in Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 432 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1900‐5136‐5. Hartley, Janet M. The Volga: A History of Russia's Greatest River. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 400 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐24564‐6. Arel, Maria Salomon. English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era: The Muscovy Company, 1603–1649. Empires and Entanglements in the Early Modern World. New York: Lexington Books, 2019. 362 pp. $121.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐5023‐9. Dysa, Kateryna. Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials: Volhynia, Podolia, and Ruthenia 17th–18th Centuries. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2020. x + 254 pp. $75.00. ISBN 978‐615‐5053‐11‐5. Halperin, Charles J. Ivan IV and Muscovy. Bloomington: Slavica, 2020. viii + 407 pp. $34.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐89357‐501‐4. Bushnell, John. Russian Peasant Bride Theft. Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe. New York: Routledge, 2021. 230 pp. $44.05 (e‐book). ISBN 978‐1‐003‐13206‐6. Bergman, Jay. The French Revolutionary Tradition in Russian and Soviet Politics, Political Thought, and Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 568 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐884270‐5. Marzek, Wiktor. Rising Subjects: The 1905 Revolution and the Origins of Modern Polish Politics. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. xv + 294 pp. $50.00. ISBN 978‐0‐8229‐4612‐0. Douds, Lara, James Harris, and Peter Whitewood, eds. The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution: Illiberal Liberation, 1917–41. Library of Modern Russia. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. x + 319 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978‐1350‐11789‐1. Daniel, Wallace L. Women of the Catacombs: Memoirs of the Underground Orthodox Church in Stalin's Russia. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 252 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐5440‐1. Fitzpatrick, Sheila. White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia. New York: Routledge, 2021. xiii + 355 pp. $160.00. ISBN 978‐1‐032‐01659‐7. Goff, Krista A. Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Caucasus. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2021. 336 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐1‐50‐175327‐5. Baberowski, Jörg. Der bedrohte Leviathan: Staat und Revolution in Rußland. Carl‐Schmitt‐Vorlesungen, Band 3. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2021. 126 pp. €26.90. ISBN 978‐3‐428‐18227‐3. Johnson, Ian Ona. Faustian Bargain: The Soviet‐German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. ix + 350 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐067514‐1. Iunge, Mark. Chekisty Stalina: Moshch’ i bessilie. “Berievskaia ottepel'” v Nikolaevskoi oblasti Ukrainy. Translated by Andrei Savin. Moscow: AIRO XXI, 2017. ii + 350 pp. ISBN 978‐5‐91022‐384‐8. Nakachi, Mie. Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xiv + 327 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐063513‐8. Galley, Mirjam. Building Communism and Policing Deviance in the Soviet Union: Residential Childcare, 1958–91. BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies. Philadelphia: Routledge, 2020. 240 pp. $160.00. ISBN 978‐0‐367‐69469‐2. Rowe, Lars. Industry, War and Stalin's Battle for Resources: The Arctic and the Environment. London: I. B. Tauris, 2021. 240 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978‐1‐7845‐3795‐1. Schlögel, Karl. The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow. Translated by Jessica Spengler. Boston: Polity Press, 2021. 220 pp. $25.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5095‐4659‐6. Plokhy, Serhii. Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. 464 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐393‐54081‐9. Orlov, I. B., and A. D. Popov. Olimpiiskii perepolokh: Zabytaia sovetskaia modernizatsiia. Moscow: Izdatel'skii dom Vysshei shkoly ekonomiki, 2020. 480 pp. R396.00 (e‐book). ISBN 978‐5‐7598‐2165‐6. Frank, Allen J. Gulag Miracles: Sufis and Stalinist Repression in Kazakhstan. Studies and Texts on Central Asia 2. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2019. 153 pp. €22.00. ISBN 978‐3‐7001‐8334‐1. Giusti, Maria Teresa. Stalin's Italian Prisoners of War. Translated by Riccardo James Vargiu. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2021. 388 pp. $95.00. ISBN 978‐963‐386‐355‐8. Miklashevskaya, Ludmila. Gender and Survival in Soviet Russia: A Life of Terror in the Shadow of Stalin's Terror. Edited and Translated by Elaine MacKinnon. Library of Modern Russia. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. xii + 267 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐13920‐6. Vincent, Mark. Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps, 1924–53. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. xiv + 221 pp. £76.50. ISBN 978‐1‐7883‐1189‐2. S ocial S ciences , C ontemporary R ussia , and O ther Stoner, Kathryn E. Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 344 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐086071‐4. Kochtcheeva, Lada V. Russian Politics and Response to Globalization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 250 pp. $84.99. ISBN 978‐3‐030‐39144‐7. Laruelle, Marlene. Is Russia Fascist? Unraveling Propaganda East and West. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 264 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐5413‐5. Tynkkynen, Veli‐Pekka. Energy of Russia: Hydrocarbon Culture and Climate Change. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019. 168 pp. $89.95. ISBN 978‐1‐78897‐859‐0. Gresh, Geoffrey F. To Rule Eurasia's Waves: The New Great Power Competition at Sea. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 376 pp. $40.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐23484‐8. Magyar, Bálint, and Bálint Madlovics. The Anatomy of Post‐Communist Regimes: A Conceptual Framework. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2020. xxvi + 808 pages. $125.00. ISBN 978‐963‐386‐371‐8.