ISSUE INFORMATION
Free Access The Russian Review Pages: 1-4 First Published: 25 February 2023
FOUND IN TRANSLATION
Specters of a Marxist: Boris Arvatov and His Art of Insubstantial Presence Serguei Alex. Oushakine Pages: 5-16 First Published: 30 January 2023
Laboratories for Organizing People: Selected Essays on Art and Byt Boris Arvatov Pages: 17-49 First Published: 30 January 2023
ARTICLES
Biopolitics and the Cinema of Extremes Daria Ezerova Pages: 50-67 First Published: 19 January 2023
Open Access Ethnography, Incongruity, History: Soviet Poetic Cinema Elizabeth A. Papazian Pages: 68-90 First Published: 22 January 2023
Gathering the Nation in the Village: Intellectuals and the Cultural Politics of Nationality in the Late Soviet Period Erin Hutchinson Pages: 91-112 First Published: 17 January 2023
Free Access Discipline Made Visible: Abram Room’s The Ghost That Never Returns and the Fantastic Origins of Foucault’s Panopticon Anne Nesbet Pages: 113-130 First Published: 23 January 2023
FEATURED REVIEWS
The Age of Revolution in Microhistory Paul W. Werth Pages: 131-134 First Published: 20 January 2023
Intimacy and Race in Late Soviet Central Asia Masha Kirasirova Pages: 135-137 First Published: 17 January 2023
BOOK REVIEWS
Literature and Fine Arts Freedom from Violence and Lies: Anton Chekhov’s Life and Writings By Michael C. Finke. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021, 256 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78914‐430‐7 Elizabeth F. Geballe Pages: 138-139 First Published: 23 January 2023
Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language By Julia Kristeva. Translated by Jody Gladding. Foreword by Rowan Williams. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022, xxvi + 67 pp. $20.00. ISBN 978‐0‐231‐20332‐6 Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover Pages: 140-141 First Published: 19 January 2023
Goncharov in the Twenty‐First Century By Ingrid Kleespies, Lyudmila Parts. Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021, xxviii + 234 pp. $109.00. ISBN 978‐1‐64469‐698‐9 Vadim Shneyder Pages: 142-14 First Published: 19 January 2023
The Politics of Realism By Thomas Docherty. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 288 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐22853‐5 Chloë Kitzinger Pages: 144-145 First Published: 30 January 2023
Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors: The Duvakin Interviews, 1967–1974 By Slav N. Gratchev, Margarita Marinova, Irina Evdokimova. Translated by Slav N. Gratchev and Margarita Marinova. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021, xii + 234 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4874‐2725‐9 Leonid Livak Pages: 146-147 First Published: 18 January 2023
Revolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography By Polly Jones. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, ix + 296 pp. $105.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐880434‐5 Megan Swift Pages: 148-149 First Published: 19 January 2023
Haunted Dreams: Fantasies of Adolescence in Post‐Soviet Culture By Jenny Kaminer. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022, xvi + 188 pp. $44.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6219‐2 Susanna Weygandt Pages: 150-151 First Published: 19 January 2023
History Kupchikhi, dvorianki, magnatki: Zhenshchiny predprinimatel'nitsy v Rossii XIX veka By Galina Ul'ianova. Chto takoe Rossiia. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2021, 352 pp. R480.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐1725‐4 Christine D. Worobec Pages: 152-153 First Published: 17 January 2023
Racism in Modern Russia: From the Romanovs to Putin By Eugene M. Avrutin. Russian Shorts. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 160 pp. $16.15 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐350‐09728‐5 Jeff Sahadeo Pages: 154-155 First Published: 19 January 2023
Russia in the Early Modern World: The Continuity of Change By Donald Ostrowski. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022, xiv + 559 pp. $155.00. ISBN 9781793634207 Eve Levin Pages: 156-157 First Published: 22 January 2023
Intimate Empire: The Mansurov Family in Russia and the Orthodox East, 1855–1936 By Alexa Von Winning. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 240 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐284441‐5 Lucien Frary Pages: 158-159 First Published: 19 January 2023
The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880–1936 By Charters Wynn. Historical Materialism Book Series 253. Leiden: Brill, 2022, x + 457 pp. $192.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐51496‐6 J. Arch Getty Pages: 160-161 First Published: 19 January 2023
Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union By Eliyana R. Adler. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020, 456 pp. $51.00. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐98802‐6 Natalie Belsky Pages: 162-163 First Published: 19 January 2023
The Art and Science of Making the New Soviet Man in Early 20th‐Century Russia By Yvonne Howell, Nikolai Krementsov. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, 296 pp. $103.50. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐23283‐9 Tim Harte Pages: 164-165 First Published: 20 January 2023
Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies By Alan Barenberg, Emily D. Johnson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022, 320 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐253‐05961‐1 Wilson T. Bell Pages: 166-167 First Published: 19 January 2023
The Soviet Suppression of Academia: The Case of Konstantin Azadovsky By Peter A. Druzhinin. Translated by Sarah Vitali. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 280 pp. $150.00. ISBN 978‐1‐3501‐3613‐7 Benjamin Tromly Pages: 168-169 First Published: 19 January 2023
The Whole World Was Watching: Sport in the Cold War By Robert Edelman, Christopher Young. Cold War International History Project Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020, 352 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5036‐1018‐7 Susan Grant Pages: 170-171 First Published: 19 January 2023
Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland By Juliane Fürst. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, xvii + 477 pp. $82.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐878832‐4 Courtney Doucette Pages: 172-173 First Published: 19 January 2023
News from Moscow: Soviet Journalism and the Limits of Postwar Reform By Simon Huxtable. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, 272 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1928‐5769‐9 Dina Fainberg Pages: 174-175 First Published: 17 January 2023
Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism By Susan Grant. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022, 336 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6259‐8 Benjamin Zajicek Pages: 176-177 First Published: 19 January 2023
Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and his Books By Geoffrey Roberts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022, viii + 259 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐17904‐0 David Brandenberger Pages: 178-179 First Published: 19 January 2023
Ayn Rand and the Russian Intelligentsia: The Origins of an Icon of the American Right By Derek Offord. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, xiii + 17 pp. $17.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐3502‐8394‐7 William B. Whisenhunt Pages: 180-181 First Published: 19 January 2023
Constructing Identities over Time: “Bad Gypsies” and “Good Roma” in Russia and Hungary By Jekatyerina Dunajeva. Critical Romani Studies. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2021, 223 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐963‐386‐415‐9 Steven Usitalo Pages: 182-183 First Published: 19 January 2023
Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century By Elena Fratto. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021, xii + 259 pp. $30.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐231‐20233‐6 Valeria Sobol Pages: 184-185 First Published: 21 January 2023
The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food By Darra Goldstein. California Studies in Food and Culture. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022, 200 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978‐0‐520‐38389‐0 Catriona Kelly Pages: 186-187 First Published: 19 January 2023
Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin‐de‐Siècle St. Petersburg By Olga Petri. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022, xx + 254 pp. $48.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6377‐9 Irina Roldugina Pages: 188-189 First Published: 17 January 2023
Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture By Edward Tyerman. Studies of the Harriman Institute of Columbia University. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022, xiv + 353 pp. $35.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐231‐19919‐3 Elizabeth McGuire Pages: 190-191 First Published: 19 January 2023
Family and the State in Soviet Lithuania: Gender, Law, and Society By Dalia Leinarte. Library of Modern Russia. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, 226 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐13609‐0 Mara Lazda Pages: 192-193 First Published: 22 January 2023
Die Panzergrenadierdivision “Großdeutschland” im Feldzug gegen die Sowjetunion 1942 bis 1945 By Ludger Tewes. Essen: Klartext, 2020, €59.95. 1,288 pp. ISBN 978‐3‐8375‐2089‐7 Andrey V. Ivanov Pages: 194-195 First Published: 17 January 2023
The Universe behind Barbed Wire: Memoirs of a Ukrainian Soviet Dissident By Myroslav Marynovych. Edited by Katherine Younger. Translated by Zoya Hayuk. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2021, 482 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐1‐58046‐981‐4 Joshua Rubenstein Pages: 196-197 First Published: 18 January 2023
Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia By Anastasia Shesterinina. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021, 258 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐5376‐3 Gerard Toal Pages: 198-199 First Published: 19 January 2023
Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and Other Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao By Torigian Joseph. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022, 312 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐25423‐5 Cheng Chen Pages: 200-201 First Published: 19 January 2023
On the Edge: Life along the Russia‐China Border By Franck Billé, Caroline Humphrey. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021, 400 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐97948‐2 Gregory Afinogenov Pages: 202-203 First Published: 19 January 2023
Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post‐Soviet Region By Scott Radnitz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, xx + 244 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐19‐757354‐9 Kiril Avramov Pages: 204-205 First Published: 22 January 2023
The Russian State and Russian Energy Companies, 1992–2018 By Ingerid M. Opdahl. New York: Routledge, 2020, 324 pp. $128.00. ISBN 978‐0‐815‐35405‐5 Tatiana Romanova Pages: 206-207 First Published: 19 January 2023
Oil in Putin's Russia: The Contests over Rents and Economic Policy By Adnan Vatansever. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021, 348 pp. $44.95. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐2281‐0 Michael De Groot Pages: 208-209 First Published: 19 January 2023