Articles
The Technique of Verbalizing: Anatoly Vasiliev and His Theater of Dissonant Dialogues E. Susanna Weygandt Pages: 215–231
Aesthetic Republicanism in Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony Boris Maslov, Paulo Brito Pages: 232–247
Transferring Jerusalem to Moscow: Maksim Grek’s Letter and Its Afterlife Justin Willson, Ashley Morse Pages: 248–262
Drunkenness and Disorder in the Imperial Russian Army Alison K. Smith Pages: 263–276
Listening to the Soviet Union’s “Silent” Majority: The Evasion of Labor Obligations on the Home Front, 1941–45 Oleg Khlevniuk Pages: 277–291
From Enemy to Hero: Andrei Krems and the Legacy of Stalinist Repression in Russia’s Far North, 1964–82 Tyler C. Kirk Pages: 292–306
Review Essays
Co‐temporality and Sovremennost': Late Imperial and Early Soviet Photographs Jessica Werneke Pages: 307–313
Pigs, Wheat, Whales, and other Nonhumans in Russia and the Soviet Union Douglas Rogers Pages: 314–319
Featured Reviews
Antisemitic Violence of the Russian Civil War and Its Legacy in the Soviet Union Sasha Senderovich Pages: 320–322
The Earthly and the Cosmic in Twentieth‐Century Siberia Katja Bruisch Pages: 323–326
Book Reviews
Literature and Fine Arts Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century by Gabriella Safran. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. 300 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6632‐9. Matthew Kendall Pages: 327–328
Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic by Katherine Bowers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. xvi + 241 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐2692‐4. Bella Grigoryan Pages: 329–330
Writing History in Late Imperial Russia: Scholarship and the Literary Canon by Frances Nethercott. Library of Modern Russia. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. x + 280 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐3501‐3040‐1. Kevin M. F. Platt Pages: 331–332
The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia by Anna Schur. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2022. xii + 224 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐4493‐4. Brian Armstrong Pages: 333–334
Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children’s Literature by Ainsley Morse. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2021. xiii + 251 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐4327‐2. Andrea Lanoux Pages: 335–336
Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin by Anna Toropova. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xv + 257 pp. $88.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐883109‐9. Stephen M. Norris Pages: 337–338
Esfir Shub: Pioneer of Documentary Filmmaking by Ilana Sharp. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 344 pp. $130.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5013‐7651‐1. Anastasia Kostina Pages: 339–340
Wandering in Circles: Venichka’s Journey of Redemption in “Moskva‐Petushki” by Jill Martiniuk. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021. 182 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐1‐64469‐729‐0. Pavel Khazanov Pages: 341–342
Sounds Beyond: Arvo Pärt and the 1970s Soviet Underground by Kevin C. Karnes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. xii + 193 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐226‐80190‐2. Maria Cizmic Pages: 343–344
Underground Modernity: Urban Poetics in East‐Central Europe, Pre‐ and Post‐1989 by Alfrun Kliems. Translated by Jake Schneider. Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East‐Central Europe. Budapest: Central European University Press. 2021. 340 pp. $85.00. ISBN 978‐963‐386‐397‐8. Ainsley Morse Pages: 345–346
The Origins of Russian Literary Theory: Folklore, Philology, Form by Jessica Merrill. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. 2022. 312 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐4490‐3. Basil Lvoff Pages: 347–348
The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry: Performance and Recording after World War II by Aleksandra Kremer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 376 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐26111‐2. Łukasz Wodzyński Pages: 349–350
History
The Tsar’s Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia’s Rulers, 1495–1745 by Russell E. Martin. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 378 pp. $59.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐5484‐5. Valerie Kivelson Pages: 351–352
Russian Colonization of Alaska: From Heyday to Sale, 1818–1867 by Andrei Val'terovich Grinev. Translated by Richard L. Bland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. xi + 415 pp. $70.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4962‐2217‐6. Katherine L. Arndt Pages: 353–354
On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia by Jennifer Keating. Oxford Studies in Modern European History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 272 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1928‐5525‐1. John B. Seitz Pages: 355–356
Chaadaevskoe delo: Ideologiia, ritorika i gosudarstvennaia vlast' v nikolaevskoi Rossii by Mikhail Velizhev. Intellektual'naia istoriia. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2022. 392 pp. ₽840.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐1852‐7. Victoria Frede Pages: 357–358
Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union by Christina E. Crawford. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. 424 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐5919‐2. Katherine Zubovich Pages: 359–360
State Laughter: Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture by Evgeny Dobrenko and Natalia Jonsson‐Skradol. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 448 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐884041‐1. Olga Mesropova Pages: 361–362
Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty by Mark G. Pomar. Lincoln: Potomac Books, 2022. 344 pp. $28.60. ISBN 978‐1‐6401‐2514‐8. Gregory Mitrovich Pages: 363–364
Chronicle of the Left Hand: An American Black Family’s Story from Slavery to Russia’s Hollywood by James Lloydovich Patterson. Washington: New Academia Publishing, 2022. 192 pp. $24.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐8‐9852214‐1‐1. Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon Pages: 365–366
Land, Community, and the State in the Caucasus: Kabardino‐Balkaria from Tsarist Conquest to Post‐Soviet Politics by Ian Lanzillotti. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. xii + 313 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐13744‐8. Timothy Blauvelt Pages: 367–368
Storms over the Balkans during the Second World War by Alfred J. Alfred. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 320 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐285803‐0. Dimitar Bechev Pages: 369–370
Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus by Franziska Exeler. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. 360 pp. $35.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6273‐4. Anika Walke Pages: 371–372
Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR by Tricia Starks. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, 2022. 324 pp. $44.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6548‐3. Joshua First Pages: 373–374
To Make a Village Soviet: Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Transformation of a Postwar Ukrainian Borderland by Emily B. Baran. Toronto: McGill‐Queen’s University Press, 2022. 256 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐0‐2280‐1054‐8. Kathryn David Pages: 375–376
Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb by Togzhan Kassenova. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2022. 384 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5036‐2846‐5. Michael G. Stefany Pages: 377–378
Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan by Elisabeth Leake. London: Oxford University Press, 2022. 368 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978‐0‐1988‐4601‐7. Vassily A. Klimentov Pages: 379–380
Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and Other
Between Lenin and Bandera: Decommunization and Multivocality in Post‐Euromaidan Ukraine by Anna Kutkina. Soviet and Post‐Soviet Politics and Security, 231. Stuttgart: ibidem‐Verlag, 2021. xvii + 332 pp. $46.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐8382‐1506‐8. George O. Liber Pages: 381–382