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Literature and Fine ArtsFusso, Susanne. Editing Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy: Mikhail Katkov and the Great Russian Novel.Rosenshield, Gary. Physical Pain and Justice: Greek Tragedy and the Russian Novel.Shevelenko, Irina. Modernizm kak arkhaizm: Natsionalizm i poiski modernistskoi estetiki v Rossii.Iliazd. Rapture. Translated by Thomas J. Kitson.Babel, Isaac. The Essential Fictions. Edited and translated by Val Vinokur.Proffer Teasley, Elendea. Brodsky among Us: A Memoir.Smola, Klavdia, and Dirk Uffelman, eds. Postcolonial Slavic Literatures after Communism.Ågren, Mattias. Phantoms of a Future Past: A Study of Contemporary Russian Anti‐Utopian Novels.Oukaderova, Lida. The Cinema of the Soviet Thaw: Space, Materiality, Movement.Guynn, William. Unspeakable Histories: Film and the Experience of Catastrophe.Strukov, Vlad. Contemporary Russian Cinema: Symbols of a New Era.Wolf, Erika. Aleksandr Zhitomirsky: Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War.Crone, Anna Lisa. Collected Writings, Vol. 1, Poetry.Crone, Anna Lisa. Collected Writings, Vol. 2, Rozanov and Philosophical Literature.Crone, Anna Lisa. Collected Writings, Vol. 3, Collaborations, Prose Studies, and Other Works.HistoryKollmann, Nancy Shields. The Russian Empire 1450–1801.Kivelson, Valerie A., and Ronald Grigory Suny. Russia's Empires.Plokhy, Serhii. Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation from 1470 to the Present.Coţofană, Alexandra, and James M. Nyce, eds. Religion and Magic in Socialist and Post‐Socialist Contexts I: Historic and Ethnographic Case Studies of Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Alternative Spirituality.Magocsi, Paul Robert. Carpathian Rus': A Historical Atlas.Avrutin, Eugene M. The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian TownKaplan, Vera. Historians and Historical Societies in the Public Life of Imperial Russia.Henderson, Robert. Vladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for a Free Russia: A Revolutionary in the Time of Tsarism and Bolshevism.Chernev, Borislav. Twilight of Empire. The Brest‐Litovsk Conference and the Remaking of East‐Central Europe, 1917–1918.Eisfeld, Alfred, Guido Hausmann, and Dietmar Neutatz, eds. Hungersnöte in Russland und in der Sowjetunion 1891–1947: Regionale, ethnische und konfessionelle Aspekte.Glebov, Sergey. From Empire to Eurasia: Politics, Scholarship, and Ideology in Russian Eurasianism, 1920s–1930s.Peri, Alexis. The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad.Sloin, Andrew. The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power.Shternshis, Anna. When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin.Fürst, Juliane, and Josie McLellan, eds. Dropping Out of Socialism: The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc.Roberts, Graham H., ed. Material Culture in Russia and the USSR: Things, Values, Identities.Plokhy, Serhii, ed. The Future of the Past: New Perspectives on Ukrainian History.Weiss‐Wendt, Anton. The Soviet Union and the Gutting of the UN Genocide Convention.Besemeres, John. A Difficult Neighborhood: Essays on Russia and East‐Central Europe since World War II.Altayli. Enver. A Dark Path to Freedom: Ruzi Nazar, from the Red Army to the CIA. Translated by David Barchard.Keefer, Edward C. Harold Brown: Offsetting the Soviet Military Challenge, 1977–1981. Secretaries of Defense Historical Series, Vol. 9. Edited by Erin R. Mahan.Zhuk, Sergei I. Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR: People's Diplomacy in the Cold War.Savranskaya, Svetlana, and Thomas Blanton. The Last Superpower Summits: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Bush Conversations that Ended the Cold War.Parks, Jenifer. The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War: Red Sport, Red Tape.Congdon, Lee. Solzhenitsyn: The Historical‐Spiritual Destinies of Russia and the West.Christensen, Karin Hyldal. The Making of the New Martyrs of Russia: Soviet Repression in Orthodox Memory.Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and OtherKovalev, Andrei. Russia's Dead End: An Insider's Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin. Translated by Steven I. Levine.Reuter, Ora John. The Origins of Dominant Parties: Building Authoritarian Institutions in Post‐Soviet Russia.Altstadt, Audrey L. Frustrated Democracy in Post‐Soviet Azerbaijan.Samokhvalov, Vsevolod. Russian‐European Relations in the Balkans and Black Sea Region: Great Power Identity and the Idea of Europe.Krasheninnikova, Yulia. Informal Healthcare in Contemporary Russia: Sociographic Essays on the Post‐Soviet Infrastructure for Alternative Healing Practices.Gans‐Morse, Jordan. Property Rights in Post‐Soviet Russia: Violence, Corruption, and the Demand for Law.Orttung, Robert W., and Sufian N. Zhemukhov. Putin's Olympics: The Sochi Games and the Evolution of Twenty‐First Century Russia.