BOOK REVIEWS

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Books reviewed in this issueLiterature and Fine ArtsChadaga, Julie Bekman. Optical Play: Glass, Vision, and Spectacle in Russian Culture.Du Quenoy, Paul. Alexander Serov and the Birth of the Russian Modern.Sleptsov, Vasily. Hard Times: A Novel of Liberals and Radicals in 1860s Russia.Brunson, Molly. Russian Realisms: Literature and Painting, 1840–1890.Friesen, Leonard. Transcendent Love: Dostoevsky and the Search for a Global Ethic.Belknap, Robert L. Plots.Solovyov, Vladimir. The Burning Bush: Writings on Jews and Judaism.Knapp, Liza. Anna Karenina and Others: Tolstoy's Labyrinth of Plots.Bialostosky, Don. Mikhail Bakhtin. Rhetoric, Poetics, Dialogics, Rhetoreticality.Kliger, Ilya, and Boris Maslov, eds. Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics.Kelly, Martha M. F. Unorthodox Beauty: Russian Modernism and Its New Religious Aesthetic.Poplavsky, Boris. Apollon Bezobrazov.Mancosu, Paolo. Zhivago's Secret Journey: From Typescript to Book.De Vries, Gerard. Silent Love: The Annotation and Interpretation of Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.Lipovetsky, Mark, and Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, eds. Late and Post‐Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader. Book 1. Perestroika and the Post‐Soviet Period.Lipovetsky, Mark, and Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, eds. Late and Post‐Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader. Book 2. Thaw and Stagnation.Prokhorov, Alexander, and Elena Prokhorova. Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era.HistoryGeffert, Bryn, and Theofanis G. Stavrou, eds. Eastern Orthodox Christianity: The Essential Texts.Raffensperger, Christian. Ties of Kinship: Genealogy and Dynastic Marriage in Kyivan Rus'.Monahan, Erika. The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia.Chrissidis, Nikolaos A. An Academy at the Court of the Tsars: Greek Scholars and Jesuit Education in Early Modern Russia.Kelly, Aileen. The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Times of Alexander Herzen.Rabow‐Edling, Susanna. Married to the Empire: Three Governors' Wives in Russian America, 1829–1864.Nalivkin, Vladimir, and Maria Nalivkina. Muslim Women in the Fergana Valley: A 19th‐Century Ethnography from Central Asia.Marchenia, P. P., A. O. Lanshin, and S. Iu. Razin. Narod i vlast' v rossiiskoi/smute.Marchenia, P. P., et al. Krest'ianstvo i vlast' v istorii Rossii XX veka.Marchenia, P. P., et al. Rossiia i revoliutsiia: Proshloe i nastoiashchee sistemnykh krizisov russkoi istorii.Marchenia, P. P., et al. Stalinizm i krest'ianstvo.Demidov, Sergei S., and Boris V. Levshin, eds. The Case of Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin.Lees, Lorraine M., and Williams S. Rodner, eds. An American Diplomat in Bolshevik Russia: DeWitt Clinton Poole.Oosterlinck, Kim. Hope Springs Eternal: French Bondholders and the Repudiation of Russian Sovereign Debt.Goldman, Wendy Z., and Donald Filtzer, eds. Hunger and War: Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union during World War II.Kilian, Jürgen. Wehrmacht und Besatzungsherrschaft im Russischen Nordwesten 1941–1944: Praxis und Alltag im Militärverwaltungsgebiet der Heersgruppe Nord.Kucherenko, Olga. Soviet Street Children and the Second World War: Welfare and Social Control under Stalin.Polišenská, Milada. Czechoslovak Diplomacy and the Gulag: Deportation of Czechoslovak Citizens to the USSR and the Negotiation for their Repatriation, 1945–1953.Liber, George O. Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914–1954.Rubenstein, Joshua. The Last Days of Stalin.Sanchez‐Sibony, Oscar. Red Globalization: The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev.Peters, Benjamin. How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet.Florin, Moritz. Kirgistan und die sowjetische Moderne.Braithwaite, Rodric. Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979–89.Tax Choldin, Marianna. Garden of Broken Statues: Exploring Censorship in Russia.Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and OtherJohnson, Juliet. Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World.Kaliszewska, Iwona, and Maciej Falkowski. Veiled and Unveiled in Chechnya and Daghestan.Ryazanova‐Clarke, Lara, ed. The Russian Language Outside the Nation.Polese, Abel. Limits of a Post‐Soviet State: How Informality Replaces, Renegotiates, and Reshapes Governance in Contemporary Ukraine.