Book Reviews

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Books reviewed:Julie A Buckler, The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia.Sergey M Solovyov, Vladimir Solovyov: His Life and Creative Evolution.Leslie Dorfman Davis, Serapion Sister: The Poetry of Elizaveta Polonskaja.Sergei Bogatyrev, The Sovereign and His Counsellors: Ritualised Consultations in Muscovite Political Culture, 1350s–1570s.Isolde Thyrêt, Between God and the Tsar: Religious Symbolism and the Royal Women of Muscovite Russia.Kimitaka Matsuzato, ed., Zemskii fenomen: Politologicheskii podkhod.Abraham Ascher, P. A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia.Virginia Martin, Law and Custom in the Steppe: The Kazakhs of the Middle Horde and Russian Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century.Barbara T. and Jehanne M Gheith Norton, eds., An Improper Profession: Women, Gender, and Journalism in Late Imperial Russia.Lindsey Hughes, ed., Peter the Great and the West: New Perspectives.Anthony Cross, Catherine the Great and the British: A Pot‐Pourri of Essays.G. S. Smith, D. S. Mirsky: A Russian‐English Life, 1890–1939.Dominic Lieven, Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals.Guive Mirfendereski, A Diplomatic History of the Caspian Sea: Treaties, Diaries, and Other Stories.Norman E. Saul, War and Revolution: The United States and Russia, 1914–1921.Rex A. Wade, The Russian Revolution, 1917.Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, Lenin.Peter Gatrell, A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during World War I.Manfred Hildermeier, Die Sowjetunion, 1917–1991.Christopher Lawrence Zugger, The Forgotten: Catholics of the Soviet Empire from Lenin through Stalin.Balzhan Zhimbiev, History of the Urbanisation of a Siberian City: Ulan‐Ude.Dietmar Neutatz, Die Moskauer Metro: Von den ersten Plänen bis zur Groβbaustelle des Stalinismus (1897–1935).Paul R. Gregory, ed., Behind the Façade of Stalin's Command Economy: Evidence from the Soviet State and Party Archives.David R. Stone, Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926–1933.Karen Petrone, Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin.Amir Weiner, Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution.Timothy R. Vogt, Denazification in Soviet‐Occupied Germany: Brandenburg, 1945–1948.Samuel H. Baron, Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk, 1962.Stephen Kotkin, Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970–2000.Paul Hollander, Political Will and Personal Belief: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism.Stephen L. Webber, School, Reform and Society in the New Russia.Jeni and Albert Motivans Klugman, eds., Single Parents and Child Welfare in the New Russia.Petra Rethmann, Tundra Passages: History and Gender in the Russian Far East.Vlad E. Genin, ed., The Anatomy of Russian Defense Conversion.Stephen Cohen, Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post‐Communist Russia.Peter Naray, Russia and the World Trade Organization.