Book Reviews

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Books reviewed: Nina: Kul'turnyi mif zolotogo veka russkoi literatury v lingvisticheskom osveshchenii, byPen'kovskii, A. B. See No Evil: Literary Cover‐Ups and Discoveries of theSoviet Camp Experience. Russian Literature and Thought, by Tolczyk, Darius. Sight and Sound Entwined: Studies of the New Russian Poetry, by Janecek, Gerald. Voices of Russian Literature: Interviews with Ten Contemporary Writers, byLaird, Sally. English Counter Russian: Essays on Criticism of Literary Translationin America, by Sendich, Munir. Brief Lives: A Handbook of MedicalPractitioners in Muscovy, 1620–1701, by Unkovskaya, Maria V. TheRussians. The People of Europe, by Milner‐Gulland, Robin. AlexanderHerzen und die Schweiz: Das Verhältnis des russischen Publizisten und Aristokraten zureinzigen Republik im Europa seiner Zeit, by Bontadina, Nadja. MakingPeasants Backward: Agricultural Cooperatives and the Agrarian Question in Russia,1861–1914, by Kotsonis, Yanni. Siberian Survival: The Nenets andTheir Story, by Golovnev, Andrei A. and Gail Osherenko. A History of theSoviet Union from the Beginning to the End, by Kenez, Peter. ReinterpretingRussia, by Hosking, Geoffrey and Robert Service, eds. A Prayer for theGovernment: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917–1920, byAbramson, Henry. Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity, byZipperstein, Steven J. The Tsar's Colonels: Professionalism, Strategy, andSubversion in Late Imperial Russia, by Rich, David Alan. Zabytaiakar'era “russkogo Mol'tke”: Nikolai Nikolaevich Obruchev(1830–1904), Airapetov, Oleg Rudol'fovich. Russian Voices onthe Kennebec: The Story of Maine's Unlikely Colony, by Jaster, Robert S. The Great Urals: Regionalism and the Evolution of the Soviet System, by Harris,James R. Entangled in Terror: The Azef Affair and the Russian Revolution,by Geifman, Anna. Plans for Stalin's War Machine: Tukhachevskii andMilitary‐Economic Planning, 1925–1941, by Samuelson, Lennart. TheFifty Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War, by Friedman, Norman. Interpreting America: Russian and Soviet Studies of the History of American Thought, by Ryder, John. Russian Workers: The Anatomy of Patience, by Ashwin,Sarah. Russia's Workers in Transition: Labor, Management and the Stateunder Gorbachev and Yeltsin, by Christensen, Paul T. The Transition fromCommunism to Capitalism: Ruling Elites from Gorbachev to Yeltsin, by Lane, David andCameron Ross. Agriculture and the State in Soviet and Post‐Soviet Russia. PittSeries in Russian and East European History, by Wegren, Stephen K. Queerin Russia: A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other, by Essig, Laurie. ConsumingRussia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society since Gorbachev, by Barker, Adele Marie, ed. Russia's Air Power in Crisis, by Lambeth, Benjamin S. Marriages in Russia: Couples during the Economic Transition, by Vannoy, Dana, et. al.