Book Reviews

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Books reviewed: Schastlivyi feniks: Ocherki o russkom sonete i knizhnoi kul'ture XVIII–nachala XIX veka L. I. Berdnikov Devich'ia igrushka, ili sochineniia gospodina Barkova Ivan Barkov Pod imenem Barkova: Eroticheskaiia poeziia XVIII–nachala XIX veka N. Sapov, comp. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel Malcolm V. Jones and Robin Feuer Miller, eds. The Society Tale in Russian Literature: From Odoevskii to Tolstoi Neil Cornwell, ed. Cultural Discontinuity and Reconstruction: The Byzanto‐Slav Heritage and the Creation of a Russian National Literature in the Nineteenth Century Jostein Børtnes and Ingunn Lunde, eds. Russian Subjects: Empire, Nation, and the Culture of the Golden Age Monika Greenleaf and Stephen Moeller‐Sally, eds. The Popular Theatre Movement in Russia, 1862–1919 Gary Thurston Memory and Literature: Intertextuality in Russian Modernism Renate Lachmann The Pillar and Ground of the Truth: An Essay in Orthodox Theodicy in Twelve Letters Pavel Florensky Subversive Imaginations: Fantastic Prose and the End of Soviet Literature, 1970s–1990s Nadya L. Peterson Taking Penguins to the Movies: Ethnic Humor in Russia Emil A. Draitser Russia: A History Gregory L. Freeze, ed. Die Russische Frau: Im 17. Jahrhundert Nada Boskovska Gosudarstvo i krest'iane Rossii: Pomor'e v XVII veke Elena N. Shveikovskaia Russia in the Age of Peter the Great Lindsey Hughes Kornelius Kriuis, Admiral Petra Velikogo Turgrim Titlestad, ed. Kazan, Moscow, St. Petersburg: Multiple Faces of the Russian Empire Catherine Evtuhov, et al., eds. L'économie en révolution: Le cas russe, 1870–1930 Alessandro Stanziani Heralds of Revolution: Russian Students and the Mythologies of Radicalism Susan K. Morrissey Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914–1921 Edward Acton, Vladimir Iu. Cherniaev, and William G. Rosenberg, eds. Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless Daniel Peris Die Anfänge des Leninkults in der Sowjetunion Benno Ennker Forging Stalin's Army: Marshall Tukhachevsky and the Politics of Military Innovation SallyW. Stoecker Factory and Community in Stalin's Russia: The Making of an Industrial Working Class Kenneth M. Straus The Northern Territories Dispute and Russo‐Japanese Relations Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Russian Nationalism, Past and Present Geoffrey Hosking and Robert Service, eds. Freud and the Bolsheviks: Psychoanalysis in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union Martin A. Miller What Have We Learned About Science and Technology from the Russian Experience? Loren R. Graham The Fall of the Soviet Empire Anne de Tinguy, ed. The Collapse of the Soviet Military William E. Odom The Soldier in Russian Politics: Duty, Dictatorship, and Democracy under Gorbachev and Yeltsin Robert V. Barylski Elites and Leadership in Russian Politics: Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995 Graeme Gill, ed. Russia's Economy of Favours: Blat , Networking and Informal Exchange Alena V. Ledeneva Nation‐building in the Post‐Soviet Borderlands: The Politics of National Identities Graham Smith, et al. The Wild East: Crime and Lawlessness in Post‐Communist Russia VictorSergeyev