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Books reviewed in this issueLiterature and Fine ArtsPolyakova, Olga A. Icons: Masterpieces of Russian Art (16th–19th Centuries, from the Collection of the Moscow State Integrated Museum‐Reserve at Kolomenskoye).Steiner, Lina. For Humanity's Sake: The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture.Diment, Galya. A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky.Roubakine, Alexandre. La Cité. Translated into French by Wladimir Berelowitch.Gillespie, Alyssa Dinega, ed. Taboo Pushkin: Topics, Texts, Interpretations.Frank, Siggy. Nabokov's Theatrical Imagination.Young, George M. The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers.HistoryGruber, Isaiah. Orthodox Russia in Crisis: Church and Nation in the Time of Troubles.Davies, Richard, and Matilda Moreton. Wooden Churches: Travelling in the Russian North.Polunov, A. Iu. K. P. Pobedonostsev v obshchestvenno‐politicheskoi i dukhovnoi zhizni Rossii.Johnson, Emily D. How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie.Evtuhov, Catherine. Portrait of a Russian Province: Economy, Society, and Civilization in Nineteenth‐Century Nizhnii Novgorod.Romaniello, Matthew P. The Elusive Empire and the Creation of Russia, 1552–1671.Tomohiko, Uyama, ed. Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts.Etkind, Alexander. Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience.Baraban, Elena V., Stephan Jaeger, and Adam Muller, eds. Fighting Words and Images: Representing War across the Disciplines.Petrone, Karen. The Great War in Russian Memory.Lutz, Martin. Siemens im Sowjetgeschäft: Eine Institutionengeschichte der deutsch‐sowjetischen Beziehhungen 1917–1933.Dieckmann, Christoph. Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen 1941–1944. 2 vols.Chervinsky, Julie, ed. Lives of the Great Patriotic War: The Untold Stories of Soviet Jewish Soldiers in the Red Army during World War II / Sud'by v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny: Neopublikovannye istorii sovetskikh krasnoarmeitsev‐evreev, uchastnikov Vtoroi Mirovoi voiny.Boriak, Tetiana. Dokumental'na spadshchyna ukraïns'koï emigratsiï v Ievropi: Praz'kyi arkhiv (1945–2010).Andreev, A. I., and D. Savelli, eds. Rerikhi: Mify i fakty.Roman, Meredith L. Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928–1937.Hudson, Hugh D., Jr. Peasants, Political Police, and the Early Soviet State: Surveillance and Accommodation under the New Economic Policy.Fedor, Julie. Russia and the Cult of State Security: The Chekist Tradition from Lenin to Putin.Johnston, Timothy. Being Soviet: Identity, Rumour, and Everyday Life under Stalin, 1939–1953.Jenks, Andrew L. The Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling: The Life and Legend of Yuri Gagarin.Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and OtherIanitskii, O. N. Semeinaia khronika 1853–2002 gg. 2nd ed.Satter, David. It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past.Aalto, Pami, ed. Russia's Energy Policies: National, Interregional, and Global Levels.Panibratov, Andrei. Russian Multinationals: From Regional Supremacy to Global Lead.Hankivsky, Olena, and Anastasiya Salnykova, eds. Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine.Ališauskienė, Milda, and Ingo W. Schröder, eds. Religious Diversity in Post‐Soviet Society: Ethnographies of Catholic Hegemony and the New Pluralism in Lithuania.Zavisca, Jane R. Housing the New Russia.Roberts, Sean P. Putin's United Russia Party.Stewart, Susan, et al., eds. Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats: Forms of Rule in the Post‐Soviet Space.Shevel, Oxana. Migration, Refugee Policy, and State Building in Postcommunist Europe.Cooley, Alexander. Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia.