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The article reviews the book "Stressing the Past: Papers on Baltic and Slavic Accentology," edited by Thomas Olander and Jenny Helena Larsson, number 35 in the Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics book series.

The article reviews the book "Stafford Cripps in Moscow 1940-1942. Diaries and Papers," edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky.

A review of the book "The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination: A Case of Russian Literature," by Leonid Livak, as part of the "Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture" series, is presented.

The title of Mikhail Kuzmin's Novyi Rolla [A New Rolla] has been considered cryptic despite its evident allusion to Alfred de Musset's "Rolla," a poem with which it shares little. In this article I argue that the link to Musset is clear if we read A New Rolla as responding not just to "Rolla," but also to Musset's novel La Confession d'un enfant du siècle [The Confession of a Child of the Age] and his biography. From this composite source Kuzmin takes up the themes of a debauchee finding love, love as serial yet serious, and a love triangle in Venice, as well as an apostrophe to the kiss. Kuzmin endorses most of Musset's idea of love, but rejects the egalitarian ideal implicit in the sympathetic treatment of the prostitute Marion in "Rolla." A secondary allusion to Nikolai Nekrasov's "Kogda iz mraka zabluzhden'ia" [When, out of the darkness of error] reinforces Kuzmin's rejection of the egalitarian ideal of sexual love. The allusions to Musset and Nekrasov amount to anachronisms that partially undermine the precise temporal setting of A New Rolla. Kuzmin's work thereby occupies an intermediate position among his period pieces, as it is neither openly playful like Venetsianskie bezumtsy [Venetian Madcaps] nor constructed with its seams hidden like the Aleksandriiskie pesni [Alexandrian Songs]. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review of the book "The Non-Geometric Lenin: Essays on the Development of the Bolshevik Party 1910-1914," by Carter Elwood, is presented.

The article presents a review of several books on Ukrainian literary scholarship since 1991, including "Podruzhnie zhyttia i pozashliubni romany Panteleimona Kulisha," by Ievhen Nakhlik, "Ivan Franko i Biblia Apocrypha," by Iaroslava Mel'nyk, and "Poetesa zlamu stolit'. Tvorchist' Lesi Ukrainky v postmodernii interpretatsii," by Vira Aheieva.

The article reviews the book "Polnoe sobranie sochinenii i pisem v dvadtsati trekh tomakh," by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol', edited by Nikolai TIkhonravov, volumes I-V.

A review of the book "Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation," edited by Irena R. Makaryk and Virlana Tkacz is presented.

A review of the book "Jews in Ukrainian Literature: Representation & Identity," by Myroslav Shkandrij is presented.

The article reviews the books "The Enigma of Isaac Babel: Biography, History, Context" edited by Gregory Freidin and "The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them" by Elif Batuman.

The article reviews the book "Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914-1939," by Neal Pease, part of the Polish-American Studies Series.

The article reviews the book "Slayers and Their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead," by Bruce A. McClelland.

The article reviews the book "How is the Bilingual Dictionary Possible?" by Eugene Rivelis.

The article reviews the book "Europe's Last Frontier? Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine Between Russia and the European Union," edited by Oliver Schmidtke and Serhy Yekelchyk.

The article reviews the book "My Journey: Litopys UPA," by Peter J. Potichnyj.

The article reviews the book "Ukraine, The EU and Russia: History, Culture and International Relations," edited by Stephen Velychenko.

The article reviews the book “Turgenev and Russian Culture: Essays to Honour Richard Peace," edited by Joe Andrew, Derek Offord, and Robert Reid.