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Literature and Fine Arts Coker, Adam. Russia's French Connection: A History of the Lasting French Imprint on Russian Culture. New York: Routledge, 2020. 360 pp. $43.16 (e‐book). ISBN 978‐1‐0030‐1123‐1. Wanner, Adrian. The Bilingual Muse: Self‐Translation among Russian Poets. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020. 240 pp. $39.95 (e‐book). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐4125‐4. Matzner‐Gore, Greta. Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form: Suspense, Closure, Minor Characters. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020. ix + 147 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐4199‐5. Rylkova, Galina. Breaking Free from Death: The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer. Brookline: Academic Studies Press, 2020. 204 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐1‐6446‐9264‐6. Beasley, Rebecca. Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, 1881–1922. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xvi + 533 pp. $105.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1988‐0212‐9. Condee, Nancy, Alexander Prokhorov, and Elena Prokhorova, eds. Cinemasaurus: Russian Film in Contemporary Context. Film and Media Studies. Brookline: Academic Studies Press. 310 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐1‐6446‐9270‐7. History Rosik, Stanisław. The Slavic Religion in the Light of 11th‐ and 12th‐Century German Chronicles (Thietmar of Merseburg, Adam of Bremen, Helmold of Bosau). Studies on the Christian Interpretation of pre‐Christian Cults and Beliefs in the Middle Ages. Translated by Anna Tyszkiewicz. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, vol. 60. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 390 pp. $153.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐33148‐8. Manchester, L., and D. A. Sdvizhkov, eds. Vera i lichnost' v meniaiushchemsia obshchestve: Avtobiografika i pravoslavie v Rossii kontsa XVII–nachala XX veka. Historica Rossica. Studia Europaea. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2019. 408 pp. R360.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐1138‐2. Bailey, Heather L. The Public Image of Eastern Orthodoxy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. 312 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐4951‐3. Rohdewald, Stefan, Stephan Conermann, and Albrecht Fuess, eds. Transottomanica—Osteuropäisch‐osmanisch‐persische Mobilitätsdynamiken: Perspektiven und Forschungsstand. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. 280 pp. €40.00. ISBN 978‐3‐8471‐0886‐3. Bellows, Amanda Brickell. American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post‐Emancipation Imagination. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 320 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4696‐5553‐6. Zaretsky, Robert. Catherine and Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. 258 pp. $27.95. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐73790‐7. Horowitz, Brian. Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years, 1900–1925. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. 290 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐2530‐4768‐7. Linkhoeva, Tatiana. Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. xii + 281 pp. $27.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐4808‐0. Lee, Eric. Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April–May 1945. Barnsley: Greenhill Books, 2020. 323 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐1‐7843‐8468‐5. Edele, Mark. Debates on Stalinism. Issues in Historiography. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 312 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978‐1‐7849‐9431‐0. Soldatov, Andrei, and Irina Borogan. The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Emigres, and Agents Abroad. New York: Public Affairs, 2019. 361 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5417‐3016‐8. Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and Other Bennich‐Björkman, Li, and Sergiy Kurbatov, eds. When the Future Came: The Collapse of the USSR and the Emergence of National Memory in Post‐Soviet History Textbooks. Soviet and Post‐Soviet Politics and Society 211. Hanover: Ibidem‐verlag, 2019. 195 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐3‐8382‐7335‐8. Brown, Archie. The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xi + 501 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1987‐4870‐0. Lewis, David G. Russia's New Authoritarianism: Putin and the Politics of Order. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. 334 pp. £85.00. IBSN 978‐1‐4744‐5476‐6. Koesel, Karrie, Valerie Bunce, and Jessica Weiss, eds. Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing China and Russia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 336 pp. $31.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐1900‐9349‐5. Lovotti, Chiara, Eleonara Tarfuro Ambrosetti, Christopher Hartwell, and Alexandra Chmielewska, eds. Russia in the Middle East and North Africa: Continuity and Change. Europa Regional Perspectives. Philadelphia: Routledge, 2020. 188 pp. $139.50 (e‐book). ISBN 978‐0‐4292‐8623‐0. Hryb, Olexander. Understanding Contemporary Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism: The Post‐Soviet Cossack Revival and Ukraine's National Security. Ukrainian Voices, vol. 2. Stuttgart: ibidem‐Verlag, 2020. 320 pp. $40.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐8382‐1377‐4. Johnsson, Oscar. The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2019. 200pp. $98.95. ISBN 978‐1‐6261‐6733‐9. Jasper, Scott. Russian Cyber Operations: Coding the Boundaries of Conflict. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2020. 232 pp. $32.95. ISBN 978‐1‐6261‐6797‐1. Habeck, Joachim Otto, ed. Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2019. xix + 465 pp. £25.95. ISBN 978‐1‐78374‐717‐7. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

My former colleague and mentor, Prof. David Boyce, loved Vaclav Smil's ([3]) I How the World Really Works i . Here is Smil's thesis in a nutshell: Complete decarbonization of the global economy by 2050 is now conceivable only at the cost of unthinkable global economic retreat, or as a result of extraordinarily rapid transformations relying on near-miraculous technical advances. To be sure, Smil is no climate change denier. [Extracted from the article]

Literature and Fine Arts Offord, Derek, Vladislav Rjéoutski, and Gesine Argent. The French Language in Russia: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Literary History. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. 699 pp. ISBN 978‐94‐6298‐272‐7. Moss, Anne Eakin. Only among Women: Philosophies of Community in the Russian and Soviet Imagination, 1860–1940. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020. xviii + 272 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐4102‐5. Chudakova, Marietta. Mikhail Bulgakov: The Life and Times. Translated by Huw Davies. Introduction by J. A. E Curtis. London: Glagoslav Publications, 2019. 630 pp. €33.99. ISBN 978‐1‐7843‐7980‐3 McAllister, Rita, and Christina Guillaumier, eds. Rethinking Prokofiev. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 544 pp. $125.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1906‐7076‐4. Uffelmann, Dirk. Vladimir Sorokin's Discourses: A Companion. Companions to Russian Literature. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020. 236 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐64469‐285‐1. Voronina, Olga, ed. A Companion to Soviet Children's Literature and Film. Leiden: Brill, 2019. iv + 508 pp. $179.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐40148‐8. Tempest, Richard. Overwriting Chaos: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Fictive Worlds. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019. 750 pp. $159.00. ISBN 978‐1‐64469‐012‐3. Hundorova, Tamara. The Post‐Chornobyl Library: Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s. Translated by Sergiy Yakovenko. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019. xvi + 320 pp. $35.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐64469‐238‐7. History O'Connor, Kevin C. The House of Hemp and Butter: A History of Old Riga. Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, 2019. xvi + 325 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐4768‐7. Griffin, Sean. The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Fourth Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. x + 275 pp. $99.99. ISBN 978‐1‐107‐15676‐0. Wolff, Larry. Disunion within the Union: The Uniate Church and the Partitions of Poland. Cambridge: Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University, 2019. 152 pp. $18.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐674‐24628‐7. O'Meara, Patrick. The Russian Nobility in the Age of Alexander I. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. xvi + 368 pp. $108.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78831‐486‐2. Cockfield, Jamie H. Russia's Iron General: The Life of Aleksei A. Brusilov, 1853‐1926. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. xii + 375 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐7251‐4. Lovell, Stephen. How Russia Learned to Talk: A History of Public Speaking in the Stenographic Age, 1860–1930. Oxford Studies in Modern European History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 352 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1995‐4642‐8. Voronina, Tat'iana. Pomnit' po‐nashemu: Sostrealitsticheskii istorizm i blokada Leningrada. Biblioteka zhurnala "Neprikosnovennyi zapas." Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2018. 280 pp. R312.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐0913‐6. Sher, Gerson S. From Pugwash to Putin: A Critical History of US‐Soviet Scientific Cooperation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. xvi + 306 pp. $40.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐253‐04262‐0. Melchior, Inge. Guardians of Living History: An Ethnography of Post‐Soviet Memory Making in Estonia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 368 pp. $136.00. ISBN 978‐94‐6298‐902‐3. Urbansky, Sören. Beyond the Steppe: A History of the Sino‐Russian Border. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. xvi + 367 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐6911‐8168‐4. Donovan, Victoria. Chronicles in Stone: Preservation, Patriotism, and Identity in Northwest Russia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xi + 230 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐4787‐8. Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and Other Kuboniwa, Masaaki, Yasushi Nakamura, Kazuhiro Kumo, and Yoshisada Shida, eds. Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. xxxi + 443 pp. $159.99. ISBN 978‐981‐13‐8428‐8. Fenghi, Fabrizio. It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post‐Soviet Russia. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. xviii + 294 pp. $79.95. ISBN 978‐0‐299‐32440‐7. Suslov, Mikhail, and Dmitry Uzlaner, eds. Contemporary Russian Conservatism: Problems, Paradoxes, and Perspectives. Eurasian Studies Library, Volume 13. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. $131.00. ISBN 978‐9‐0044‐0800‐5. Turoma, Sanna, Kaarina Aitamurto, and Slobodanka Vladiv‐Glover, eds. Religion, Expression and Patriotism in Russia: Essays on Post‐Soviet Society and the State. Soviet and Post‐Soviet Politics and Society 213. Stuttgart: ibidem‐Verlag, 2019. 239 pp. $40.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐8382‐1346‐0. Bernsand, Niklas, and Barbara Törnquist‐Plewa, eds. Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin's Russia. Eurasian Studies Library, 11. Leidin: Brill, 2018. 262 pp. $134.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐36666‐4. Nelson, Todd H. Bringing Stalin Back In: Memory Politics and the Creation of a Useable Past in Putin's Russia. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. xiv + 167 pp. $90.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐9152‐2. Gel'man, Vladimir. Nedostoinoe pravlenie: Politika v sovremennoi Rossii. St. Petersburg: European University Publishers, 2019. 254 pp. R300.00. ISBN 978‐5‐94380‐286‐7. Oda, Hiroshi. Russian Arbitration Law and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 256 pp. $190.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1987‐1244‐2. Hill, William H. No Place for Russia: European Security Institutions since 1989. Woodrow Wilson Center Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 536 pp. $40.00. ISBN 978‐0‐231‐70458‐8. Beebe, George S. The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2019. 240 pp. $28.99. ISBN 978‐1‐2503‐1662‐2. Tsygankov, Andrei P. Russia and America: The Asymmetric Rivalry. Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2019. 272 pp. $64.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5095‐3113‐4. Tohme, Hicham. Russia's Geostrategic Outlook and the Syrian Crisis. Washington: Academica Press, 2019. viii + 147 pp. $99.95. ISBN 978‐1680530643. Iji, Tetsuro. Multiparty Mediation in Violent Conflict: Peacemaking Diplomacy in the Tajikistan Civil War. New York: Routledge, 2019. 206 pp. $140.00. ISBN 978‐0‐367‐33360‐7. Bukharbayeva, Bagila. The Vanishing Generation: Faith and Uprising in Modern Uzbekistan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. xxii + 229 pp. $36.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐253‐04081‐7. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]