Book Reviews.

Literature and Fine Arts Rann, James. The Unlikely Futurist: Pushkin and the Invention of Originality in Russian Modernism. Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. $79.95. 280 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐2993‐2810‐8. Any, Carol. The Soviet Writers' Union and Its Leaders: Identity and Authority under Stalin. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020. $120.00. xiv + 318 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐4275‐6. Spiridonova, L. Tekstologiia: Teoriia i praktika. Moscow: IMLI RAN, 2019. 256 pp. R523.00. ISBN 978‐5‐9208‐0600‐0. Tret'iakov, Sergei. Ot Pekina do Pragi: Putevaia proza 1925–1937 godov (Ocherki "marshrutki," "put'fil'my" i drugie putevye zametki). Comps. T. Khofman and S. Shtretling. Seriia "Avant‐garde," no. 20. St. Petersburg: Izdatel'stvo Evropeiskogo universiteta v Sankt‐Peterburge, 2020. 496 pp. R560.00. ISBN 978‐5‐94380‐312‐3. Contino, Paul J. Dostoevsky's Incarnational Realism: Finding Christ among the Karamazovs. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2020. 334 pp. $30.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐7252‐5074‐1. Glaser, Amelia M. Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. 368 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐67‐424845‐8. Aronova, Alla, and Alexander Ortenberg, eds. A History of Russian Exposition and Festival Architecture: 1700–2014. New York: Routledge, 2020. xxvi + 302 pp. $160.00. ISBN 978‐1‐138‐20755‐4. Glaser, Amelia, and Steven S. Lee, eds. Comintern Aesthetics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. xxiv + 563 pp. $86.28. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0465‐6. Karpova, Yulia. Comradely Objects: Design and Material Culture in Soviet Russia, 1960s–80s. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 232 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5261‐3987‐0. History Grinëv, Andrei Val'terovich. Russian Colonization of Alaska: Baranov's Era, 1799–1818. Translated by Richard L. Bland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. xiv + 269 pp. $70.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4962‐2216‐9. Serdiuk, V. A. Zabytyi personal: Zhenskii trud na zheleznikh dorogakh Rossiiskoi imperii. Moscow: Nestor‐Istoriia, 2020. 264 pp. R800.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4469‐1708‐2. Kolonitskii, Boris. Comrade Kerensky: The Revolution against the Monarchy and the Formation of the Cult of "The Leader of the People" (March–June 1917). Translated by Arch Tait. New Russian Thought Series. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2021. x + 380 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5095‐3364‐0. Edgar, Adrienne, and Benjamin Frommer, eds. Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia: Mixed Families in the Age of Extremes. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2020. xii + 344 pp. $75.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4962‐0211‐6. Buell, Paul D., E. N Anderson, Montsterrat de Pablo Moya, and Moldir Oskenbay. Crossroads of Cuisine: The Eurasian Heartland, the Silk Roads and Food. Leiden: Brill, 2020. x + 340 pp. $159.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐43205‐5. Pickett, James. Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. xv + 301 pp. $54.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐5024‐3. Kivelson, Valerie A., and Christine D. Worobec, eds. Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900: A Sourcebook. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, 2020. xxiii + 506 pp. $32.95. ISBN 978‐1‐50‐175065‐6. Hanebrink, Paul. A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo‐Bolshevism. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. 368 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐674‐24476‐4. Pucci, Molly. Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe. The Yale‐Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. xiv+ 378 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐0‐300‐24257‐7. Gorlizki, Yoram, and Oleg Khlevniuk. Substate Dictatorship: Networks, Loyalty and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 464 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐0‐3002‐3081‐9. Chukhrov, Keti. Practicing the Good: Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism. E‐flux. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 336 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5179‐0960‐4. Dobrenko, Evgeny. Late Stalinism: The Aesthetics of Politics. Translated by Jesse M. Savage. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. 584 pp. $65.00. ISBN: 978‐0‐3001‐9847‐8 Dobrenko, Evgenii. Pozdnyi stalinizm: Estetika politiki. 2 vols. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2020. R1,553.00. Vol. 1, 712 pp. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐1148‐1, Vol. 2 600 pp. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐1149‐8. Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and Other Lüthi, Lorenzo M. Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xvi + 756 pp. $34.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐108‐40706‐9. Norris, Stephen M., ed. Museums of Communism: New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. 442 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐0‐25‐305030‐4. Gorbachev, Mikhail. What Is at Stake Now: My Appeal for Peace and Freedom. Translated by Jessica Spengler. New York: Polity Press, 2020. 140 pp. $16.95. ISBN 978‐1‐50‐954321‐2. Livers, Keith. Conspiracy Culture: Post‐Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 317 pp. $75.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0737‐4. Kharkhordin, Oleg. Republicanism in Russia: Community Before and After Communism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. xiii + 307 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐0‐6749‐7672‐6. Kozyrev, Andrei. The Fire Bird: The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy, A Memoir. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. xvi + 352 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐0‐8229‐4592‐5. Nikula, Jouko, and Mikhail Chernysh, eds. Social Distinctions in Contemporary Russia: Waiting for the Middle‐Class Society? Studies in Contemporary Russia. New York: Routledge, 2020. $160.00. 218 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐3674‐6528‐5. Askerov, Ali, Stefan Brooks, and Lasha Tchantouridzé, eds. Post‐Soviet Conflicts: The Thirty Years' Crisis. London: Lexington Books, 2020. xxii + 398 pp. $125.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐9654‐1. Thaler, Philipp. Shaping EU Foreign Policy towards Russia: Improving Coherence in External Relations. Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020. 256 pp. $40.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78897‐976‐4. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]