Book Reviews.

Literature and Fine Arts Ospovat, Kirill. Pridvornaia slovesnost': Institut literatury i konstruktsii absoliutizma v Rossii serediny XVIII veka. Intellektual'naia istoriia. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2020. 480 pp. R600.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐1218‐1. Vaysman, Margarita. Self‐Conscious Realism: Metafiction and the Nineteenth‐Century Russian Novel. Oxford: Legenda, 2021. 174 pp. $99.00. ISBN 978‐1‐781883‐83‐9. Andrew, Joe, and Robert Reid, eds. Tolstoi and the Evolution of His Artistic World. Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics 64. Leiden: Brill, 2021. x + 323 pp. $150.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐46562‐6. Kitzinger, Chloë. Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2021. 256 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐4396‐8. Martinsen, Deborah A. Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: A Reader's Guide. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2022. xii + 121 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐6446‐9784‐9. Bowers, Katherine, and Kate Holland. Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 264 pp. $75.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0863‐0. Layton, Susan. Contested Russian Tourism: Cosmopolitanism, Nation, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century. Imperial Encounters in Russian History. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021. x + 480 pp. $139.00. ISBN 978‐1‐6446‐9420‐6. Dubinets, Elena. Russian Composers Abroad: How They Left, Stayed, Returned. Russian Music Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021. xxiv + 362 pp. $36.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐253‐05778‐5. Vergara, José. All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, 2021. xiii + 254 pp. $54.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐5990‐1. Leach, Robert. Sergei Tretyakov: A Revolutionary Writer in Stalin's Russia. London: Glagoslav Publications, 2021. 256 pp. $26.50 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐914337‐17‐8. Podzemskaia, Nadezhda. Kandinskii o Dukhovnom v iskusstve: Polnoe kritichskoe izdanie. vol. 1, O dukhovnom v iskusstve. 746 pp.; vol. 2, Istoriia knigi, nauka ob iskusstve. 704 pp. Moscow: BuksMArt, 2020. R7,148.00. ISBN 978‐5‐907043‐71‐8. Posner, Dassia N., and Kevin Bartig, eds. Three Loves for Three Oranges: Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev. Russian Music Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021. 460 pp. $50.00. ISBN 978‐0‐253‐05788‐4. Prokhorov, Alexander, Elena Prokhorova, and Rimgaila Salys, eds. Russian TV Series in the Era of Transitions: Genres, Technologies, Identities. Boston, Academic Studies Press, 2021. 277 pp. $119.00. ISBN 978‐1‐64469‐643‐9. History Blanc, Eric. Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working‐Class Politics across the Russian Empire (1882–1917). Historical Materialism 228. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xiv + 455 pp. $229.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐44992‐3. Cronin, Glenn. Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, 2021. 261 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6018‐1. Rechtman, Abraham. The Lost World of Russia's Jews: Ethnography and Folklore in the Pale of Settlement. Translated by Nathaniel Deutsch and Noah Barrera. Jews in Eastern Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021. xi + 314 pp. $40.00. ISBN 978‐0‐253‐05693‐1. Veidlinger, Jeffrey. In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918‐1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan, 2021. 480 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐1‐250‐11625‐3. Sokolova, Anna. Novomu cheloveku, novaia smert'? Pokhoronnaia kul'ltura rannego SSSR. Studia religiosa. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2022. 456 pp. R750.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐1723‐0. Edele, Mark. Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. xii + 257 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐15351‐6. Tikhomirov, Alexey. The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945–1961. Translated by Jacqueline Friedlander. Harvard Cold War Studies. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022. 384 pp. $125.00. ISBN 978‐1‐66691‐189‐3. Abylkhozhin, Zhulduzbek, Mikhail Akulov, and Alexandra Tsay, eds. Stalinism in Kazakhstan: History, Memory, and Representation. Translated by Anton Platonov and Simon Pawley. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. ix + 203 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐1‐7936‐4162‐5. Erlacher, Trevor. Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov. Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 654 pp. $84.00. ISBN 978‐0‐6742‐5093‐2. Romaniello, Matthew P., Alison K. Smith, and Tricia Starks, eds. The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600–Present. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. ix + 248 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐18602‐6. Halperin, Charles J. Ivan the Terrible in Russian Historical Memory since 1991. Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History. Brookline, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2021. 308 pp. $119.00. ISBN 978‐1‐644‐69587‐6. Herzberg, Julia, Andreas Renner, and Ingrid Schierle, eds. The Russian Cold: Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow. New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. 348 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐1‐80073‐127‐1. Jenks, Andrew L. Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth. Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. London: Anthem Press, 2021. 180 pp. $125.00. ISBN 978‐1‐83998‐042‐8. Ro'i, Yaacov. The Bleeding Wound: The Soviet‐Afghan War and the Collapse of the Soviet System. Cold War International History Project. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. xiii + 411 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐1‐503‐62874‐8. Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and Other Arkhipova, Aleksandra, and Anna Kirziuk. Opasnye sovetskie veshchi: Gorodskie legendy i strakhi v SSSR. 2d ed. Kul'tura povsednevnosti. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2021. 536 pp. R600.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐1598‐4. Makarov, I. A., et al. Povorot k prirode: Novaia ekologicheskaia politika Rossii v usloviiakh "zelenoi" transformatsii mirovoi ekonomiki i politiki. Doklad po itogam serii situatsionnykh analizov. Moscow: Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia, 2021. 97 pp. ISBN 978‐5‐7133‐1691‐4. Michlin‐Shapir, Vera. Fluid Russia: Between the Global and the National in the Post‐Soviet Era. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, 2021. 264 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6054‐9. Logvinenko, Igor O. Global Finance, Local Control: Corruption and Wealth in Contemporary Russia. Cornell Studies in Money. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 246 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐5960‐4. Weiss‐Wendt, Anton. Putin's Russia and the Falsification of History: Reasserting Control over the Past. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020. 336 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐35‐013053‐1. Frye, Timothy. Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. 228 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978‐0‐691‐21246‐3. Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam. Galvanizing Nostalgia? Indigeneity and Sovereignty in Siberia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. xvi + 254 pp. $31.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6131‐7. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]