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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]
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