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Ultimately, Meir provides us with a sober and illuminating history of the marginalized in Eastern European Jewish society with a focus on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his compelling monograph, I Stepchildren of the Shtetl i , Natan Meir expertly analyzes both the ways in which the image of Jewish marginality emerged, and the real plights of those who were historically marginalized. Meir's efforts to unearth the experiences of those Jews who were marginalized on account of their poverty or disability is an admirable one. [Extracted from the article]

Several book reviews of Russian literature are presented, including "A People Passing Rude: British Responses to Russian Culture," edited by Anthony Cross, "The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp," edited and translated by Sibelan Forrester, and "Aspects of Dostoevskii: Art, Ethics, and Faith," edited by Robert Reid and Joe Andrew, as part of the "Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics" series.

The article reviews several books on the history of Russia, including "Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia: Science, Patriotism and Civil Society," by Joseph Bradley, "Jews in the Russian Army, 1827-1917: Drafted Into Modernity," by Yohann Petrovsky-Shtern, and "Cronies or Capitalists? The Russian Bourgeoisie and the Bourgeois Revolution From 1850 to 1917," by David Lockwood.

The article reviews the book "The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe," published by the Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO).

Book reviewed in this articles. Literature and Fine Arts Jackson, David. The Wanderers and Critical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Art. Marsh, Cynthia. Maxim Gorky: Russian Dramatist. O'Malley, Lurana Donnels. The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great: Theater and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Russia. Bethea, David M., ed. The Pushkin Handbook. Mondry, Henrietta. Pure, Strong and Sexless: The Peasant Woman s Body and Gleb Uspensky. Bugaeva, Lyubov and Eva Hausbacher, eds. Ent-Grenzen: Intellektuelle Emigration in der russischen Kultur des 20. Jahrhunderts/Za predelami: Intellektual'naia emigratsiia v russkoi kul'ture XX veka. Hellbeck, Jochen and Klaus Heller, eds. Autobiographical Practices in Russia – Autobiographische Praktikenin Russland. Adlam, Carol. Women in Russian Literature after Glasnost: Female Alternatives. History Kivelson, Valerie. Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Russia. Ryan, W. F. Russian Magic at the British Library: Books, Manuscripts, Scholars, Travellers. Marten-Finnis, Susanne. Vilna as a Centre of the Modern Jewish Press, 1840-1928. Safran, Gabriella ans Steven J. Zipperstein. The Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century. Ransel, David L. and Bozena Shallcross, eds. Polish Encounters, Russian Identity. Moser, Andreas. Land der unbegrenzten Unmöglichkeiten: Das Schweizer Russland- und Russenbild vor der Oktoberrevolution. Schlögel, Karl, ed. Russian-German Special Relations in the Twentieth Century: A Closed Capture? Rabow-Edling, Susanna. Slavophile Thought and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism. Erlich, Victor. Child of a Turbulent Century. Magenheimer, Heinz. Kriegsziele undStrategien dergrossenMächte 1939-1945. Lukacs, John. June 1941: Hitler and Stalin. Léopold L. S., A.A. In Lubianka s Shadow: The Memoirs of an American Priest in Stalin's Moscow, 1934-1945. Pollock, Ethan. Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars. Zarusky, Jürgen, ed. Stalin und die Deutschen: Neue Beiträge der Forschung. Golovskoi, Valerii. Mezhdu ottepel'iu i glasnost'iu: Kinematograf 70-kh. O'Mahony, Mike. Sport in the USSR: Physical Culture-Visual Culture. Gati, Charles. Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt. Kähönen, Aappo. The Soviet Union, Finland, and the Cold War: The Finnish Card in the Soviet Foreign Policy, 1956-1959. Vatlin, Alexander and Larisa Malashenko, eds. Piggy Foxy and the Sword of Revolution: Bolshevik Self-Portraits. Herbert J. Ellison. Boris Yeltsin and Russia s Democratic Transformation. Herspring, Dale. The Kremlin and the High Command: Presidential Impact on the Russian Military from Gorbachev to Putin. Social Science, Contemporary Russia, and Other Collins, Kathleen. Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia. Danilovich, Alex. Russian-Belorussian Integration: Playing Games behind the Kremlin Walls. O'Dwyer, Conor. Runaway State-Building: Patronage Politics and Democratic Development. Smyth, Regina. Candidate Strategies and Electoral Competition in the Russian Federation: Democracy without Foundation. Stoner-Weiss, Kathryn. Resisting the State: Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia. Lovell, Stephen. Destination in Doubt: Russia since 1989. Stern, Jonathan P. The Future of Russian Gas and Gazprom. Daucé, Françoise and Elisabeth Sieca Kozlowski, eds. Dedovshchina in the Post-Soviet Military: Hazing of Russian Army Conscripts in a Comparative Perspective. Daniel, Wallace L. The Orthodox Church and Civil Society in Russia. Stephenson, Svetlana. Crossing the Line: Vagrancy, Homelessness and Social Displacement in Russia. O'Brien, David J. and Valery V. Patsiorkovsky. Measuring Social and Economic Change in Rural Russia: Surveys from 1991 to 2003. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed in this article: L iterature and F ine A rts Donskov, A. A., ed. L. N. Tolstoy and N. N. Strakhov: Complete Correspondence (In Two Volumes). Goller, Mirjam and Georg Witte, eds. Minimalismus: Zwischen Leere und Exzeß. Goller, Mirjam and Susanne Strätling, eds. Schriften – Dinge – Phantasmen: Literatur und Kultur der russischen Moderne I. Ivaniushina, I. Iu. Russkii futurizm: Ideologiia, poetika, pragmatika. Nesbet, Anne. Savage Junctures: Sergei Eisenstein and the Shape of Thinking. Farber, Vreneli. The Prose of Aleksandr Vampilov. Reznik, Semen. Vmeste ili vroz'? Zametki na poliakh knigi A. I. Solzhenitsyna. H istory Goehrke, Carsten. Russischer Alltag: Eine Geschichte in neun Zeitbildern. Goehrke, Carsten. Russischer Alltag: Eine Geschichte in neun Zeitbildern. Poe, Marshall T. The Russian Moment in World History. Whittaker, Cynthia Hyla, ed. With Edward Kasinec and Robert H. Davis, Jr. Russia Engages the World, 1453–1825. Julicher, Peter. Renegades, Rebels and Rogues under the Tsars. Hrushevsky, Mykhailo. History of Ukraine-Rus'. Cracraft, James. The Revolution of Peter the Great. Engel, Barbara Alpern. Women in Russia, 1700–2000. Plokhy, Serhii. Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography. Miller, Alexei. The Ukrainian Question: The Russian Empire and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century. Moss, Walter. Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Ball, Alan M. Imagining America: Influence and Images in Twentieth-Century Russia. Getzler, Israel. Nikolai Sukhanov: Chronicler of the Russian Revolution. Shlapentokh, Vladimir. A Normal Totalitarian Society: How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed. Scheide, Carmen. Kinder, Küche, Kommunismus: Das Wechselverhältnis zwischen sowjetischem Frauenalltag und Frauenpolitik von 1921 bis 1930 am Beispiel Moskauer Arbeiterinnen. Baberowski, Jörg. Der Feind ist überall: Stalinismus im Kaukasus. Schattenberg, Susanne. Stalins Ingenieure: Lebenswelten zwischen Technik und Terror in den 1930er Jahren. Allen, Robert C. Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution. Hunczak, Taras, and Dmytro Shtohryn, eds. Ukraine: The Challenges of World War II. D&ecedil;bski, Sławomir. Mi&ecedil;dzy Berlinem a Moskw&acedil;: Stosunki niemiecko-sowieckie 1939–1941. Richmond, Yale. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain. Service, Robert. Russia: Experiment with a People. MacKenzie, David. One Foot in Russia, the Other in Yugoslavia: A Memoir. S ocial S cience, C ontemporary R ussia, and O ther Breslauer, George W. Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders. Rusmich, Ladislav, and Stephen M. Sachs. Lessons from the Failure of the Communist Economic System. Gaidar, Yegor. State and Evolution: Russia's Search for a Free Market. Curry, Jane Leftwich and Joan Barth Urban, eds. The Left Transformed in Post-Communist Societies: The Cases of East-Central Europe, Russia and Ukraine. Ross, Cameron. Federalism and Democratisation in Russia. Zassoursky, Ivan. Media and Power in Post-Soviet Russia. Newnham, Randall E. Deutsche Mark Diplomacy: Positive Economic Sanctions in German-Russian Relations. Lo, Bobo. Vladimir Putin and the Evolution of Russian Foreign Policy. Beissinger, Mark R. and Crawford Young, eds. Beyond State Crisis? Postcolonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective. Bradshaw Michael J., ed. The Russian Far East and Pacific Asia: Unfulfilled Potential. Hønneland, Geir and Anne-Kristen Jørgensen. Implementing International Environmental Agreements in Russia. Schaeken, Jos, Peter Houtzagers and Janneke Kalsbeek, eds. Dutch Contributions to the Thirteenth International Congress of Slavists. Ljubljana, August 15–21, 2003: Linguistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: Vysheslavtsev, B. P. The Eternal in Russian Philosophy. McReynolds, Louise and Joan Neuberger, eds. Imitations of Life: Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia. Ketchian, Sonia I. Keats and the Russian Poets. Davidson, Pamela, ed. Russian Literature and Its Demons. Connolly, Julian W. The Intimate Stranger: Meetings with the Devil in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature. Donskov, A. A., ed. Novye materially o L. N. Tolstom: Iz arkhiva N. N. Guseva / New Materials on Leo Tolstoy: From the N. N. Gusev Archive. Clayton, J. Douglas. Wave and Stone: Essays on the Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pushkin. Spieker, Sven, ed. Gøgøl: Exploring Absence: Negativity in 19th-Century Russian Literature. Kanevskaya, Marina. N. K. Mikhailovsky’s Criticism of Dostoevsky: The Cruel Critic. Khlebnikov, Velimir. Doski sud′by. Livingstone, Angela, ed. A Hundred Years of Andrei Platonov Krutikov, Mikhail. Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905–1914. Felch, Susan M. and Paul J. Contino, eds. Bakhtin and Religion: A Feeling for Faith. Connolly, Julian W., ed. Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives. Gillespie, David. Early Soviet Cinema: Innovation, Ideology and Propaganda. Dudakov, Savelii. Paradoksy i prichudi filosemitizma i antisemitizma v Rossii. Bolkhovitinov, Nikolai N., ed. Istoriia Russkoi Ameriki, 1732–1867. Dixon, Simon. Catherine the Great. Briantsev, M. V. Kul′tura russkogo kupechestva (Vospitanie i obrazovanie). Herlihy, Patricia. The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia. Morison, John, ed. Ethnic and National Issues in Russian and East European History. Khaziev, R. A. Gosudarstvennoe administrirovanie ekonomiki i rynok na Urale v 1917–1921 gg. Keller, Shoshana. To Moscow, Not Mecca: The Soviet Campaign against Islam in Central Asia, 1917–1941. Raleigh, Donald J., ed. Provincial Landscapes: Local Dimensions of Soviet Power, 1917–1953. Payne, Matthew J. Stalin’s Railroad: Turksib and the Building of Socialism. Kuhr-Korolev, Corinna, et al., eds. Sowjetjugend 1917–1941: Generation zwitschen Revolution und Resignation. Chase, William J. Enemies Within the Gates? The Comintern and the Stalinist Repression, 1934–1939. Brackman, Roman. The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life. Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David. Toward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan. Zhang, Shu Guang. Economic Cold War: America’s Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949–1963. Winkler, David F. Cold War at Sea: High-Seas Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. Dukes, Paul. The Superpowers: A Short History. White, Stephen, Alex Pravda, and Zvi Gitelman, eds. Developments in Russian Politics 5. Tikhomirov, Vladimir. The Political Economy of Post-Soviet Russia. Hahn, Jeffrey W., ed. Regional Russia in Transition: Studies from Yaroslavl′ Clemens, Walter C., Jr. The Baltic Transformed: Complexity Theory and European Security. Malik, Hafeez, ed. Russian-American Relations: Islamic and Turkic Dimensions in the Volga-Ural Basin. Austin, Greg and Alexey D. Muraviev. The Armed Forces of Russia in Asia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews," by Jonathan Frankel.

Reviews the book "Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches," edited by Joel Berkowitz.

Reviews the book 'Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage,' by Joel Berkowitz.

The article reviews the book "Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917–1920," by Oleg Budnitskii, translated by Timothy J. Portice.

A review of the book "Jews and Ukrainians in Russia's Literary Borderlands: From the Shtetl Fair to the Petersburg Bookshop," by Amelia M. Glaser, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia," by Harriet Murav, part of the book series "Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture."

A review of the book "Families, Rabbis & Education: Traditional Jewish Society in 19th-Century Eastern Europe," by Shaul Stampfer is presented.

The article reviews the book "Jewish Philanthropy and Enlightenment in Late-Tsarist Russia," by Brian Horowitz.

A review of the book "Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution," by Kenneth B. Moss is presented.

The article reviews the book "Revolution, Repression, and Revival: The Soviet Jewish Experience," edited by Zvi Gitelman and Yaacov Ro'i.

The article reviews the book "Shush! Growing Up Jewish Under Stalin," by Email Draitser.