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L iterature and F ine A rts Kuzmic, Tatiana. Adulterous Nations: Family Politics and National Anxiety in the European Novel. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016. xvi + 229 pp. $34.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8101-3397-6. Reyfman, Irina. How Russia Learned to Write: Literature and the Imperial Table of Ranks. Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. ix + 237 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-299-30830-8. Tolstoy, Leo. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories. Edited and translated by Kirsten Lodge. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2017. 184 pp. $12.95 (paper). ISBN 978-1-5448-13223. Panova, Lada. Mnimoe sirotstvo: Khlebnikov i Kharms v kontekste russkogo i evropeiskogo modernizma. Issledovaniia kul'tury. Moscow: Izdatel'skii dom Vysshei shkoly ekonomiki, 2017. 608 pp. R601.00. ISBN 978-5-7598-1509-9. Kharms, Daniil. Russian Absurd: Selected Writings. Northwestern World Classics. Translated by Alex Cigale. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2017. xxv + 254 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8101-3457-7. Berlina, Alexandra, ed. and trans. Viktor Shklovsky: A Reader. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. x + 399 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 978-1-5013-1037-9. Sandler, Stephanie, Margarita Krimmel, Oleg Novikov, and Maria Khotimsky, eds. Ol'ga Sedakova: Stikhi, Smysly, Prochteniia. Sbornik nauchnykh statei. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2017. 552 pp. R585.00. ISBN 978-5-4448-0611-1. Frolova-Walker, Marina. Stalin's Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. xi + 369 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-300-20884-9. Mazierska, Ewa, Matilda Mroz, and Elżbieta Ostrowska, eds. The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia: Between Pain and Pleasure. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. 272 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-4744-0514-0. Beumers, Birgit, ed. A Companion to Russian Cinema. Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas. West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2016. xvi + 656 pp. $195.00. ISBN 978-1-118-41276-3. H istory North, Michael. The Baltic: A History. Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. xi + 427 pp. $22.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-674-97083-0. Antonov, Sergei. Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Harvard Historical Studies 187. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. x + 387 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-674-97148-6. Remy, Johannes. Brothers or Enemies: The Ukrainian National Movement and Russian from the 1840s to the 1870s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. x + 344 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978-1-4875-0046-7. Schedrin, Vassilli. Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds: Jewish Bureaucracy and Policymaking in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1917. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2016. xi + 292 pp. $49.99. ISBN 978-0-8143-4043-4. Stockdale, Melissa Kirschke. Mobilizing the Russian Nation: Patriotism and Citizenship in the First World War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 284 pp. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-107-09386-7 House, John M. Wolfhounds and Polar Bears: The American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918-1920. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2016. xviii + 243 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-8173-1889-5. Horowitz, Brian. The Russian-Jewish Tradition: Intellectuals, Historians, Revolutionaries. Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2017. 292 pp. $82.00. ISBN 978-1-6181-1556-0. Brenton, Tony, ed. Was Revolution Inevitable? Turning Points of the Russian Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xx + 364 pp. $17.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-19-065891-5. Saburova, Tat'iana, and Ben Eklof. Druzhba, sem'ia, revoliutsiia: Nikolai Charushin i pokolenie narodnikov 1870-kh godov. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2016. 444 pp. $23.00. ISBN 978-5-4448-0558-9. Baberowski, Jörg. Scorched Earth: Stalin's Reign of Terror. The Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes. Translated by Steven Gilbert, Ivo Komljen, and Samantha Jeanne Taber. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. xii + 500 pp. $40.00. ISBN 978-0-300-13698-2. Holmes, Larry E. Stalin's World War II Evacuations: Triumphs and Troubles in Kirov. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2017. xiv + 231 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-7006-2395-2. Glantz, David M., with Mary Elizabeth Glantz. The Battle for Belorussia: The Red Army's Forgotten Campaign of October 1943-April 1944. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016. xxvi + 760 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-7006-23299-7. Dumitru, Diana. The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xvii + 268 pp. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-107-13196-5. Hrynevych, Vladyslav, and Paul Robert Magocsi, eds. Babyn Yar: History and Memory. Kiev: Dukh i Litera, 2016. 328 pp. Hrn200.00. ISBN 978-966-378-470-0. Heftrich, Urs, Robert Jacobs, Bettina Kaibach, and Karoline Thaidigsmann, eds. Images of Rupture between East and West: The Perception of Auschwitz and Hiroshima in Eastern European Arts and Media. Beiträge zur Neueren Literaturgeschichte Band 347. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. 547 pp. €68.00. ISBN 978-3-8253-6548-6. Lovell, Stephen. Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio, 1919-1970. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 272 pp. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-198-72526-8. Miller, Chris. The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR. The New Cold War History. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016. xx + 244 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-4696-3017-5. Service, Robert. The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991. London: Macmillan, 2015. 562 pp. £35.00. ISBN 978-0-230-74808-8. S ocial S ciences, C ontemporary R ussia, and O ther Schulmeister-André, Irina. Internationale strafgerichtsbarkeit unter sowjetischem Einfluss: Der Beitrag der UdSSR zum Nürnberger Hauptkriegsverbrecherprozess. Studies in International and European Criminal Law and Procedure 27. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 2016. 580 pp. €107.90. ISBN 978-3-428-14867-7. Burgess, John P. Holy Rus': The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. xiv + 264 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-300-22224-1. Kurilla, Ivan, and Victoria I. Zhuravleva, eds. Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, Amerikanistika in Russia: Mutual Representations in Academic Projects. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016. xix + 286 pp. $95.00. ISBN 978-1-4895-1798-0. Marchenia, P. P., and S. Iu. Razin, eds. Rossiiskaia mnogopartiinost' i rossiiskie krizisy XX-XXI vv: Sbornik nauchnykh statei i materialov kruglykh stolov. Narod i vlast' v rossiiskoi smute. Narod i vlast': Istoriia Rossii i ee fal'sifikatsii, Vol. 6. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Ippolitova, 2016. 948 pp. ISBN 978-5-90363-102-5. Reisinger, William M., and Bryon J. Moraski. The Regional Roots of Russia's Political Regime. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. xii + 268 pp. $75.00. ISBN 978-0-472-13018-4. Tönsmann, Susanne. What Is Citizenship For? Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2017. 218 pp. €49.00. ISBN 978-3-8305-3595-9. Gabowitsch, Mischa. Protest in Putin's Russia. Cambridge: Polity, 2016. 300 pp. $69.95. ISBN 978-0-7456-9625-6. Trenin, Dmitri. Should We Fear Russia? Cambridge: Polity, 2016. 144 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978-1-5095-1090-0. Raikhel, Eugene. Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic. Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. xiv + 232 pp. $26.95 (paper). ISBN 978-105017-0313-3. Pallot, Judith, and Elena Katz. Waiting at the Prison Gate: Women, Identity and the Russian Penal System. London: I. B. Tauris, 2017. xx + 252 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978-1-78453-660-2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In what is now called Philosophy of Psychology—A Fragment (formerly Part II of the Philosophical Investigations), Wittgenstein writes that the importance of the concept of aspect‐seeing "lies in the connection between the concepts of seeing an aspect and of experiencing the meaning of a word." Wittgenstein claims that just as we can imagine someone who does not experience shifts between two aspects in the same image—for example, the duck–rabbit—we can imagine people who use language but do not experience the meaning of a word. In this paper, I explicate the importance of this "meaning‐blindness" and its relation to aspect‐seeing. I then argue—drawing on a similar thought experiment in Walter Benjamin's early philosophy of language—that meaning‐blindness is actually a fatal impediment for language use. The upshot of my analysis is that the aesthetic experience of meaning, regularly marginalized in the philosophy of language, must be understood as fundamental to language and language use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews parts III and IV of the recent Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics. Many of the surveys within the Handbook relate to two phenomena of interest: the recent boom and bust cycle in U.S. housing markets, and the striking growth of home prices in a few global 'Superstar Cities.' Real Estate and Urban economists have made progress in modeling these phenomena. There is considerable room for future research, however. There is no coherent story explaining U.S. home price movements in the 2000s that does not run afoul of important stylized facts. We also have not yet identified the relative importance of supply constraints and demand growth in the rise of Superstar City prices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This qualitative study examined a five-day summer professional development workshop for English language arts teachers on argument writing. Fourteen teacher participants learned from five different professionals who discussed the role of argument in their fields. Teacher blog posts were coded to understand what teacher participants perceived as important to or different from their previous understandings. Findings include (a) authentic argument is as much about an attitude or state of mind as it is about a product on paper; (b) in schools, argument instruction is very focused on structure; (c) research and data are essential to argument outside of schools; and (d) authentic argument has consequences. These findings have implications for those teaching argument writing as an authentic act. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper responds to and comments on many of the themes of the book under consideration concerning Foucault and neoliberalism. In doing so, it offers reflections on the relation between the habitus of the intellectual and the political contexts of action and engagement in the case of Foucault, and the strengths and weaknesses of his characterization of his work in terms of an 'experimental' ethos. It argues that it is possible to identify his distinctive views on neoliberalism as a programmatic ideal, as a language of critique of the postwar welfare state, and as an element within actual political forces such as the French 'Second Left' of the 1970s. It examines the legacy of Foucault in 'governmentality studies' and argues for attentiveness to the different intellectual positions, and their potentially divergent political consequences, within this school of thought. It concludes by suggesting that the discussion currently taking place, and in part inaugurated by this book, might signal a change of his status in the humanities and social sciences today from 'unsurpassable horizon' of critical thought to acknowledged classical thinker, with strengths and limitations, and a series of problems that might not be our own. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

That something is profoundly wrong with the way in which enlightenment has unfolded has widely been taken to be the main thrust of Dialectic of Enlightenment. In this paper, I propose to defend that to understand the book and shed light on some of its most puzzling features, one should rather take Horkheimer and Adorno's critical claim at face value: through their criticism they contend to have prepared a positive concept of enlightenment. How this can be so is the question I want to answer. I defend that what we need is an account that works out the conceptual grounds on which their critique can operate. The focus of my attempt will consist in understanding (1) what they mean when they assert that rationality is intrinsically social and (2) how they conceive of rationality as being reflective at its core. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper draws upon an explanation of the proleptic, an understanding of time as being socially constructed within specific contexts, to interpret a series of dramatic sequences enacted in ethnodramatic pedagogy. The authors present two major arguments: (1) teachers can help students analyze the processes that influence and shape their identities by adopting a proleptic framework; (2) ethnodrama, a dramatic and dialogic approach to interpreting texts, creates an opportunity for students to evaluate the social forces that shape identity construction as they situate and reflect on texts within multiple contexts. The authors delineate the ways in which teachers can use ethnodrama to help students revise their understandings of the personal and cultural implications of texts by situating these understandings in different configurations of place, space, and time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]