Book Reviews.

Literature and Fine Arts Nakhimovsky, Alexander D. The Language of the Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. xii + 211 pp. $95.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4985‐7503‐4. Sobol, Valeria. Haunted Empire: Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny. Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, 2020. xiv + 198 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐5057‐1. Ananko, Iaroslava. Kanikuly Kaina: Poetika promezhutka v berlinskikh stikhakh V. F. Khodasevicha. Nauchnaia biblioteka. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2020. 320 pp. R480.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐1249‐5. Shneyder, Vadim. Russia's Capitalist Realism: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020. 248 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐4249‐7. Spektor, Alexander. Reader as Accomplice: Narrative Ethics in Dostoevsky and Nabokov. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2021. 248 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐4246‐6. Redepenning, Dorothea, ed. Ivan Turgenev und die europäische Musikkultur. Musikwissenshcaft. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020. 357 pp. €54.00. ISBN 978‐3‐8253‐4617‐1. Elphick, Daniel. Music behind the Iron Curtain: Weinberg and His Polish Contemporaries. Music in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 298 pp. $99.99. ISBN 978‐1‐108‐49367‐3. Shevtsova, Maria. Rediscovering Stanislavsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 288 pp. $34.99. ISBN 978‐1‐1391‐5109‐2. Widdis, Emma. Socialist Senses: Film, Feeling, and the Soviet Subject 1917–1940. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. xviii + 409 pp. $38.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐253‐02694‐1. DeBlasio, Alyssa. The Filmmaker's Philosopher: Merab Mamardashvili and Russian Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. x + 203 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4744‐4448‐4. History Koloda, Volodymyr, and Serhiy Gorbanenko. Agriculture in the Forest‐Steppe Region of Khazaria. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, Vol. 60. Leiden: Brill, 2020. x + 115 pp. $140.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐34944‐5. Ryan, W. F., and Moshe Taube, eds. and trans. The Secret of Secrets: The East Slavic Version. Introduction, Text, Annotated Translation, and Slavic Index. Warburg Institute Studies and Texts, vol. 7. London: The Warburg Institute, 2019. xiv + 528 pp. $69.00. ISBN 978‐1‐908590‐73‐2. Rowland, Daniel B. God, Tsar, and People: The Political Culture of Early Modern Russia. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. 420 pp. $14.99 (e‐book). ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐5210‐0. Procyk, Anna. Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. xiv + 273 pp. $75.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0508‐0. Kirmse, Stefan B. The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 310 pp. $99.99. ISBN 978‐1‐1084‐9943‐9. Friesen, Aileen E. Colonizing Russia's Promised Land: Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. xiv + 224 pp. $48.75. ISBN 978‐1‐4426‐3719‐1. Diatlov, Viktor, Iana Guzei, and Tat'iana Sorokina. Kitaiskii pogrom: Blagoveshchenskaia "Utopiia" 1900 goda v otsenke sovremennikov i potomkov. St. Petersburg: Nestor‐Istoriia, 2020. 208 pp. R600.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4469‐1651‐1. Riegg, Stephen Badalyan. Russia's Entangled Embrace: The Tsarist Empire and the Armenians, 1801–1914. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2020. 330 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐5011‐3. Morrison, Alexander, Cloé Drieu, and Aminat Chokobaeva, eds. The Central Asian Revolt of 1916: A Collapsing Empire in the Age of War and Revolution. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 384 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5261‐2942‐0. Adams, Margarethe. Steppe Dreams: Time, Mediation, and Postsocialist Celebrations in Kazakhstan. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. 248 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978‐0‐8229‐4614‐4. Tatsumi, Yukiko, and Taro Tsurumi, eds. Publishing in Tsarist Russia: A History of Print Media from Enlightenment to Revolution. Library of Modern Russia. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. xvi + 264 pp. $115.00. ISBN 978‐1‐3501‐0933‐9. Strekalov, Il'ia. Narodnaia taina russkoi revoliutsii: The Soviets, 1905–1917 gg.. Moscow: Rodina, 2020. 478 pp. R469.00. ISBN 978‐5‐907332‐63‐8. Rossi, Jacques, and Michèle Sarde. Jacques the Frenchman: Memories of the Gulag. Edited by Golfo Alexopoulos. Translated by Kersti Colombant. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 368 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐4875‐2406‐7. Feferman, Kiril. If we had wings we would fly to you": A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction, 1941–42. Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe and Their Legacy. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020. 340 pp. $119.00. ISBN 978‐1‐6446‐9290‐5. Shneer, David. Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 280 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐0‐1909‐2381‐5. Miles, Simon. Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. 248 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978‐150‐175169‐1. Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and Other Libman, Alexander, and Michael Rochlitz. Federalism in China and Russia: Story of Success and Story of Failure. Northhampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019. 323 pp. $40.00 (e‐book). 978‐1‐78897‐218‐5. Gulina, Olga R. Migration as a (Geo)‐Political Challenge in the Post‐Soviet Space: Border Regimes, Policy Choices, Visa Agendas. Soviet and Post‐Soviet Politics and Society 212. Stuttgart: ibidem‐Verlag, 2019. 160 pp. $60.00. ISBN 978‐3‐8382‐1338‐5. Veković, Marko. Democratization in Christian Orthodox Europe: Comparing Greece, Serbia and Russia. Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics. New York: Routledge, 2021. xv + 161 pp. $160.00. ISBN 978‐0‐3674‐2083‐3. Szakonyi, David. Politics for Profit: Business, Elections, and Policymaking in Russia. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 291 pp. $34.99. ISBN 978‐1‐1087‐9874‐7. Belton, Catherine. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. 640 pp. $16.99 (e‐book). ISBN 978‐0‐3747‐1278‐5. Sharafutdinova, Gulnaz. The Red Mirror: Putin's Leadership and Russia's Insecure Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2021. 248 pp. £64.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1975‐02 93‐8. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]