THIRTY YEARS WITH PELEVIN
Introduction: Power in Pelevin Tatiana Filimonova, Sofya Khagi, Maya Vinokour Pages: 577-581
Power and the Aerial Sublime in Victor Pelevin Sofya Khagi Pages: 582-598
Being Zen: Pelevin, Buddha, and the Void Daniel Taehun Lee Pages: 599-612
Victor Pelevin and Eurasianist Geopolitics Tatiana Filimonova Pages: 613-630
Victor Pelevin and the Aesthetics of Neoreaction Maya Vinokour Pages: 631-648
ARTICLES
Lower‐Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia Sarah Badcock, Felix Cowan Pages: 649-667
School, Empire, and the Provincial Roots of Civil Activism in Late Nineteenth‐Century Russia Alex Valdman Pages: 668-681
Songwashing: Russian Popular Music, Distraction, and Putin’s Fourth Term Marco Biasioli Pages: 682-704
FEATURED REVIEWS
The Lessons of Russian Literature? Anthony Anemone Pages: 705-708
Jews and Race, Between Empire and Post‐Coloniality Andrew Sloin Pages: 709-713
Without the Soviet Union: Fighting Inequality from the Left in Ukraine Jessica Pisano Pages: 714-717
BOOK REVIEWS
Literature and Fine Arts Legacies of the Stone Guest: The Don Juan Legend in Russian Literature by Alexander Burry. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. x + 239 pp. $99.95. ISBN 978‐0‐299342‐10‐4 Adrian Wanner Pages: 718-719
Dostoevsky as a Translator of Balzac by Julia Titus. Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2022. xxiii + 128 pp. $119.00. ISBN 978‐1‐64469‐779‐5 Eric Naiman Pages: 720-721
The Vortex That Unites Us: Versions of Totality in Russian Literature by Jacob Emery. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, 2023. 228 pp. $54.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6938‐2 José Vergara Pages: 722-723
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cross Rhythms of the Soul by Valeria Z. Nollan. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022. 398 pp. $125.00. ISBN 978‐1‐66691‐759‐8 Klara Moricz Pages: 724-725
“Leningradskii ekspressionizm”: Solomon Gershov, Gavriil Glikman, Feliks Lemberskii by Irina Mamonova. Moscow: BuksMArt, 2019. 432 pp. ₽2,130.00. ISBN 978‐5‐907043‐46‐6 Yuri Leving Pages: 726-728
Nabokov in Motion: Modernity and Movement by Yuri Leving. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 352 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5013‐8654‐1 Tatyana Gershkovich Pages: 729-730
How the Soviet Jew Was Made by Sasha Senderovich. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022. 368 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐23819‐0 Inna Shtakser Pages: 731-732
Studies in the History of Russian‐Israeli Literature by Roman Katsman and Maxim D. Shrayer. Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe and Their Legacy. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023. 432 pp. $65.00. ISBN 979‐8‐88719‐185‐0 Alice Nakhimovsky Pages: 733-734
Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars by Elena Pedigo Clark. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023. 270 pp. $149.99. ISBN 978‐1‐64469‐426‐8 Thomas Jesús Garza Pages: 735-736
History
Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic by Charlotte Wrigley. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. xiv + 237 pp. $22.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5179‐1182‐9 Andy Bruno Pages: 737-738
Picturing Russian Empire Valerie Kivelson, Sergei Kozlov, and Joan Neuberger, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 592 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐760052‐8 Brigid O’Keeffe Pages: 739-741
Russia’s Social Gospel: The Orthodox Pastoral Movement in Famine, War, and Revolution by Daniel Scarborough. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. 320 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐299‐33724‐7 Scott Kenworthy Pages: 742-743
The Ruble: A Political History by Ekaterina Pravilova. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 560 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐766371‐4 Kristy Ironside Pages: 744-745
Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Through Much Tribulation by Leonard G. Friesen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 401 pp. $42.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐2465‐4 Aileen Friesen Pages: 746-747
Siberian Exile and the Invention of Revolutionary Russia, 1825–1917: Exiles, Émigrés, and the International Reception of Russian Radicalism by Ben Phillips. New York: Routledge, 2022. 210 pp. $170.00. ISBN 978‐0‐367‐22480‐6 Stuart Finkel Pages: 748-749
Voina patriotizmov: Propaganda i massovye nastroeniia v Rossii perioda krusheniia imperii by Vladislav Aksenov. Chto takoe Rossiia. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2023. 488 pp. ₽660.00. ISBN 978‐5‐4448‐1938‐8 Ilya Strekalov Pages: 750-751
Samoderzhavie na perelome: 1894 god v istorii dinastii i vlasti by Dmitri A. Andreev. Trudy istoricheskogo fakulʹteta MGU 207, Seriia II, Istoricheskie issledovaniia 138. St. Petersburg: Aleteiia, 2022. 234 pp. ₽750.00. ISBN 978‐5‐00165‐399‐8 Anton Fedyashin Pages: 752-753
Red Star over the Black Sea: Nâzım Hikmet and His Generation by James H. Meyer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 400 pp. £100.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1928‐7117‐6 Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky Pages: 754-755
Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR by Rustam Alexander. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 288 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978‐1‐5261‐6745‐3 Tatiana Klepikova Pages: 756-757
Georgian and Soviet: Entitled Nationhood and the Specter of Stalin in the Caucasus by Claire P. Kaiser. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. vi + 275 pp. $43.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6680‐0 Stephen Jones Pages: 758-759
Laboratories of Terror: The Final Act of Stalin’s Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine by Lynne Viola and Marc‐Stephen Junge, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 240 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐764755‐4 François-Xavier Nérard Pages: 760-761
Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 352 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0781‐7 J. Otto Pohl Pages: 762-763
Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR by Diana Cucuz. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. 336 pp. $85.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0377‐2 Roshanna P. Sylvester Pages: 764-765
Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women by Kristen Ghodsee. New York: Verso Books, 2022. 224 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978‐1‐83976‐660‐2 Julia L. Mickenberg Pages: 766-767
Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonization by James Mark and Paul Betts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 384 pp. $100.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐284885‐7 Artemy M. Kalinovsky Pages: 768-769
Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and Other The Afterlife of the “Soviet Man”: Rethinking Homo Sovieticus by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova. Russian Shorts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 136 pp. $61.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐16771‐1 Hilary Appel Pages: 770-771
Understanding the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since 1991 by Charles Clarke, ed. London: Hurst & Co., 2023. 352 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978‐1‐78738‐941‐0 Andres Kasekamp Pages: 772-773
Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia by Alexander Sasha Kondakov. London: University College London Press, 2022. 244 pp. £20.00. ISBN 978‐1‐80008‐294‐6 Dan Healey Pages: 774-775
Russia in Africa: Resurgent Great Power or Bellicose Pretender? by Samuel Ramani. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. vi + 320 pp. $60.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19774‐459‐8 Elizabeth Schmidt Pages: 776-777
Everyday Foreign Policy: Performing and Consuming the Russian Nation after Crimea by Elizaveta Gaufman. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 200 pp. $130.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5261‐5541‐2 Janet Elise Johnson Pages: 778-779
Russia Against Modernity by Etkind. AlexanderCambridge: Polity, 2023. 176 pp. $64.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5095‐5657‐1 Ian Garner Pages: 780-781
Hybrid Warriors: Proxies, Freelancers and Moscow’s Struggle for Ukraine by Anna Arutunyan, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 352 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐1‐78738‐795‐9 Jānis Bērziņš Pages: 782-783
From “the Ukraine” to Ukraine: A Contemporary History of 1991–2021 by Matthew Rojansky, Georgiy Kasianov, and Mykhailo Minakov, eds. Hannover: ibidem‐Verlag, 2021. 398 pp. €45.90. ISBN 978‐3‐8382‐1514‐3 Sophia Wilson Pages: 784-786
Belarus in Crisis: From Domestic Unrest to the Russia‐Ukraine War by Paul Hansbury. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xii + 326 pp. $32.50. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐774770‐4 Tatsiana Kulakevich Pages: 787-788
Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine by Greta Lynn Uehling. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. 210 pp. $125.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6759‐3 John Vsetecka Pages: 789-790
Putin's War on Ukraine: Russia's Campaign for Global Counter‐Revolution by Samuel Ramani. London: Hurst Publishers, 2023. 592 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐1‐78738‐851‐2 Serhiy Kudelia Pages: 791-792