ISSUE INFORMATION
The Russian Review Pages: 1-4
FROM THE EDITOR
Rupture: When Things Fall Apart Lynn Patyk Pages: 5-7
RUPTURE: WHEN THINGS FALL APART
The Uses of Rupture in Medieval Northern Eurasian History Nick Evans Pages: 8-16
A Chto Sluchilos'?: Ethnographies of Holding It Together Tatiana Chudakova, Cassandra Hartblay, Maria Sidorkina Pages: 17-27
The Poetics of Hunger: Responding to Rupture in the Wake of the 1932–33 Famine (Holodomor) in Soviet Ukraine John Vsetecka Pages: 28-39
Cinema of Rupture: Urbicide, Eastern European Rubble Films, and the Documentary Impulse Zdenko Mandušić Pages: 40-50
From Moral Therapy to Political Defiance: Public Self‐Reflections on Russian YouTube Julia Lerner, Anna Novikova Pages: 51-65
From Representation to Sabotage: The New Practices of Russian Antiwar Groups Ania Aizman Pages: 66-78
Putin’s Holy War of the Fatherland: Sacred Memory and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Sean Griffin Pages: 79-92
ARTICLES
From Mushtra to Conscious Movement: Pyotr Lesgaft’s Science‐Based Physical Education for the Russian Cadet Corps Marina Alexandrova Pages: 93-107
The Nationalization of Patriotism in Russian Literature during the Crimean War: Institutions, Everyday Nationalism, and Images of Peasants Alexey Vdovin Pages: 108-125
REVIEW ESSAY
Nuclear History David Holloway Pages: 126-133
FEATURED REVIEW
Late Soviet Music in a Time of Russia’s War Kevin C. Karnes Pages: 134-136
BOOK REVIEWS
Literature and Fine Arts
Tragic Encounters: Pushkin and European Romanticism by Maksim Hanukai. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 264 pp. $89.98. ISBN 978‐0‐299‐34140‐4 Melissa Frazier Pages: 137-138
Chekhov in Context by Yuri Corrigan, ed. Literature in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 372 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐1‐108‐84235‐8 Robert Blaisdell Pages: 139-140
Osip Mandelstam: A Biography by Ralph Dutli. Translated by Ben Fowkes. New York: Verso Books, 2023. 432 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐1‐83976‐158‐4 Raina Kostova Pages: 141-142
Companion to Victor Pelevin by Sofya Khagi, ed. Companions to Russian Literature. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2022. 244 pp. $32.95. ISBN 978‐1‐64469‐775‐7 Daniel Taehun Lee Pages: 143-144
History
The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom by Christian Raffensperger and Donald Ostrowski. Dynasties. London: Reaktion Books, 2023. 320 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐1‐78914‐715‐5 Peter B. Brown Pages: 145-147
The History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia by Gennady Estraikh. Russian Shorts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 152 pp. $61.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐29624‐4 Ber Kotlerman Pages: 148-149
Geriatrics and Ageing in the Soviet Union: Medical, Political and Social Contexts by Susan Grant and Isaac McKean Scarborough, eds. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 272 pp. $103.50. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐27379‐5 Stephen Lovell Pages: 150-151
Monuments for Posterity: Self‐Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time by Antony Kalashnikov. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. 216 pp. $48.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6863‐7 Karl D. Qualls Pages: 152-153
Stalin’s Gamble: The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930–1936 by Michael Jabara Carley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. xxii + 614 pp. $95.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐441‐6 Jonathan M. House Pages: 154-155
Kazakh Muslims in the Red Army, 1939–1945 by Allen J. Frank. Brill’s Inner Asian Library, vol. 42. Boston: Brill, 2022. 201 pp. $108.00. ISBN 978‐90‐04‐51494‐2 Alun Thomas Pages: 156-157
Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room: Domestic Architecture before and after 1991 by Kateryna Malaia. Ithaca: Northern Illinois Press, 2023. xvii + 181 pp. $36.95. ISBN 978‐1‐501771200. Hugh D. Hudson Jr. Pages: 158-159
The Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences by Alla Vronskaya. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. xxxii + 281 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5179‐1227‐7 James Graham Pages: 160-161
Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and Other
Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022 by Dominique Arel and Jesse Driscoll. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 273 pp. $34.99. ISBN 978‐1‐316‐5119‐7 Ivan (John) Jaworsky Pages: 162-163
A War Made in Russia by Sergei Medvedev. Translated by Stephen Dalziel. Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 2023. 192 pp. $59.95. ISBN 978‐1‐509‐55839‐1 Paul B. Stephan Pages: 164-165
Illiberal Vanguard: Populist Elitism in the United States and Russia by Alexandar Mihailovic. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. 282 pp. $79.95. ISBN 978‐0‐299‐34050‐6 Tatiana Filimonova Pages: 166-167
ERRATUM
Correction to: Rewriting the Russo‐Japanese War: A Centenary Retrospective Pages: 168