{"title":"Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context by MirjaLecke and EfraimSicher, eds. Ukrainian Studies. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023. 352 pp. $149.00. ISBN 979‐8‐8871‐9256‐7","authors":"Marina Sapritsky‐Nahum","doi":"10.1111/russ.12619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12619","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"35 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139797110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia's Far North by Tyler C.Kirk. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. 308 pp. $70.00. ISBN 978‐0‐2530‐6749‐4","authors":"Jeffrey S. Hardy","doi":"10.1111/russ.12621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12621","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139859541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia's Far North by Tyler C.Kirk. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. 308 pp. $70.00. ISBN 978‐0‐2530‐6749‐4","authors":"Jeffrey S. Hardy","doi":"10.1111/russ.12621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12621","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"135 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139799824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Staging the Absolute: Ritual in Russia’s Modern Era by ThomasSeifrid. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024. 264 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐5180‐3","authors":"Alisa Ballard Lin","doi":"10.1111/russ.12618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12618","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"25 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139826009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Staging the Absolute: Ritual in Russia’s Modern Era by ThomasSeifrid. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024. 264 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐5180‐3","authors":"Alisa Ballard Lin","doi":"10.1111/russ.12618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12618","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"3 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139885775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The German‐Soviet Encounter: War, Ideology, and Political Transformation","authors":"Franziska Exeler","doi":"10.1111/russ.12613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12613","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"47 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139604141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reds in Blue: UNESCO, World Governance, and the Soviet Internationalist Imagination by Louis HowardPorter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 320 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978‐0‐1976‐5630‐3","authors":"Elizabeth Banks","doi":"10.1111/russ.12612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12612","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"5 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139609932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great by Rosalind P.Blakesley. London: Lund Humphries, 2023. 152 pp. $64.99. ISBN 978‐1‐84822‐545‐9","authors":"Molly Brunson","doi":"10.1111/russ.12611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12611","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":" 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139620243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ukrainians as “Aliens” (Inorodtsy): Governmental Regulation of Ukrainian Cultural Associations, 1905–17","authors":"Anton Kotenko","doi":"10.1111/russ.12608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12608","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a history of the imperial government’s regulation of Ukrainian cultural associations, which appeared around the Romanov Empire in the aftermath of the 1905 Revolution. It centers on the prehistory, drafting, and implementation of Circular No. 2 (1910), issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and signed by Petr Stolypin on January 20, 1910, which labeled Ukrainian associations “alien.” By studying the document in a wider chronological and geographical context than in previous scholarship, I argue that even though the circular aimed at curbing any non‐Russian nationalist activity irrespective of national group, its more specific goal was to avert a break‐up of the tripartite Russian nation by preventing the inhabitants of the southwestern provinces from becoming Ukrainians. Therefore, the circular’s characterization of Ukrainians as “aliens” was neither an accident nor a bureaucratic mistake, as is suggested in the historiography, but should be considered as a manifestation of the embrace of Russian nationalism by the highest officials of the empire. Additionally, the haphazard implementation of the circular further revealed the multilayered nature of the late imperial bureaucracy, as well as the empire’s inconsistent nationalization on the eve of the First World War.","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":" 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139622839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}