Tatiana Chudakova, Cassandra Hartblay, M. Sidorkina
{"title":"A Chto Sluchilos'?: Ethnographies of Holding It Together","authors":"Tatiana Chudakova, Cassandra Hartblay, M. Sidorkina","doi":"10.1111/russ.12583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12583","url":null,"abstract":"This essay by sociocultural anthropologists of Russia working in the North American academy considers rupture in three ways. First, we review rupture as a theoretical concept that ethnographers have both used and contested in making sense of the end of the Soviet Union, to inform our reading of the present moment. Second, we think about what political and social relationships the war has made speakable and for whom, at a time when the possibilities of free expression in Russia carry novel risks. Anthropologists working with indigenous and ethnic minorities in Russia have long insisted on the country’s internal plurality. Drawing on this scholarship, we discuss the ways in which plurality has been freshly repoliticized in the context of the war in Ukraine, while carrying forward some of the legacies of its Soviet orchestration. Third, we observe that the 2022 invasion of Ukraine marks a rupture for ethnographers in the way we do fieldwork in and of Russia. In response, we call for a scholarly praxis of suturing together multiple scales of analysis, digital and geographic locations and incommensurable perspectives.","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"113 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138599584","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":"Rupture: When Things Fall Apart","authors":"Lynn Patyk","doi":"10.1111/russ.12585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12585","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"9 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138603038","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 Uses of Rupture in Medieval Northern Eurasian History","authors":"Nick Evans","doi":"10.1111/russ.12584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12584","url":null,"abstract":"Will Russia’s invasion of Ukraine change bring about a rupture in how we write about and teach the history of medieval Northern Eurasia? Dominant accounts of the region’s medieval history invoke ruptures, such as the Mongol invasion, in the service of state‐centred narratives. Such narratives obscure the diversity of the region’s past and its present. This essay explores the uses of rupture in the historiography of medieval Northern Eurasia. It shows how modern readings of chronicles produced within the monasteries of medieval northern Eurasia have used the device of rupture in the service of a variety of different imperial, national, liberal and conservative historical narratives. This tendency has been remarkably resilient, across modern ruptures such as 1917 and 1991. The essay also addresses the problematic legacy of “Eurasianist” ideas, while pointing to a counter‐tradition of Northern Eurasian historiography, which could provide rich resources for a less ethnocentric and statist approach to the region today. The essay concludes by considering the opportunities for such an approach, in the light of current academic disciplinary boundaries, and media‐ and policy‐facing commentary on the region.","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"32 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138603791","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":"Stalin’s Gamble: The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930–1936 by Michael JabaraCarley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. xxii + 614 pp. $95.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐441‐6","authors":"Jonathan M. House","doi":"10.1111/russ.12586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12586","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"58 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138604956","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":"Putin’s Holy War of the Fatherland: Sacred Memory and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine","authors":"Sean Griffin","doi":"10.1111/russ.12578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12578","url":null,"abstract":"In mid‐2020, Patriarch Kirill (Gundiaev) consecrated a new church known as the Main Cathedral of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The cathedral was dedicated to the Soviet Union’s “Great Victory” over Nazi Germany, and its interior was covered with grandiose mosaics depicting Soviet glory on the battlefields of World War II. In this version of the past, however, Soviet soldiers were shown to have supernatural help from Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary. This merging of Orthodoxy and Communism shocked many observers, who viewed the two ideologies as bitter enemies, dating back the Russian Civil War. Yet on the walls of the new military shrine, the lions and the lambs had laid down together. Angels shielded Orthodox Whites and atheist Reds alike, and the Virgin gazed down on both tsars and commissars. Two implacable foes, on different sides of the greatest rupture in Russian history, had been sutured together into a single and uncontradictory version of the past. But where had this sacred synthesis come from? Who was responsible for the politics of memory preached on the walls of the Main Cathedral? And what role did these sacred memory politics later play in the Russian invasion of Ukraine?","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"98 45","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138605659","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":"A War Made in Russia by Sergei Medvedev. Translated by StephenDalziel. Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 2023. 192 pp. $59.95. ISBN 978‐1‐509‐55839‐1","authors":"Paul B. Stephan","doi":"10.1111/russ.12576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12576","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139210937","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":"Companion to Victor Pelevin by SofyaKhagi, ed. Companions to Russian Literature. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2022. 244 pp. $32.95. ISBN 978‐1‐64469‐775‐7","authors":"Daniel Taehun Lee","doi":"10.1111/russ.12575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12575","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"40 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139268146","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":"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","authors":"Alun Thomas","doi":"10.1111/russ.12573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12573","url":null,"abstract":"The Russian ReviewEarly View BOOK REVIEW 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, Corresponding Author Alun Thomas [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0001-9062-3874 Staffordshire University Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Alun Thomas, Corresponding Author Alun Thomas [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0001-9062-3874 Staffordshire University Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 01 November 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12573Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue RelatedInformation","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"100 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135325685","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":"Osip Mandelstam: A Biography by RalphDutli. Translated by BenFowkes. New York: Verso Books, 2023. 432 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978‐1‐83976‐158‐4","authors":"Raina Kostova","doi":"10.1111/russ.12574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12574","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"202 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136157815","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":"Correction to: Rewriting the Russo‐Japanese War: A Centenary Retrospective","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/russ.12572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12572","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"36 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135461884","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}