{"title":"From <i>Mushtra</i> to Conscious Movement: Pyotr Lesgaft’s Science‐Based Physical Education for the Russian Cadet Corps","authors":"Marina Alexandrova","doi":"10.1111/russ.12562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12562","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A charismatic pedagogue, anatomist, physician, and founder of Russia’s Free University, Pyotr Frantsevich Lesgaft (1837–1909) played a central role in the emergence of science‐based physical education in Russia between the 1870s and the 1900s. Using Lesgaft’s two‐volume Physical Education Guide for School Children (1888–1901) as a focal point, this article examines the debates surrounding military physical education in the context of pedagogical theories in late nineteenth‐century Europe and Russia, and demonstrates that Lesgaft’s liberal views on reforming physical education emerged from his unique expertise as a pedagogue, physician, and anatomist. Although Lesgaft formulated his pioneering system primarily during his employment with the Main Directorate of Military Educational Institutions (GUVUZ), his methods were often at odds with prevalent approaches to cadet training. Importantly, while Lesgaft’s approach was certainly innovative within Russia, it developed in conversation with three popular systems of physical education in nineteenth‐century Europe: Friedrich Jahn’s Turnen , Swedish gymnastics, and British sport.","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136361975","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 History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia by GennadyEstraikh. Russian Shorts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 152 pp. $61.00. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐29624‐4","authors":"B. Kotlerman","doi":"10.1111/russ.12561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12561","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89602899","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":"Geriatrics and Ageing in the Soviet Union: Medical, Political and Social Contexts by SusanGrant and Isaac McKeanScarborough, eds. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 272 pp. $103.50. ISBN 978‐1‐350‐27379‐5","authors":"S. Lovell","doi":"10.1111/russ.12558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12558","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"149 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86131558","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":"Everyday Foreign Policy: Performing and Consuming the Russian Nation after Crimea by ElizavetaGaufman. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 200 pp. $130.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5261‐5541‐2","authors":"J. Johnson","doi":"10.1111/russ.12559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12559","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80604623","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 War on Ukraine: Russia's Campaign for Global Counter‐Revolution by SamuelRamani. London: Hurst Publishers, 2023. 592 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978‐1‐78738‐851‐2","authors":"Serhiy Kudelia","doi":"10.1111/russ.12560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12560","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77586563","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":"Without the Soviet Union: Fighting Inequality from the Left in Ukraine","authors":"Jessica Pisano","doi":"10.1111/russ.12555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12555","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85907318","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":"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","authors":"Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky","doi":"10.1111/russ.12557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12557","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82954130","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":"Russia in Africa: Resurgent Great Power or Bellicose Pretender? by SamuelRamani. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. vi + 320 pp. $60.00. ISBN 978‐0‐19774‐459‐8","authors":"E. Schmidt","doi":"10.1111/russ.12556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12556","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84020952","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":"Dostoevsky as a Translator of Balzac by JuliaTitus. Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2022. xxiii + 128 pp. $119.00. ISBN 978‐1‐64469‐779‐5","authors":"E. Naiman","doi":"10.1111/russ.12545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12545","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"631 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72551803","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":"Russia Against Modernity by AlexanderEtkind.Cambridge: Polity, 2023. 176 pp. $64.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5095‐5657‐1","authors":"Ian Garner","doi":"10.1111/russ.12554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12554","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83255,"journal":{"name":"The Russian review","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81001496","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}