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Collected Essays

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Slavic Review , Volume 82 , Issue 2 , Summer 2023 , pp. 586 - 587
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Books that cannot be accommodated in our book review section but that are worthy of special attention are listed here with their tables of contents.

Steiner, Stephan, Combating the Hydra: Violence and Resistance in the Habsburg Empires, 1500–1900. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2023. v, 252 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Tables. $49.99, paper.

Part I. The Conundrum of Deportation and Coerced Labor. 1. Forgotten Chapters in The History Of Violence: Deportation in the Early Modern Habsburg Empire and Its European Surroundings. 2. “An Austrian Cayenne”: Forced Labor in the Early Modern Habsburg Empire. 3. Austria's Penal Colonies: Deportation, Resettlement, and Detention in the Habsburg Empire. Part II. Protestantism Goes Underground. 4. “Acting as if in a Republic Already”: Carinthian Underground Protestants Rehearse the Uprising. 5. Writing Against Suffocation: Migrant Letters as Documents and Strategies of Survival. 6. A Tale of Two Cities: Protestant Preachers and Private Tutors in Vienna under the Rule of Emperor Charles VI. Part III. The Teachings of Gypsy History. 7. “Giving Short Shrift by Flogging, Hanging, and Beheading”: A Gypsy Trial and Its Pitfalls. 8. The Enemy Within: Gypsies as External and Internal Threat in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Holy Roman Empire. 9. From Poisoned Pens to Procedural Justice: Remarks on Gypsy Agency. 10. Out of The Past: The End of Gypsy Slavery in Bukovina. Part IV. In Conversation with Carlo Ginzburg. 11. There Is No Meaning with A Capital “M”: In Conversation with Carlo Ginzburg.

Jacq, Jasmine and Trankvillitskaia, Tatiana, eds. Slavica Occitania. Les arts russes et sovietiques en France au XXe siecle: exporter l'image de soi. Toulouse: Slavica Occitania, 2022. 368 pp. Notes. Photographs. Figures. Tables. €25, paper.

I. Présence et réception de la musique, du théâtre et de l'opéra soviétiques en France des années 1920 à la fin de la guerre froide. Pascal Lécroart, La musique de la Russie soviétique vue par Le Ménestrel (1920–1940). Sylvie Mamy, L'exil de Fiodor Chaliapine à Paris, d'après Le Masque et l’âme (1932). Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu, Les tournées du théâtre soviétique à Paris dans l'entre-deux-guerres ou l'impossible exportation de « l'Octobre théâtral ». Thomas Thisselin, La réception d'Igor Stravinsky entre 1945 et 1956 : examen de la presse communiste française. Maud Caillat, La participation des candidats soviétiques au concours Marguerite Long de 1953 à 1979 et son impact en France. II. Le cinéma russe et soviétique en France : présence, influences, échos. Jasmine Jacq, Les « groupes Medvedkine » (1967–1974), transfert tardif de la culture d'agit-prop soviétique? Entretien avec Joël Chapron par Jasmine Jacq, Exportation et promotion internationale du cinéma russe… ou de films russes ? (1908–2020). III. Échanges cultures franco-soviétiques : rouages organisationnels et rôle des acteurs. Marija Podzorova, « Il faut se préparer sérieusement » : circulations de l'art soviétique en France dans une perspective internationale dans l'entre-deux-guerres. Tatiana Trankvillitskaïa, Pierre Vorms et les autorités soviétiques : les liens d'intérêt dans l'entre-deux-guerres (d'après les archives russes). Natacha Milovzorova, La réception de Paris–Moscou (1979) : Un chœur discordant. Dimitri Filimonov, Inviter les artistes soviétiques en France en 1953–1955 : ambition politique, action culturelle ou affaire commerciale? IV. Courants et contre-courants: Impact et réception de la création soviétique en France (arts plastiques et architecture). Samuel Dégardin, Influence des arts graphiques russes en France pendant l'entre-deux-guerres. Fabien Bellat, Les revues françaises d'architecture face à la reconstruction soviétique. Résumés de thèse. Tatiana Nikitina, Le « ballet russe » de Marius Petipa : un exemple d'hybridation culturelle. Sylvia Chassaing, Parcours critiques de l'art contemporain à la littérature : écrits d'artistes en France, aux États-Unis et en Russie à partir des années 1990 (le cas d'Aleksandr Brener).

Simons, Gregory, Shterin, Marat, and Shiraev, Eric. Islam in Russia: Religion, Politics & Society. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023. xvi, 205 pp. Bibliography. Index. Tables. $95.00, hard bound.

1. Gregory Simons, Marat Shterin, and Eric Shiraev, Islam in Russian Politics and Society. 2. Marat Shterin, Muslims with and without Islam. 3. Marlene Laruelle, Islamic Political Ideologies in Post-Soviet Russia. 4. Sergei A. Samoilenko, Olga Logunova, Sergey Davydov, and Eric Shiraev, Reporting on “Islam” and “terror” in Russian vs. US media. 5. Zilya Khabibullina, Perceptions of the Hajj. 6. Rahim Rahimov, Between Russia and Islam. 7. Nicolas Dreyer, The Role of Islam in Russia's Middle East Policy. 8. Hamidreza Azizi, The Impact of Islam on Russia-Iran relations. Greg Simons, Eric Shiraev, and Marat Shterin, 9. What have we learned?

Florczyk, Piotr and Wisniewski, K. A., ed. Polish Literature as World Literature. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. viii, 250 pp. Bibliography. Index. $120.00, hard bound. $108.00, eBook.

Piotr Florczyk and K. A. Wisniewski, Introduction. 1. Michal Pawel Markowski, Polish Neurosis and the World Literature. 2. Emiliano Ranocchi, Jan Potocki, the Greatest Author of the Polish Enlightenment as a French Writer. 3. Grzegorz Marzec, Adam Mickiewicz: A Very Short Manual for Non-Polish Users. 4. Katarzyna Bartoszynska, The Global Rise of the Novel: Poland and World Literature. 5. Lena Magnone, Eliza Orzeszkowa and Edith Wharton, or Worldly Rhythms of Polish Women's Writing. 6. Agnieszka Jezyk, Suitors with Their Stomachs Full of Lovers: Cannibalistic Tropes in the Texts of Polish Futurist. 7. Zofia Ziemann, Polish Literature and/or World Literature: Bruno Schulz in English. 8. Jacek Gutorow, Polishness Revisited: Witold Gombrowicz and the Question of Identity. 9. Kacper Bartczak, Beyond Identity: John Ashbery's and Frank O'Hara's Impact on Polish Poetry. 10. Andrzej Brylak, The Collective Constipation of the Polish/Israeli Subject: Lipski, Levin, Warlikowski. 11. Ela Przybylo, Swimming Queer: Moving with Contemporary Polish Queer Literatures. 12. Marta Koronkiewicz and Pawel Kaczmarski, Between the Mythical and the Modern: Polishness in the Work of Olga Tokarczuk and Dorota Maslowska. 13. Katarzyna Bazarnik, Literature as World Literature.