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.
Groys, Boris, ed. Russian Cosmism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press & e-flux, 2018. x, 249 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. Maps. $27.95, hard bound.
Anton Vidokle and Brian Kuan Wood, Foreword. Boris Groys, Introduction: Russian Cosmism and the Technology of Immortality. Alexander Chizhevsky, “The World Historical Cycles,” from The Earth in the Sun's Embrace. Nikolai Fedorov, Astronomy and Architecture. Alexander Svyatogor, Our Affirmations. Alexander Svyatogor, The Doctrine of the Fathers and Anarchism-Biocosmism. Valerian Muravyev, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience: Polish Conservatism 1979–2011. Zoltán Gábor Szűcs, A Universal Productive Mathematics. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, The Future of Earth and Mankind. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Panpsychism, or Everything Feels. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Theorems of Life (as an Addendum and Clarification on Monism). Alexander Bogdanov, Goals and Norms of Life. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Tektology of the Struggle again Old Age. Alexander Bogdanov, Immortality Day.
Slesinski, Robert F., The Theology of Sergius Bulgakov. Yonkers, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2017. 280 pp. Bibliography. Index. $35.00, paper.
The Pining of a Spirit (In Lieu of a Biography). A Sociological Diptych. Bulgakov on Sophia: Another Distillation. A Speculative Angelology. On the Ontological Significance of John the Forerunner. The Glorification of the Mother of God. The Holy Theotokos: The Pneumatophoric Hypostasis and Co-Redemptrix. Bulgakov's First Theological Trilogy in an Overview. Paterology: Reverencing the Father. A Sophiological Conception of Creation. A Christological Synthesis. The Role and Meaning of Miracles and Relics in Bulgakov's Christological Thought. Words of Fire: Bulgakovs's Daring Pneumatology. Ecclesiological Musings in Bulgakov. The Enigma of the Name in Bulgakov's Philosophy of Language. Eschatological Hopes.
Hunter, Shireen T., ed. The New Geopolitics of the South Caucasus: Prospects for Regional Cooperation and Conflict Resolution. Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Culture. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. xxviii, 275 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $105.00, hard bound.
Shireen T Hunter, Introduction. Part I: Country Studies. Richard Giragosian, Twenty-Five Years on Armenia's Difficult Period of State-Building. Eldar Mamedov, Azerbaijan Twenty-Five Years after Independence Accomplishments and Shortcomings. Ghia Nadia, Georgia's Pro-Western Policies: An Obsession or a Pragmatic Choice? Part II: Policies of International and Regional Actors. Richard Kauzlarich, US Policy toward the South Caucasus: Reform, Prosperity, Democracy. Sergey Markedonov, Russian Policy toward the South Caucasus: Security, Unity, and Diversity. Nona Mikhelidze, The South Caucasus in the European Union's Perspective: Not a Single Region. Bulent Aras, Turkey's Policy toward the South Caucasus Expectations, Failures, and Achievements. Mohaiddin Mesbahi and Mohammad Homayounvash, Iran and the Changing Geopolitics of the South Caucasus. Shireen T Hunter, Middle East Actors and Politics: Impact on the South Caucasus.
Staliūnas, Darius, ed. Spatial Concepts of Lithuania in the Long Nineteenth Century. Lithuanian Studies without Borders. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2016. vi, 471 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Maps. $119.00, hard bound.
Darius Staliūnas, Poland or Russia?: Lithuania on the Russian Mental Map. Zita Medis˘auskienė, Images of Lithuania in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Darius Staliūnas, The Pre-1914 Creation of Lithuanian National Territory. Olga Mastianica and Darius Staliūnas, “Lithuania—an extension of Poland”: The Territorial Image of Lithuania in the Polish Discourse. Olga Mastianica, Between Ethnographic Belarus and the Reestablishment of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: How Belarusian Nationalism Created its “National Territory” at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. Vladimir Levin and Darius Staliūnas, Lite on the Jewish Mental Maps. Vasilijus Safronovas, Lithuania in the Spatial Concepts of Germans and Prussian Lithuanians. In Lieu of a Conclusion.
Edele, Mark, Fitzpatrick, Sheila, and Grossmann, Atina, eds. Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2017. vii, 306 pp. Appendix. Notes. Index. Tables. Maps. $34.99, paper.
Mark Edele, Sheila Fitzpatrick, John Goldlust, and Atina Grossmann, Introduction: Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union. John Goldlust, A Different Silence: The Survival of More than 200,000 Polish Jews in the Soviet Union during World War II as a Case Study in Cultural Amnesia. Mark Edele, and Wanda Warlik, Saved by Stalin? Trajectories and Numbers of Polish Jews in the Soviet Second World War. Sheila Fitzpatrick, Annexation, Evacuation, and Antisemitism in the Soviet Union, 1939–1946. Natalie Belsky, Fraught Friendships: Soviet Jews and Polish Jews on the Soviet Home Front. Atina Grossmann, Jewish Refugees in Soviet Central Asia, Iran, and India: Lost Memories of Displacement, Trauma, and Rescue. John Goldlust, Identity Profusions: Bio-historical Journeys from “Polish Jew” / “Jewish Pole” through “Soviet citizen” to “Holocaust Survivor.” Eliyana R. Adler, Crossing Over: Exploring the Borders of Holocaust Testimony. Maria Tumarkin, Epilogue.
Blank, Joshua, Creating Kashubia: History, Memory, and Identity in Canada's First Polish Community. McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History. Chicago: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. xvi, 347 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Plates. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $34.95, paper.
Part I: Revisiting Historical Memory. The Production of Knowledge and Canada's First Polish Community. Poverty, Piety, and Political Persecution. Migration Memories. Intending Settlers: T.P. French and His Guidebook. Poor Land and Victorian Science. Part II: Cultural Redefinition. The Origins and Development of the Kashubian Label. Legacies of Promotion: Cultural Redefinition and the Wilno Heritage Society. Epilogue. Appendix: Emigrants from Prussian-Occupied Poland Who Settled on the Opeongo and Surrounding Townships.
Benz, Wolfgang and Weber, Matthias, eds. Exodus: Die Juden Europas nach dem Holocaust. Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa, band 71. Oldenburg: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2017. 184 pp. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. €39.95, hard bound.
Wolfgang Benz and Matthias Weber, Vorwort der Herausgeber. Wolfgang Benz, Einleitung. I. Entwurzelung und Neubeginn: Displaced Persons. Angelika Königseder, Flucht nach Berlin. Sigrun Jochims-Bosic, Befristeter Aufenthalt. Lübeck als Transitstation und Ort jüdischen Neuanfangs. Thomas Albrich, Flucht durch Österreich: Stationen der illegalen Einwanderung nach Palästina. II. Nach dem Exil. Miriam Bistrovic, Wo weiterleben? Das Ende des jüdischen Exils in Shanghai. Juliane Wetzel, Deutsche Juden in den USA. Patrik von zur Mühlen, Deutsche Juden in Lateinamerika. Konrad Kwiet, Der jüdische Exodus nach Australien. III. Vertreibung als kollektives Schicksal. Markus Bauer, Zweimal vertrieben auf der Suche nach Heimat: Deutsche aus der Bukowina. Markus Winkler, Deutsche und Juden in Czernowitz. Ladislau Gyémánt, Deutsche und Juden in Siebenbürgen nach dem Holocaust. IV. Bittere Bilanz. Wolfgang Benz, Christliche Barmherzigkeit für Judenmörder: Kirchliche Hilfe zur Flucht von NS-Verbrechern.
Young, Thomas-Durell, Anatomy of Post-Communist European Defense Institutions: The Mirage of Military Modernity. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. xvi, 296 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. $114.00, hard bound.
1. Introduction. 2. The State of Communist Defense Institutions and Armed Forces, circa 1990. 3. NATO Exports its “New Model Army:” Why It Did Not Take. 4. Former-Soviet Republics’ Defense Institutions. 5. Former-Warsaw Pact Republics’ Defense Institutions. 6. Former-Yugoslav Republics’ Defense Institutions.
7. Building Defense Institutions: Sharpening the Western Mind. 8. Reforming Western Policy and Management of Defense Reform. 9. Conclusion: Getting to “Honest Defense.”
Pieniazek, Pawel, Greetings from Novorossiya: Eyewitness to the War in Ukraine. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. xviii, 206 pp. Appendix. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. $24.95, paper.
1. Cheerful in Donetsk. 2. Disintegration. 3. In Novorossiya, or Where? 4. The Separatists’ First Capital. 5. Kiev Is Powerless. 6. Disaster Comes. 7. The Fallen City. 8. War Comes to Donetsk. 9. The Story of a Missile. 10. Transnistria on the Don.
Rosenshield, Gary, Physical Pain and Justice: Greek Tragedy and the Russian Novel. Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context. New York: Lexington Books, 2017. xxviii, 187 pp. Bibliography. Index. $95.00, hard bound.
1. Prometheus Bound: Punishment, Power, and Justice. 2. Sophocles’ The Women of Trachis: Physical Pain, the Hero, and the Gods. 3. Sophocles’ Philoctetes: Pain, Outrage, and Justice. 4. Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead: Corporal Punishment, Justice and the State. 5. Pain, Truth, and History (Injustice) in War and Peace. 6. Pain, Truth, and Justice: The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
Flier, Michael S., Kivelson, Valerie, Monahan, Erika, and Rowland, Daniel, eds. Seeing Muscovy Anew: Politics—Institutions—Culture: Essays in Honor of Nancy Shields Kollmann. Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, 2017. vii, 354 pp. Appendix. Notes. Plates. Figures. Tables. Maps. $34.95, paper.
Introduction. Seeing Muscovy Anew: Politics—Institutions—Culture. Nancy Shields Kollmann: Scholar, Teacher, Mentor. Nancy Shields Kollmann: Complete Bibliography. I. The Politics of Rule Sergei. Bogatyrev, Novgorodian Regnal Lists: A Reconsideration. Charles J. Halperin, Ivan the Terrible and Muscovite Political Culture: Cutting the Gordian Knot. Valerie A. Kivelson, How Bad Was Ivan the Terrible? The Oprichnik Oath and Satanic Spells in Foreigners’ Accounts. Russell E. Martin, “To Serve Without Regard to Place”: Precedence and Royal In-Laws at the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1525–1671. II. Conflicted Belief. David Goldfrank, By Dishonor in a Bind—Imperatives and Paradoxes in the Writings of Iosif Volotskii. Donald Ostrowski, Unresolved Evidentiary Issues Concerning Rus΄ Heretics of the Late Fifteenth−Early Sixteenth Centuries. III. Testimony of the Visual. Michael S. Flier, Murder Most Foul: Picturing the Death of Andrei Bogoliubskii. Daniel Rowland, Advice Advisers, and Courtiers: Decision Making and Advice in the Royal Book of the Illustrated Chronicle Compilation. Gary Marker, A World of Visual Splendor: The Illustrated Texts of Karion Istomin. Isolde Thyrêt, Saint Stephen of Perm΄ and the Dual Faith Phenomenon in Muscovite Texts and Images. IV. Institutions Outside the Box. Janet Martin, Women, the Pomest΄e System, and Muscovite State Authority in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century. Paul Bushkovitch, Words and Things: Contemporary Translations of the Russian Institutional Vocabulary (Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries). Eve Levin, Prison or Asylum: The Involuntary Commitment of the Insane to Monasteries in Early Modern Russia. Alexander Kamenskii, Honor and Dishonor in Eighteenth-Century Russia. V. Empire and Outer Spaces. Brian J. Boeck, Calculating the Casualties of Forced Labor: Azov as a Harbinger of Petrine Policies. Erika Monahan, Salt Wars and Salted Coffee: At Home with the Filat΄evs. Georg B. Michels, When Will the Turks Attack? Habsburg Espionage and Actionable Intelligence in the Age of Grand Vezir Ahmed Köprülü (1661–76). Serhii Plokhy, Princes and Cossacks: Putting Ukraine on the Map of Europe. Martina Winkler Paths, Surfaces and Borders: Mapping the Russian Empire in the Eighteenth Century.
Makarova, Anastasia, Dickey, Stephen M., and Divjak, Dagmar, eds. Each Venture a New Beginning: Studies in Honor of Laura A. Janda. Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, 2017. xix, 413 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Figures. Tables. $39.95, paper.
Stephen M. Dickey, Dagmar Divjak, and Anastasia Makarova, Introduction. Tabula Gratulatoria. I. Language in Use: Theory and Method. Ronald W. Langacker, Degrees of Epistemic Control: The Interchangeability of Quantifiers, Modals, and Frequency Adverbs. John Newman, When Individuals Matter: Person-Oriented Research in Contemporary Linguistics. Dirk Geeraerts, Distributionalism, Old and New. R. Harald Baayen and Dagmar Divjak, Ordinal GAMMs: A New Window on Human Ratings. Vsevolod Kapatsinski, Copying, the Source of Creativity. Ewa Dąbrowska, Why You Can't Argue with 21 Policemen: A Linguistic Black Hole in Polish Grammar. Julia Kuznetsova, The Ratio of Unique Word Forms as a Measure of Creativity. Alan Cienki, Olga Iriskhanova, and Valeriia Denisova, Grammatical Aspect and Gestural Movement Quality in Russian Narrative Discourse. Steven Clancy, Finding Zero. II. Zooming in on Individual Languages. Andrej A. Kibrik, Conceptualization of Movement in Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan. Tuomas Huumo, Solid Containers Filled with a Fluid Substance? An Aspectual Metaphor Approach to Finnish Number Quantifiers and Object Case Marking. Tore Nesset, Why Compounds? Maarten Lemmens, A Tale of Two Progressives. Neil Bermel, Luděk Knittl, and Jean Russell, Still on the Brink: The Productivity of Czech Nominative Plural Desinences. Mateusz-Milan Stanojević and Anita Peti-Stantić, Variation between Prepositions Taking the Dative and the Genitive in Croatian. Stephen M. Dickey, Unauxiliated Preterits in Meša Selimović’s Death and the Dervish. Svetlana Sokolova and Anna Endresen, The Return of the Prefix za-, or What Determines the Prototype? Hanne Eckhoff, New Beginnings: Ingressives in Early Slavic. Václav Cvrček and Masako Fidler, Probing Aspectual Context with Keyword Analysis. Vladimir Plungian, and Ekaterina Rakhilina, Grammaticalization and Coercion: The Case of Russian bez konca. Елена Викторовна Падучева, Местоимение сей в составе оборота до сих пор. III. Language in Context: Literature, Culture, and Media. Michael S. Flier, Icons of Change: Signs of the Times. David Danaher, Fiction as Cognitive Simulation: The Motif of Doubling in Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Elżbieta Tabakowska, Alice's Wonderland Is a Blend. Andrei Rogatchevski, Spies and Space: Mutual Representations of the USSR and the West in Cold War Spy Films about James Bond and Mikhail Tulyev. IV. Conclusion. Mark Turner, Slavic Red Hen; or, Laura Janda and the Dream of the Multimodal Construction.
Rieber, Alfred J., The Imperial Russian Project: Autocratic Politics, Economic Development, and Social Fragmentation. Foreword by Yanni Kotsonis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. xxii, 501 pp. Appendix. Notes. Index. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Maps. $49.95, paper.
Introduction. Part One: The Foundations. The Petrine Vision and Its Fate. Part Two: Cultural Transfer, Interest Groups, and Economic Growth. From Aufklärung to Romantic Idealism. The Biogenetic Model and the Slavophil Entrepreneurs. The Moscow Entrepreneurial Group. The Engineers. The Economists. Origins of the Reutern System. The Reutern System in Operation. Patronage and Professionalism: The Witte System. Part Three: Social Structures in a Divided Polity. Social Identity and Political Will: The Russian Nobility from Peter I, “The Great,” to 1861. The Sedimentary Society. Social and Political Fragmentation in Imperial Russia on the Eve of the First World War.
Fayet, Jean-Francois, Gorin, Valerie, and Prezioso, Stefanie, eds. Echoes of October: International Commemorations of the Bolshevik Revolution 1918–1990. Studies in Twentieth Century Communism. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2017. iv, 202 pp. Appendix. Notes. Index. €20.00, paper.
Kevin Morgan, Series Editor's Introduction. Jean-François Fayet, Introduction. Eric Aunoble, Commemorating an Event that Never Occurred: Russian October in Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s. Ottokar Luban, The Echoes of the Russian October Revolution 1917 Under the State of Siege in Germany, October/November 1918. Kasper Braskén, Celebrating October: The Transnational Commemorations of the Tenth Anniversary of the Soviet Union in Weimar Germany. Daniel Kowalsky, Exporting Soviet Commemoration: The Spanish Civil War and the October Revolution, 1936–1939. Anastasia Koukouna, Commemorating the October Revolution in Greece, 1918–1949. André Liebich, The Mensheviks Commemorate October. Stephan Rindlisbacher, The Echoes of the Echoes: Reflecting the International Commemoration of the October Revolution in the Newspaper Pravda, 1918–1991.
Kotljarchuk, Andrej and Sundström, Olle, Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Stalin's Soviet Union: New Dimensions of Research. Södertörn Academic Studies no. 72. Stockholm: Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2017. 283 pp. Notes. Photographs. Plates. SEK 200, paper.
Andrej Kotljarchuk and Olle Sundström, Introduction. Part 1: National Operations of the NKVD. A General Approach. Hiroaki Kuromiya, The Great Terror. New Dimensions of Research. Andrey Savin, Ethnification of Stalinism? Ethnic Cleansings and the NKVD Order № 00447 in a Comparative Perspective. Victor Dönninghaus, “He who Is not with Us Is against Us.” Elimination of the “Fifth Column” in the Soviet Union, 1937–1938. Part 2: Ethnic Minorities in the Great Terror. Case studies. Andrej Kotljarchuk, Propaganda of Hatred and the Great Terror: A Nordic Approach. Marc Junge and Daniel Müller, Nation-Building by Terror in Soviet Georgia, 1937–1938. Eva Toulouze, A Long Great Ethnic Terror in the Volga Region: A War before the War. Part 3: Religious Minorities under Soviet Repression. Oksana Beznosova: The Ukrainian Evangelicals under Pressure from the NKVD, 1928–1939. Eva Toulouze, Laur Vallikivi, and Art Leete, The Cultural Bases in the North: Sovietisation and Indigenous Resistance. Tatiana Bulgakova and Olle Sundström, Repression of Shamans and Shamanism in Khabarovsk Krai: 1920s to the early 1950s. Yana Ivashchenko, Where Have the Amur Region's Shamans Gone?
Brisku, Adrian, Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires: A Comparative Approach. Europe's Legacy in the Modern World. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. ii, 266 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $114.00, hard bound.
Introduction. Part I: Men versus Institutions: Law and Religion. 1. Quests for Fundamental Change: “True Monarchy” and the “Holy Alliance.” 2. “Alternation and Complete Renewal of Ancient Custom”: An Unattainable Pledge. Part II: Managing the Future: From Law to Political Economy and Political Representation. 3. Empire and Progress. 4. A Constitutional Empire. Epilogue, From Reform to Revolution: Imperial Core in Turmoil.
