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Summary:Book reviewed in this article: Finke, Michael C. Seeing Chekhov: Life and Art. Shishkin, Andrej, ed. Vjačceslav Ivanov: Poesia e Sacra Scittura. Frank, Joseph. Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881. Christ, Thomas. Wladimir Lebedew und die Russische Avantgarde. Dolinin, Aleksandr. Istinnaia zhizn' pisatelia Sirina: Raboty o Nabokove. Kolonosky, Walter F. Literary Insinuations: Sorting Out Sinyavsky's Irreverence. Langen, Timothy. The Stony Dance: Unity and Gesture in Andrey Bely's Petersburg. Stanislawski, Michael. Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning. Krasovskaya, Vera. Vaganova: A Dance Journey from Petersburg to Leningrad. Translated from the Russian by Vera Siegel. Matich, Olga. Erotic Utopia: the Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin de Siècle. Sarkisiants, Manuel. Rossiia i messianizm: K “russkoi idee” N. A. Berdiaeva. Translated from the German by A. Pimenov. Kalinowska, Izabela. Between East and West: Polish and Russian Nineteenth-Century Travel to the Orient. Neumaier, Diane, ed. Beyond Memory: Soviet Nonconformist Photography and Photo-Related Works of Art. The Dodge Nonconformist Art Publication Series. Buckler, Julie A. Mapping St Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityshape. Crone, Anna Lise and Jennifer Jean Day. My Petersburg/Myself: Mental Architecture and Imaginative Space in Modern Russian Letters. HISTORY: Szvák, Gyula. Novye napravleniia i rezul'taty v rusistike: New Directions and Results in Russistics. De Madariaga, Isabel. Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia. Cracraft, James. The Petrine Revolution in Russian Culture. Gorshkov, Boris B., trans. and ed. A Life under Russian Serfdom: The Memoirs of Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii, 1800-1868. Breyfogle, Nicholas B. Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus. Bon [Bohn], Tomas M. Russkaia istoricheskaia nauka (1880-1905): Pavel Nikolaevich Miliukov i Moskovskaia shkola. Translated from the German by Dmitrii Toritsin. Gorskii, A. A. Rus': Ot slavianskogo Rasseleniia do Moskovskogo tsarstva. Stolberg, Eva-Maria, ed. The Siberian Saga: A History of Russia's Wild East. Makolkin, Anna. A History of Odessa: The Last Italian Black Sea Colony. Sylvester, Roshanna P. Tales of Old Odessa: Crime and Civility in a City of Thieves. Zweynert, Joachim. Eine Geschichte der ökonomischen Denkens in Russland, 1805-1905. Smele, Jonathan D. and Anthony Heywood, eds. The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary Perspectives. Haimson, Leopold H. Russia's Revolutionary Experience, 1905-1917: Two Essays. With an introduction by David Macdonald. Gatrell, Peter. Russia's First World War: A Social and Economic History. Kellogg, Michael. The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Émigrés and the Making of National Socialism, 1917-1945. New Studies in European History. Lane, Thomas. Victims of Stalin and Hitler: The Exodus of Poles and Balts to Britain. Skirda, Alexandre. Nestor Makhno: Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921. Translated by Paul Sharkey. Murphy, Kevin. Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory. Koenker, Diane P. Republic of Labor: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930. Hirsch, Francine. Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. Zisserman-Brodsky, Dina. Constructing Ethnopolitics in the Soviet Union: Samizdat, Deprivation and the Rise of Ethnic Nationalism. Boobbyer, Philip. Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia. BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies, 21. Zelnik, Reginald E. Perils of Pankratova: Some Stories from the Annals of Soviet Historiography. Donald W. Treadgold Studies on Russia, East Europe and Central Asia. McCaffray, Susan P. and Michael Melancon, eds. Russia in the European Context, 1789-1914: A Member of the Family. Slezkine, Yuri. The Jewish Century. Young, Gregory D. and Nate Braden. The Last Sentry: The True Story that Inspired The Hunt for Red October. Smith, Jeremy. The Fall of Soviet Communism, 1985-91. Studies in European History. Ashwin, Sarah and Simon Clarke. Russian Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in Transition. SOCIAL SCIENCE, CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA, AND OTHER: Alexievich, Svetlana. Voices from Chernobyl. Translated by Kieth Gessen. Primakov, Yegeny. Russian Crossroads: Toward the New Millennium. Herrera, Yoshiko M. Imagined Economies: The Sources of Russian Regionalism. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Worth, Owen. Hegemony, International Political Economy and Post-Communist Russia. Gray, Patty A. The Predicament of Chukotka's Indigenous Movement: Post-Soviet Activism in the Russian Far North. Budryte, Dovile. Taming Nationalism? Political Community Building in the Post-Soviet Baltic States. Wilson, Andrew. Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World. Wheatley, Jonathan. Georgia from National Awakening to Rose Revolution: Delayed Transition in the Former Soviet Union. Laruelle, Marlène and Sébastien Peyrouse. Les Russes du Kazakhstan: Identités nationales et nouveaux États dans l'espace post-soviétique. Sakwa, Richard, ed. Chechnya: From Past to Future. Simons, Greg. Religious Resurgence: The Influence of the Russian Orthodox Church as Reflected through the Media. Studies on Inter-Religious Relations, no. 12. Isakova, Irina. Russian Governance in the Twenty-First Century: Geo-strategy, Geopolitics and Governance. Cass Contemporary Security Studies Series. Ambrosio, Thomas. Challenging America's Global Preeminence: Russia's Quest for Multipolarity. Pravda, Alex, ed. Leading Russia: Putin in Perspective. Essays in Honor of Archie Brown

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Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, 2006