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Jasmina Tumbas. “I am Jugoslovenka!”: Feminist Performance Politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism. Manchester University Press, 2022. vii, 325 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Plates. $39.95, paper.
Dragana Obradović
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19 September 2024, pp. 134-136
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The Art of Performing Queerness and Gender in Russia: Contemporary Debates - Ed. Brian James Baer and Yevgeniy Fiks. Queer(ing) Russian Art: Realism, Revolution, Performance. Series: Myths and Taboos in Russian Culture. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023. 401 pp. Index. Photographs. $139.00, hard bound. - Julie A. Cassiday. Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism.Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. xiv, 255 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. $79.95, hard bound.
Tatiana Klepikova
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02 June 2025, pp. 819-823
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The Dark Double: Russian Orthodoxy in Andrei Zviagintsev's Leviathan
Sean Griffin
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13 February 2025, pp. 576-590
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This essay suggests that there are three crucial contexts that have been overlooked in the scholarship on Andrei Zviagintsev's film, Leviathan. First, there is the ecclesiastical history of the Russian Orthodox Church in the years following the election of Kirill (Gundiaev) as Patriarch of Moscow in 2009. The article demonstrates that Zviagintsev was keenly aware of Kirill's growing partnership with the Putin regime and that he was especially dismayed by the patriarch's response to the Bolotnaia protests and Pussy Riot affair. The second context is more theological and considerably lesser known. It concerns the notion of the church's “dark double”, a concept developed in the mid-twentieth century by an obscure Gulag survivor and lay theologian named Sergei Fudel΄. My main contention in the essay is that Fudel΄'s conception of the “dark double” is the foundational theological idea in Leviathan—the idea that structures and underpins all of the film's religious scenes. Finally, the third context recovered is the religious thinking of Andrei Zviagintsev himself. For it turns out that the celebrated auteur director is comfortable discussing not only scriptwriting or cinematography. He also has much to say, both onscreen and off, about the clerics and faithful of the contemporary Russian Orthodox Church.

Milan Babić. The Rise of State Capital: Transforming Markets and International Politics. Comparative Political Economy. Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2023. v, 173 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. $40.00, paper.
Dorothee Bohle
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31 December 2024, pp. 354-356
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How Multicultural Was A Multiethnic Commonwealth? - Ed. Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis. Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives. Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. xii, 383 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Maps. $50.00, hard bound. - Tomasz Grusiecki. Transcultural Things and the Spectre of Orientalism in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania. Rethinking Art's Histories. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. xviii, 242 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Maps. £85.00, hard bound.
Moshe Rosman
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13 February 2025, pp. 591-597
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Erik R. Scott. Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. xiv. 310 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Maps. $34.95, hard bound
Donald J. Raleigh
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31 December 2024, pp. 356-358
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Old Songs about the Most Important, or the Failure of Political Imagination in Post-Soviet Russia - Gulnaz Sharafutdinova. The Afterlife of the “Soviet Man”: Rethinking Homo Sovieticus. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 122 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $61.00, hard bound. $17.95, paper. - Eliot Borenstein. Soviet Self-Hatred: The Secret Identities of Postsocialism in Contemporary Russia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. x, 192 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $125.00, hard bound. $15.99, paper.
Pavel Khazanov
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02 June 2025, pp. 824-831
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Alessandro Stanziani. Tensions of Social History: Sources, Data, Actors and Models in Global Perspective. Global History: European Perspectives and Approaches. London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2023. vii, 239 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $115.00, hard bound. $103.50, ebook.
William G. Rosenberg
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19 September 2024, pp. 136-138
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Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper. Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. xiii, 301 pp. Notes. Index. Photographs. Maps. $35.00, hardbound.
Theodora Dragostinova
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02 June 2025, pp. 832-835
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Serhiy Bilenky. Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation, 1772–1914. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. xxiv, 596 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Chronology. Index. Tables. Maps. $100.00, hard bound. $49.95, paper.
Barbara Skinner
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31 December 2024, pp. 359-362
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Re-Introducing Yugoslavia - Dejan Jović. Uvod u Jugoslaviju. Zagreb: Fraktura & SKD Prosvjeta, 2023. 490 pp. Bibliography. Index. €29.99, hard bound - Xavier Bougarel. Kod Titovih partizana: Komunisti i seljaci u Bosanskoj Krajini 1941–45. Sarajevo: Udruženje za Modernu Historiju. 194 pp. Maps. Bibliography. 1237.50 RSD ($11.50), hard bound
Robert M. Hayden
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13 February 2025, pp. 598-604
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Artan R. Hoxha. Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania. Central European University Press, 2023. xi, 306 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Maps. $95.00, hard bound.
Elidor Mëhilli
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19 September 2024, pp. 139-141
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Masha Salazkina. World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinities, and Solidarities in the Global Cold War. University of California Press, 2023. xiv, 370 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. $34.95, paperback.
Tim Harte
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02 June 2025, pp. 835-837
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Natalʹia Mitsiuk, Natalʹia Pushkareva, and Anna Belova. Chelovek rozhdaiushchii: Istoriia rodilʹnoi kultury v Rossii novogovremeni. Gendernye issledovaniia. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2022. vi. 512 pages. Notes. Index. Rubles 1020.00, hard bound.
Amy E. Randall
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19 September 2024, pp. 141-143
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Denisa Kostovičova. Reconciliation by Stealth: How People Talk about War Crimes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. vii, 246 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. $51.85, hard bound.
Eric Gordy
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13 February 2025, pp. 605-607
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Veronika Siegl. Intimate Strangers: Commercial Surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine and the Making of Truth. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. vii, 287 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. $125.00, hard bound. $32.95, paper.
Michelle Parsons
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31 December 2024, pp. 362-364
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Eduard Baidaus. An Unsettled Nation: Moldova in the Geopolitics of Russia, Romania, and Ukraine. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2023, 669. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. Maps. $ 69.00, paperback.
Igor Cașu
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13 February 2025, pp. 607-610
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Egor Lazarev. State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xvi, 321 pp. Notes. Index. Figures. Tables. Maps. $99.99, hard bound.
Iwona Kaliszewska
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31 December 2024, pp. 364-367
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Ed. Kata Bohus, Peter Hallama, and Stephan Stach. Growing in the Shadow of Antifascism: Remembering the Holocaust in State-Socialist Eastern Europe. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2022. vii, 327 pp. Index. Photographs. Figures. $85.00, hard bound.
Franziska Exeler
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19 September 2024, pp. 144-145
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Nikos Marantzidis. Under Stalin’s Shadow: A Global History of Greek Communism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. xii, 294 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $125.00 hard bound, $32.95, paper.
Spyros Tsoutsoumpis
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02 June 2025, pp. 838-839
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Jasmina Tumbas. “I am Jugoslovenka!”: Feminist Performance Politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism. Manchester University Press, 2022. vii, 325 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Plates. $39.95, paper.

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Alessandro Stanziani. Tensions of Social History: Sources, Data, Actors and Models in Global Perspective. Global History: European Perspectives and Approaches. London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2023. vii, 239 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $115.00, hard bound. $103.50, ebook.

Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper. Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. xiii, 301 pp. Notes. Index. Photographs. Maps. $35.00, hardbound.

Serhiy Bilenky. Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation, 1772–1914. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. xxiv, 596 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Chronology. Index. Tables. Maps. $100.00, hard bound. $49.95, paper.

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Artan R. Hoxha. Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania. Central European University Press, 2023. xi, 306 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Maps. $95.00, hard bound.

Masha Salazkina. World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinities, and Solidarities in the Global Cold War. University of California Press, 2023. xiv, 370 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. $34.95, paperback.

Natalʹia Mitsiuk, Natalʹia Pushkareva, and Anna Belova. Chelovek rozhdaiushchii: Istoriia rodilʹnoi kultury v Rossii novogovremeni. Gendernye issledovaniia. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2022. vi. 512 pages. Notes. Index. Rubles 1020.00, hard bound.

Denisa Kostovičova. Reconciliation by Stealth: How People Talk about War Crimes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. vii, 246 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. $51.85, hard bound.

Veronika Siegl. Intimate Strangers: Commercial Surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine and the Making of Truth. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. vii, 287 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. $125.00, hard bound. $32.95, paper.

Eduard Baidaus. An Unsettled Nation: Moldova in the Geopolitics of Russia, Romania, and Ukraine. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2023, 669. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. Maps. $ 69.00, paperback.

Egor Lazarev. State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xvi, 321 pp. Notes. Index. Figures. Tables. Maps. $99.99, hard bound.

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Ed. Kata Bohus, Peter Hallama, and Stephan Stach. Growing in the Shadow of Antifascism: Remembering the Holocaust in State-Socialist Eastern Europe. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2022. vii, 327 pp. Index. Photographs. Figures. $85.00, hard bound.

Nikos Marantzidis. Under Stalin’s Shadow: A Global History of Greek Communism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. xii, 294 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $125.00 hard bound, $32.95, paper.

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