Review published on Sunday, March 10, 2019
Author: 
Andrew Robarts
Reviewer: 
Lucien J. Frary

Frary on Robarts, 'Migration and Disease in the Black Sea Region: Ottoman-Russian Relations in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries'

Andrew Robarts. Migration and Disease in the Black Sea Region: Ottoman-Russian Relations in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. xii + 280 pp. $114.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4742-5949-1.

Reviewed by Lucien J. Frary (Rider University) Published on H-Russia (March, 2019) Commissioned by Oleksa Drachewych

Review published on Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Author: 
Glenn Diesen
Reviewer: 
Roger Chapman

Chapman on Diesen, 'The Decay of Western Civilization and Resurgence of Russia: Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft'

Glenn Diesen. The Decay of Western Civilization and Resurgence of Russia: Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. Rethinking Asia and International Relations Series. New York: Routledge, 2018. 218 pp. $149.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-50032-7.

Reviewed by Roger Chapman (Palm Beach Atlantic University) Published on H-Russia (February, 2019) Commissioned by Eva M. Stolberg (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Review published on Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Author: 
Rebecca Reich
Reviewer: 
Amanda Williams

Williams on Reich, 'State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent after Stalin'

Rebecca Reich. State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent after Stalin. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2018. x + 283 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87580-775-1; $60.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-60909-233-7.

Reviewed by Amanda Williams (University of Leeds) Published on H-Russia (January, 2019) Commissioned by Oleksa Drachewych

Review published on Monday, September 11, 2017
Author: 
Faith Hillis
Reviewer: 
Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj

Ilnytzkyj on Hillis, 'Children of Rusʹ: Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation'

Faith Hillis. Children of Rusʹ: Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. Illustrations. 348 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-5219-2.

Reviewed by Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj (University of Alberta) Published on H-Russia (September, 2017) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha

Review published on Thursday, August 10, 2017
Author: 
Aleš Erjavec, ed.
Reviewer: 
Angelina Lucento

Lucento on Erjavec, 'Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements'

Aleš Erjavec, ed. Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. 344 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-5872-5.

Reviewed by Angelina Lucento (Research Fellow, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences) Published on H-Russia (August, 2017) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha

Review published on Monday, July 24, 2017
Author: 
DeWitt C. Poole
Reviewer: 
William B. Whisenhunt

Whisenhunt on Poole, 'An American Diplomat in Bolshevik Russia'

DeWitt C. Poole. An American Diplomat in Bolshevik Russia. Edited by Lorraine M. Lees and William S. Rodner. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. 332 pp. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-299-30224-5.

Reviewed by William B. Whisenhunt (College of DuPage) Published on H-Russia (July, 2017) Commissioned by Eva M. Stolberg

American Official Recalls Experience of Bolshevik Revolution

Review published on Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Author: 
Sonja Luehrmann
Reviewer: 
Orel Beilinson

Beilinson on Luehrmann, 'Religion in Secular Archives: Soviet Atheism and Historical Knowledge'

Sonja Luehrmann. Religion in Secular Archives: Soviet Atheism and Historical Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 256 pp. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-994362-3.

Reviewed by Orel Beilinson (Harari College) Published on H-Russia (July, 2017) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha

Review published on Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Author: 
Aleksandra Koutny-Jones
Reviewer: 
Andrei Liuby

Liuby and Stakhno on Koutny-Jones, 'Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe: Contemplation and Commemoration in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania'

Aleksandra Koutny-Jones. Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe: Contemplation and Commemoration in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. 257 pp. $145.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-30507-6.

Review published on Friday, June 16, 2017
Author: 
Christine Elaine Evans
Reviewer: 
Volha Isakava

Isakava on Evans, 'Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television'

Christine Elaine Evans. Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 360 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-300-20848-1.

Reviewed by Volha Isakava (Central Washington University) Published on H-Russia (June, 2017) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha

Review published on Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Author: 
Hyacinthe Destivelle, O.P.
Reviewer: 
Heather Coleman

Coleman on Destivelle, 'The Moscow Council (1917-1918): The Creation of the Conciliar Institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church'

Hyacinthe Destivelle, O.P. The Moscow Council (1917-1918): The Creation of the Conciliar Institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church. Translated by Jerry Ryan, edited by Michael Plekon and Vitaly Permiakov. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. xviii + 447 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-268-02617-2.

Reviewed by Heather Coleman (University of Alberta) Published on H-Russia (June, 2017) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha

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