Author: 
Philip MacDougall
Reviewer: 
Kiri Raber

Raber on MacDougall, 'The Great Anglo-Russian Naval Alliance of the Eighteenth Century and Beyond'

Philip MacDougall. The Great Anglo-Russian Naval Alliance of the Eighteenth Century and Beyond. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2022. xv + 215 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78327-668-4

Reviewed by Kiri Raber (Florida State University) Published on H-War (March, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Yvonne Howell, Nikolai Krementsov, eds.
Reviewer: 
Catherine Gibson

Gibson on Howell and Krementsov, 'The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early Twentieth-Century Russia'

Yvonne Howell, Nikolai Krementsov, eds. The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early Twentieth-Century Russia. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Illustrations. 296 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-23283-9.

Reviewed by Catherine Gibson (University of Tartu) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (March, 2023) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Author: 
Maria Taroutina
Reviewer: 
Kamila Kocialkowska

Kocialkowska on Taroutina, 'The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival'

Maria Taroutina. The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2018. 288 pp. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-271-08104-5

Author: 
Jeremy Hicks
Reviewer: 
Patrick McColgan

McColgan on Hicks, 'Victory Banner Over the Reichstag: Film, Document and Ritual in Russia's Contested Memory of World War II'

Jeremy Hicks. Victory Banner Over the Reichstag: Film, Document and Ritual in Russia's Contested Memory of World War II. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. 296 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4650-2.

Reviewed by Patrick McColgan (San Diego State University) Published on H-War (January, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Alexandre Sumpf
Reviewer: 
John Casey

Casey on Sumpf, 'The Broken Years: Russia's Disabled War Veterans, 1904-1921'

Alexandre Sumpf. The Broken Years: Russia's Disabled War Veterans, 1904-1921. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 320 pp. $99.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-00-904729-6; $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-316-51774-1.

Reviewed by John Casey (University of Illinois at Chicago) Published on H-Disability (December, 2022) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Author: 
Daniel Scarborough
Reviewer: 
Sebastian Rimestad

Rimestad on Scarborough, 'Russia's Social Gospel: The Orthodox Pastoral Movement in Famine, War, and Revolution'

Daniel Scarborough. Russia's Social Gospel: The Orthodox Pastoral Movement in Famine, War, and Revolution. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. 320 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-33720-9

Author: 
Mark Gamsa
Reviewer: 
Stig Thøgersen

Thøgersen on Gamsa, 'Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography'

Mark Gamsa. Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 394 pp. $42.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4875-4424-9.

Reviewed by Stig Thøgersen (Aarhus University) Published on H-Biography (December, 2022) Commissioned by Daniel R. Meister (University of New Brunswick)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57411

Author: 
Russell Martin
Reviewer: 
Carolyn Harris

Harris on Martin, 'The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495–1745'

Russell Martin. The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495–1745. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021. 378 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-1-5017-5486-9; $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-5484-5.

Reviewed by Carolyn Harris (University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies) Published on H-Russia (November, 2022) Commissioned by Oleksa Drachewych (Western University)

Author: 
Carol Ueland, Ludmilla A. Trigos, eds.
Reviewer: 
Elaine M. MacKinnon

MacKinnon on Ueland and Trigos, 'Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia: Biography for the Masses'

Carol Ueland, Ludmilla A. Trigos, eds. Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia: Biography for the Masses. Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context Series. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022. 352 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-79361-829-0

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