Author: 
Roberto J. Carmack
Reviewer: 
Jonathon Dreeze

Dreeze on Carmack, 'Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire'

Roberto J. Carmack. Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. x + 263 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2825-4

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: 
Eliyana R. Adler
Reviewer: 
Joanna Sliwa

Sliwa on Adler, 'Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union'

Eliyana R. Adler. Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps, table. x + 433 pp. $51.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-98802-6.

Reviewed by Joanna Sliwa (Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference)) Published on H-Poland (March, 2023) Commissioned by Anna Muller (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

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: 
Albert Kaganovitch
Reviewer: 
Anya Free

Free on Kaganovitch, 'Exodus and Its Aftermath: Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Interior'

Albert Kaganovitch. Exodus and Its Aftermath: Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Interior. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. Illustrations, tables, map. 336 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-33450-5

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: 
Francis Gary Powers Jr., Keith Dunnavant
Reviewer: 
Robert Dienesch

Dienesch on Powers Jr. and Dunnavant, 'Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy'

Francis Gary Powers Jr., Keith Dunnavant. Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy. Amherst: Prometheus, 2019. Illustrations. 312 pp. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-63388-468-7

Author: 
Natalia Tsvetkova
Reviewer: 
Nicholas Seay

Seay on Tsvetkova, 'The Cold War in Universities: U.S. and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy, 1945-1990'

Natalia Tsvetkova. The Cold War in Universities: U.S. and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy, 1945-1990. Leiden: Brill, 2021. 264 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-90-04-47178-8; $132.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-47177-1.

Reviewed by Nicholas Seay (Ohio State University) Published on H-Socialisms (December, 2022) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)

Author: 
Simon Miles
Reviewer: 
Dmitry Asinovskiy

Asinovskiy on Miles, 'Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War'

Simon Miles. Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. 248 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-5169-1.

Reviewed by Dmitry Asinovskiy (Tel Aviv University) Published on H-Russia (November, 2022) Commissioned by Oleksa Drachewych (Western University)

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