Books that cannot be accommodated in our book review section but that are worthy of special attention are listed here with their tables of contents.
Noll, William, The Transformation of Civil Society: An Oral History of Ukrainian Peasant Culture, 1920s to 1930s. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. xx, 908 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Index. Plates. Tables. Maps. 85.00 CAD, hard bound.
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, Foreword. Part One: Material Destruction. Introduction: Peasant Perceptions. Before Collectivization. Collectivization and Other Acts of Mass Terror Preceding the Holodomor. Holodomor: The Great Famine of 1932-33. Kolhosp. Part Two: Cultural Life and Destruction in the 1920s and 1930s. Religious Organizations and Culture before and after Collectivization. Entertainment and Secular Rituals in the 1920s and Their Near Destruction in the 1930s. The Decline of Civil Society: A Summary. Epilogue. Appendices. Questionnaire, Fieldworkers, and Archivists. List of Interviewees. Tables. On the Song “Shche ne vmerla Ukraiiny.” Five Complete Interviews.
Bakelis, Thomas, and Griffante, Andrea, eds. The Shaken Lands: Violence and the Crisis of Governance in East Central Europe, 1914–1923. Lithuanian Studies without Borders. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2023. v, 248 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $139.00, hard bound.
Tomas Balkelis and Andrea Griffante, Introduction. Vytautas Petronis, The Evolution of Wartime Criminality in Lithuania, 1914–1920. Vasilijus Safronovas, Vygantas Vareikis, and Hektoras Vitkus, War Violence and Its Representation: A Comparison of Civilian Experiences of the Great War on Both Sides of the Former Russian-German Border. Darius Staliūnas, The Military Pogroms in Lithuania, 1919–1920. Mart Kuldkepp, Scandinavian Volunteers as Perpetrators of Violence and Crime in the Estonian War of Independence. Béla Bodó, The Rich and the (In)famous: Social Conflicts and Paramilitary Violence in Hungary during the Counterrevolution, 1921–1923. Jochen Böhler, The Polish Central Government, Regional Authorities, and Local Paramilitaries during the Battle for the Western Borderlands, 1918–1921. Maciej Górny, Eisenbahnfeldzug: Railway War in East Central Europe. Julia Eichenberg, Beyond Comparison? The Challenges of Applying Comparative Historical Research to Violence.
Palko, Olena and Gil, Manuel Férez, eds. Ukraine's Many Faces: Land, People, and Culture Revisited (PDF only). New Europes. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2023. 399 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Maps. $60.00, paper.
Oleysa Khromeychuck, Foreword. Where is Ukraine? How a Western Outlook Perpetuates Myths about Europe's Largest Country. Olena Palko and Manuel Férez Gil, Introduction. Ukraine's Many Faces. I. Modernity at the Crossroads of Empire. Primary Sources. Ukrainian Draft Treaty of 1654. A Byelorussian Copy of the Articles sent by the Cossack Envoys Samoylo Bohdanov and Pavlo Teterya on the 14th day of May, 7162 (A.D. 1654). Taras Shevchenko, To My Fellow-Countrymen, In Ukraine and Not in Ukraine, Living, Dead and as Yet Unborn. My Friendly Epistle. Mykola Ivasiuk, Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Entry to Kyiv in 1649 (1912). Conversation Pieces. Ewa Thompson, in conversation with Manuel Férez Gil. Revealing Pan-Slavic Russian Imperialism. Tamara Hunderova, in conversation with Manuel Férez Gil. Ukrainian History through Literature. Analytical Articles. Oleksii Sokyrko, Between East and West: Understanding Early Modern Ukraine. Fabain Baumann, Between Empires: Ukraine in the Nineteenth Century. Vladyslava Moskalets, Jews in Habsburg Galicia: Challenges of Modernity. Boris Belge, Grain, Coal, and Gas. Ukraine's Economy since the Eighteenth Century. II. Ukrainian Selfhood in the Soviet Era. Primary Sources. January 9th, 1918. Ukrainian Declaration of Independence (1918). Letter from the Collective Farmer Mykola Reva to Joseph Stalin about the Famine of 1933 in Ukraine. Fedir Krychevsky, Life Triptych (1925). Conversation Pieces. Olena Palko, in conversation with Manuel Férez Gil. Ukraine: Between Empires and National Self- Determination. Analytical Articles. Hanna Perekhoda, The Ukrainian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, and the Inertia of Empire. Stephan Rindlisbacher, The Territory of Ukraine and Its History. Olena Palko and Roman Korshuk, Constructing Ethnic Identities in Early Soviet Ukraine. Matthew D. Pauly, Street Children in Early Soviet Odesa. Oksana Klymenko and Roman Liubavskyi, Selfhood and Statehood in Interwar Ukraine: Inventing the “New Man.” Daria Mattingly, Stalinism and The Holodomor. Iuliia Buyskykh, Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Search of Ancestry, Belonging, and Identity. Martin-Oleksandr Kisly, Crimean Tatars: Claiming the Homeland. III. Sovereignty Regained: Ukraine in the Post-Soviet Age. Primary Sources. Passed by the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic, Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine (1990). Kateryna Kalytko, Home is still possible there…Matvey Vaisberg, The Wall (Stina, 2014). Conversation Pieces. David Marples, in conversation with Manuel Férez Gil, Between the Holodomor and Euromaidan: In Search of Contemporary Ukrainian National Identity. Maria Popova, in conversation with Manuel Férez Gil, Ukraine: Between National Security and the Rule of Law. Analytical Articles. Anna Chebotarova, Society in Turbulent Times: The Impact of War on Ukraine. Volodymyr Kulyk, Competing Identities of Ukraine's Russian Speakers. Oleksandr Zabriko, The Donbas: A Region and a Myth. Tamara Martsenyuk, Towards Gender Equality in the Ukrainian Society. Kateryna Botanova, The Art of Misunderstanding. Roman Horbyk, The Territory Resists the Map: Geolocating Reality and Hyperreality in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Afterward. Let Ukraine Speak. John Vsetecka, Integrating Scholarship on Ukraine into Classroom Syllabi. Contributing Authors.
Mulle, Emmanuel Dalle, Rodogno, Davide, and Bieling, Mona, eds. Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Quest for Homogeneity in Interwar Europe (PDF). London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. xviii, 310 pp. Notes. Index. Tables. $115.00, hard bound.
Emmanuel Dalle Mulle, Davide Rodogno, and Mona Bieling, Introduction: Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Quest for Homogeneity in Interwar Europe. Part 1. Minorities and the Transition from Empires to Nation-States. 2. Pieter Judson, Making Minorities and Majorities: National Indifference and National Self Determination in Habsburg Central Europe. 3. Alvin Jackson, “Prison of the Nations?” Union and Nationality in the United Kingdom, 1870–1925. 4. Erol Ülker, Nationalism, Religion and Minorities from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey. Part 2. The Minority Question across Europe: Comparing Policies, Regimes and Resistance. 5. Volker Prott, Assessing the ‘Paris System’: Self-Determination and Ethnic Violence in Alsace-Lorraine and Asia Minor, 1919–1923. 6. Emmanuel Dalle Mulle and Mona Bieling, Sovereignty and Homogeneity: A History of Majority-Minority Relations in Interwar Western Europe. 7. Marina Germane, Exercising Minority Rights in New Democracies: Germans and Jews in Interwar Poland, Romania, and Latvia. 8. Sabine Dullin, A Double-Edged Sword. The Political Use of National Heterogeneity in the Soviet Union during the Interwar Period. Part 3. Majorities and Minorities as Social Constructs: Negotiating Identity Ascription. 9. Olga Linkiewicz, Nationalism and Vernacular Cosmologies: Revisiting the Concept of National Indifference and the Limits of Nationalization in the Second Polish Republic. 10. Brian Hughes, Survival and Assimilation: Loyalism in the Interwar Irish Free State Ireland. 11. Alison Carrol, Navigations of National Belonging. Legal Reintegration After the Return of Alsace to France, 1918–1939. Part 4. Minority Mobilization beyond the Nation-State. 12. Xosé M. Nuñez Seixas and David Smith, Internationalist Patriots? Minority Nationalists, Ethnic Minorities and the Global Interwar Stage, 1918–1939. 13. Jane Cowan, Transnational Collaborations among Women's Organizations and Questions of Minorities and Macedonia, 1925–1930. Coda. 14. Omer Bartov, The Difference Nationalism Makes: Jews and Others in the Twentieth Century.
Zofka, Jan, Vamos, Peter, and Urbansky, Sören, eds. Beyond the Kremlin's Reach? Eastern Europe and Chine in the Cold War Era. London: Routledge Publishers, 2023. vii, 126 pp. Notes. Index. Photographs. Tables. $170.00, hard bound.
Jan Zofka, Péter Vámos, and Sören Urbansky, Introduction: Beyond the Kremlin's Reach? Eastern Europe and China in the Cold War Era. 1. József Böröcz, Performing Socialist Hungary in China: “Modern, Magyar, European.” 2. Austin Jersild, Socialist Exhibits and Sino-Soviet Relations, 1950–60. 3. Daniela Kolenovska, Sino-Czechoslovak Cooperation on Agricultural Cooperatives: The Twinning Project. 4. Sören Urbansky and Max Trecker, Kremlinology Revisited: The Nuances of Reporting on China in the Eastern Bloc Press. 5. Jan Zofka, China as a Role Model? The ‘Economic Leap’ Campaign in Bulgaria (1958–1960). 6. Margaret K. Gnoinska, Promoting the ‘China Way’ of Communism in Poland and beyond during the Sino-Soviet Split: The Case of Kazimierz Mijal. 7. Péter Vámos, A Hungarian Model for China? Sino-Hungarian Relations in the Era of Economic Reforms, 1979–89.
Minakov, Mikhail, ed., Philosophy Unchained: Developments in Post-Soviet Philosophical Thought. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (SPPS), vol. 259. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2023. 364 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. €29.90, paper.
Chris R. Donohue, Foreword. Soviet and Post-Soviet Philosophy: Continuities, Complexities, Unshacklings, and Zombifications. Mikhail Minakov, Editor's Introduction. Philosophy Unchained: Introductory Notes on the Post-Soviet Philosophical Condition. 1. Mikhail Minakov, The Soviet Philosophical Condition: Adventures of Philosophy in the Soviet Union. 2. Tatiana Shchyttsova, Philosophy as a Realistic Utopia: A Personal View on the Emancipation of Philosophy in Post-Soviet Belarus. 3. Giorgi Khuroshvili, Philosophy in Independent Georgia. 4. Maija Kūle, Latvian Philosophical Developments in the Context of Western Thought. 5. Viktoras Bachmetjevas, Philosophy in Lithuania after 1989. 6. Alexandru Cosmescu, Constructing a Philosophical Voice: Discursive Positions in Moldovan Philosophical Journals. 7. Michail Maiatsky, Contemporary Philosophy in Russia (1991–2022). 8. Denys Kiryukhin, The Philosophical Process in Post-Soviet Ukraine. 9. Yevgeniy Abdullaev, Philosophy in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan.
Katsman, Roman and Shrayer, Maxim D., eds. Studies in the History of Russian-Israeli Literature. Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2023. xvi, 416 pp. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. $65.00, hard bound.
Vladimir Khazan, Russian-Language Literature in Eretz Israel. Luba Jurgenson, Julius Margolin and His Times. Marat Grinberg, Israeli-Soviet Literary Ties in the 1950s–1980s: from Translations to Aliyah Library. Aleksei Surin, Leaving Russia: Russian-Israeli Literature of the 1970s–1980s. Maxim D. Shrayer, Paths of Russian Avant-Garde Poetry in Israel. Roman Katsman, Prose of the Aliyah of the 1990s–2000s. Elena Promyshlianskaia, Russian-Israeli Prose in the Second Decade of the Twenty-First Century. Elena Rimon, Genres of Israeli-Russian Fantastic Fiction. Zlata Zaretsky, The Phenomenon of Russian-Israeli Dramaturgy of the 1970s–2020s. Leonid Katsis, From the History of Russian Israeli Literary Criticism (On One Method of Delineating Literary Contacts between Russia and Israel).
Morris, Jeremy, Semenov, Andrei, and Smyth, Regina, Varieties of Russian Activism: State-Society Contestation in Everyday Life. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. viii, 303 pp. Index. Photographs. Figures. Tables. $80.00, hard bound. $40.00, paper.
Jeremy Morris, Andrei Semenov, and Regina Smyth, Everyday Activism: Tracking the Evolution of Russian State and Society Relations. Part 1. Regina Smyth,The Building Blocks of Everyday Activism: Identity, Networks, and Social Trust. Katie L. Stewart, Cultural Production as Activism: National Theaters, Philharmonics, and Cultural Organizations in Russia's Regional Capitals. Guzel Yusupova, The Promotion of Minority Languages in Russia's Ethnic Republics: Social Media and Grassroots Activities. Regina Smyth, Madeline McCann, and Katherine Hitchcock, From Neighbors to Activists: Shared Grievances and Collective Solutions. Part 2. Jeremy Morris, Organizational Roles in Mobilization for Activism: Communication, Cooperation, and Conjunction. John P. Burgess, Social Activism in the Russian Orthodox Church. Anna Zhelnina, The River of Urban Resistance: Renovation and New Civic Infrastructures in Moscow. Jeremy Morris, Activists and Experiential Entanglement in Russian Labor Organizing. Anna A. Dekalchuk and Ivan S. Grigoriev, Skateboarding Together: Generational Civic Activism and Nontransition to Politics in Sosnovyi Bor. Part 3. Andrei Semenov, Institutional Environment and Opportunity Structures for Urban Activism. Eleonora Minaeva, Policy Activism in Urban Governance: The Case of Master Plan Development in Perm. Carola Neugebauer, Andrei Semenov, Irina Shevtsova, and Daniela Zupan, Urban Planning and Civic Activism. Irina Meyer-Olimpieva, Manipulating Public Discontent in Russia: The Role of Trade Unions in the Protests against Pension Reform. Jan Matti Dollbaum, Andrei Semenov, and Elena Sirotkina, Active Urbanites in an Authoritarian Regime: Aleksei Navalny's Presidential Campaign. Jeremy Morris, Andrei Semenov, and Regina Smyth, Why Grassroots Activism Matters.
Clarke, Charles, Understanding the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania Since 1991. London: C. Hurst & Co. Ltd., 2023. xviii, 365 pp. Notes. Chronology. Index. £22.50, paper.
John Freeman, Chronology: 1988–1991. Part I: Introduction. Rt Hon Charles Clark, The Importance of the Baltic. Neil Taylor, A History of the Baltic Region. Part II: The International Context. Kristina Spohr, The Baltic States, Russia and Europe's Order: 1917–1991–2022. Jonathan Haslan, Attaining Baltic Independence, In Search of a Helping Hand. Matt Kuldkepp, Baltic Liberation, the Baltic Sea Regional Context and Sweden during the End of the Cold War. Part III: The Baltic Independence Dimension. Karel Piirimäe, Contributions to the Baltic Independence Campaigns to the Soviet Collapse. Donatas Kupčiūnas, Baltic Exceptionalism from Versailles to Belovezhskaya. Part IV: The Responses from Moscow. Archie Brown, Context, Cross-Pressures and Compromise: The Roles of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Vladislav Zubok, The House Divided. Sir Rodric Braithwaite, Russia and the Baltic: The Long View. Sturla Sigurjónsson, Too “Great” to Thrive. Part V: The British Angle. Bridget Kendall, Moscow and the Baltics: A Western Correspondent's View. Patrick Salmon, British Policy towards the Baltic States in 1991. Rt Hon Sir David Lidington, The Contemporary Political Dimension. Part VI: The Contemporary Use of History. Inga Zakšauskiené, Historical Propaganda in Pro-Kremlin Media: The Case of the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Andrew Wilson, The Ukrainian Dimension. Part VII: Future New Challenges. Brendan Simms and James Rogers, The Baltic Geopolitics Challenges for Today. Raimundas Lopata, The Geopolitical Sginificance of Kaliningrad and the Suwałki Gap. Basil Germond, The Maritime Geopolitics of the Baltic Sea.
Dodd, James, The Heresies of Jan Patocka: Phenomenology, History and Politics. Northwestern Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2023. xi, 306 pp. Notes. Index. $120.00, hard bound. $38.00, paper.
Preface. Introduction: Philosophy in Troubled Times. Chapter One: On an Asubjective Phenomenology. Chapter Two: On the Body. Chapter Three: On the Three Movements of Human Existence. Chapter Four: On Care for the Soul. Chapter Five: On Sacrifice. Chapter Six: On Hope. Chapter Seven: On Dissidence. Conclusion: Legacies. Epilogue.
Rosenshield, Gary, Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary: The Idea of the Great Man in the Works of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky, and Evgenii Tarle. Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023. v, 235 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $105.00, hard bound.
Introduction. Chapter One: A Tale of Two Tyrants: Napoleon and Alexander in Pushkin's Pre-Exile Poetry. Chapter Two: Pushkin and the Great Man: Napoleon Re-Imagined. Chapter Three: Napoleon and Hero Worship: Tolstoy and War and Peace. Chapter Four: History and the Great Man: Tolstoy and War and Peace. Chapter Five: Napoleon as Superman: Dostoevsky and Crime and Punishment. Chapter Six: Merezhkovsky and Napoleon: Re-creating the Myth of the Great Man. Chapter Seven: Erasing Napoleon: Eugene Tarle, Russian Literature, and Soviet Historiography. Afterword: Napoleon, the Great Man, and the Idea of History.
Karpukhin, Sara and Vergara, Jose, eds. Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century. Amherst: Amherst College Press, 2022. vii, 207 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. $21.75, paper.
Sara Karpukhin, Introduction. I. Digital Collaborations. Teaching Nabokov in 3D. Good Readers, Good Writers: Collaborative Student Annotations for Invitation to a Beheading. II. Mixing Cultures. Teaching Poshlost΄: Texts and Contexts. Teaching Nabokov in a Virtual Time of Trouble. Nabokov's Haunted Screen: The Exilic Uncanny in Weimar Film. III. Disability Studies and Queerings. Reading Disability in “A Guide to Berlin.” Nabokov, Creative Discussion, and Reparative Knowledge. Paranoid Reading, Reparative Reading, and Queering The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. IV. Paratexts and Archives. Patterns and Paratexts: Teaching Nabokov's Autobiography. Vulnerability, Discipline, Perseverance, Mercy: On Teaching Nabokov's Short Stories. The Original of Laura and the Archival Nabokov.
Trunk, Alexander, Aliyev, Azar, and Trunk-Fedorova, Marina, eds. Law of International Trade in the Region of the Caucasus, Central Asia and Russia: Public International Law, Private Law, Dispute Settlement. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2022. x, 522 pp. Notes. Index. Tables. $219.00, hard bound.
Alexander Trunk, Marina Trunk-Fedorova, and Azar Aliyev, Introduction. Part 1. The Perspective of Public International Law. Section 1. Regional Economic Integration Restricted Access. Zhenis Kembayev, The Eurasian Economic Union: An Overview and Evaluation. Michael Geistlinger, Legal Evaluation of Agreements on Trade between the Central Asian and Caucasus Region and the EU. Karsten Nowrot, “Competing Regionalism” vs. “Cooperative Regionalism”: On the Possible Relations between Different Regional Economic Integration Agreements. Vitaliy Kim, Economic Sanctions as an Impediment to Trade in the Caucasus-Central Asian Region: A Legal View. Philipp-Christian Scheel, Challenge of EU Economic and Financial Sanctions before the European Court of Justice. Section 2. WTO Norms in the Context of the EAEU and Its Member States Restricted Access. Zhenis Kembayev, Legal Regulation of International Treaties in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Marina Trunk-Fedorova, WTO Norms in the Russian Legal System and the EAEU. Section 3. Selected Aspects of International Trade in the Region. Ekaterina Dmitrikova, Customs Regulation in the Eurasian Economic Union. Irina Kireeva, Major Difficulties of Some WTO Members in Complying with the SPS and TBT Agreements. Azar Aliyev, Regulation of International Trade in Energy Resources: Challenges for Post-Soviet Exporters of Energy Resources through the Example of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia. Erik Evtimov and Tetyana Payosova, Trade Facilitation and International Rail Transport Law: The Eurasian Land Bridge Perspective. Section 4. Environmental Issues. Andreas R. Ziegler, Trade and Environment in the Region of the Caucasus and Central Asia: The Case of Hazardous Waste. Part 2. The Perspective of Private Law. Alexander Trunk, Some Notes on the Law of Sales Contracts in the Region of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Alexander Trunk, International Sales Law in the Region of the Caucasus and Central Asia – An Overview. Cyril R. Emery, Uniform Sales Law as a Tool to Facilitate Complex Global Supply Chains in Central Asia. Part 3. Settlement of International Trade Disputes. Section 1. Dispute Settlement under Public International Law. Nicolas Lamp and Larysa Workewych, Russia's Experience in WTO Dispute Settlement. Peter-Tobias Stoll and Jia Xu, Conflict of Jurisdictions: WTO and PTAs. Thomas Jürgensen, Dispute Settlement Mechanisms in Free Trade Agreements with the European Union. Elena Babkina, The Court of the Eurasian Economic Union. Karsten Nowrot, Environmental Governance as a Subject of Dispute Settlement Mechanisms in Regional Trade Agreements. Ilia Rachkov, Parallel Use of Public and Private Law Mechanisms in Resolution of International Trade Disputes. Section 2. Dispute Resolution under Private Law. Alexander Trunk, Private Trade Disputes in State Courts in the Region of the Caucasus and Central Asia – Issues of Quality. Vladislav Starzhenetskiy, Emerging Trends of Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and Arbitral Awards Issued in Economic Disputes in the Russian Federation. Alexander Trunk, Some Remarks on International Commercial Arbitration in the Region of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Timothy Lemay, Transparency in Settlement of Investment Disputes – Public Interest and Transparency: The Work of UNCITRAL and Its Relevance for the Eurasian Region. Dagmar Richter, The Impacts of Public International Law on the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. Andrey Kotelnikov, International Commercial Arbitration and Economic Sanctions. Alexander Trunk, Marina Trunk-Fedorova, and Azar Aliyev, Conclusions.
