Articles

Tainaia tainykh and Ivan the Terrible in the light of recent scholarship

Charles J. Halperin

Disaster as a formative experience: the Leningrad flood of 1924

Alexander Herbert

The Russian language of Odesa: simplification and reduction of grammatical complexity

Nerea Madariaga & Olga Romanova

The First World War’s significance for contemporary Russia: acknowledging the war’s heroes and re-evaluating its final years

Cadra Peterson McDaniel

Book Reviews

2021

Environmental cultures in Soviet East Europe: literature, history and memory, by Anna Barcz

Alec Brookes

Snapshots of the soul: photo-poetic encounters in modern Russian culture, by Molly Thomas

Polina Dimova

2022

Jozef Pilsudski: founding father of modern Poland, by Joshua Zimmerman

Michał J. Wilczewski

Nabokov noir: cinematic culture and the art of exile, by Luke Parker

Robyn Jensen

Recording Russia: trying to listen in the nineteenth century, by Gabriella Safran

Donna Tussing Orwin

Soviet samizdat: imagining a new society, by Ann Komaromi

Josephine von Zitzewitz

2023

Belarusian nation-building in times of war and revolution, by Lizaveta Kasmach

Anika Walke

Cosmopolitan spaces in Odesa: a case study of an urban context, edited by Mirja Lecke and Efraim Sicher

Nicholas Dreyer

German blood, Slavic soil: how Nazi Königsberg became Soviet Kaliningrad, by Nicole Eaton

Kaarel Piirimäe

The imperial script of Catherine the Great: governing with the literary pen, by Vera Proskurina

Amanda Ewington

Legacies of the Stone Guest: the Don Juan legend in Russian literature, by Alexander Burry

Sidney Eric Dement

The Soviet sixties, by Robert Hornsby

J.-Guy Lalande

2024

Goodbye to Russia: a personal reckoning from the ruins of war, by Sarah Rainsford

W. John Morgan

The green power of socialism: wood, forest, and the making of Soviet industrially embedded ecology, by Elena Kochetkova

Katja Doose

The making of dissidents: Hungary’s democratic opposition and its Western friends, 1973–1998, by Victoria Harms

Judith Szapor

On duty: the role of the Polish Blue and Criminal Police in the Holocaust, by Jan Grabowski

Jadwiga Biskupska