Articles

The creative destruction of dialogue: Zen koans and Socratic elenchus in Viktor Pelevin’s Buddha’s Little Finger

Natalya Sukhonos

“What do I look like from there?” Outsidedness and aesthetic seeing in Andrei Bitov’s early works

David M. A. Parker

Operation Velehrad, 1950: Communism, Catholicism, and popular tradition in Czechoslovakia

Mira Markham

Ivan Mykolaichuk’s Babylon XX as late poetic cinema

Ana Cohle

Roundtable

A roundtable on Natalie Kononenko’s Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies: Growing a Ukrainian Canadian Identity

James Krapfl, John-Paul Himka, Andrii Krawchuk, Margaret H. Beissinger & Natalie Kononenko

Book Reviews

2022

Passion and restraint: Poles and Poland in Western diplomacy, 1914–1921, by Denis Clark

Jesse Kauffman

2023

Winning women’s hearts and minds: selling Cold War culture in the US and the USSR, by Diana Cucuz

Sergei I. Zhuk

Dostoevsky’s provocateurs, by Lynn Ellen Patyk

Katherine Bowers

2024

Tarnished heroes: the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in the memory politics of post-Soviet Ukraine, by Per A. Rudling

John-Paul Himka

Learn Russian through contemporary short film, by Natallia Kabiak

Natalya Kuznetsova

The post-soviet human: philosophical reflections on social history after the end of communism, by Mikhail Minakov

W. John Morgan

2025

A time to sow: refusenik life in Leningrad, 1979–1989, by Michael Beizer and Ann Komaromi

Alexandra Zborovsky

Habsburg encounters with Native America: familiar strangers, edited by Jonathan Singerton, Markéta Křížová, and Michael Burri

Claudia Lonkin

The last transport: the Holocaust in the eastern Aegean, by Anthony McElligott

Evdoxios Doxiadis

Translation multiples: from global culture to postcommunist democracy, by Kasia Szymanska

Magdalena Kay