Russian and Soviet Studies
A review of Khrushchev’s Gulag: The Evolution of Punishment in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union, 1953-1964, by Jeffrey S. Hardy. There can be no doubt tha...
A review of Enlightening the Land of Midnight: Peter Slovtsov, Ivan Kalashnikov, and the Saga of Russian Siberia, by Mark A. Soderstrom. Mark Soderstr...
A review of Central Historical Archive of Moscow (Tsentral’nyi Istoricheskii Arkhiv Moskvy, TsIAM / Центральный исторический архив Москвы, ЦИАМ), Mosc...
A review of The Hungry Steppe: Soviet Kazakhstan and the Kazakh Famine 1921-1934, by Sarah Isabel Cameron. Is Kazakhstan a post-colonial state? How do...
A review of Law and the Culture of Debt in Moscow on the Eve of the Great Reforms, 1850-1870, by Sergei Antonov. In one of...
A review of the Russian State Historical Archive (Российский Государственный Исторический Архив), St Petersburg, Russia. The Russian State Historical ...
A review of Red Globalization: The Political Economy of Soviet Foreign Relations in the 1950s and 1960s, by Oscar Sanchez-Sibony. Oscar Sanchez-Sibony...
A review of “A Sacred Space is Never Empty”: Soviet Atheism, 1954-1971, by Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock. The history of atheism in the Soviet Union...
A review of the State Archive of Contemporary History of Saratov Oblast (Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv noveishei istorii Saratovskoi oblasti, GANISO), Sarato...
A review of Pleasure, Power, and the Pursuit of Communism: Soviet Youth and State-Sponsored Popular Culture during the Early Cold War, 1945-1968, by G...
Starting in a few weeks, “Russian Studies Dissertation Reviews” will feature friendly, non-critical overviews of recently defended, unpubl...
A review of Marginal Constituencies: Qing Borderland Policies and Vernacular Histories of Five Tribes on the Sino-Russian Frontier, by LORETTA KIM. Re...