Book Reviews

L iterature and F ine A rts Givens, John. The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak . DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2018. 329 pp. $60.00. ISBN 978‐0‐87580‐779‐9. Helfant, Ian M. That Savage Gaze: Wolves in the Nineteenth‐Century Russian Imagination . Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018. 177 pp. $99.00. ISBN 978‐1‐6181‐1843‐1. Bergelson, David. Judgment: A Novel . Translated by Harriet Murav and Sasha Senderovich. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2017. xxxvii + 222 pp. $18.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐8101‐3591‐8. Rodgers, Michael. Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives . New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. xii + 176 pp. $110.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5013‐3957‐8. Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund. That Third Guy: A Comedy from the Stalinist 1930s, with Essays on Theater . Translated and edited by Alisa Ballard Lin. Foreword by Caryl Emerson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. xxii + 301 pp. $79.95. ISBN 978‐0‐299‐31710‐2. Arsenjuk, Luka. Movement, Action, Image, Montage: Sergei Eisenstein and the Cinema in Crisis . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. vii + 251 pp. $27.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5179‐0320‐6. Taroutina, Maria. The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo‐Byzantine Revival . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. xvi + 271 pp. $89.95. ISBN 978‐0‐271‐08104‐5. Minkova, Yuliya. Making Martyrs: The Language of Sacrifice in Russian Culture from Stalin to Putin . Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018. viii + 237 pp. $85.00. ISBN 978‐1‐58046‐914‐2. Khapaeva, Dina. The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. vii + 256 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐0‐472‐13026‐9. McQuillen, Colleen, and Julia Vaingurt, eds. The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Russia . Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2018. viii + 268 pp. $119.00. ISBN 978‐1‐6181‐1732‐8. H istory Grinev, Andrei Val'terovich. Russian Colonization of Alaska: Preconditions, Discovery, and Initial Development, 1741–1799 . Translated by Richard L. Bland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2018. xvi + 328 pp. $70.00. ISBN 978‐1‐4962‐0762‐3. Gerasimov, Ilya. Plebeian Modernity: Social Practices, Illegality, and the Urban Poor in Russia 1906–1916 . Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018. xii + 275 pp. $70.00. ISBN 978‐1‐58046‐905‐0. Le Blanc, Paul. October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy, 1917–1924