The Russian Review
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An American quarterly devoted to Russia past and present. russianreview.ku.edu
The Russian Review editorial office will be closed from December 24th through January 1st. We will be back in the office on January 2nd. Happy holidays and have a wonderful new year!
December 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The Russian Review editorial office will be closed from December 24th through January 1st. We will be back in the office on January 2nd. Happy holidays and have a wonderful new year!
*THE RUSSIAN REVIEW REWIND*
Check out these book reviews published in the 84/3 July 2025 issue!
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Check out these book reviews published in the 84/3 July 2025 issue!
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December 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
*THE RUSSIAN REVIEW REWIND*
Check out these book reviews published in the 84/3 July 2025 issue!
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Check out these book reviews published in the 84/3 July 2025 issue!
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*THE RUSSIAN REVIEW REWIND*
Check out these book reviews published in the 84/2 April 2025 issue!
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Check out these book reviews published in the 84/2 April 2025 issue!
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December 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
*THE RUSSIAN REVIEW REWIND*
Check out these book reviews published in the 84/2 April 2025 issue!
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Check out these book reviews published in the 84/2 April 2025 issue!
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*THE RUSSIAN REVIEW REWIND*
Check out these book reviews published in the 84/1 January 2025 issue!
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Check out these book reviews published in the 84/1 January 2025 issue!
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December 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
*THE RUSSIAN REVIEW REWIND*
Check out these book reviews published in the 84/1 January 2025 issue!
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Check out these book reviews published in the 84/1 January 2025 issue!
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***THROWBACK THURSDAY***
Note to Contributors from 1983
Does anyone remember using 8-inch floppy disks or magnetic tape for their manuscripts?
#timeshavechanged
Note to Contributors from 1983
Does anyone remember using 8-inch floppy disks or magnetic tape for their manuscripts?
#timeshavechanged
December 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
***THROWBACK THURSDAY***
Note to Contributors from 1983
Does anyone remember using 8-inch floppy disks or magnetic tape for their manuscripts?
#timeshavechanged
Note to Contributors from 1983
Does anyone remember using 8-inch floppy disks or magnetic tape for their manuscripts?
#timeshavechanged
Volume 85 is going to be online before we know it! Need to catch up on regular articles, thematic clusters, featured reviews, review essays, book reviews, and tributes from volume 84? Go to this link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/loi/14679434
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Volume 85 is going to be online before we know it! Need to catch up on regular articles, thematic clusters, featured reviews, review essays, book reviews, and tributes from volume 84? Go to this link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/loi/14679434
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December 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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All of this snow in Kansas is giving us January issue vibes. Can’t wait until the next issue of The Russian Review? The journal publishes accepted articles, featured reviews, review essays, and book reviews on our Early View website. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679434...
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
All of this snow in Kansas is giving us January issue vibes. Can’t wait until the next issue of The Russian Review? The journal publishes accepted articles, featured reviews, review essays, and book reviews on our Early View website. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679434...
The editorial office is closed today and tomorrow in observance of the US Thanksgiving holiday. We are very thankful and grateful for the dedication and efforts of our authors, manuscript reviewers, book reviewers, our readership audience, our editorial board, and our editorial collegium and staff.
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The editorial office is closed today and tomorrow in observance of the US Thanksgiving holiday. We are very thankful and grateful for the dedication and efforts of our authors, manuscript reviewers, book reviewers, our readership audience, our editorial board, and our editorial collegium and staff.
We enjoyed seeing everyone and taking in all of the great content at ASEEES! This is just a friendly reminder that we welcome individual article submissions as well as proposals for interdisciplinary article clusters focused on a theme of current scholarly interest.
russianreview.ku.edu/submissions
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November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
We enjoyed seeing everyone and taking in all of the great content at ASEEES! This is just a friendly reminder that we welcome individual article submissions as well as proposals for interdisciplinary article clusters focused on a theme of current scholarly interest.
russianreview.ku.edu/submissions
russianreview.ku.edu/submissions
We are getting ready for the 2025 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Annual Convention in Washington, DC! We can't wait to see everyone later this week!
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We are getting ready for the 2025 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Annual Convention in Washington, DC! We can't wait to see everyone later this week!
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November 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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***FREE TO READ ALERT***
For those of you who aren’t subscribed to the journal, ALL articles, featured reviews, and the review essay from the October 2025 issue are free to read THIS WEEK ONLY!
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For those of you who aren’t subscribed to the journal, ALL articles, featured reviews, and the review essay from the October 2025 issue are free to read THIS WEEK ONLY!
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The Russian Review: Vol 84, No 4
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November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
***FREE TO READ ALERT***
For those of you who aren’t subscribed to the journal, ALL articles, featured reviews, and the review essay from the October 2025 issue are free to read THIS WEEK ONLY!
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For those of you who aren’t subscribed to the journal, ALL articles, featured reviews, and the review essay from the October 2025 issue are free to read THIS WEEK ONLY!
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Check out the Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and Other book reviews published in the October 2025 issue!
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November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Check out the Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and Other book reviews published in the October 2025 issue!
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So many History book reviews published in the October 2025 issue!
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November 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
So many History book reviews published in the October 2025 issue!
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Check out the Literature and Fine Arts book reviews published in the October 2025 issue!
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October 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Check out the Literature and Fine Arts book reviews published in the October 2025 issue!
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Featured Review published in the October 2025 issue!
"Russian Realist Fiction in the Shadow of Autocratic Power"
Kate Holland
*Open Access*
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
"Russian Realist Fiction in the Shadow of Autocratic Power"
Kate Holland
*Open Access*
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October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Featured Review published in the October 2025 issue!
"Russian Realist Fiction in the Shadow of Autocratic Power"
Kate Holland
*Open Access*
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
"Russian Realist Fiction in the Shadow of Autocratic Power"
Kate Holland
*Open Access*
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
Featured Review published in the October 2025 issue!
"Getting the Facts Straight: Materialism and Method in Devin Fore’s Soviet Factography"
Julia Vaingurt
*Open Access*
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
"Getting the Facts Straight: Materialism and Method in Devin Fore’s Soviet Factography"
Julia Vaingurt
*Open Access*
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
October 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Featured Review published in the October 2025 issue!
"Getting the Facts Straight: Materialism and Method in Devin Fore’s Soviet Factography"
Julia Vaingurt
*Open Access*
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
"Getting the Facts Straight: Materialism and Method in Devin Fore’s Soviet Factography"
Julia Vaingurt
*Open Access*
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
Review Essay published in the October 2025 issue!
"Russia’s War against Ukraine: The Early Historiography of an Escalation"
Oleksa Drachewych
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"Russia’s War against Ukraine: The Early Historiography of an Escalation"
Oleksa Drachewych
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October 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Review Essay published in the October 2025 issue!
"Russia’s War against Ukraine: The Early Historiography of an Escalation"
Oleksa Drachewych
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
"Russia’s War against Ukraine: The Early Historiography of an Escalation"
Oleksa Drachewych
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
Published in the October 2025 issue!
“The Recriminalization of Homosexuality under Stalin: New Sources, New Answers”
Irina Roldugina
*Open Access*
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“The Recriminalization of Homosexuality under Stalin: New Sources, New Answers”
Irina Roldugina
*Open Access*
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October 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Published in the October 2025 issue!
“The Recriminalization of Homosexuality under Stalin: New Sources, New Answers”
Irina Roldugina
*Open Access*
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
“The Recriminalization of Homosexuality under Stalin: New Sources, New Answers”
Irina Roldugina
*Open Access*
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
Published in the October 2025 issue!
"'I Wanted to Bite at the Chauvinists': Tatar History, Culture, and Politics during the Thaw"
John M. Romero @romerojohnm.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
"'I Wanted to Bite at the Chauvinists': Tatar History, Culture, and Politics during the Thaw"
John M. Romero @romerojohnm.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
October 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Published in the October 2025 issue!
"'I Wanted to Bite at the Chauvinists': Tatar History, Culture, and Politics during the Thaw"
John M. Romero @romerojohnm.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
"'I Wanted to Bite at the Chauvinists': Tatar History, Culture, and Politics during the Thaw"
John M. Romero @romerojohnm.bsky.social
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The final contribution in our thematic cluster on “The Ideology of Putinism” is Alexander Libman’s “Putinism and Markets: How (and Why) Do They Fit Together?”
*Open Access*
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*Open Access*
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October 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The final contribution in our thematic cluster on “The Ideology of Putinism” is Alexander Libman’s “Putinism and Markets: How (and Why) Do They Fit Together?”
*Open Access*
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
*Open Access*
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
Our thematic cluster on “The Ideology of Putinism” continues with Pål Kolstø’s “Holding Back the End of the World: Russian Apocalyptic Interpretations of the War in Ukraine.”
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
Holding Back the End of the World: Russian Apocalyptic Interpretations of the War in Ukraine
While the vast majority of Russian Orthodox believers have not uttered any opinion publicly on Russia’s war in Ukraine, a phalanx of Orthodox “empire supporters” (impertsy) have vociferously supporte...
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October 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Our thematic cluster on “The Ideology of Putinism” continues with Pål Kolstø’s “Holding Back the End of the World: Russian Apocalyptic Interpretations of the War in Ukraine.”
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
Our thematic cluster on “The Ideology of Putinism” continues with Alicja Curanović’s “Putinism and the End of the Taboo on Land Grabs in Russian Politics: An Insight into the Territorial Aspect of the Ideology.”
*Open Access*
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
*Open Access*
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
October 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Our thematic cluster on “The Ideology of Putinism” continues with Alicja Curanović’s “Putinism and the End of the Taboo on Land Grabs in Russian Politics: An Insight into the Territorial Aspect of the Ideology.”
*Open Access*
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
*Open Access*
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
The Russian Review is delighted to have published a thematic cluster on “The Ideology of Putinism” in the October 2025 issue. We invite readers to begin with the introductory essay by Mark Bassin, Dmitrii Dorogov, and Mikhail Suslov.
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
September 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The Russian Review is delighted to have published a thematic cluster on “The Ideology of Putinism” in the October 2025 issue. We invite readers to begin with the introductory essay by Mark Bassin, Dmitrii Dorogov, and Mikhail Suslov.
doi.org/10.1111/russ...
doi.org/10.1111/russ...