Summer Reading

[Marcus C. Levitt]

Dear Colleagues,
    This is my chance to:
          1) offer you some great summer reading--books now availavle
for review in "The Slavic and East European Journal" (upcoming
deadlines are mid-August and October 1st; review length is up to
1000 words);
          2) to thank all of you who have written reviews
for me and helped me carry out the duties of book editor; and
          3) to give a heartly welcome to the Book Editor- Elect,
Sibelan Forrester, who has done such a great job of managing the web
list.  She begins her duties with vol. 43, no. 1 (1999).
        Sibelan is off in Russia until August, so in the
interim send your offers to review books  directly to me
(<levitt at hermes.usc.edu.).  Please mention the book number.
      These books have just been received, and will soon be posted
to the web list.  If you want to check out the entire list (which
is divided into categories)  go to the AATSEEL web page,
<http://clover.slavic/pitt.edu/~aatseel/>, or go straight to the
source at
<http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/AATSEEL/seej-reviews.html>.

Books to review!

1235. Markovich, V. M. Pushkin I Lermontov v istorii russkoj literatury:
stat'i raznykh let. Sankt-Peterburg: Izdatel'stvo S.-Peterburgskogo
universiteta, 1997.

1291 Asyonkova, Natalia, Na fone kormil'tsa, Tenafly, NJ:
Hermitage, 1997.

1294.  Efimov, Igor', Chetyri gory (Collection of aphorisms),
Tenafly, NJ: Hermitage, 1997,

1295. Grinhkill, Rima, ed., Krug chteniya. Antologia dlia
 studentov, Tenafly, NJ: Hermitage, 1997.

1296.Levina, Anna, Ulybki i oshibki, Tenafly,NJ:
Hermitage, 1997.

1297. Torin, Aleksandr, Durnaya kompaniya, Tenafly, NJ:
Hermitage, 1998.

1298. Torchilin, Vladimir, Povezlo: Rasskazy i povesti ,
Tenafly, NJ: Hermitage, 1997.

1299. Donskov, A. A. Novye materialy L. N. Tolstogo i o
 Tolstom Iz arkhiva N. N. Guseva.  Sost. L. D. Gromova-Opul'skaia I
Z. N. Ivanova.  Vortr at ge und Abhandlungen zur Slavistok, Band 32.
Munich: Verlag Otto Sagner, 1997.

1302. Putevoditel' po Pushkinu. St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii
proekt, 1997.  [republication  of the useful 1931 Pushkin
dictionary]

1303. Utaennaia liubov' Pushkina,  St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii
 proekt, 1997. [classic articles--by Gershenzon, Tynianov,
Tomashecvsky, Grossman, etc] .

1304. Nikolayeva,E.A., ed. Mastera poeticheskogo perevoda XX vek.
Novaia biblioteka poeta. St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 1997.

1305. Cockfield, Jamie H., With Snow on Their Boots. The Tragic Odyssey
 of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France During World War I.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

1306. Eidintas, Alfonsas, Vytautas dalys and Afred Erich Sein; ed by
 Edvardas Tuskenis, Lithuania In European Politics: The Years of the
First Republic, 1918-1940.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

1307.  Frigyesi, Judit, BJla Bart\k and Turn-Of-The-Century Budapest,
 Berkley: University Of California Press, 1998.

1308. Waldron ,Peter, Between Two Revolutions. Stolypin and the
Politics of Renewal in Russia. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University
Press, 1998.

1309.  Baudin,Antoine, Le rJalisma socialiste soviJtique de la pJriode
 jdanovienne (1947-1953).  Vol. 1: Les Arts Plastiques Et Leurs
Institution, Bern: Peter Lang, 1997.

1310. Cole, H. Daniel, Instituting Environmental Protection From
Red to Green in Poland. , New York:St. Martin's Press, 1998.

1311. Miller, Nicholas J. , Between Nation and State Serbian Politics
 in Croatia Before the First World War, Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 1998.

1313. Vickers, Miranda, The Albanians. A Modern History.  London: I.B.
 Taurus, 1997.

1314. Handler, Andrew and Susan V. Meschel (eds.), Red Star, Blue Star:
The Lives and Times of Jewish Students in Communiist Hungary,
Boulder, CO: East European Monographs / distr. by New York: Columbia
University Press, 1998.

1315. Frydman, Roman, Kenneth Murphy, and Andrezej Rapaczynski,
Capitalism with a Comrade's Face: Studies in the Postcommunist
Transition.  Budapest: Central European University Press, 1998. 1316.
 Csepeli, Gyorgy, National Identity in Contemporary Hungary, New
York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

1317. Gall, Carlotta and Thomas de Waal, Chechnya. Calamity in the
Caucasus. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

1318. Fryer, C.E.J, The Destruction of Serbia in 1915, New York: Columbia
 University Press, 1998.

1319. Bryld, Jette and Erik Kulavig, Soviet Civilization Between Past
 and Present, Viborg: Odense University Press, 1998.

1321 Schechter, Joel, The Congress of Clowns and Other Russian Circus Acts.
 San Francisco: Kropotkin Club of San Fransisco, 1998.

1322.  Ofer, Dalia and Lenore J. Weitzman, Women in the Holocaust,
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

1323.  Starr, Richard F., Transition to Demorcracy in Poland, New York: St.
 Martin's Press, 1998.

1324.  Trew, Simon, Britain, Mihalovic and the Chetniks, 1941-42, New
 York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

1325. Bukharin, Nikolai, How It All Began: The Prison Novel, Translated .by
 George Shriver, introduction by Stephen F. Cohen. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1998. .

1326. Lieven, Anatol, Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power, New Haven:
 Yale University Press, 1998..

1327. Sankovitch, Natasha. Creating and Recovering Experience. Repetition
 in Tolstoy, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.

1328. Cornwell, Neil, ed, Reference Guide to Russian Literature, Chicago:
 Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998.

1329. Bardach, Janusz and Kathleen Gleeson, Man is Wolf to Man. Surviving
the Gulag, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

1330. Shandor, Vincent, Carpatho-Ukraine in the Twentieth Century,
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

1331. Malcolm, Noel, Kosovo: A Short History, New York: New York
 University Press, 1998.  [a minimal 492 pages!]

1332.  Cooke, Brett, Pushkin and the Creative Process, Gainesville: University
 Press of Florida, 1998.

1333.  Stoecker, Sally W. Forging Stalin's Army: Marshal Tukhachevsky and
 the Politics of Military Innovation.  Foreword by David Glantz. ,
Boulder CO:P Westview Press, 1998.

1334. McCannon, John, Red Arctic: Polar Exploration and the Myth of the
 North in the Soviet Union, 1932-1939, New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998..

1335. Paperno, Irina, Suicide as a Cultural Institution in
Dostoevsky's Russia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.

1337. Kiss, Yudit, The Defence Industry in East-Central Europe, New York:
 Oxford University Press, 1997.

1338.Adlam, Carol, Rachel Falconer, Vitalii Makhlin, and Alastair Renfrew, eds.
 Face to Face. Bakhtin in Russia and the West, Sheffield: Sheffield
Academic Press, 1997.

1339. Florensky, Pavel The Pillar and Ground of the Truth. An Essay in
 Orthodox Theodicy in Twelve Letters. Trans. by Boris Jakim.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

1340. Out Visiting and Back Home. Russian Stories on Aging, Selected, edited
 and translated by Thomas H. Hoisington.   Evanston: Northwestern
University Press, 1998.

1341. Mazsu, Janos, The Social History of the Hungarian
Intelligentsia 1825-1914.  Atlantic Studies on Society and Change,
no. 89.  Translated from the Hungarian by Mario D. Fenyo. Highland
Lakes, NJ: Atlantic Research and Publications, Inc..

1342. Elster, John, Claus Offe, and Ulrich K. Preuss, with Frank Boenker,
 Ulrike Goetting, and Frederick W. Rueb. Institutional Design in
Post-communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea., Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1997.

1343. Aleshkosky, Peter, Skunk: A Life, (Glas New Russian Writing No. 15),
Translated by Arch Tait. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Inc., 1998.
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1344. Perova Natasha and Arch Tait, eds. Childhood: Zip and Other Stories.
 (Glas New Russian Writing No. 16), Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Inc., 1998.

1345. Braham, Randolph L., ed. The Destruction of Romanian and Ukrainian
 Jews During the Antonescu Era.  East European Monographs, no.
CDLXXXIII, Holocaust Studies Series.  New York: Columbia Press, 1997.

1346.  Thomas, Alfred. Anne's Bohemia. Czech Literature and Society,
1310-1420, Foreword by David Wallace.  Medieval Cultures Series, vol.
13. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1998.

1347.  Graham, Loren R.  What Have We Learned About Science and
 Technology from the Russian Experience? Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1998.

1348. Carrick, Neil, Daniil Kharms: Theologian of the Absurd.
 Birmingham Slavonic Monographs No. 28. Birmingham: The University of
Birmingham, 1998.

1349.  Morriseey Susan K., Heralds of Revolution. Russian Students and
 the Mythologies of Radicalism, New York: Oxford University Press,
1998.

1350. Fiszman, Samuel, ed. Constitution and Reform in
Eighteenth-Century Poland: The Constitution of 3 May 1791.
Bloomington: Indiana Universiuty Polish Studies Center /  Indiana
University Press, 1997.

1351. Rifkin, Benjamin, .  Grammatika v kontekste.  Russian Grammar
in Literary Contexts.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996 (textbook,
workbook, instructor's manual,[all paper] and three audio tapes).

1353. Violich, Francis, The Bridge to Dalmatia. A Search for the Meaning of
Place, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.


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Dr. Marcus C. Levitt
Book Editor, The Slavic and E. Eur. Journal
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353
tel. (213) 740-2740
fax  (213) 740-8550
e-mail Levitt at hermes.usc.edu