Former Books of the Month

Listed in reverse chronology of Soyuz appearance

Page date:November 1, 2006

January 2008
Hemment, Julie. 2007. Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, Aid, and NGOs. New Anthropologies of Europe Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press

November 2006
Steven Pfaff. 2006. Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany. Durham: Duke University Press.

October 2006
Aimar Ventsel. 2005. Reindeer, Rodina, and Reciprocity: Kinship and Property Relations in a Siberian Village. Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia. Berlin: Lit Verlag.

September 2006
Laada Bilaniuk. 2006. Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

May 2006
Thomas C. Wolfe. 2005. Governing Soviet Journalism: The Press and the Socialist Person after Stalin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

April 2006
Alexei Yurchak. 2005. Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

March 2006
Galina Lindquist. 2006. Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia. New York: Berghahn Books.

February 2006
Margaret Paxson. 2005. Solovyovo: The Story of Memory in a Russian Village. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Reviewed by Michele Rivkin-Fish)

January 2006
Kristen Ghodsee. 2005. The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea. Durham: Duke University Press. (Reviewed by Jennifer Cash)

December 2005
Joachim Otto Habeck. 2005. What it Means to be a Herdsman: The Practice and Image of Reindeer Husbandry among the Komi of Northern Russia. Munster: LIT Verlag. (Reviewed by László Kürti).

November 2005
Susan Mazur-Stommen. 2005. Engines of Ideology: Urban Renewal in Rostock, Germany 1990-2000. Munster: LIT Verlag.

October 2005
Tsypylma Darieva. 2004. Russkij Berlin: Migrants and Media in Berlin and London. Munster: Lit Verlag

September 2005
Michele Rivkin-Fish 2005. Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Reviewed by Amy Ninetto)

July 2005
Greta Uehling. 2004. Beyond Memory: The Crimean Tartars' Deportation and Return. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (Reviewed by Natalia Shostak)

June 2005
Daniel Pop, editor. 2004. New Patterns of Labour Migration in Central and Eastern Europe. Romania: Public Policy Centre.

May 2005
Piers Vitebsky. 2005. Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia. London: HarperCollins Publishers. (Reviewed by Patty Gray)

April 2005
Leo Paul Dana. 2002. When Economies Change Paths: Models of Transition in China, the Central Asian Republics, Myanmar & the Nations of the Former Indochine Francaise. New Jersey: World Scientific. (Reviewed by Russell Zanca)

March 2005
Igor Krupnik, Rachel Mason, and Tonia W. Horton, editors. 2004. Northern Ethnographic Landscapes: Perspectives from Circumpolar Nations. Artic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Contributions to Circumpolar Anthropology Series, Volume 6. (Reviewed by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer)

February 2005
Sibelan Forrester, Magdalena J. Zaborowska, and Elena Gapova, eds. 2004. Over the Wall/After the Fall: Post-Communist Cultures through an East-West Gaze.Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Reviewed by Natalie O. Kononenko)

January 2005
Patty A. Gray. 2005. The Predicament of Chukotka's Indigenous Movement: Post-Soviet Activism in the Russian Far North. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Reviewed by Alexander D. King)

December 2004
Davide Torsello and Melinda Pappová, editors. 2003. Social Networks in Movement: Time, Interaction and Interethnic Spaces in Central Eastern Europe. Forum Minority Research Institute. Éamorán, Slovakia: Lilium Aurum. (Reviewed by Helen Faller)

November 2004
Michael Urban, with the assistance of Andrei Evdokimov. 2004. Russia Gets the Blues: Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Reviewed by Fran Markowitz)

October 2004
Alexia Bloch and Laurel Kendall. 2004. The Museum at the End of the World: Encounters in the Russian Far East. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Reviewed by László Kürti)

September 2004
Kira VanDeusen. 2004. Singing Story, Healing Drum: Shamans and Storytellers of Turkic Siberia. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. (Reviewed by David Anderson)

August 2004
Sigrid Rausing. 2004. History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Reviewed by Jennifer Dickinson)

July 2004
Elizabeth C. Dunn. 2004. Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Reviewed by Monica Heintz)

June 2004
Deema Kaneff. 2003. Who Owns the Past?: The Politics of Time in a 'Model' Bulgarian Village. New York: Berghahn Books. (Reviewed by Patty Gray)

May 2004
Valery Tishkov. 2004. Chechnya: Life in a War-Torn Society. With a Foreword by Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Reviewed by Irena Morozova)

April 2004
Josh Newell, editor. 2004 The Russian Far East: A Reference Guide for Conservation and Development, Second Edition. McKinleyville, California: Daniel & Daniel. (Reviewed by Sharon Hudgins)

March 2004
Melissa L. Caldwell. 2004. Not By Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Reviewed by Liesl L. Gambold Miller)

February 2004
Chris Hann and the "Property Relations" Group. 2003. The Post-Socialist Agrarian Question: Property Relations and the Rural Condition. Münster: Lit Verlag. (Reviewed by Russell Zanca)

January 2004
Alexia Bloch. 2003. Red Ties and Residential Schools: Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Reviewed by Gail Fondahl)

December 2003
Davide Torsello. 2004. Trust, Property and Social Change in a Southern Slovakian Village. Münster: Lit Verlag.

November 2003
Sascha L. Goluboff. 2003. Jewish Russians: Upheavals in a Moscow Synagogue. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Reviewed by Alexandra N. Leontieva)

Announcing a new series from Lit Verlag: Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia

October 2003
Nikolai V. Ssorin-Chaikov . 2003. The Social Life of the State in the Siberian Subarcitc. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. (Reviewed by Brian Donahoe)

September 2003
Joma Nazpury. 2003. Post-Soviet Chaos: Violence and Dispossession in Kasakhstan. London: Pluto Press. (Reviewed by Dace Dzenovska)

August 2003
Sharon Hudgins. 2003. The Other Side of Russia: A Slice of Life in Siberia & the Russian Far East. College Station: Texas A & M University Press. (Reviewed by Arthur Mason)

July 2003
Sophia Davidova & Kenneth J. Thomson, eds. 2003. Romanian Agriculture and Transition toward the EU. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. (Reviewed by Aimar Ventsel)

June 2003
Denise Roman. 2003. Fragmented Identities: Popular  Culture, Sex, and Everyday Life in Postcommunist Romania. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield. (Reviewed by Natalie O. Kononenko)

April 2003
Kaase, Max, Vera Sparschuh, and Agnieszka Wenninger, editors. 2002. Three Social Science Disciplines in Central Eastern Europe. Handbook on Economics, Political Science and Sociology. (1989-2001). Berlin/Budapest.

July 2002
Th. Køhler & K. Wessendorf, eds. (2002) Towards a New Millennium: Ten Years of the Indigenous Movement in Russia. IWGIA & RAIPON. (Reviewed by Ethel Dunn)

June 2002
John Ziker (2002) Peoples of the Tundra: Northern Siberians in the Post-Communist Transition. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. (Reviewed by Gail Fondahl)

May 2002
Index of Soviet Anthropology and Archeology and Soviet Sociology for the years 1962-1986, when Stephen P. Dunn was editor, as combined volumes 8-9 of Russia and Her Neighbors.
A check for US$25 should be sent to Highgate Rd. Social Science Research Station, 32 Highgate Rd., Berkeley, CA, 94707, USA

April 2002
Leonard, Pamela & Deema Kaneff, eds. (2001) Post-Socialist Peasant? Rural and Urban Constructions of Identity in Eastern Europe, East Africa and the Former Soviet Union. Palgrave.

March 2002
David Anderson. (2000) Identity and Ecology in Arctic Siberia - The Number One Reindeer Brigade. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Paperback Feb. 02].

Abrahamian, Levon and Nancy Sweezy,eds. (2001) Armenian Folk Arts, Culture, and Identity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

February 2002:
Stryker, R. and J. Patico, eds. (2001) The Paradoxes of Progress: Globalization and Postsocialist Cultures. Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers. Vol. 86.

January 2002:
Sabloff, Paula, Ed. (2001) Modern Mongolia: Reclaiming Genghis Khan. Philadelphia: U Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

December 2001 :
Hann, C. M., Ed. (2002) Postsocialism: Ideals, Ideologies and Practices in Eurasia. London: Routledge.