Published in the April 2026 issue!

"Lenin as an Object of Formalist Discourse: The Limits of the Literary and the Boundaries of Discipline"
Alastair Renfrew
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Published in the April 2026 issue!

"Chekhov, Stanislavsky, and the Man with a Camera: Remediating Photography in Three Sisters"
Robyn Jensen
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Published in the April 2026 issue!

"From Tsarist Russia to the Kolyma Republic: Gender, Colonialism, and the Making of a Female Anthropologist in Dina Brodskaia’s Siberian Travel Accounts"
Anna Smelova

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Published in the April 2026 issue!

2025 Levin Article Prize Essay
Speaking Truth to Power: Understanding the Role of Political Theater in Russia
Katherine A. New
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The 85/2 April 2026 issue of The Russian Review is now available! This issue includes an essay from the 2025 Levin Article Prize winner, four regular articles, and, as always, book reviews.
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Check out these Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and Other book reviews published in the January 2026 issue!

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Featured Review published in the January 2026 issue!

The Peril of Thinking for Others: The Russian Intelligentsia, Pro and Contra
Caryl Emerson

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Featured Review published in the January 2026 issue!

Literary Reveries on Selected Poems: Essays Written in Collaboration with a Friend
Sarah Pratt

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Published in the January 2026 issue!

The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism
Steven E. Harris

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Published in the January 2026 issue!

"The Courtroom Sketch: Journalism and Justice in Literaturnaia gazeta"
Rebecca Reich

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Published in the January 2026 issue!

"“Your Hands, Malenkov, Are Covered in Blood…”: Nikita Khrushchev and the Instrumentalization of the 1949–1952 Leningrad Affair"
David Brandenberger

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Published in the January 2026 issue!

"A Tall Order: Baku and the Battle for Soviet Oil Exports, 1920–1929"
Jonathan Sicotte

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Published in the January 2026 issue!

"Singing Off the Road to Life: The Threat of Sonic Delinquency in the Early Soviet Union"
Elizabeth Abosch

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Published in the January 2026 issue!

FROM THE EDITOR
Katherine New Wins the 2025 Levin Article Prize
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