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The 85/1 January 2026 issue of The Russian Review is now available! This issue includes the announcement of the winner of the 2025 Levin Article Prize, five regular articles, two featured reviews, and, as always, book reviews. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679434...

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! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679434...

*THE RUSSIAN REVIEW REWIND* Check out these book reviews published in the 84/2 April 2025 issue! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679434...

*THE RUSSIAN REVIEW REWIND* Check out these book reviews published in the 84/1 January 2025 issue! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679434...

***THROWBACK THURSDAY*** 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

Did you know that The Russian Review is also on Facebook? If you are on Facebook, then make sure you are following us there! www.facebook.com/RussianReview/

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.

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

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!

Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies and American Historical Association members can receive print copies of all of our 2025 issues through our print-on-demand service at an AMAZING discount! (80% off!) Contact [email protected] for the code! ondemand.sheridan.com/.../wiley-th...

***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! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679434...

Check out the Social Sciences, Contemporary Russia, and Other book reviews published in the October 2025 issue! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679434...

So many History book reviews published in the October 2025 issue! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679434...

Check out the Literature and Fine Arts book reviews published in the October 2025 issue! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679434...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The 84/4 October 2025 issue of The Russian Review is now available! This issue includes an introduction and three articles in our "The Ideology of Putinism” cluster, two regular articles, a review essay, two featured reviews, and, as always, book reviews. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679434...

Question of the day: How much do you think a yearly subscription to The Russian Review was in 1942? Looking for the cost for US subscribers, but extra points for the cost for Canadian subscribers and the cost for foreign subscribers.

Did you know that you can receive email alerts when new articles and issues are published? Sign up to see the latest articles, review essays, featured reviews, books reviews, and more as they are posted online! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467...

The Russian Review ranks among the oldest and most widely-read journals of Russian studies! russianreview.ku.edu

This is a friendly reminder that The Russian Review welcomes individual article submissions as well as proposals for interdisciplinary article clusters focused on a theme of current scholarly interest. See our website for more information: russianreview.ku.edu/submissions

С днем рождения/З днем народження/Happy birthday to our wonderful Editorial Assistant, Jordan Zaugg! We are so grateful to have him as part of our editorial staff!

Don't forget! Individual and institutional subscriptions to The Russian Review are available through Wiley. Subscription discounts are available for members of our affiliate organizations, ASEEES and AHA. russianreview.ku.edu/subscription...

Did you know that The Russian Review editorial office is located at the University of Kansas? During the past few days, everyone here has been bubbling with excitement over some sort of news. Maybe the excitement is for the next issue of the journal? Coming soon in October!

*From the Living Syllabus Collection* “Russian Education System” written by Miles Parker russianreview.ku.edu/russian-educ... Check out this fantastic resource!

*From the Living Syllabus Collection* “Witches and Physicians: Health and Medicine in The Russian Review” Written by Jordan Zaugg (our AMAZING editorial assistant!) russianreview.ku.edu/health-russi...

*2025 LEVIN ARTICLE PRIZE WINNER* Katherine New, “‘Following Our Own Path’: Pavel Katenin’s Political Theater” We invite everyone to enjoy New’s prize-winning article by going to doi.org/10.1111/russ... (OPEN ACCESS)

*From the Living Syllabus Collection* “Race and Russian Studies” Written by Kamal Kariem russianreview.ku.edu/race-and-rus... Teachers, students, and scholars will want to check out this amazing resource on race and racialization in Russia.

*From the Living Syllabus Collection* “Emigres and Global Russian Identities” written by Adam Rodger (a former editorial assistant!) russianreview.ku.edu/emigres This has articles that can be included into course syllabi as primary sources for the study of Russian emigration and the diaspora.

*From the Living Syllabus Collection* “A Look into the Archives” written by Olivia Naum russianreview.ku.edu/archives Anyone teaching history who wants to show the importance of archival access will want to look at this!

Scholars, teachers, and students: Check out our Living Syllabus Collection! russianreview.ku.edu/livingsyllabus These guides are meant to help teachers create syllabi or course modules that draw on the journal’s past issues, all of which are readily available online.

The final contribution to our thematic cluster on “Buryat Studies: New Perspectives” is Kathryn E. Graber's “When Everything Old Was New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post-Soviet Buryatia.” doi.org/10.1111/russ...

Our “Buryat Studies: New Perspectives” thematic cluster continues with “Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War,” by Sayana Namsaraeva and Vitaly Tsytsykov. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

The next contribution to our thematic cluster on “Buryat Studies: New Perspectives” is “Borders in a Borderland: The Buryat-Cossacks and the Buryat National Movement, 1917–21” by Griffin B. Creech. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our thematic cluster on "Buryat Studies: New Perspectives" continues with Nikolay Tsyrempilov's "A Story about One Hapless Baptism: Christianization of the Buryats and the Dymbilov Affair, 1841-48." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Russian Review is delighted to have published a thematic cluster on "Buryat Studies: New Perspectives" in the July 2025 issue. We invite readers to begin with Tatiana Linkhoeva and Justine Buck Quijada's introductory essay! doi.org/10.1111/russ...

Published in the July 2025 issue! "Public Patterns in Private Writing: Computational Insights into Russophone Diaries" by Tatyana Gershkovich, Madeline Kehl, and Simon DeDeo *Open Access* at doi.org/10.1111/russ...

Published in the July 2025 issue! “Education Policy in the Kingdom of Poland after 1905: The Nationalizing Empire at an Impasse” by Darius Staliūnas

The July 2025 issue of The Russian Review is now available! This issue includes a tribute to our recently retired Managing Editor Kurt Schultz, an introduction and four articles for our “Buryat Studies: New Perspectives” cluster, two regular articles, four featured reviews, and book reviews.