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The Witches of Wilno: Constant Litigation and Conflict Resolution
David Frick
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20 January 2017, pp. 881-902
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Seventeenth-century Wilno, capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and thus the second capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was home to five Christian confessions (Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, Greek Orthodox, and Uniate) and three religions (Christians, Jews, and Muslims [Tatars]). Against the general question of how they “made it work” arises the issue of witchcraft practice in local perceptions and in prosecution in the courts. Witchcraft trials are treated here as an integral part of “constant litigation“ and the “use of justice” in restoring communal peace. My conclusions and propositions include the following: that religion and confession played no role in witchcraft litigation; that although there is no doubt that beliefs in the existence of witchcraft persisted, there was nothing like a “witchcraft scare,“ and allegations of sorcery were treated on a level with that of petty theft and general misbehavior between neighbors; and that the goal of recourse to the courts was here, and in other types of cases, the restoration of a status quo ante. My final proposition, which invites testing, is that the Grand Duchy of Lithuania represented in this question, as well as perhaps in others, a transitional zone between the European west and east.

The End and the Beginning: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History. Ed. Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan C. Iacob. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2012. viii, 594 pp. Notes. Index. $60.00, hard bound.
James Mark
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20 January 2017, pp. 162-163
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Loyal unto Death: Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia. By Keith Brown. New Anthropologies of Europe.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xx, 257 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Chronology. Index. Photographs. Maps. $80.00, paper.
Isa Blumi
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20 January 2017, pp. 375-378
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Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition. By J. Arch Getty.New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. xx, 359pp. Notes. Index. $45.00, hard bound.
Michael David-Fox
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20 January 2017, pp. 635-638
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Intermarium: The Land between the Black and Baltic Seas. By Marek Jan Chodakiewicz. New Jersey, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2012.568 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Maps. $59.95, hard bound.
Alexander Prusin
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20 January 2017, pp. 163-164
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Myth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-1970. By Polly Jones. Eurasia Past and Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. xii, 360pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00, hard bound.
Lisa Kirschenbaum
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20 January 2017, pp. 638-641
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Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History. By Derek Sayer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xxiv, 595 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. $35.00, hard bound.
Thomas Ort
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20 January 2017, pp. 378-381
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The Plough That Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700-1914. By David Moon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xx, 319 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. £69.00, hard bound. £26.99, paper.
Willard Sunderland
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20 January 2017, pp. 903-905
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Geteilte Kulturen: Eine Geschichte der tschechisch-jüdisch-deutschen Beziehungen in Prag (1918-1938). By Ines Koeltzsch. Veröffentlichungen des Collegium Carolinum, no. 124. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2012. viii, 430 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Maps. €54.80, hard bound.
Gary B. Cohen
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20 January 2017, pp. 165-166
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They Would All Be Queens. Dir. Gustavo Pérez. In Spanish with English subtitles. New York: Icarus Films, 2013.55 min. Color. $248.00, sale of DVD.
Anne E. Gorsuch
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20 January 2017, pp. 906-907
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900 Days. Dir. Jessica Gorter. London: Icarus Films, 2012.77 minutes. Color. In Russian with English subtitles. $398, sale of DVD.
Polina Barskova
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20 January 2017, pp. 642-643
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Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habs-burg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands. Ed. Omer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xii, 528 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Maps. $37.00, paper.
Mark Von Hagen
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20 January 2017, pp. 381-384
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Holodomor and Gorta Mór: Histories, Memories and Representations of Famine in Ukraine and Ireland. Ed. Christian Noack, Lindsay Janssen, and Vincent Comerford. London: Anthem Press, 2012. x, 276 pp. Notes. Index. Photographs. Figures. Maps. Hard bound.
Serhy Yekelchyk
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20 January 2017, pp. 908-909
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Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949-56. By Katherine Lebow. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. xvi, 233 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. $45.00, hard bound.
Anthony Kemp-Welch
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20 January 2017, pp. 384-387
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Mapping Europe's Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire. By Steven Seegel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xi, 368pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Plates. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $55.00, hard bound.
John Pickles
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20 January 2017, pp. 644-645
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The German Minority in Interwar Poland. By Winson Chu. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xxii, 320 pp. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $90.00, hard bound.
Eva Plach
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20 January 2017, pp. 166-167
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From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933- 1965. By John Connelly. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 376 pp. Notes. Index. $35.00, hard bound
Doris L. Bergen
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20 January 2017, pp. 909-910
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Metternich, the Great Powers, and the Eastern Question. By Miroslav Šedivý. Pilsen: University of West Bohemia Press, 2013. 1,033 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Figures. Hard bound.
Karl A. Roider
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20 January 2017, pp. 645-646
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Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream. By Diane P. Koenker. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. x, 307 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Tables. $39.95, hard bound.
Polly Jones
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20 January 2017, pp. 387-390
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Remembering Katyn. By Alexander Etkind, Rory Finnin, Uilleam Blacker, Julie Fedor, Simon Lewis, Maria Mälksoo, and Matilda Mroz. Cambridge, Eng.: Polity Press, 2012. xxviii, 185 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Chronology. Index. Photographs. Map. $64.95, hard bound. $22.95, paperback.
Kevin M. F. Platt
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20 January 2017, pp. 167-169
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The End and the Beginning: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History. Ed. Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan C. Iacob. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2012. viii, 594 pp. Notes. Index. $60.00, hard bound.

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Loyal unto Death: Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia. By Keith Brown. New Anthropologies of Europe.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xx, 257 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Chronology. Index. Photographs. Maps. $80.00, paper.

Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition. By J. Arch Getty.New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. xx, 359pp. Notes. Index. $45.00, hard bound.

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Intermarium: The Land between the Black and Baltic Seas. By Marek Jan Chodakiewicz. New Jersey, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2012.568 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Maps. $59.95, hard bound.

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Myth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-1970. By Polly Jones. Eurasia Past and Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. xii, 360pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00, hard bound.

Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History. By Derek Sayer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. xxiv, 595 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. $35.00, hard bound.

The Plough That Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700-1914. By David Moon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xx, 319 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. £69.00, hard bound. £26.99, paper.

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They Would All Be Queens. Dir. Gustavo Pérez. In Spanish with English subtitles. New York: Icarus Films, 2013.55 min. Color. $248.00, sale of DVD.

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900 Days. Dir. Jessica Gorter. London: Icarus Films, 2012.77 minutes. Color. In Russian with English subtitles. $398, sale of DVD.

Featured Reviews

Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habs-burg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands. Ed. Omer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xii, 528 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Maps. $37.00, paper.

Book Reviews

Holodomor and Gorta Mór: Histories, Memories and Representations of Famine in Ukraine and Ireland. Ed. Christian Noack, Lindsay Janssen, and Vincent Comerford. London: Anthem Press, 2012. x, 276 pp. Notes. Index. Photographs. Figures. Maps. Hard bound.

Featured Reviews

Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949-56. By Katherine Lebow. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. xvi, 233 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. $45.00, hard bound.

Book Reviews

Mapping Europe's Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire. By Steven Seegel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xi, 368pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Plates. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $55.00, hard bound.

Reviews

The German Minority in Interwar Poland. By Winson Chu. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xxii, 320 pp. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $90.00, hard bound.

Book Reviews

From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933- 1965. By John Connelly. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 376 pp. Notes. Index. $35.00, hard bound

Metternich, the Great Powers, and the Eastern Question. By Miroslav Šedivý. Pilsen: University of West Bohemia Press, 2013. 1,033 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Figures. Hard bound.

Featured Reviews

Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream. By Diane P. Koenker. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. x, 307 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Tables. $39.95, hard bound.

Reviews

Remembering Katyn. By Alexander Etkind, Rory Finnin, Uilleam Blacker, Julie Fedor, Simon Lewis, Maria Mälksoo, and Matilda Mroz. Cambridge, Eng.: Polity Press, 2012. xxviii, 185 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Chronology. Index. Photographs. Map. $64.95, hard bound. $22.95, paperback.

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