Books that cannot be accommodated in our book review section but that are worthy of special attention are listed here with their tables of contents.
Saueauk, Meelis and Maripuu, Meelis, eds. Propaganda, Immigration, and Monuments: Perspective on Methods Used to Entrench Soviet Power in Estonia in the 1950s-1980s. Tammisto, Peeter, trans. Proceedings of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory 3 (2021). Tartu: Tartu University Press, 2021. 280 pp. Illustrations. Figures. Tables. €24.95.00, paper.
Introduction. Hiljar Tammela, The Communist Party's System for Processing Political Information in the Estonian SSR in 1944–1950. Peeter Kasik, Targeted Migration to Estonia in the Post-Second World War Period. Olev Liviuk, An Exemplary Quota-Based ‘Representative Assembly’? The Composition of the People's Deputies of the Estonian SSR Supreme Soviet from the 1940s to the End of the 1980s. Argo Kuusik, The Destruction of Monuments from the Period of Independence in the Estonian SSR. Toomas Hilo, The History of Monuments and Memorials at Maarjamäe 1940–1990. Elmar Gams, The Resurgence of the Soviet Version of History in Russia's Current View of the Second World War. Toomas Hilo, Dissidents and Psychiatry: Peter Reddaway's Memoirs of the Soviet Union and Soviet Dissidents.
Matusiak, Agnieszka, Libura, Agnieszka, and Lewicki, Arkadiusz, eds. Solidarity and Responsibility: Studies on Ethics, Esthetics and Culture. Studien zur Multikulturalitat. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. vi, 168 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. €42.00, paper. €42.00, ebook.
I. Towards Social Solidarity. Bogusław Bakuła, The Ethos of the Rebellious or Solidarity and Responsibility According to Józef Tischner, Jacek Kuroń and Jan Józef Lipski. Rafał Szubert, Solidarity of Consciences and Its Meaning. Monika Wolting, Literature in Defense of Human Rights. Mariusz Plago, A New Aeneas, a New Augustus and a New Republic: The Augustan Ideology in the First Portraits of Albert Ines's Lechias. II. Literature and Adolescents. Bogumiła Staniów, Solidarity Among the Children of the World: On Propaganda in Magazines for Young Children in the People's Republic of Poland. Bożena Hojka, Solidarity and Responsibility in the Children's Book Market: Between the Needs of the Child Reader, the Laws of the Marketplace and the Social Mission of the Publisher. Sylwia Kamińska-Maciąg, The Image of Intergenerational Solidarity in Olga Gromova's Book Sugar Child. Mateusz Świetlicki, A Lad (Not) Insane: Popular Culture as a Way to Individual Liberation and Solidarity in James Brandon's Ziggy, Stardust & Me (2019). III. Translation and Editorial Practice. Natalia Paprocka and Agnieszka Wandel, The Social Responsibility of the Translator and the Publisher of Translations: The Example of Children's and Young Adults’ Non-Fiction Books on Sexuality. Anna Halina Markieta, To Express the Spirit of Irresponsibility: Reflections on Polish Editions of Jaroslav Hašek's Works. IV. Linguistic Strategies. Agata Kowalska-Szubert, In the Animal Kingdom: Farm Animals in Dutch Phrasemes.
Shkodrova, Albena. Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. x, 188 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Figures. Tables. $115.00, hard bound.
Behind the Communist Kitchens’ Steamy Windows. I. The Context. Cooking Advice in Bulgaria. Recipe Manuscripts Take the Lead. II. Home Cooking Between Cookbooks and Scrapbooks. Recipe Collection as an Instrument. III. The Meanings of Scrapbooks. Navigating the Context. Managing Budgets. Scrapbooks as Social Capital. Entertaining, Indulging and Creating the Self. IV. What Made Scrapbooks Indispensable. Cookbooks Versus Scrapbooks? Communist Foodways as an Act of Resistance.
Batayeva, Zaure and Fairweather-Vega, Shelley, eds. Amanat: Women's Writings from Kazakhstan. New York: Gaudy Boy, 2022. xxii, 296 pp. $22.00, paper.
Gabriel McGuire, Foreword. Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Translators’ Introduction to Amanat. Zhumagul Solty, Romeo and Juliet (Trans. Zaure Batayeva). Zhumagul Solty, An Awkward Conversation (Trans. Zaure Batayeva). Nadezhda Ohernova, Aslan's Bride (Trans. Shelley Fairweather-Vega). Ayagul Mantay, Orphan (Zaure Batayeva). Aigul Kemelbayeva, Hunger (excerpt from The Nanny). Raushan Baiguzhayeva, Propiska (Trans. Shelley Fairweather-Vega). Zira Naurzbayeva, The Beskempir (Trans. Shelley Fairweather-Vega). Zira Naurzbayeva, The Rival (Trans. Shelley Fairweather-Vega). Orel Arukenova Amanat (Trans. Zaure Batayeva). Orel Arukenova, Precedent (Trans. Zaure Batayeva). Orel Arukenova, Procedures Within (Trans. Sam Breazeale). Lilya Kalaus, A Woman Over Fifty (Trans. Shelley Fairweather-Vega). Lilya Kalaus, How Men Think (Trans. Shelley Fairweather-Vega). Lilya Kalaus, The Stairwell (Trans. Shelley Fairweather-Vega). Lilya Kalaus, Operatio Drama (Trans. Shelley Fairweather-Vega). Asel Omar, Black Snow of December (Trans. Shelley Fairweather-Vega). Asel Omar, The French Beret (Trans. Shelley Fairweather-Vega). Aya Ömirtai, 18+ (Trans. Zaure Batayeva). Madina Omarova, Poet (Trans. Zaure Batayeva). Madina Omarova, Once Upon an Autumn Evening (Trans. Zaure Batayeva). Zaure Batayeva, Excerpt from School (Trans. Zaure Batayeva). Zaure Batayeva, The Anthropologists (Trans. Zaure Batayeva). Olga Mark, The Lighter (Trans. Shelley Fairweather-Vega). Zira Naurzbayeva, My Eleusinian Mysteries (Trans. Shelley Fairweather-Vega).
Saueauk, Meelis and Hiio, Toomas, eds. Sovietisation and Violence: The Case of Estonia. Raudma, Tiia, Tolkeburoo, Refiner, and Tammisto, Peeter, trans. Proceedings of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory 1 (2018). Tartu: Tartu University Press, 2018. 336 pp. Notes. Figures. Tables. €5,00.
Norman M. Naimark, Preface. Olaf Mertelsmann, How to Define Sovietisation? Tönu Tannsberg, The Baltic Question in the Kremlin in the Last Months of 1944: How to Combat the Armed Resistance Movement? Peeter Kaasik: Misapplication of Enforced Psychiatric Treatment in the Soviet Union—a Few Examples from Estonia. Eli Pilve, Family Members of “Exploiters” and “Enemies of the People” in the Fetters of the Soviet Regime. Ivo Juurvee, Publishing Activities by the Secret Services of a Totalitarian Regime: The Case of the Estonian SSR's KGB. Aivar Niglas, One of the Possibilities for Systemising Soviet Repressions. Meelis Saueauk, “Spetskadry”: Nomenklatura and State Security in the Estonian SSR in 1940–1953. Indrek Paavle, Grain and Eggs in the Service of the Regime: Coercive Procurement in Estonian Villages in the 1940s. Hiljar Tammela, Rumours of Impending Deportations as a Phenomenon Pertaining to the History of Mentalities. Aigi Rahi-Tamm, Forced Migration of Estonian Citizens to the East 1941–1951: Some Similarities with the Accounts of People Who Fled to the West. Meelis Saueauk and Tönu Tannsberg, How Was the Decision to Carry out a Joint Deportation Operation in the Soviet Baltic Republics in the Spring of 1949 Adopted in the Kremlin?: Nikolai Karotamm's Notes on his Meeting with Joseph Stalin on 18 January 1949. Toomas Hiio, Estonia and the Communist Century: An Essay.
