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Book review: Russian Empire

"[D]emonstrates brilliantly how the Russian and Soviet empires were able to survive for so long ... This is a genuinely valuable and thought-provoking collection of essays and it deserves a wide readership." —European History Quarterly

Book review: Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas

"This is a book that deserves a place in the libraries, personal and institutional, of all scholars and students of Soviet cinema and popular culture." —Slavic Review

Book review: Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia

"Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia offers both a model of meticulous scholarship and a fascinating read. ... Jensen has significantly enhanced our knowledge of multiple aspects of a critical period in Russian cultural history." —Slavic Review

Book review: Gender Violence in Russia

"...well done and well structured. ...[P]rovides a well-elaborated explanatory model of the effects of foreign intervention on the articulation of gender violence and the struggle against gender violence, and the limitations of this struggle, in Russia." —Anna Temkina, Slavic Review

Book review: Women in Power in Post-Communist Parliaments

"By not focusing on the post-communist superstar, this book draws a nuanced picture of the various women serving as members of parliament in the post-communist era. ... As the women describe their routes to parliament and their work there, they create an account of their experiences with and in power that is comparable to those of women in the West." —Elisheva Zakheim, Feminist Review

Book review: Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire

"This book provides a sense of the dynamism of Jewish cultural life, broadly defined, in what was the world’s largest Jewish community whose descendants established American Jewry." —Jewish Book World

Book wins Heldt Prize

Congratulations to Olga Shevchenko, who was awarded the Heldt Prize by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies for her book Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow. Shevchenko won in the category of "Best book by a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian studies." For more information on the Heldt Prize, visit the Association for Women in Slavic Studies' website.

Book wins prize from Central Eurasian Studies Society

Congratulations to Jeff Sahadeo whose book Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent won the Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Prize for Best Book in History and Humanities.

The CESS Book Award and a monetary prize of $500 is presented to the author of the research monograph that represents the most important contribution to Central Eurasian studies, or that holds the greatest potential for furthering scholarship on the Central Eurasian region.

Book review: Sofia Gubaidulina

"...valuable as the first English-language guide to Gubaidulina. ...Kurtz has expertly presented us with valuable material..." —Music & Letters, Vol. 90.2, May 2009 (requires subscription)

New electronic content initiative launches this summer

Indiana University Press will launch IU Press Online in summer 2009. Hosted by Tizra Publisher, a web-based software service, and structured around subject area collections, IU Press Online will initially include a robust electronic collection of more than 200 back-, mid-, and front-list books and more than 75 themed journals issues in African Studies; African American and Diaspora Studies; Jewish and Holocaust Studies; Philosophy; and Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies. Journals featured at launch will be Africa Today, Ethics & the Environment, Israel Studies, Jewish Social Studies, JMEWS (Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies), Meridians, Nashim, Prooftexts, Research in African Literatures, and Transition. More books and journal issues will be added to these online collections on a regular basis. The next subject collection to be introduced is a selection of the Press's award-winning music titles.

Users can access full-text single titles at discounted prices through IU Press Online or can subscribe to individual collections, any combination of collections, or to the entire database of titles. Also available for purchase will be individual chapters/articles and virtual collections of content across book and journal titles.

Features of IU Press Online will include:

• Fast downloads regardless of the size of the document
• Page-specific URLs for easy bookmarking, citing, and sharing, including on such social bookmarking services as Delicious and Digg
• Usability in any browser, including web-enabled handhelds such as the iPhone
• Fully searchable documents with relevancy-ranked search results
• Search capability across the whole site or by collection, title, or within specific metadata fields
• Search hits that link directly to a specific page and not just to the document
• Variety of online viewing options, including full screen zoom to support different user preferences and browsers
• Built-in subscription-based RSS feeds for automatic updates when content is added

For more information on IU Press Online, visit the website.