Book Reviews

• All Things Decently and In Order: and Other Writing on a Germans from Russia Heritage by Edna Boardman.
• A Guide to Biographies of Catherine the Great by Edna Boardman.
• A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution by Orlando Figes.
• A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia During World War I by Peter Gatrell.
• Alexander of Russia: Napoleon's Conqueror by Henri Troyat. Trans. from French by Joan Pinkham.
• An Expanded Bibliography and Reference Guide for the Former USSR's Ethnic Germans: Issues of Ethnic Autonomy, Group Repression, Cultural Assimilation, and Mass Emigration in the Twentieth Century and Beyond by Eric J. Schmaltz.
• Autumn Thoughts--Under Ruins and Snow: An Experiment in Ethnic Anthology Two Centuries of German-Russian Poetry, Short Stories, and Essays by Samuel Sinner.
• Bending the Twig: a Memoir by Kenneth Goetz.
• Casino Moscow: A Tale of Greed and Adventure on Capitalism's Wildest Frontier by Matthew Brzezinski.
• Clinging to the Old; Embracing the New: Mennonites in the Global Village by Leo Driedger.
• Czars and Czarinas of Russia by Tamara Talbot.
• Distant Promise: A New Beginning by Elvera Ziebart Reuer, written by Glaphry Duff.
• Elizabeth and Catherine: Empresses of All the Russias by Robert Coughlan.
• Escape by Troika: The World War II Chronicle of a Bessarabian German by Oskar Zimmerman.
• Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick.
• From Bolshevik Russia to America: A Mennonite Family Story by Henry D. Remple.
• From Privileged to Dispossessed: The Volga Germans 1860-1917 by James W. Long.
• From the Steppes to the Prairies: The Story of the Germans Settling in Russia on the Volga and Ukraine by Monsignor George P. Aberle.
• Gottlob Lerch: A Story by F.B. Urban.
• Great Catherine: The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia by Carolly Erickson.
• Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine by Robert Conquest.
• Hide Me Within Thy Wounds: The Persecution of the Catholic Church in the USSR by I.I. Osipova.
• Himmler's Auxiliaries: The Volksdeutsche and the German National Minorities of Europe, 1933-1945 by Vladis O. Lumans.
• Homesteaders on the Steppe: Cultural History of the Evangelical-Lutheran Colonies in the Region 1804-1945 by Joseph S. Height.
• I Heard My People Cry: One Family's Escape from Russia by Elizabeth Lenci-Downs.
• Johnny Schmidt: Son of a Dakota Pioneer by B.A. Bose.
• Journeys: Mennonite Stories of Faith and Survival in Stalin's Russia by John Toews.
• Kolyma: The Arctic Death Camps by Robert Conquest.
• Lenin's Tomb. The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick.
• Lost Shawls and Pig Spleens: Folklore, Anecdotes, and Humor from the Oral Traditions of Germans from Russia in the Dakotas by Ronald J. Vossler.
• Marienberg: Schicksal eines Dorfes (Fate of a Village) by Johann Bollinger and Janice Huber Stangl.
• Memories of the Black Sea Germans by Joseph S. Height.
• Mennonite Foods and Folkways from South Russia, Vols. I and II by Norma Just.
• Natasha's Dance:, a Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes.
• Not Until the Combine is Paid and Other Jokes: From the Oral Traditions of Germans from Russia in the Dakotas by Ronald J. Vossler.
• Otto Mueller: A Life Between Stalin and Hitler: New Beginning in Canada by Yvonne Schmidhauser.
• Paradise on the Steppe: A Cultural History of the Kutschurgan, Beresan, and Liebental Colonists, 1804-1972 by Joseph S. Height.
• Plains Folk: North Dakota's Ethnic History, edited by William C. Sherman and Playford V. Thorson.
• Prairie Mosaic: An Ethnic Atlas of Rural North Dakota by William C. Sherman.
• Russian-German Settlements in the United States by Richard Sallet, translated by La Vern J. Rippley and Armand Bauer.
• Russka: The Novel of Russia by Edward Rutherfurd.
• Siberian Diary of Aron P. Toews, with a biography by Olga Rempel. Translated by Esther Klaassen Bergen, Edited by Lawrence Klippenstein.
• Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization by Sheila Fitzpatrick.
• The Czar's Germans: With Particular Reference to the Volga Germans by Hattie Plum Williams.
• The End of the Line: The Failure of Communism in the Soviet Union and China by Christopher S. Wren.
• The German Canadians, 1750-1937: Immigration, Settlement, and Culture by Heinz Lehmann.
• The Germans by the Black Sea between the Bug and Dnjestr Rivers by John (Johannes) Philipps.
• The Great Terror: A Reassessment by Robert Conquest.
• The Last Bridge: Her Own True Story by Elvera Ziebart Reuer, written by Marjorie Knittel.
• The Plough and the Pen: Paul S. Gross and the Establishment of the Spokane Hutterian Brethren by Vance Joseph Youmans.
• The Soviet Deportation of Nationalities by Robert Conquest.
• The Soviet Germans: Past and Present by Ingeborg Fleischhauer, and Benjamin Pinkus, Eds.
• The Storekeeper's Daughter: A Memoir by Katie Funk Wiebe.
• The Story of Russia's Germans: From Catherine to Khrushchev by Adam Giesinger.
• The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present by Fred C. Koch.
• The Way it Was: The North Dakota Frontier Experience. Book Four: Germans from Russia Settlers by Everett C. Albers and D. Jerome Tweton, Editors.
• The Tragedy of the Soviet Germans (A Story of Survival) by John Philipps.
• Through the German Colonies of the Beresan District and Colonist Tales by Hermann Bachmann, translated by Roland Wagner.
• Tones and Undertones Paraguay and Brazil, April 2000, Wiest, Bill and Thelma, Eds.
• Twelve German Tales from Russia: Twelve Tales of Fantasy and the Supernatural by by Samuel Sinner.
• Under the Still Standing Sun by Dora Dueck.
• We'll Meet Again In Heaven: Germans in the Soviet Union Write their American Relatives 1925-1937 by Ronald J. Vossler.
• Why Are You Still Alive? A German in the Gulag by Georg Hildebrandt.
• Why I Never Called Death the River, and Other Voices from the Valley of Hope: A Prairie Album by Ronald J. Vossler.
• Wir Wollen Deutsche Bleiben: The Story of the Volga Germans by George J. Walters.