Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 17, 4 (Fall 2016): 869–96. Review Article Conformity and Defiance in a Religious Key PAUL W. WERTH Emily B. Baran, Dissent on the Margins: How Soviet Jehovah’s Witnesses Defed Communism and Lived to Preach about It. 402 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 (repr. 2016). ISBN-13 978-0190495497. $35.00. Stéphane Dudoignon and Christian Noack, eds., Allah’s Kolkhozes: Migration, De-Stalinisation, Privatisation and the New Muslim Congregations in the Soviet Realm, 1950s–2000s. 541 pp. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz, 2014. ISBN-13 978- 3879974214. €67.00. Ulrike Huhn, Glaube und Eigensinn: Volksfrömmigkeit zwischen orthodoxer Kirche und Sowjetischem Staat, 1941 bis 1960 (Faith and Obstinacy: Popular Piety between the Orthodox Church and the Soviet State, 1941–60). 363 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014. ISBN-13 978-3447101035. €48.00. Hiroaki Kuromiya, Conscience on Trial: Te Fate of Fourteen Pacifsts in Stalin’s Ukraine, 1952–1953. 224 pp. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. ISBN-13 978-1442644618. $64.00. Leonid Smilovitsky, Jewish Life in Belarus: Te Final Decade of the Stalin Regime, 1944–1953. 310 pp. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2014. ISBN-13 978-9633860250. $60.00. After neglect over much of the 20th century, the topic of religion occupies a prominent place in the historiography of modern Russia today. Recent work For helpful advice on earlier drafts, I thank Stephen Lovell, Susanne Schattenberg, Yuri Slezkine, and Victoria Smolkin.