209 Featured Reviews new ethnographic work documenting expressions and logics of dissent and solidarity across the region. 9 By sequencing the volume in this way, concluding with these empiri- cally grounded chapters on concrete cases of progressive political action, the editors have curated a volume with enormous potential for critical social sci- ence in and beyond southeastern Europe. They remind and educate readers about the Yugoslav experience in grappling with the governance challenges created by socio-economic and ethnic diversity; the invidious efects of en- trepreneurial parochialism, especially when reinforced by the sof racism of international elites; the wealth of data about the diferentiating impacts of market transition, always shaped by power dynamics; and the reality of the re-emergence of participatory politics through citizen assemblies and ple- nums. Besides regional specialists, the book will be of interest for anyone interested in the future of “market socialism” in China; the European project (and the unity of the UK) in the wake of Brexit; and, especially, the prospects for progressive coalition-building to confront or turn back the dispossession and disenfranchisement that comes with crony capitalism. Keith Brown Brown University Watson Institute for International and Public Afairs Anguish, Anger, and Folkways in Soviet Russia. By Gábor T. Rittersporn. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. xii, 396 pp. Notes. Bibli- ography. Index. $27.95, paperback. doi:10.1017/slr.2017.21 Gabor Rittersporn’s book is the distillation of several decades of exhaustive archival work by one of the Soviet feld’s most prodigious writers. Defly ed- ited by Carmine Storella, the book bears the classic hallmarks of its author’s style. It is sweeping, for one thing, and goes head on at large questions about the Soviet “system.” More to the point, Rittersporn’s book refects its author’s bent of mind—part history, part psycho-social analysis, part storytelling. Rit- tersporn is a master storyteller. In chapter afer chapter, he unfolds tales and anecdotes of the personal experiences of Soviet citizens and ofcials during the Stalinist era, mostly during the 1930s. Rittersporn has put together this dense description of daily life in Stalin’s Soviet Union from diverse sources, 9. See for example: Maple Razsa, Bastards of Utopia: Living Radical Politics afer So- cialism (Bloomington, Ind., 2015); Jessica Greenberg, Afer the Revolution: Youth, Democ- racy and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia (Stanford, 2014); Stef Jansen, “Can the Revolt in Bosnia and Herzegovina Send a Message To the Wider World?” Balkan Insight, February 13, 2014 at http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/blog/can-the-revolt-in-bosnia- and-herzegovina-send-a-message-to-the-wider-world (last accessed January 25, 2017); Stef Jansen, Yearnings in the Meantime: ‘Normal Lives’ and the State in a Sarajevo Apart- ment Complex (New York, 2015); and Larisa Kurtovic, “‘Who Sows Hunger, Reaps Rage’: on Protest, Indignation and Redistributive Justice in Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 15, no. 4 (2015): 639–59. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 168.151.112.28, on 29 Sep 2017 at 17:50:59, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2017.21