2025 Book reviews

Chasing Greatness: On Russia’s Discursive Interaction with the West over the Past Millennium. Anatoly Reshetnikov. University of Michigan Press, 2024. 272 pp. #34.95. Open Access ISBN: 9780472904389. Paperback ISBN: 9780472056699. 

Reviewed by Sergei Akopov, Walter Benjamin Research Fellow, Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script,” Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

© 2025 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 29, Spring 2025 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.

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Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia. Julia Kristeva, translated by Leon S. Roudiez. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 240 pp. $24. Paperback ISBN: 9780231561549.

Reviewed by Tanya Goyal, M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

© 2025 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 29, Spring 2025 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.

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