This decidedly uneven but occasionally fascinating book, published in Russian in 1993, situates psychoanalysis in the cultural context of late tsarist and early Soviet Russia. The Greater Council of Ministers liquidated the State Psychoanalytic Institute and its Orphanage-Laboratory in 1925, and by the early 1930s psychoanalytic activity in the Soviet Union had virtually ceased. Prominent members of the first generation of Russian analysts died at the hands of the Nazis (Sabina Spielrein), committed suicide (Tatiana Rosenthal), rejected psychoanalysis (Mikhail Asatiani), or emigrated (Max Eitingon, Moisei Wulff, Nikolai Osipov). No second generation of analysts arose in the 1920s in Russia itself, although the movements founded by Eitingon and Wulff in Israel and Osipov and Fyodor Dosuzhkov in the Czech Republic continue to this day. Consequently, psychoanalysis played a role in Russia for about a quarter of a century, and this book has little to say about the past 60 years. Etkind focuses on the ways Freud's