Write a Book Review of “Hooliganism in Khrushchev’s Russia: Defining, Policing, and Producing Deviance during the Thaw” by Brian LaPierre.

USE ONLY THE BOOK AS A SOUCE
Most book reviews have five components (often these are the paragraphs of a review):
1. An introduction which identifies the book’s central argument in a single sentence and (usually) identifies the reviewer’s response to it.
2. A paragraph summarizing the book’s argument in a more elaborated form, noting particular methods and sources that the author employs and the distinctive contribution this book makes to the larger scholarly conversation. In other words, readers will understand by the time they finish this summary paragraph what the author argues, why he or she makes that argument, and what difference it makes.
3. The reviewer’s analysis for the author’s contentions, stressing what is particularly strong or distinctive about the work.
4. A paragraph elaborating on weaknesses, missed opportunities, or oversights in the argument. Depending on the reviewer’s broad stance toward the book, paragraphs 3 and 4 will vary in individual length but, together should make up about 60% of the review. Often a mistake is to front-load too much information in the second or summary paragraph. Learn to tell just what is necessary there, adding more information in the more analytical third and fourth paragraphs.
5. This concludes the review, summarizing the reviewer’s broad argument and detailing ways in which this book might act as a jumping off place for future research or mentioning scholarly questions un-or under-examined which deserve further attention.
Remember: The purpose of a book review is not mainly to inform readers about what the author of the book thinks, it is to persuade readers of the reviewer’s argument about the book’s central claims.

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