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Kristina Jonutytė, "Between the Buddha and the New Tsar: Urban Religion and Minority Politics at the Asian Borderlands of Russia" (Cornell UP, 2026)
62 hours 13 mins; April 01, 2026
Nana Osei-Opare, "Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
47 mins; March 24, 2026
The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of Sholem Aleichem
63 hours 17 mins; March 24, 2026
The Jews in Poland-Lithuania and Russia: 1350 to the Present Day
69 hours 21 mins; March 23, 2026
Timothy Manion, "Why Barbarossa Failed: Germany and Russia in the Second World War" (Helion, 2026)
112 hours 30 mins; March 20, 2026
Gudrun Persson, "Russian Military Thought: The Evolution of Strategy Since the Crimean War" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
82 hours 13 mins; March 15, 2026
Jonathan Sherry, "Stalinism on Trial: Communism and Republican Justice in the Spanish Civil War" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
74 hours 45 mins; March 14, 2026
Aaron Donaghy, "The Second Cold War: Carter, Reagan, and the Politics of Foreign Policy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
61 hours 22 mins; March 01, 2026
Jeremy Black, "The Short History of Russia: Returning to Another Country" (Amberley, 2026)
56 mins; February 21, 2026
Denys Gorbach, "The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
69 hours 31 mins; February 19, 2026
Alexis Lerner, "Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
46 mins; February 16, 2026
Colleen M. Moore, "The Peasants' War: Russia's Home Front in the First World War and the End of the Autocracy" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
55 mins; February 14, 2026
Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
50 mins; February 07, 2026
Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)
85 hours 24 mins; February 03, 2026
Andrew Monaghan, "Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War" (Manchester UP, 2025)
101 hours 9 mins; February 03, 2026
Mark Harrison, "Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism" (Stanford UP, 2023)
63 hours 18 mins; January 31, 2026
All You Need to Know about Russian Politics Today
49 mins; January 30, 2026
Anna Reid, "A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution" (Basic Books, 2024)
53 mins; January 24, 2026
Douglas Greene, "In Stalin's Shadow: Trotsky and the Legacy of the Moscow Trials" (Resistance Books, 2025)
63 hours 34 mins; January 14, 2026
Clare Griffin, "Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
49 mins; January 11, 2026
Bruce Berglund, "The Moscow Playbook: How Russia Used, Abused, and Transformed Sports in the Hunt for Power" (Triumph Books, 2026)
63 hours 25 mins; January 10, 2026
Prit Buttar, "To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941-42" (Osprey, 2023)
101 hours 9 mins; January 02, 2026
Filip Kovacevic, "KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
51 mins; December 25, 2025
Lucy Jeffery and Anna VĂĄradi, "Replaying Communism: Trauma and Nostalgia in European Cultural Production" (CEU Press, 2025)
59 mins; December 17, 2025
Anna Zhelnina, "Private Life, Public Action: How Housing Politics Mobilized Citizens in Moscow" (Temple UP, 2025)
52 mins; December 05, 2025
Anna Shadrina, "The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia" (UCL Press, 2025)
44 mins; December 04, 2025
Jochen Hellbeck, "World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews" (Penguin Group, 2025)
87 hours 51 mins; November 24, 2025
Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, "Videotape" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
44 mins; November 22, 2025
Dustin Condren, "An Imaginary Cinema: Sergei Eisenstein and the Unrealized Film" (Cornell UP, 2024)
67 hours 57 mins; November 19, 2025
Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov, "Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
62 hours 34 mins; November 18, 2025
Susanna Rabow-Edling, "The First Russian Revolution: The Decembrist Revolt Of 1825" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
51 mins; November 16, 2025
Eric Lee, "The August Uprising, 1924: The Georgian Anti-Soviet Revolt and the Birth of Democratic Socialism" (McFarland, 2025)
72 hours 39 mins; November 11, 2025
Martyn Whittock, "Vikings in the East: From Vladimir the Great to Vladimir Putin – The Origins of a Contested Legacy in Russia and Ukraine" (Biteback, 2025)
63 hours 8 mins; October 19, 2025
Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko "In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos" (MIT Press, 2023)
59 mins; October 15, 2025
Nick Higham, "Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
49 mins; October 10, 2025
Maria Fedorova, "Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935" (Northern Illinois UP, 2025)
49 mins; October 09, 2025
Aram G. Sarkisian, "Orthodoxy on the Line: Russian Orthodox Christians and Labor Migration in the Progressive Era" (NYU Press, 2025)
55 mins; October 08, 2025
Illiberalism, Putin, and the Politics of Religion
69 hours 15 mins; October 08, 2025
Meredith L. Roman, "The Black Panthers and the Soviets: A Comparative History of Human Rights Movements" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
54 mins; October 05, 2025
Rivals in a Tight Embrace Russia, China, and the Central Asian Chessboard
21 mins; September 28, 2025
Michael Jabara Carley, "Stalin's Gamble: The Search for Allies Against Hitler, 1930-1936" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
85 hours 35 mins; September 26, 2025
Bradley A. Gorski, "Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market After Socialism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2025)
61 hours 25 mins; September 19, 2025
Dani Belo, "Russian Warfare in the 21st Century" (Routledge, 2025)
63 hours 32 mins; September 17, 2025
Vera Michlin-Shapir, "Fluid Russia: Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era" (Cornell UP, 2021)
54 mins; September 12, 2025
Chelsi West Ohueri, "Encountering Race in Albania: An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife" (Cornell UP, 2025)
51 mins; September 11, 2025
David Welsh, "The Social Railway and Its Workers in Europes Modern Era, 1880-2023: Moments of Fury, Ramparts of Hope" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
64 hours 50 mins; September 10, 2025
Thomas Graham, "Getting Russia Right" (Polity Press, 2023)
59 mins; September 10, 2025
Catherine Merridale, "Moscow Underground" (HarperColins, 2025)
33 mins; September 01, 2025
Thane Gustafson, "Perfect Storm: Russia's Failed Economic Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain Future" (Oxford UP, 2025)
62 hours 18 mins; August 29, 2025
Elizabeth White, "A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
76 hours 29 mins; August 29, 2025
Jonathan Daly and Leonid Trofimov, "The Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact: A Short History with Documents" (Hackett Publishing, 2017)
63 hours 50 mins; August 26, 2025
Nicholas Birman Trickett, "Empire of Austerity: Russia and the Breaking of Eurasia" (Hurst, 2025)
42 mins; August 25, 2025
Stephan Kieninger, "Securing Peace in Europe: Strobe Talbott, NATO, and Russia After the Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2025)
40 mins; August 24, 2025
"Assignment Moscow" with author James Rodgers
56 mins; August 20, 2025
Georgiy Kasianov et al., "From 'the Ukraine' to Ukraine: A Contemporary History, 1991-2021" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
51 mins; August 17, 2025
José Vergara, "All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature" (Cornell UP, 2021)
56 mins; August 17, 2025
Inna Faliks, "Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage" (Backbeat Books, 2023)
45 mins; August 15, 2025
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, "Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century" (Princeton UP, 2022)
55 mins; August 14, 2025
Michael Jabara Carley, "Stalin's Great Game: War and Neutrality, 1939-1941" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
89 hours 19 mins; August 13, 2025
Ara Sarafian et al., "Microhistories in Armenian Studies" (Cal State Fresno Press, 2025)
60 hours 59 mins; August 12, 2025
Alexander Mikaberidze, "Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2022)
71 hours 47 mins; August 07, 2025
David Chaffetz, "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires" (Norton, 2025)
47 mins; August 06, 2025
Craig W. H. Luther, "Guderian's Panzers: From Triumph to Defeat on the Eastern Front (1941)" (Stackpole Books, 2025)
63 hours 14 mins; August 05, 2025
William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeton UP, 2025)
65 hours 38 mins; August 04, 2025
Tricia Starks, "Smoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia" (Cornell UP, 2018)
60 hours 9 mins; August 03, 2025
Richard W. Harrison, "The Soviet Army's High Commands in War and Peace, 1941–1992" (Casemate Academic, 2022)
102 hours 21 mins; July 28, 2025
John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak" (Northern Illinois UP, 2018)
66 hours 36 mins; July 27, 2025
Regina Kazyulina, "Women Under Suspicion: Fraternization, Espionage, and Punishment in the Soviet Union During World War II" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
47 mins; July 23, 2025
Joseph Kellner, "The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse" (Cornell UP, 2025)
58 mins; July 21, 2025
Sean McMeekin, "Stalin's War: A New History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2021)
75 hours 10 mins; July 20, 2025
James D.J. Brown, "Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, from Peter the Great to Richard Sorge" (Hurst, 2025),
39 mins; July 17, 2025
Volha Bartash, Tomasz Kamusella, and Viktor Shapoval eds., "Papusza/Bronislawa Wajs. Tears of Blood: A Poet's Witness Account of the Nazi Genocide of Roma" (Brill, 2024)
65 hours 20 mins; July 16, 2025
Anahid Matossian, "Syrian-Armenian Women Migrants in Armenia: Gender, Identity and Painful Belonging" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
71 hours 53 mins; July 15, 2025
Juliane FĂŒrst, "Flowers Through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland" (Oxford UP, 2021)
80 hours 23 mins; July 13, 2025
Felix Cowan, "The Kopeck Press: Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908-1918" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
49 mins; June 30, 2025
Elana Gomel, "The Pilgrim Soul: Being a Russian in Israel" (Cambria Press, 2009)
62 hours 1 min; June 29, 2025
Sergey Radchenko, "To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
70 hours 35 mins; June 29, 2025
Talin Suciyan, "Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
44 mins; June 28, 2025
Andrea Graziosi and Frank E. Sysyn, "Communism and Hunger: The Ukrainian, Chinese, Kazakh, and Soviet Famines in Comparative Perspective" (CIUS Press, 2016)
73 hours 33 mins; June 28, 2025
Antonio J. Muñoz, "Hitler's War Against the Partisans During the Stalingrad Offensive: Spring 1942 to the Spring of 1943" (Frontline, 2025)
93 hours 18 mins; June 27, 2025
Wilson T. Bell, "Stalin's Gulag at War: Forced Labour, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory in the Second World War" (University of Toronto Press, 2018)
91 hours 6 mins; June 26, 2025
Yaroslav Hrytsak, "Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
78 hours 37 mins; June 25, 2025
Danielle Leavitt, "By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025)
53 mins; June 25, 2025
Stephan Kieninger, "The Diplomacy of DĂ©tente: Cooperative Security Policies from Helmut Schmidt to George Shultz" (Routledge, 2018)
45 mins; June 21, 2025
John Man, "Conquering the North: China, Russia, Mongolia: 2,000 Years of Conflict" (Oneworld Publications, 2025)
50 mins; June 19, 2025
James D. Brown, "Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, from Peter the Great to Richard Sorge" (Hurst, 2025)
29 mins; June 19, 2025
Paul W. Werth, "How Russia Got Big: A Territorial History" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
66 hours 23 mins; June 15, 2025
Marlene Laruelle, "Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime" (Stanford UP, 2025)
48 mins; June 12, 2025
Kevin B. Anderson, "The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism" (Verso, 2025)
60 hours 22 mins; June 09, 2025
Jill Kastner and William C. Wohlforth, "A Measure Short of War: A Brief History of Great Power Subversion" (Oxford UP, 2025)
58 mins; June 06, 2025
Tamar R. Shirinian, "Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia" (Duke UP, 2024)
66 hours 40 mins; June 06, 2025
Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2024)
62 hours 26 mins; June 04, 2025
Talin Suciyan, "Armenians in Turkey after the Second World War: An Archival Reader of USSR Consular Documents" (I. B. Tauris & Company, 2025)
48 mins; June 04, 2025
Jeremy Morris, "Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Resistance" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)
64 hours 27 mins; June 03, 2025
Serhii Plokhy, "The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine" (Basic Books, 2015)
86 hours 17 mins; June 03, 2025
Keir Giles, "Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent" (Hurst & Co., 2024)
39 mins; May 28, 2025
Greta Lynn Uehling, "Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
51 mins; May 24, 2025
Claire Knight, "Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953" (Cornell UP, 2024)
83 hours 23 mins; May 23, 2025
Charles Hecker, "Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia" (Oxford UP, 2025)
60 hours 56 mins; May 21, 2025
Paul R. Magocsi and Yohanan PetrovskiÄ­-Shtern, "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-existence" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
54 mins; May 12, 2025
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