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Victoria Khiterer, "Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration" (Purdue UP, 2025)
89 hours 43 mins; May 11, 2025
Charlie English, "The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War" (Random House, 2025)
45 mins; May 04, 2025
Michael David-Fox, "Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule" (Harvard UP, 2025)
60 hours 54 mins; May 03, 2025
Shaun Walker, "The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West" (Knopf, 2025)
57 mins; April 29, 2025
Polly Jones, "Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin" (Bloombury, 2024)
73 hours 44 mins; April 26, 2025
John Lechner, "Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare" (Bloombury, 2025)
86 hours 3 mins; April 24, 2025
Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)
67 hours 42 mins; April 23, 2025
Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
78 hours 26 mins; April 22, 2025
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, ed., "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" (U Notre Dame Press, 2025)
44 mins; April 20, 2025
Sasha Colby, "The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance" (ECW Press, 2023)
82 hours 0 mins; April 19, 2025
Understanding Ukraine: A Discussion with Author Yaroslav Trofimov
51 mins; April 17, 2025
Serhiy Kudelia, "Seize the City, Undo the State: The Inception of Russia's War on Ukraine" (Oxford UP, 2015)
57 mins; April 16, 2025
Xiaolu Ma, "Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia Via Japan (1880-1930)" (Harvard UP, 2024)
61 hours 35 mins; April 05, 2025
Alexander Hill, "The Routledge Handbook of Soviet and Russian Military Studies" (Routledge, 2025)
76 hours 27 mins; April 01, 2025
Mikhail Goldis, "Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
46 mins; March 28, 2025
Simon Morrison, "Tchaikovsky's Empire: A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer" (Yale UP, 2024)
36 mins; March 25, 2025
Andrew Long, "BRIXMIS and the Secret Cold War: Intelligence Collecting Operations Behind Enemy Lines in East Germany" (Pen and Sword, 2024)
107 hours 27 mins; March 24, 2025
Peter Whitewood, "The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy: Lenin’s Defeat and the Rise of Stalinism" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
71 hours 0 mins; March 23, 2025
Oleksandr Melnyk, "World War II as an Identity Project: Historicism, Legitimacy Contests, and the (Re-) Construction of Political Communities in Ukraine, 1939–1946" (Ibidem, 2022)
61 hours 0 mins; March 22, 2025
Vuk Vuksanovic, "Serbia’s Balancing Act: Between Russia and the West" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
41 mins; March 21, 2025
Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, "Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and Cult" (Ibidem Press, 2014)
56 mins; March 13, 2025
Tamizdat under Putin: A Discussion with Publisher Feliks Sandalov
58 mins; March 05, 2025
LĂĄszlĂł Borhi, "Survival under Dictatorships: Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes" (Central European UP, 2024)
45 mins; March 03, 2025
Victoria Khiterer, "Jewish Pogroms in Kiev During the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920" (Edwin Mellen, 2015)
75 hours 46 mins; March 01, 2025
Irina Rebrova, "Re-Constructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory: The Case of the North Caucasus" (de Gruyter, 2020)
53 mins; February 27, 2025
Christina Kiaer, "Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
104 hours 43 mins; February 26, 2025
Shay A. Pilnik, "The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War" (Purdue UP, 2025)
86 hours 54 mins; February 22, 2025
Trevor Wilson, "Alexandre KojĂšve and the Specters of Russian Philosophy" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
45 mins; February 15, 2025
Laurel Victoria Gray, "Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan: Legacy of the Silk Road" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
32 mins; February 10, 2025
Canada and Eastern Europe, 1945–1991: Meeting in the Middle
32 mins; February 10, 2025
Peter Whitewood, "The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Soviet Military" (UP of Kansas, 2015)
78 hours 39 mins; February 07, 2025
Jonathan Haslam, "Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine" (Harvard UP, 2025)
65 hours 36 mins; February 06, 2025
Hal Brands, "The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World" (Norton, 2025)
50 mins; February 05, 2025
Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2024)
62 hours 8 mins; February 05, 2025
"We Remember Lest the World Forget: Memories of the Minsk Ghetto" (JewishGen, 2018)
119 hours 56 mins; February 02, 2025
Eugene Finkel, "Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine" (Basic Books, 2024)
35 mins; January 29, 2025
Viktoriya Fedorchak, "The Russia-Ukraine War: Towards Resilient Fighting Power" (Routledge, 2024)
89 hours 27 mins; January 28, 2025
Benjamin Carter Hett, "The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War" (Henry Holt, 2020)
81 hours 11 mins; January 28, 2025
Susan C. I. Grunewald, "From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union" (Cornell UP, 2024)
65 hours 39 mins; January 26, 2025
Gabriel Gavin, "Ashes of Our Fathers: Inside the Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh" (Hurst, 2025)
52 mins; January 09, 2025
Rebecca Charbonneau, "Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain" (Polity, 2024)
52 mins; January 08, 2025
David A. Harrisville, "The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944" (Cornell UP, 2021)
60 hours 19 mins; January 07, 2025
Elissa Bemporad, "Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets" (Oxford UP, 2019)
60 hours 33 mins; January 07, 2025
Simon Miles, "Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2020)
72 hours 26 mins; January 04, 2025
Polly Zavadivker, "A Nation of Refugees: Russia's Jews in World War I" (Oxford UP, 2024)
79 hours 54 mins; January 03, 2025
Vicky Davis, "Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting for the Soviet Union" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
79 hours 58 mins; December 28, 2024
Diana Dumitru, "The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
109 hours 20 mins; December 26, 2024
Marianne Kamp, "Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan" (Cornell UP, 2024)
65 hours 19 mins; December 26, 2024
Nergis ErtĂŒrk, "Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union" (Columbia UP, 2024)
69 hours 22 mins; December 18, 2024
Alissa Klots, "Domestic Service in the Soviet Union; Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
63 hours 31 mins; December 15, 2024
Samuel Hodgkin, "Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
60 hours 11 mins; December 12, 2024
Mie Nakachi, "Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union" (Oxford UP, 2021)
68 hours 6 mins; December 10, 2024
Cristina Vatulescu, "Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their Challenges" (Stanford UP, 2024)
45 mins; December 08, 2024
XosĂ© M. NĂșñez Seixas, "The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941–1945: War, Occupation, Memory" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
109 hours 24 mins; December 03, 2024
Johanna Drucker, "Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
67 hours 57 mins; November 29, 2024
S4E15 To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: A Conversation with Dr. Benjamin Nathans
52 mins; November 20, 2024
Masha Kirasirova, "The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024)
58 mins; November 19, 2024
J. Arch Getty and Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Reflections on Stalinism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2024)
44 mins; November 16, 2024
Ali Igmen, "Speaking Soviet with an Accent: Culture and Power in Kyrgyzstan" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2012)
44 mins; November 13, 2024
S4E14 Our Enemies Will Vanish: A Conversation with Yaroslav Trofimov
45 mins; November 13, 2024
Karine Rashkovsky, "An Improbable Life: My Father's Escape from Soviet Russia" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2024)
39 mins; November 05, 2024
Peter Sarandinaki, "In Search of the Romanovs: A Family's Quest to Solve One of History's Most Brutal Crimes" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
41 mins; October 26, 2024
Larry E. Holmes, "Win or Else: Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921–1985" (Indiana UP, 2024)
38 mins; October 25, 2024
Alexis Peri, "Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence Between American and Soviet Women" (Harvard UP, 2024)
71 hours 44 mins; October 24, 2024
Susan Grant, "Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism" (Cornell UP, 2022)
49 mins; October 19, 2024
Nick Lloyd, "The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918" (Norton, 2024)
53 mins; October 06, 2024
Sean McMeekin, "To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism" (Basic Books, 2024)
53 mins; October 04, 2024
Robert Rozett, "Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front During the Second World War" (Yad Vashem, 2014)
61 hours 0 mins; October 04, 2024
Samuel J. Hirst, "Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939" (Oxford UP, 2024)
62 hours 45 mins; September 28, 2024
Zeev Levin, "Collectivization and Social Engineering: Soviet Administration and the Jews of Uzbekistan, 1917-1939" (Brill, 2015)
81 hours 49 mins; September 26, 2024
Anthony Tucker-Jones, "The Fall of Berlin: The Final Days of Hitler's Evil Regime" (Sirius, 2024)
81 hours 48 mins; September 25, 2024
Michael David-Fox, "The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
56 mins; September 21, 2024
Jack Margolin, "The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
50 mins; September 19, 2024
Mikhail Zygar, "War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (Scribner, 2023)
65 hours 18 mins; September 15, 2024
Isaac Nakhimovsky, "The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
70 hours 25 mins; September 12, 2024
Yakov Feygin, "Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform" (Harvard UP, 2024)
64 hours 55 mins; September 08, 2024
John P. Davis, "Russia in the Time of Cholera" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
58 mins; September 04, 2024
Cynthia A. Ruder, “Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space” (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
60 hours 52 mins; August 31, 2024
What is Going on with Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?
40 mins; August 30, 2024
Yerkebulan Sairambay, "New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
57 mins; August 26, 2024
Cassio de Oliveira, "Writing Rogues: The Soviet Picaresque and Identity Formation, 1921-1938" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
71 hours 53 mins; August 24, 2024
Victoria Smolkin, "A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism" (Princeton UP, 2018)
61 hours 31 mins; August 18, 2024
Maria Taroutina and Allison Leigh, "Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940" (Manchester UP, 2023)
40 mins; August 17, 2024
Barbara Emerson, "The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century" (Hurst, 2024)
38 mins; August 13, 2024
David L. Hoffmann, "The Stalinist Era" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
67 hours 5 mins; August 11, 2024
Alexandra Popoff, "Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success" (Yale UP, 2024)
58 mins; August 06, 2024
The Dragonbear in the Geopolitics of the 21st Century
28 mins; August 05, 2024
Petra Goedde, "The Politics of Peace: A Global Cold War History" (Oxford UP, 2019)
55 mins; August 04, 2024
Elena Borisova, "Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life" (UCL Press, 2024)
55 mins; August 02, 2024
Benjamin Nathans, "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement" (Princeton UP, 2024)
72 hours 35 mins; July 30, 2024
Bastiaan Willems, "Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944–1945" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
87 hours 0 mins; July 29, 2024
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, "The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973: The USSR's Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2017)
77 hours 5 mins; July 28, 2024
Ed Pulford, "Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea" (Stanford UP, 2024)
68 hours 14 mins; July 25, 2024
Jonathan Dimbleby, "Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
42 mins; July 24, 2024
Ebony Nilsson, "Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
38 mins; July 24, 2024
Alexander Sasha Kondakov, "Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia" (UCL Press, 2022)
61 hours 9 mins; July 24, 2024
Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE
70 hours 58 mins; July 14, 2024
Kristen R. Ghodsee, "Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War" (Duke UP, 2019)
70 hours 29 mins; July 14, 2024
Maryna Shevtsova, "Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voices" (Lexington Books, 2024)
45 mins; June 30, 2024
Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn, "The Shochet: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
64 hours 4 mins; June 28, 2024
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