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Oscar Sanchez-Sibony, "The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market: Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
53 mins; June 22, 2024
Sally Stocksdale, "When Emancipation Came: The End of Enslavement on a Southern Plantation and a Russian Estate" (McFarland, 2022)
60 hours 26 mins; June 19, 2024
Klas-Göran Karlsson, "Lessons of History: The Holocaust and Soviet Terror as Borderline Events" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
73 hours 4 mins; June 15, 2024
David Stahel, "Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942" (FSG, 2019)
75 hours 15 mins; June 07, 2024
Elena Kochetkova, "The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology" (MIT Press, 2024)
65 hours 42 mins; June 05, 2024
Victoria Khiterer, "Jewish City Or Inferno of Russian Israel?: A History of the Jews in Kiev Before February 1917" (Academic Studies Press, 2017)
73 hours 14 mins; June 05, 2024
Tracey German, "Russia and the Changing Character of Conflict" (Cambria Press, 2023)
89 hours 37 mins; May 25, 2024
Yaroslav Trofimov, "Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence" (Penguin, 2024)
47 mins; May 18, 2024
Choi Chatterjee, "Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
68 hours 28 mins; May 15, 2024
Julia A. Cassiday, "Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
49 mins; May 14, 2024
Katya Hokanson, "A Woman's Empire: Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
57 mins; May 13, 2024
Per Högselius and Achim KlĂŒppelberg, "The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism" (CEU Press, 2023)
23 mins; May 12, 2024
Lawrence Freedman, "Modern Warfare: Lessons from Ukraine" (Penguin, 2023)
42 mins; May 08, 2024
Sean Griffin, "The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
55 mins; May 07, 2024
Rustam Alexander, "Gay Lives and ‘Aversion Therapy’ in Brezhnev’s Russia, 1964–1982" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
56 mins; May 06, 2024
"The US Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume IV" (Indiana UP, 2022)
89 hours 24 mins; May 06, 2024
Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, "Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
63 hours 43 mins; May 05, 2024
Illia Ponomarenko, "I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
45 mins; May 03, 2024
Jen Stout, "Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia's War" (Polygon, 2024)
45 mins; May 02, 2024
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, "Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State" (Stanford UP, 2024)
63 hours 56 mins; April 23, 2024
Asif Siddiqi on Rockets, Prisons, Pop Songs, and So Much More
67 hours 54 mins; April 22, 2024
Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I" (HarperCollins, 2023)
79 hours 40 mins; April 15, 2024
Maria Snegovaya, "When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)
63 hours 45 mins; April 13, 2024
Egor Lazarev, "State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
50 mins; April 13, 2024
Louis Howard Porter, "Reds in Blue: UNESCO, World Governance, and the Soviet Internationalist Imagination" (Oxford UP, 2023)
40 mins; April 04, 2024
Alexandrina Vanke, "The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggle" (Manchester UP, 2024)
38 mins; April 01, 2024
Kevin P. Reihle, "The Russian FSB: A Concise History of the Federal Security Service" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
95 hours 26 mins; March 26, 2024
George S. Takach, "Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle between China, Russia, and America" (Pegasus Book, 2024)
68 hours 0 mins; March 24, 2024
Isaac Deutscher, "Lenin's Childhood" (Verso, 2024)
73 hours 1 min; March 20, 2024
Eileen Kane et al., "Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
48 mins; March 20, 2024
Erica L. Fraser, "Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union" (U Toronto Press, 2019)
64 hours 51 mins; March 17, 2024
Alina Nychyk, "Ukraine Vis-Ă -Vis Russia and the EU: Misperceptions of Foreign Challenges in Times of War, 2014-2015" (Ibidem Press, 2023)
51 mins; March 16, 2024
Legal Cultures in the Russian Empire
73 hours 1 min; March 13, 2024
Dariusz ToƂczyk, "Blissful Blindness: Soviet Crimes under Western Eyes" (Indiana UP, 2023)
92 hours 39 mins; March 08, 2024
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, "Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State" (Stanford UP, 2024)
49 mins; March 06, 2024
Leona Toker, "Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontexual Reading" (Indiana UP, 2019)
91 hours 29 mins; March 06, 2024
Ilmari KĂ€ihkö, "'Slava Ukraini!': Strategy and the Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance 2014–2023" (Helsinki UP, 2023)
90 hours 19 mins; March 05, 2024
Michael Kimmage, "Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability" (Oxford UP, 2024)
43 mins; February 23, 2024
Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, "Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia" (Princeton UP, 2023)
73 hours 23 mins; February 18, 2024
Rachel Applebaum, "Empire of Friendsï»ż: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia" (ï»żCornell UP, 2019)
80 hours 18 mins; February 16, 2024
Gregory Wallance, "Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
50 mins; February 08, 2024
Putin's Exiles: Their Fight for a Better Russia
47 mins; February 07, 2024
Serhiy Bilenky, "Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine Between Empire and Nation, 1772-1914" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
51 mins; February 05, 2024
Eglė RindzevičiĆ«tė, "The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future Through Science" (Cornell UP, 2023)
50 mins; February 04, 2024
Bedross Der Matossian, "The Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party: Politics, Ideology and Transnational History" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
60 hours 30 mins; February 03, 2024
Curtis Fox, "Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition and Conventional Military Conflict" (30 Press Publishing, 2023)
91 hours 49 mins; January 30, 2024
Anton Weiss-Wendt, "On the Margins: Essays on the History of Jews in Estonia" (CEU Press, 2017)
103 hours 29 mins; January 29, 2024
Anna Reid, "A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution" (Basic Books, 2024)
49 mins; January 29, 2024
Calder Walton, "Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West" (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
44 mins; January 28, 2024
Simon Shuster, "The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky" (William Morrow, 2024)
43 mins; January 20, 2024
Democracy, Great Powers, and the Russia-Ukraine War. A Discussion with Stefan Wolff
26 mins; January 17, 2024
Matthew Romaniello, "Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
60 hours 50 mins; January 12, 2024
Yaroslav Trofimov, "Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence" (Penguin, 2023)
43 mins; January 09, 2024
Kateryna Malaia, "Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room: Domestic Architecture before and after 1991" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
44 mins; January 07, 2024
Pavel Khazanov, "The Russia that We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
34 mins; January 06, 2024
Christine E. Evans, “Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television” (Yale UP, 2016)
60 hours 39 mins; December 29, 2023
Scott D. Seligman, "Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
43 mins; December 28, 2023
Alyssa M. Park, “Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945" (Cornell UP, 2019)
65 hours 17 mins; December 27, 2023
Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)
33 mins; December 22, 2023
Philip Snow, "China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord" (Yale UP, 2023)
53 mins; December 22, 2023
Christine Abely, "The Russia Sanctions: The Economic Response to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
38 mins; December 21, 2023
Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)
46 mins; December 17, 2023
Vladyslav Besedovskyy, "Uniforms and History of the Soviet Airborne in Afghanistan" (Safar, 2023)
33 mins; December 16, 2023
Jonathan Daly and Leonid Trofimov, "Seven Myths of the Russian Revolution" (Hackett, 2023)
64 hours 49 mins; December 15, 2023
Olena Stiazhkina, "Cecil the Lion Had to Die" (HURI, 2023)
44 mins; December 14, 2023
Michael W. Doyle, "Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War" (Liveright, 2023)
51 mins; December 12, 2023
Christian Raffensperger and Donald Ostrowski, "The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
63 hours 33 mins; December 11, 2023
Martin C. Dean, "Investigating Babyn Yar: Shadows from the Valley of Death" (Lexington Books, 2023)
36 mins; December 11, 2023
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
55 mins; December 02, 2023
Ian Probstein, trans., "Centuries Encircle Me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
64 hours 22 mins; November 29, 2023
Peter Samsonov, "IS-2: Development, Design, and Production of Stalin's Warhammer" (Military History Group, 2022)
37 mins; November 26, 2023
Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel, "Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States" (Polity, 2023)
56 mins; November 24, 2023
Paul Le Blanc, "Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution" (Pluto Press, 2023)
92 hours 10 mins; November 23, 2023
David K. Zimmerman, "Ensnared Between Hitler and Stalin: Refugee Scientists in the USSR" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
80 hours 35 mins; November 22, 2023
Andrew Monaghan and Richard Connolly. "The Sea in Russian Strategy" (Manchester UP, 2023)
63 hours 43 mins; November 22, 2023
Erin Baggott Carter and Brett L. Carter, "Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
74 hours 41 mins; November 19, 2023
Maxim Shrayer, "I Saw It: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah" (Academic Studies Press, 2013)
60 hours 59 mins; November 19, 2023
Nicole Eaton, "German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad" (Cornell UP, 2023)
72 hours 16 mins; November 18, 2023
BĂĄlint Madlovics and BĂĄlint Magyar, "The Russia-Ukraine War, Volumes 1-2" (CEU Press, 2023)
52 mins; November 17, 2023
Anthony Tucker-Jones, "Battle of the Cities: Urban Warfare on the Eastern Front" (Pen & Sword Military, 2023)
79 hours 30 mins; November 17, 2023
Writing the History of Money and Monetary Policy
58 mins; November 08, 2023
Valerie Kivelson et al., "Picturing Russian Empire" (Oxford UP, 2023)
57 mins; November 07, 2023
Roger R. Reese, "Russia's Army: A History from the Napoleonic Wars to the War in Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
104 hours 48 mins; November 05, 2023
On Wars: A Discussion with Michael Mann
52 mins; October 31, 2023
Marat Grinberg, "The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
74 hours 56 mins; October 29, 2023
Owen Matthews, "Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine" (Mudlark, 2022)
56 mins; October 25, 2023
Immo Rebitschek and Aaron B. Retish, "Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
73 hours 38 mins; October 21, 2023
The Family in History, History in the Family: National Identity in Nineteenth-century Kyiv and Immigration Politics in West Germany after 1955
66 hours 1 min; October 21, 2023
C. J. Wagevier, "Fighting for Napoleon's Army in Russia: A POW's Memoir" (Pen and Sword, 2023)
41 mins; October 12, 2023
Rory Finnin, "Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
67 hours 16 mins; October 11, 2023
Christopher P. Atwood, "The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese Sources" (Hackett, 2021)
102 hours 40 mins; October 08, 2023
Books in Early Modern Europe
63 hours 53 mins; October 07, 2023
Harriet Murav and Gennady Estraikh, "Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering" (Academic Studies Press, 2018)
62 hours 43 mins; October 07, 2023
Daniel Satinsky, "Creating the Post-Soviet Russian Market Economy: Through American Eyes" (Routledge, 2023)
59 mins; October 06, 2023
Isaac McKean Scarborough, "Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2023)
74 hours 55 mins; October 01, 2023
Gwendolyn Sasse, "Russia's War Against Ukraine" (Polity, 2023)
41 mins; September 29, 2023
Alex J. Bellamy, "Warmonger: Vladimir Putin's Imperial Wars" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)
60 hours 55 mins; September 28, 2023
Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)
57 mins; September 26, 2023
The Future of Ukraine: A Discussion with Christopher Miller
41 mins; September 24, 2023
Erik R. Scott, "Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World" (Oxford UP, 2023)
49 mins; September 24, 2023
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