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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies
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Antony Kalashnikov, "Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time" (Cornell UP, 2023)
59 mins; September 23, 2023
Ainsley Morse, "Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children's Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
60 hours 49 mins; September 16, 2023
Prit Buttar, "To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941-42" (Osprey, 2023)
98 hours 24 mins; September 14, 2023
The Shadow War between America and Russia
62 hours 2 mins; September 13, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
32 mins; September 12, 2023
Ryan Tucker Jones, "Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
59 mins; September 09, 2023
Endre Sashalmi, "Russian Notions of Power and State in a European Perspective, 1462-1725: Assessing the Significance of Peter's Reign" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
62 hours 7 mins; September 04, 2023
Elise Herrala, "Art of Transition: The Field of Art in Post-Soviet Russia" (Routledge, 2021)
51 mins; September 03, 2023
On the (Still Bright) Future of Nostalgia
52 mins; August 24, 2023
Samuel Ramani, "Putin's War on Ukraine: Russia’s Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution" (Hurst, 2023)
63 hours 3 mins; August 17, 2023
Toward a More Expansive View of Medieval Europe: Kyivan Rus and Norman Salerno in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
68 hours 19 mins; August 14, 2023
Mark Edele, "Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story" (Melbourne University, 2023)
45 mins; August 13, 2023
Jacob Mikanowski, "Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land" (Pantheon Books, 2023)
69 hours 55 mins; August 11, 2023
Olena Palko and Manuel FĂ©rez Gil, "Ukraine's Many Faces: Land, People, and Culture Revisited" (Transcript Publishing, 2023)
45 mins; August 11, 2023
Xenia A. Cherkaev, "Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice" (Cornell UP, 2023)
72 hours 54 mins; August 10, 2023
Andrii Portnov, "Dnipro: An Entangled History of a European City" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
60 hours 17 mins; August 09, 2023
Yiannis Kokosalakis, "Building Socialism: The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921–1941" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
77 hours 31 mins; August 06, 2023
Christopher Miller, "The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
67 hours 32 mins; August 04, 2023
Alexander Hill, "The War on the Eastern Front: The Soviet Union, 1941-1945 - A Photographic History" (Pen & Sword Military, 2021)
50 mins; August 01, 2023
Archaeology and Nomadism in the Russian Empire: An interview with Ismael Biyashev
53 mins; July 29, 2023
Sheila Miyoshi Jager, "The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)
50 mins; July 23, 2023
Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2018)
72 hours 7 mins; July 19, 2023
Jade McGlynn, "Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
63 hours 20 mins; July 14, 2023
Alfred J. Rieber, "Stalin As Warlord" (Yale UP, 2022)
69 hours 31 mins; July 12, 2023
Serhii Plokhy, "The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History" (Norton, 2023)
70 hours 48 mins; July 11, 2023
Jane Rogoyska, "Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth" (Oneworld, 2021)
55 mins; July 09, 2023
Rotem Kowner, "Tsushima" (Oxford UP, 2022)
53 mins; July 07, 2023
Andrew Harding, "A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, Death and Defiance in Ukraine" (Ithaka, 2023)
32 mins; July 07, 2023
James Crossland, "The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Terrorism" (Manchester UP, 2023)
59 mins; July 06, 2023
Danny Orbach, "Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
58 mins; July 05, 2023
Mikhail Shishkin, "My Russia: War Or Peace?" (RiverRun Press, 2023)
40 mins; July 05, 2023
Mongol Nomadism, Mongol Identity, and the Fall of the Mongol Empire
50 mins; June 25, 2023
Sofia Samatar, "The White Mosque: A Memoir" (Catapult, 2022)
34 mins; June 22, 2023
Anna Schur, "The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
73 hours 51 mins; June 20, 2023
Frank Costigliola, "Kennan: A Life Between Worlds" (Princeton UP, 2023)
63 hours 2 mins; June 19, 2023
Simon Dreher and Wolfgang Mueller, "Foreigners in Muscovy: Western Immigrants in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Russia" (Routledge, 2023)
68 hours 31 mins; June 18, 2023
Socialist Cultures and Politics of Secularism and Atheism
72 hours 43 mins; June 13, 2023
New Histories of Violence in and around the Second World War
83 hours 51 mins; June 10, 2023
Doug Enaa Greene, "Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn: Anticommunism, Marxism, and the Fate of the Soviet Union" (Lexington, 2023)
56 mins; June 09, 2023
James H. Meyer, "Red Star over the Black Sea: Nazim Hikmet and His Generation" (Oxford UP, 2023)
61 hours 14 mins; June 03, 2023
Halyna Kruk, "A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails" (Arrowsmith Press, 2023)
45 mins; May 27, 2023
Selcen KĂŒĂ§ĂŒkĂŒstel, "Embracing Landscape: Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia" (Berghahn, 2021)
63 hours 58 mins; May 22, 2023
Empires after World War II: The Cases of the USSR and France
65 hours 27 mins; May 20, 2023
Philip Snow, "China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord" (Yale UP, 2023)
61 hours 34 mins; May 18, 2023
Serhii Plokhy, "The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History" (Norton, 2023)
54 mins; May 12, 2023
Katherine Bowers, "Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
55 mins; May 11, 2023
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, "Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia" (Fordham UP, 2022)
57 mins; May 08, 2023
Mark Galeotti, "Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
68 hours 45 mins; May 05, 2023
John McCannon, "Nicholas Roerich: The Artist Who Would Be King" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
71 hours 54 mins; May 03, 2023
Ostap Kin, "Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond" (HURI, 2022)
51 mins; April 29, 2023
Evert van der Zweerde, "Russian Political Philosophy: Anarchy, Authority, Autocracy" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
84 hours 15 mins; April 26, 2023
Volodymyr Rafeyenko, "The Length of Days: An Urban Ballad" (HURI, 2023)
47 mins; April 23, 2023
Crispin Brooks and Kiril Feferman, "Beyond the Pale: The Holocaust in the North Caucasus" (U Rochester Press, 2020)
111 hours 45 mins; April 22, 2023
The Future of Eastern Europe: A Discussion with Zsuzsanna Szelényi
59 mins; April 22, 2023
Paul Hansbury, "Belarus in Crisis: From Domestic Unrest to the Russia-Ukraine War" (Hurst, 2023)
50 mins; April 21, 2023
Elena Pedigo Clark, "Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
59 mins; April 19, 2023
Vitalii Ogiienko, "The Holodomor and the Origins of the Soviet Man: Reading the Testimony of Anastasia Lysyvets" (Ibidem Press, 2022)
63 hours 23 mins; April 17, 2023
A Warning to the West: A Conversation with Sergiu Klainerman
62 hours 11 mins; April 13, 2023
Natasha Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
44 mins; April 12, 2023
Catherine Wanner, "Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine" (Cornell UP, 2022)
52 mins; April 11, 2023
Andrew Long, "Secrets of the Cold War: Espionage and Intelligence Operations from Both Sides of the Iron Curtain" (Pen and Sword History, 2022)
85 hours 31 mins; April 11, 2023
Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov, "Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia" (Brill, 2022)
65 hours 24 mins; April 10, 2023
Iain MacGregor, "The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Heart of the Greatest Battle of World War II" (Scribner, 2022)
62 hours 28 mins; April 09, 2023
Jade McGlynn, "Russia's War" (Polity, 2023)
54 mins; April 07, 2023
Sudha Rajagopalan, "Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India" (Routledge, 2023)
40 mins; April 04, 2023
Keir Giles, "Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
56 mins; March 31, 2023
Suzanna Eibuszyc, "Memory Is Our Home: Loss and Remembering--Three Generations in Poland and Russia 1917-1960s" (Ibidem, 2022)
111 hours 34 mins; March 29, 2023
War, Optimism, Humility: A Conversation with Literary Critic Mariia Shuvalova
61 hours 13 mins; March 25, 2023
Svetlana Lavochkina, "Dam Duchess" (Whiskey Tit, 2018)
55 mins; March 23, 2023
Oleksandra Keudel, "How Patronal Networks Shape Opportunities for Local Citizen Participation in a Hybrid Regime: A Comparative Analysis of Five Cities in Ukraine" (Ibidem, 2022)
50 mins; March 22, 2023
Megan Swift, "Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
59 mins; March 20, 2023
Nomadic Pastoralism Among the Mongol Herders
46 mins; March 14, 2023
Susan Colbourn, "Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO" (Cornell UP, 2022)
72 hours 48 mins; March 14, 2023
Megan Buskey, "Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet: A Family Story of Exile and Return" (Ibidem-Verlag, 2023)
56 mins; March 12, 2023
Martin K. Dimitrov, "Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China" (Oxford UP, 2023)
50 mins; March 07, 2023
Kiril Feferman, "If We Had Wings We Would Fly to You: A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction 1941-42" (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
89 hours 2 mins; March 07, 2023
Greta Lynn Uehling, "Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine" (Cornell UP, 2023)
61 hours 2 mins; March 02, 2023
Soviet Hippies and German “Other ‘68ers”: A Conversation about Youth Non-Conformity and Protest
65 hours 56 mins; February 28, 2023
Sarah M. Zaides, "Tevye's Ottoman Daughter: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews at the End of Empire" (Libra Kitap, 2022)
66 hours 40 mins; February 24, 2023
Rethinking the End of the Russian and Habsburg Empires
60 hours 57 mins; February 21, 2023
Sofia Gavrilova, "Russia's Regional Museums: Representing and Misrepresenting Knowledge about Nature, History and Society" (Routledge, 2022)
38 mins; February 18, 2023
Lyudmyla Khersonska, "Today is a Different War" (Arrowsmith Press, 2023)
55 mins; February 17, 2023
Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads
29 mins; February 13, 2023
Ruth Rogaski, "Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
56 mins; February 10, 2023
Natasha Lance Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
30 mins; February 10, 2023
Tim Harte, "Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
64 hours 40 mins; February 05, 2023
Anthony Tucker-Jones, "Kursk 1943: Hitler's Bitter Harvest" (History Press, 2018)
71 hours 14 mins; February 04, 2023
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, "Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow" (Routledge, 2022)
72 hours 33 mins; February 02, 2023
Maria Sonevytsky, "Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine" (Wesleyan UP, 2019)
60 hours 11 mins; January 28, 2023
Postscript: Narrative and Influence Activities in the Russo-Ukraine War
50 mins; January 26, 2023
Frank Wolff, "Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund" (Haymarket Books, 2021)
79 hours 37 mins; January 25, 2023
Adam Lajeunesse, "Lock, Stock, and Icebergs: A History of Canada's Arctic Maritime Sovereignty" (UBC Press, 2016)
58 mins; January 21, 2023
Jeff Fearnside, "Ships in the Desert" (Santa Fe Writer's Project, 2022)
39 mins; January 19, 2023
Tricia Starks, "Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2022)
41 mins; January 11, 2023
Alessandro Iandolo, "Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968" (Cornell UP, 2022)
55 mins; January 10, 2023
Franziska Exeler, "Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus" (Cornell UP, 2022)
90 hours 40 mins; January 06, 2023
Regine A. Spector, "Order at the Bazaar: Power and Trade in Central Asia" (Cornell UP, 2017)
35 mins; January 04, 2023
The Russo-Ukrainian War from a Military Point of View
11 mins; January 03, 2023
Svetlana Lavochkina, "Carbon: Song of Crafts" (Lost Horse Press, 2020)
51 mins; December 31, 2022
Sean Patterson, "Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917-1921" (U Manitoba Press, 2020)
67 hours 50 mins; December 28, 2022
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