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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies
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Ian Garner, "Stalingrad Lives!: Stories of Combat and Survival" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)
53 mins; December 26, 2022
Mariëlle Wijermars et al., "The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
54 mins; December 24, 2022
Elena Goodwin, "Translating England into Russian: The Politics of Children's Literature in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
54 mins; December 23, 2022
Sandra Frimmel, "Art Judgements: Art on Trial in Russia After Perestroika" (Vernon Press, 2021)
61 hours 47 mins; December 21, 2022
Zvi Preigerzon, "Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2022)
128 hours 32 mins; December 20, 2022
Muhammet Koçak, "Turkey-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century: Cooperation and Competition Amid Systemic Turbulence" (Lexington, 2022)
63 hours 3 mins; December 19, 2022
Kiril Feferman, "The Holocaust in the Crimea and the North Caucasus" (Yad Vadhem, 2016)
131 hours 50 mins; December 17, 2022
Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)
57 mins; December 16, 2022
William Inboden, "The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink" (Dutton, 2022)
67 hours 34 mins; December 13, 2022
Vladislav M. Zubok, "Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union" (Yale UP, 2021)
55 mins; December 13, 2022
James Mark and Paul Betts, "Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation" (Oxford UP, 2022)
78 hours 10 mins; December 09, 2022
Inna Perheentupa, "Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources" (Policy Press, 2022)
27 mins; December 08, 2022
Nicholas Morton, "The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East" (Basic Books, 2022)
40 mins; December 05, 2022
Andrew Spria, "Foreshadowed: Malevich’s "Black Square" and Its Precursors" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
59 mins; December 03, 2022
Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega, "Amanat: Women's Writing from Kazakhstan" (Gaudy Boy, 2022)
34 mins; December 02, 2022
Lan Anh Hoang, "Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times of Uncertainty" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
49 mins; December 01, 2022
Jonathan R. Hunt, "The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam" (Stanford UP, 2022)
77 hours 58 mins; December 01, 2022
Olena Braichenko et al., "Ukraine: Food and History" (O. Braichenko, 2020)
40 mins; November 30, 2022
Sofya Glazunova, "Digital Activism in Russia: The Communication Tactics of Political Outsiders" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
45 mins; November 30, 2022
Darra Goldstein, "The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food" (U California Press, 2022)
76 hours 29 mins; November 28, 2022
Kees Boterbloem, "Russia and the Dutch Republic, 1566–1725: A Forgotten Friendship" (Lexington Books, 2021)
46 mins; November 24, 2022
Eli Gumener, "A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir Of Sorrow" (Slavica, 2022)
121 hours 46 mins; November 23, 2022
Ephraim (Alexander) Kholmyansky, "The Voice of Silence: The Story of the Jewish Underground in the USSR" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
109 hours 25 mins; November 10, 2022
Natasha Lance Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
41 mins; November 09, 2022
Daniel Scarborough, "Russia's Social Gospel: The Orthodox Pastoral Movement in Famine, War, and Revolution" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
65 hours 33 mins; November 07, 2022
Jonathan Brunstedt, "The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
57 mins; November 03, 2022
Eleanor Knott, "Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
57 mins; November 02, 2022
Anton Weiss-Wendt and Nanci Adler, eds., "The Future of the Soviet Past: The Politics of History in Putin's Russia" (Indiana UP, 2021)
51 mins; October 28, 2022
Matthias Bernt, "The Commodification Gap: Gentrification and Public Policy in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg" (Wiley, 2022)
53 mins; October 28, 2022
Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe
58 mins; October 25, 2022
The Future of Vladimir Putin: A Discussion with Philip Short
59 mins; October 25, 2022
On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s "The Brothers Karamazov"
44 mins; October 20, 2022
Agha Bayramov, "Constructive Competition in the Caspian Sea Region" (Routledge, 2022)
36 mins; October 20, 2022
The Future of Cold War: A Discussion with Sergey Radchenko
47 mins; October 18, 2022
Alexander Mikaberidze, "Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2022)
70 hours 2 mins; October 10, 2022
How to Avoid More Damage from the Russian War on Ukraine
32 mins; October 06, 2022
Ofer Fridman, "Russian 'Hybrid Warfare': Resurgence and Politicization" (Oxford UP, 2022)
61 hours 31 mins; October 06, 2022
Daniel B. Rowland, "God, Tsar, and People: The Political Culture of Early Modern Russia" (Northern Illinois UP, 2020)
63 hours 50 mins; October 06, 2022
The Two Russias
53 mins; October 05, 2022
Sean Brennan, "The KGB and the Vatican: Secrets of the Mitrokhin Files" (CUA Press, 2022)
54 mins; September 30, 2022
Donald Ostrowski, "Russia in the Early Modern World: The Continuity of Change" (Lexington, 2022)
71 hours 41 mins; September 27, 2022
Ian W. Campbell, "Knowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917" (Cornell UP, 2017)
46 mins; September 23, 2022
Andrey V. Ivanov, "A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia, 1700–1825" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
44 mins; September 22, 2022
Sasha Senderovich, "How the Soviet Jew Was Made" (Harvard UP, 2022)
87 hours 57 mins; September 14, 2022
Joseph Torigian, "Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China After Stalin and Mao" (Yale UP, 2022)
60 hours 32 mins; September 07, 2022
Alexandr Dugin, Russia’s Imperial Philosopher: Into the Mind of a Russian Political Theorist
42 mins; September 06, 2022
Fritz Bartel, "The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism" (Harvard UP, 2022)
57 mins; September 05, 2022
Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, "Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2013)
61 hours 40 mins; August 26, 2022
On Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace"
32 mins; August 23, 2022
Adrienne Edgar, "Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia" (Cornell UP, 2022)
25 mins; August 23, 2022
Mark D. Steinberg, "Russian Utopia: A Century of Revolutionary Possibilities" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
67 hours 26 mins; August 19, 2022
Christina E. Crawford, "Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union" (Cornell UP, 2022)
23 mins; August 19, 2022
Roselyn Hsueh, "Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
50 mins; August 12, 2022
Anastasia Shesterinina, "Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia" (Cornell UP, 2021)
60 hours 20 mins; August 09, 2022
Anthony Pagden, "The Pursuit of Europe: A History" (Oxford UP, 2022)
67 hours 15 mins; July 28, 2022
Kathryn E. Stoner, "Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order" (Oxford UP, 2020)
32 mins; July 26, 2022
Olena Palko and Constantin Ardeleanu, "Making Ukraine: Negotiating, Contesting, and Drawing the Borders in the Twentieth Century" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
58 mins; July 26, 2022
Sergei Zhuk, "KGB Operations Against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine 1953-1991" (Routledge, 2022)
57 mins; July 18, 2022
War and Peace: America's Humane War and the Crisis in Ukraine
99 hours 47 mins; June 30, 2022
Japan’s Reaction to Russia’s War in Ukraine
31 mins; June 24, 2022
Ukrainian Nationalism in Historical Context
65 hours 28 mins; June 21, 2022
Andrew Monaghan, "Russian Grand Strategy in the Era of Global Power Competition" (Manchester UP, 2022)
69 hours 21 mins; June 20, 2022
Bénédicte Brac de la PerriÚre and Peter A Jackson, "Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted" (NIAS Press, 2022)
28 mins; June 20, 2022
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, "Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century" (Princeton UP, 2022)
55 mins; June 17, 2022
David L. Sloss, "Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare" (Stanford UP, 2022)
61 hours 30 mins; June 17, 2022
Catherine Gibson, "Geographies of Nationhood: Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
60 hours 9 mins; June 17, 2022
Zarina Burkadze, "Great Power Competition and the Path to Democracy: The Case of Georgia, 1991-2020" (U Rochester Press, 2022)
64 hours 18 mins; June 08, 2022
Olga Bertelsen, "In the Labyrinth of the KGB: Ukraine's Intelligentsia in the 1960s-1970s" (Lexington Books, 2022)
54 mins; June 06, 2022
Tomek Jankowski, "Eastern Europe!: Everything You Need to Know about the History (and More) of a Region That Shaped Our World and Still Does" (New Europe, 2021)
56 mins; June 03, 2022
Matthew Mark Silver, "Zionism and the Melting Pot: Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
65 hours 23 mins; June 03, 2022
Maksim Goldenshteyn, "So They Remember: A Jewish Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
46 mins; May 26, 2022
K. Friedla and M. Nesselrodt, "Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939-1959): History and Memory of Deportation, Exile, and Survival" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
44 mins; May 25, 2022
How to Start a Successful Academic Podcast: A Discussion with Sean Guillory
39 mins; May 24, 2022
Putin's War on Ukraine in Historical Perpective
68 hours 13 mins; May 24, 2022
Olga Bertelsen, "In the Labyrinth of the KGB: Ukraine's Intelligentsia in the 1960s–1970s" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
76 hours 44 mins; May 20, 2022
Charters Wynn, "The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936" (Brill, 2022)
60 hours 4 mins; May 18, 2022
Victoria A. Malko, "The Ukrainian Intelligentsia and Genocide: The Struggle for History, Language, and Culture in the 1920s and 1930s" (Lexington Books, 2021)
50 mins; May 13, 2022
Katharine Hodgson and Alexandra Smith, "Canonicity, Twentieth-Century Poetry and Russian National Identity After 1991" (Peter Lang, 2020)
52 mins; May 13, 2022
Katie Stallard, "Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea" (Oxford UP, 2022)
63 hours 36 mins; May 06, 2022
Central Asia Under Brussels’ and Moscow’s Eyes
20 mins; May 04, 2022
Charles J. Halperin, "Ivan the Terrible in Russian Historical Memory Since 1991" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
63 hours 45 mins; April 29, 2022
Susanne Schattenberg, "Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
75 hours 35 mins; April 18, 2022
Susanne A. Wengle, "Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
59 mins; April 15, 2022
India’s Ukrainian Dilemma
33 mins; April 11, 2022
Pamela Kyle Crossley, "Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
61 hours 23 mins; April 06, 2022
Melissa M. Lee, "Crippling Leviathan: How Foreign Subversion Weakens the State" (Cornell UP, 2020)
52 mins; April 04, 2022
Kelly Herold et al., "Growing Out of Communism: Russian Literature for Children and Teens, 1991-2017" (Brill, 2021)
48 mins; April 01, 2022
Sherzod Muminov, "Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan" (Harvard UP, 2022)
75 hours 11 mins; March 31, 2022
AyƟe Zarakol, "Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
43 mins; March 29, 2022
Valerie A. Kivelson and Christine D. Worobec, "Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900: A Sourcebook" (Northern Illinois UP, 2020)
58 mins; March 29, 2022
Vanessa Rampton, "Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia: From Catherine the Great to the Russian Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
55 mins; March 25, 2022
China’s International Relations and the Ukraine Crisis
25 mins; March 25, 2022
Lucy Ward, "The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus" (ONEWorld, 2022)
73 hours 57 mins; March 25, 2022
Eiren L. Shea, "Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange" (Routledge, 2020)
53 mins; March 25, 2022
Tinatin Japaridze, "Stalin's Millennials: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism" (Lexington Books, 2022)
79 hours 38 mins; March 22, 2022
Sandy Gall, "Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud" (Haus Publishing, 2021)
52 mins; March 17, 2022
Carter R. Johnson, "Partition and Peace in Civil Wars: Dividing Lands and Peoples to End Ethnic Conflict" (Routledge, 2021)
49 mins; March 15, 2022
Mark Edele, "Debates on Stalinism" (Manchester UP, 2020)
57 mins; March 15, 2022
Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, "On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border" (Harvard UP, 2021)
55 mins; March 14, 2022
Togzhan Kassenova, "Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb" (Stanford UP, 2022)
33 mins; March 14, 2022
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