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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; March 10, 2022
Edward Tyerman, "Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture" (Columbia UP, 2021)
80 hours 32 mins; March 08, 2022
Jeremy Black, "The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Strategies for a World War" (Roman and Littlefield, 2022)
33 mins; March 08, 2022
Daniel Chirot, "You Say You Want a Revolution?: Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences" (Princeton UP, 2020)
84 hours 3 mins; March 07, 2022
Mark Edele, "Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
43 mins; March 01, 2022
Albert Baiburin, "The Soviet Passport: The History, Nature and Uses of the Internal Passport in the USSR" (Polity Press, 2022)
56 mins; February 23, 2022
Stanislav Aseyev, "In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas" (HURI, 2022)
43 mins; February 22, 2022
Regina Smyth, "Elections, Protest, and Authoritarian Regime Stability: Russia 2008–2020" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
63 hours 34 mins; February 18, 2022
Timothy K. Blauvelt, "Clientalism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba" (Routledge, 2021)
80 hours 12 mins; February 18, 2022
Melissa Feinberg, "Communism in Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)
77 hours 30 mins; February 14, 2022
Ola Hnatiuk, "Courage and Fear" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2019)
61 hours 0 mins; February 07, 2022
David L. Hoffmann, "The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia" (Routledge, 2021)
68 hours 15 mins; February 04, 2022
Colin Thubron, "The Amur River: Between Russia and China" (Harper, 2021)
43 mins; February 03, 2022
Isaac Butler, "The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
91 hours 52 mins; February 01, 2022
Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, "On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border" (Harvard UP, 2021)
57 mins; January 20, 2022
David Leupold, "Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory" (Routledge, 2020)
51 mins; January 18, 2022
Glenn Cronin, "Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev" (Northern Illinois UP, 2021)
49 mins; January 18, 2022
Yuri Tynianov, "KĂŒchlya, Decembrist Poet: A Novel" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2021)
48 mins; January 13, 2022
Matthew P. Romaniello, et al., "The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600-Present" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
33 mins; January 10, 2022
Yuka Hiruma Kishida, "Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
63 hours 53 mins; January 03, 2022
Kalani Pickhart, "I Will Die in a Foreign Land" (Two Dollar Radio, 2021)
52 mins; December 31, 2021
Putin's Attempt to Hide the Crimes of Stalinism
49 mins; December 30, 2021
Anna Bokov, "Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930" (Park Books, 2020)
73 hours 44 mins; December 29, 2021
Tomek Jankowski, "Eastern Europe! Everything You Need to Know" (New Europe Books, 2021)
38 mins; December 28, 2021
Paul Bushkovitch, "Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia: The Transfer of Power 1450-1725" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
65 hours 15 mins; December 28, 2021
East Asian Cold War History with a Maritime Twist
24 mins; December 27, 2021
Lucie Fremlova, "Queer Roma" (Routledge, 2021)
59 mins; December 24, 2021
Jeffrey Brooks, "The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
38 mins; December 22, 2021
Bogdan Popa, "De-Centering Queer Theory: Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and After the Cold War" (Manchester UP, 2021)
55 mins; December 17, 2021
Alex Panasenko, "The Long Vacation: A Memoir" (Iris Press, 2020)
51 mins; December 16, 2021
Aaron Weinacht, "Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
77 hours 9 mins; December 16, 2021
Brigid O'Keeffe, "Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
58 mins; December 16, 2021
Anna Machcewicz, "Civility in Uncivil Times: Kazimierz Moczarski's Quiet Battle for Truth, from the Polish Underground to Stalinist Prison" (Peter Lang, 2020)
58 mins; December 15, 2021
Fiona Hill, "There Is Nothing for You Here: Opportunity in an Age of Decline" (Mariner Books, 2021)
46 mins; December 09, 2021
Diana Kelly, "The Red Taylorist: The Life and Times of Walter Nicholas Polakov" (Emerald, 2020)
33 mins; December 09, 2021
David Moon et al., "Place and Nature: Essays in Russian History" (White Horse Press, 2021)
64 hours 10 mins; December 08, 2021
Timur Dadabaev, "Decolonizing Central Asian International Relations: Beyond Empires" (Routledge, 2021)
37 mins; December 07, 2021
Barbara Martin, "Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union: From De-Stalinization to Perestroika" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
59 mins; December 03, 2021
Thane Gustafson, "Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change" (Harvard UP, 2021)
46 mins; December 03, 2021
James KapalĂł and Kinga PovedĂĄk, "The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)
61 hours 17 mins; December 01, 2021
Grant T. Harward, "Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2021)
82 hours 43 mins; November 26, 2021
Christopher Coker, "The Rise of the Civilizational State" (Polity Press, 2019)
29 mins; November 23, 2021
Molly Thomasy Blasing, "Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture" (Cornell UP, 2021)
57 mins; November 23, 2021
Marshall Poe on Getting Post-Soviet Russia Wrong
60 hours 42 mins; November 22, 2021
Vladimir Alexandrov, "To Break Russia's Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks" (Pegasus, 2021)
58 mins; November 19, 2021
Svitlana Biedarieva, "Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
45 mins; November 16, 2021
Rico Isaacs and Erica Marat, "Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia" (Routledge, 2021)
71 hours 24 mins; November 10, 2021
Anna Saunders et al., "Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
79 hours 54 mins; November 09, 2021
Yuri Kostenko, "Ukraine's Nuclear Disarmament: A History" (HURI, 2020)
29 mins; November 09, 2021
Marlene Laruelle, "Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia" (UCL Press, 2021)
34 mins; November 01, 2021
Serhii Plokhy, "The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present" (HURI, 2021)
50 mins; October 27, 2021
Eliyana R. Adler, "Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union" (Harvard UP, 2020)
61 hours 34 mins; October 14, 2021
Edward Schatz, "Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia" (Stanford UP, 2021)
43 mins; October 14, 2021
Jeffrey Veidlinger, "In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
49 mins; October 12, 2021
John-Paul Himka, "Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust: OUN and UPA's Participation in the Destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, 1941-1944" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
55 mins; October 12, 2021
Jan Matti Dollbaum et al., "Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
36 mins; October 12, 2021
Rano Turaeva and Rustamjon Urinboyev, "Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)
48 mins; October 11, 2021
Olesya Khromeychuk, "A Loss: The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister" (Ibidem, 2021)
59 mins; October 06, 2021
Patrice M. Dabrowski, "The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine" (Northern Illinois UP, 2021)
54 mins; October 01, 2021
Vladislav Davidzon, "From Odessa with Love: Political and Literary Essays in Post-Soviet Ukraine" ( Academica Press, 2020)
53 mins; September 27, 2021
Sarah J. Young, "Writing Resistance: Revolutionary Memoirs of Shlissel’burg Prison" (UCL Press, 2021)
50 mins; September 20, 2021
Paul Werth, "1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2021)
66 hours 37 mins; September 07, 2021
Nadieszda Kizenko, "Good for the Souls: A History of Confession in the Russian Empire" (Oxford UP, 2021)
55 mins; September 01, 2021
Maria Stepanova, "The Voice Over: Poems and Essays" (Columbia UP, 2021)
45 mins; August 27, 2021
A. S. Agadjanian and S. M. Kenworthy, "Understanding World Christianity: Russia" (Fortress Press, 2021)
58 mins; August 25, 2021
A Brief Look at the Life and Times of Fyodor Dostoevsky
19 mins; August 25, 2021
Gökten DogangĂŒn, "Gender Politics in Turkey and Russia: From State Feminism to Authoritarian Rule" (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
67 hours 42 mins; August 23, 2021
Zuza Zak, "Amber & Rye: A Baltic Food Journey: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania" (Allen & Unwin, 2021)
50 mins; August 20, 2021
Rebecca Friedman, "Modernity, Domesticity and Temporality in Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
51 mins; August 19, 2021
Bogdan C. Iacob et al., "1989: A Global History of Eastern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
77 hours 4 mins; August 16, 2021
Margarita M. Balmaceda, "Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union" (Wilson Center, 2021)
47 mins; August 13, 2021
Volodymyr Vynnychenko, "Disharmony and Other Plays" (CIUS Press, 2020)
52 mins; August 13, 2021
Jonathan Haslam, "The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II" (Princeton UP, 2021)
63 hours 46 mins; August 12, 2021
Eliza Ablovatski, "Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe: The Deluge of 1919" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
60 hours 8 mins; August 11, 2021
Ian Ona Johnson, "Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
53 mins; August 10, 2021
John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, "The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
75 hours 49 mins; August 06, 2021
Bagila Bukharbayeva, "The Vanishing Generation: Revolution, Religion, and Disappearance in Modern Uzbekistan" (Indiana UP, 2019)
68 hours 27 mins; August 02, 2021
Chris Miller, "We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin" (Harvard UP, 2021)
45 mins; July 29, 2021
Alison K. Smith, "Cabbage and Caviar: A History of Food in Russia" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
60 hours 56 mins; July 27, 2021
Andrew Jenks, "Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth" (Anthem Press, 2021)
55 mins; July 21, 2021
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; July 16, 2021
Russell E. Martin, "The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495-1745" (Northern Illinois UP, 2021)
61 hours 49 mins; July 15, 2021
Timothy Frye, "Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia" (Princeton UP, 2021)
47 mins; July 13, 2021
Marta Dyczok, "Ukraine Calling: A Kaleidoscope from Hromadske Radio 2016-2019" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
55 mins; July 09, 2021
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
48 mins; July 08, 2021
Rossen Djagalov, "From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema Between the Second and the Third Worlds" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
80 hours 2 mins; July 06, 2021
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, "Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)
54 mins; July 06, 2021
L. Bordetsky-Williams, "Forget Russia: A Novel" (Tailwinds Press, 2020)
57 mins; July 02, 2021
Stephen V. Bittner, "Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar" (Oxford UP, 2021)
56 mins; July 01, 2021
Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
65 hours 21 mins; June 29, 2021
Sean McMeekin, "Stalin's War: A New History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2021)
75 hours 10 mins; June 23, 2021
Adeeb Khalid, "Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present" (Princeton UP, 2021)
69 hours 57 mins; June 21, 2021
Stephen M. Norris, "Museums of Communism: New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe" (Indiana UP, 2020)
64 hours 25 mins; June 18, 2021
Andrei P. Tsygankov, "Russia and America: The Asymmetric Rivalry" (Polity, 2019)
45 mins; June 14, 2021
Paul J. Contino, "Dostoevsky's Incarnational Realism: Finding Christ among the Karamazovs" (Cascade Books, 2020)
63 hours 18 mins; June 04, 2021
Andrei Znamenski, "Socialism As a Secular Creed" (Lexington Books, 2021)
68 hours 8 mins; June 03, 2021
Larry E. Holmes, "Revising the Revolution: The Unmaking of Russia's Official History of 1917" (Indiana UP, 2021)
56 mins; June 03, 2021
Kristy Ironside, "A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union" (Harvard UP, 2021)
55 mins; June 02, 2021
Georgiy Kasianov et al., "From 'the Ukraine' to Ukraine: A Contemporary History, 1991-2021" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
48 mins; May 27, 2021
Dina Fainberg, "Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
54 mins; May 25, 2021
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