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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies
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Beatrice de Graaf, "Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
52 mins; May 21, 2021
Faith Hillis, "Utopia's Discontents: Russian Emigres and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s" (Oxford UP, 2021)
55 mins; May 18, 2021
Hannah Barker, "That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
54 mins; May 12, 2021
Tetyana Lokot, "Beyond the Protest Square: Digital Media and Augmented Dissent" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)
56 mins; May 10, 2021
Amelia M. Glaser, "Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine" (Harvard UP, 2020)
58 mins; May 05, 2021
David Rainbow, "Ideologies of Race: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2019)
64 hours 32 mins; May 05, 2021
Clemena Antonova, "Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy: Pavel Florensky's Theory of the Icon" (Routledge, 2019)
62 hours 31 mins; May 05, 2021
Marko Dumancic, "Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
73 hours 33 mins; May 05, 2021
Rustamjon Urinboyev, "Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia," (U California Press, 2020)
59 mins; May 04, 2021
Stella Ghervas, "Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union" (Harvard UP, 2021)
55 mins; April 28, 2021
Carol Any, "The Soviet Writers' Union and Its Leaders: Identity and Authority Under Stalin" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
61 hours 36 mins; April 28, 2021
Serhiy Zhadan, "The Orphanage" (Yale UP, 2021)
53 mins; April 26, 2021
Janet Hartley, "The Volga: A History of Russia’s Greatest River” (Yale UP, 2021)
53 mins; April 26, 2021
Douglas M. O'Reagan, "Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
49 mins; April 23, 2021
Philip Cunliffe, "Lenin Lives!: Reimagining the Russian Revolution 1917-2017" (Zero Books, 2017)
57 mins; April 22, 2021
James White, "Unity in Faith?: Edinoverie, Russian Orthodoxy, and Old Belief, 1800-1918" (Indiana UP, 2020)
66 hours 47 mins; April 16, 2021
Oksana Kis, "Survival As Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag" (Harvard UP, 2021)
33 mins; April 14, 2021
Bruce Berglund, "The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of Sports" (U California Press, 2020)
76 hours 48 mins; April 14, 2021
Matthew Frear, "Belarus under Lukashenka: ï»żAdaptive Authoritarianism" ï»ż(Routledge, 2020)
38 mins; April 13, 2021
Anne Searcy, "Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange" (Oxford UP, 2020)
65 hours 57 mins; April 09, 2021
SiobhĂĄn Hearne, "Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia" (Oxford UP, 2021)
57 mins; April 07, 2021
Arthur Koestler, "Darkness at Noon" (Scribner, 2019)
47 mins; April 05, 2021
Janet M. Hartley, "The Volga: A History" (Yale UP, 2021)
39 mins; March 25, 2021
Karl Schlögel, "The Scent of Empire: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow" (Polity, 2021)
60 hours 57 mins; March 24, 2021
Simon Wickhamsmith, "Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948)" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
131 hours 52 mins; March 24, 2021
Krista Goff, "Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Caucasus" (Cornell UP, 2021)
58 mins; March 24, 2021
Olga V. Solovieva and Sho Konishi, "Japan's Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm" (Cambria, 2021)
53 mins; March 18, 2021
Trevor Erlacher, "Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov" (Harvard UP, 2021)
56 mins; March 15, 2021
Amanda Brickell Bellows, "American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination" (UNC Press, 2020)
31 mins; March 10, 2021
Pey-Yi Chu, "The Life of Permafrost: A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
53 mins; March 09, 2021
Ethan Pollock, "Without the Banya We Would Perish" (Oxford UP, 2019)
68 hours 35 mins; March 03, 2021
Alexander Morrison, "The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
81 hours 41 mins; March 02, 2021
Rachel Applebaum, "Empire of Friendsï»ż: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia" (ï»żCornell UP, 2019)
80 hours 18 mins; February 23, 2021
Anne Eakin Moss, "Only Among Women, "Philosophies of Community in the Russian and Soviet Imagination, 1860–1940" (Northwestern UP, 2019)
47 mins; February 22, 2021
Roger R. Reese, "The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917" (U Kansas Press, 2019)
62 hours 8 mins; February 22, 2021
William C. Brumfield, "Journeys through the Russian Empire: The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky" (Duke UP, 2020)
63 hours 17 mins; February 15, 2021
Katherine Zubovich, "Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital" (Princeton UP, 2020)
51 mins; February 10, 2021
Nina Jankowicz, "How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
60 hours 32 mins; February 10, 2021
Fabrizio Fenghi, "It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
60 hours 48 mins; February 10, 2021
Khatchig Mouradian, "The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918" (MSU Press, 2020)
56 mins; February 09, 2021
Gennady Estraikh, "Transatlantic Russian Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century" (ASP, 2020)
63 hours 58 mins; February 04, 2021
Bill Sewell, "Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun, 1905-45" (UBC Press, 2019)
48 mins; January 25, 2021
Kathryn Ciancia, "On Civilization's Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
60 hours 10 mins; January 22, 2021
David Nasaw, "The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War" (Penguin, 2020)
55 mins; January 19, 2021
F. B. Chang and S. T. Rucker-Chang, "Roma Rights and Civil Rights: A Transatlantic Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
55 mins; January 18, 2021
Serhy Yekelchyk, "Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford UP, 2020)
69 hours 36 mins; January 12, 2021
Olena Palko, "Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
55 mins; January 08, 2021
Myroslav Shkandrij, "Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930: Contested Memory" (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
45 mins; December 30, 2020
Stanley J. Rabinowitz, "And Then Came Dance: The Women Who Led Volynsky to Ballet's Magic Kingdom" (Oxford UP, 2019)
82 hours 36 mins; December 18, 2020
Keith A. Livers, "Conspiracy Culture: Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
57 mins; December 02, 2020
Tatiana Zhurzhenko, "War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
45 mins; November 19, 2020
Aubrey Menard, "Young Mongols: Forging Democracy in the Wild, Wild East" (PRH SEA, 2020)
43 mins; November 19, 2020
M. WodziƄski and W. Spallek, "Historical Atlas of Hasidism" (Princeton UP, 2018)
44 mins; November 18, 2020
Vadim Shneyder, "Russia's Capitalist Realism: Narrative Form and History in Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov" (Northwestern UP. 2020)
40 mins; November 16, 2020
Julius Margolin, "Journey Into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag" (Oxford UP, 2020)
61 hours 26 mins; November 12, 2020
Ronald Grigor Suny, "Stalin: Passage to Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2020)
59 mins; November 11, 2020
Erica Marat, "The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries" (Oxford UP, 2018)
43 mins; November 05, 2020
Y. Gorlizki and O. Khlevniuk, "Substate Dictatorship Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union" (Yale UP, 2020)
57 mins; November 02, 2020
Jonathan Schneer, "The Lockhart Plot: Love Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia" (Oxford UP, 2020)
55 mins; October 30, 2020
Alexey Golubev, "The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia" (Cornell UP, 2020)
59 mins; October 20, 2020
H. Shelest and M. Rabinovych, "Decentralization, Regional Diversity, and Conflict: The Case of Ukraine" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
54 mins; October 19, 2020
A. Wylegala and M. Glowacka-Grajper, "The Burden of the Past: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine" (Indiana UP, 2020)
63 hours 6 mins; October 16, 2020
Jessica Zychowicz, "Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
54 mins; October 16, 2020
Brandon M. Schechter, "The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects" (Cornell UP, 2019)
58 mins; October 06, 2020
Jennifer J. Carroll, "Narkomania: Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine" (Cornell UP, 2019)
56 mins; October 06, 2020
David R. Marples, "Understanding Ukraine and Belarus: A Memoir" (E-International Relations, 2020)
58 mins; October 02, 2020
John Connelly, "From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)
56 mins; September 30, 2020
Sören Urbansky, "Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border" (Princeton UP, 2020)
73 hours 7 mins; September 08, 2020
Joanna Stingray, "Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground" (Doppelhouse Press, 2020)
60 hours 18 mins; September 04, 2020
James C. Pearce, "The Use of History in Putin's Russia" (Vernon Press, 2020)
35 mins; September 03, 2020
Marco Puleri, "Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian: Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics" (Peter Lang, 2020)
55 mins; September 02, 2020
Stephen Riegg, "Russia’s Entangled Embrace: The Tsarist Empire and the Armenians, 1801-1914" (Cornell UP, 2020)
57 mins; August 28, 2020
Adam Teller, "Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the 17th Century" (Princeton UP, 2020)
75 hours 10 mins; August 25, 2020
Matthew Romaniello, "Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
60 hours 50 mins; August 24, 2020
David Moon, "The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s-1930s" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
57 mins; August 21, 2020
Natan M. Meir, "Stepchildren of the Shtetl" (Stanford UP, 2020)
56 mins; August 19, 2020
Will Smiley, "From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire, Russia, and International Law" (Oxford UP, 2018)
69 hours 43 mins; August 18, 2020
Madina Tlostanova, "What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire" (Duke UP, 2018)
58 mins; August 14, 2020
Sonya Bilocerkowycz, "On Our Way Home from the Revolution: Reflections on Ukraine" (Mad Creek Books, 2019)
37 mins; August 10, 2020
Nathan Spannaus, "Preserving Islamic Tradition: Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
53 mins; August 05, 2020
Iraj Bashiri, "The History of the Civil War in Tajikistan" (Lexington Books, 2016)
48 mins; July 24, 2020
Roger Moorhouse, "Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II" (Basic Books, 2020)
45 mins; July 22, 2020
Diana T. Kudaibergenova, "Toward Nationalizing Regimes: Conceptualizing Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
54 mins; July 21, 2020
Gregory Afinogenov, "Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power" (Harvard UP, 2020)
62 hours 16 mins; July 20, 2020
Scott Levi, "The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th-Century Central Asia" (U Pittsburgh, 2020)
72 hours 10 mins; July 15, 2020
Francine Hirsch, "Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg" (Oxford UP, 2020)
84 hours 55 mins; July 09, 2020
David Shimer, "Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference" (Knopf, 2020)
55 mins; July 06, 2020
Archie Brown, "The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War" (Oxford UP, 2020)
52 mins; July 01, 2020
Mark Vincent, "Criminal Subculture in the Gulag" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
49 mins; June 30, 2020
Catherine Belton, "Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West" (FSG, 2020)
37 mins; June 23, 2020
Laura A. Dean, "Diffusing Human Trafficking Policy in Eurasia" (Policy Press, 2020)
63 hours 48 mins; June 23, 2020
Julia Obertreis, "Imperial Desert Dreams: Cotton Growing and Irrigation in Central Asia, 1860-1991" (V and R Unipress, 2017)
43 mins; June 23, 2020
Paul D’Anieri, "Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
49 mins; June 17, 2020
Why Did the Allies Win World War One?
37 mins; June 11, 2020
Martina Cvajner, "Soviet Signoras: Personal and Collective Transformations in Eastern European Migration" (U Chicago, 2019)
50 mins; June 09, 2020
Alexander Gendler, "Khurbm 1914-1922: Prelude to the Holocaust" (Varda Books, 2019)
69 hours 56 mins; June 08, 2020
Stanislav Kulchytsky, "The Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: An Anatomy of the Holodomor" (CIUS Press, 2018)
96 hours 44 mins; June 05, 2020
Eric Lee, "The Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April–May 1945" (Greenhill Books, 2020)
53 mins; June 02, 2020
Roxann Prazniak, "Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art" (U Hawaii Press 2019)
64 hours 19 mins; June 02, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
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