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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies
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Andrei Kushnir, "Epic Journey: Life and Times of Wasyl Kushnir" (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
48 mins; June 01, 2020
Alexander Bukh, "These Islands Are Ours" (Stanford UP, 2020)
77 hours 32 mins; May 28, 2020
Coryne Hall, "Queen Victoria and the Romanovs: 60 Years of Mutual Distrust" (Amberley, 2020)
41 mins; May 27, 2020
Iva Glisic, "The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930" (NIU Press, 2018)
62 hours 53 mins; May 21, 2020
Anne Lounsbery, "Life is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces" (Cornell UP, 2019)
71 hours 6 mins; May 18, 2020
Brendan McGeever, "Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
49 mins; May 15, 2020
Tatiana Linkhoeva, "Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism" (Cornell UP, 2020)
63 hours 12 mins; May 14, 2020
Andrew Monaghan, "Dealing with the Russians" (Polity, 2019)
38 mins; May 13, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
Danielle Ross, "Tatar Empire: Kazan's Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia" (Indiana UP, 2020)
71 hours 33 mins; April 27, 2020
Karl Qualls, "Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-1951" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
60 hours 0 mins; April 17, 2020
Maya K. Peterson, "Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
57 mins; April 16, 2020
Alexander Watson, "The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands" (Basic Books, 2020)
53 mins; April 06, 2020
Kevin O'Connor, "The House of Hemp and Butter: A History of Old Riga" (NIUP, 2019)
62 hours 33 mins; April 01, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
51 mins; March 30, 2020
David Stahel, "Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942" (FSG, 2019)
75 hours 15 mins; March 27, 2020
Shoshana Keller, "Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence" (U Toronto Press, 2019)
64 hours 30 mins; March 21, 2020
The Origins of World War One
67 hours 54 mins; March 12, 2020
Steve Vogel, "Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation" (Custom House, 2019)
61 hours 58 mins; March 11, 2020
Loretta E. Kim, "Ethnic Chrysalis: China’s Orochen People and the Legacy of Qing Borderland Administration" (Harvard Asia Center, 2019)
60 hours 48 mins; March 09, 2020
Darra Goldstein, "Beyond the North Wind: Russia in Recipes and Lore" (Random House, 2020)
49 mins; March 04, 2020
Aliide Naylor, "The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front" (I.B. Tauris, 2020)
53 mins; February 27, 2020
Richard Pomfret, "The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton UP, 2019)
57 mins; February 27, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
42 mins; February 25, 2020
Maria Taroutina, "The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival" (Penn State UP, 2018)
64 hours 7 mins; February 18, 2020
Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, "Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe" (Indiana UP, 2018)
42 mins; February 11, 2020
Abdullah Qodiriy, "Bygone Days" (Bowker, 2019)
64 hours 39 mins; February 06, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
36 mins; January 30, 2020
Mark Gamsa, “Manchuria: A Concise History” (Bloomsbury, 2020)
48 mins; January 29, 2020
Magnus Nordenman, "The New Battle for the Atlantic: Emerging Naval Competition with Russia in the Far North" (Naval Institute Press, 2019)
42 mins; January 17, 2020
Alyssa M. Park, “Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945" (Cornell UP, 2019)
65 hours 17 mins; January 13, 2020
Sarah Wobick-Segev, "Homes Away from Home: Jewish Belonging in 20th-Century Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg" (Stanford UP, 2018)
71 hours 34 mins; January 09, 2020
"The Nazarbayev Generation "looks at the younger generations of Kazakhstan that have come of age during the post-Soviet presidency of Nursultan Nazarbayev
52 mins; January 09, 2020
Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon, "Night and Day: A Novel" (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
44 mins; January 03, 2020
Adele Lindenmeyr, "Citizen Countess: Sofia Panina and the Fate of Revolutionary Russia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
45 mins; December 31, 2019
The Treaty of Versailles One Hundred Years On
39 mins; December 27, 2019
Jennifer Utrata, "Women without Men: Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia" (Cornell UP, 2015)
56 mins; December 27, 2019
Paul Robinson, "Russian Conservatism" (Cornell UP, 2019)
60 hours 45 mins; December 24, 2019
Beth Fischer, "The Myth of Triumphalism: Rethinking President Reagan's Cold War Legacy" (UP of Kentucky, 2019)
43 mins; December 23, 2019
Alison Rowley, "Putin Kitsch in America" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2019)
69 hours 10 mins; December 12, 2019
Katya Cengel, "From Chernobyl with Love" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
57 mins; December 11, 2019
Roberto Carmack, "Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
54 mins; December 06, 2019
Oleksandra Humenna, "Ukraine 2030: The Doctrine of Sustainable Development" (ADEF-Ukraine, 2018)
35 mins; December 04, 2019
Lesley Chamberlain, "Ministry of Darkness: How Sergei Uvarov Created Conservative Modern Russia" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
48 mins; December 03, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
57 mins; December 03, 2019
Roland Elliott Brown, "Godless Utopia: Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda" (FUEL, 2019)
46 mins; November 26, 2019
Olga Zilberbourg, "Like Water and Other Stories" (WTAW Press, 2019)
54 mins; November 25, 2019
David Brandenberger, "Stalin's Master Narrative" (Yale UP, 2019)
63 hours 15 mins; November 22, 2019
Charles Halperin, "Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
62 hours 23 mins; November 21, 2019
Serhii Plokhy, "Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front" (Oxford UP, 2019)
58 mins; November 20, 2019
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, "The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great" (Liverpool UP, 2019)
58 mins; November 20, 2019
Michael Khodarkovsky, "Russia's 20th Century: A Journey in 100 Histories" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
71 hours 5 mins; November 18, 2019
Iain MacGregor, "Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth" (Scribner, 2019)
71 hours 20 mins; November 08, 2019
Sara Lorenzini, "Global Development: A Cold War History" (Princeton UP, 2019)
51 mins; November 07, 2019
Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Stuck on Communism: Memoir of a Russian Historian" (Northern Illinois UP, 2019)
61 hours 19 mins; November 06, 2019
Donald Ostrowski, "Europe, Byzantium, and the 'Intellectual Silence' of Rus’ Culture" (Arc Humanities Press, 2018)
79 hours 20 mins; November 06, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
37 mins; November 03, 2019
Tamara Hundorova, "The Post-Chornobyl Library: Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s" (ASP, 2019)
48 mins; October 29, 2019
Michael Mandelbaum, "The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth" (Oxford UP, 2019)
55 mins; October 24, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
32 mins; October 24, 2019
Joanna Lillis, "Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan" (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
58 mins; October 23, 2019
Larry Diamond, "Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency" (Penguin, 2019)
40 mins; October 21, 2019
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, "No Path Home: Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement" (Cornell UP, 2018)
39 mins; October 08, 2019
Yan Li, “China’s Soviet Dream: Propaganda, Culture, and Popular Imagination" (Routledge, 2018)
63 hours 46 mins; September 27, 2019
Anastasia Denisova, "Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts" (Routledge, 2019)
34 mins; September 20, 2019
Aaron Hale-Dorrell, "Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union" (Oxford UP, 2018)
77 hours 41 mins; September 11, 2019
Bathsheba Demuth, "Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait" (W. W. Norton, 2019)
54 mins; September 10, 2019
Rico Issacs, "Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia" (I.B. Tauris, 2018)
56 mins; September 09, 2019
Keir Giles, "Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West" (Chatham House, 2019)
31 mins; September 03, 2019
Mariëlle Wijermars, "Memory Politics in Contemporary Russia: Television, Cinema, and the State" (Routledge, 2018)
59 mins; August 29, 2019
Larry Holmes, "War, Evacuation, and the Exercise of Power: The Center, Periphery, and Kirov’s Pedagogical Institute, 1941–1952" (Lexington Books, 2012)
52 mins; August 05, 2019
A. Lakhtikova, A. Brintlinger, and I. Glushchenko, "Seasoned Socialism: Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life" (Indiana UP, 2019)
62 hours 33 mins; August 01, 2019
Jeff Sahadeo, "Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow" (Cornell UP, 2019)
54 mins; July 31, 2019
Vanessa Heggie, "Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
37 mins; July 26, 2019
Betsy Perabo, "Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-Japanese War" (Bloomsbury, 2017)
49 mins; July 18, 2019
C. W. Gortner, "The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna" (Ballentine Books, 2018)
70 hours 11 mins; July 16, 2019
Jeremy Friedman, "Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World" (UNC Press, 2018)
61 hours 47 mins; July 12, 2019
Sophia Shalmiyev, "Mother Winter: A Memoir" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
37 mins; July 10, 2019
Sergei Zhuk, "Soviet Americana: The Cultural History of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists" (I.B. Tauris, 2018)
78 hours 5 mins; July 09, 2019
Caroline Boggis-Rolfe, "The Baltic Story: A Thousand Year History of Its Lands, Sea, and Peoples" (Amberley, 2019)
54 mins; July 08, 2019
Adrienne Celt, "Invitation to a Bonfire" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
40 mins; July 05, 2019
Petra Goedde, "The Politics of Peace: A Global Cold War History" (Oxford UP, 2019)
55 mins; July 05, 2019
Kristen Ghodsee, "Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism" (Duke UP, 2017)
75 hours 52 mins; June 27, 2019
Botakoz Kassymbekova, "Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
62 hours 38 mins; June 26, 2019
Kristen R. Ghodsee, "Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War" (Duke UP, 2019)
70 hours 29 mins; June 20, 2019
Eleonory Gilburd, "To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture" (Harvard UP, 2018)
87 hours 11 mins; June 19, 2019
Vahram Ter-Matevosyan, "Turkey, Kemalism and the Soviet Union: Problems of Modernization, Ideology and Interpretation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
36 mins; June 13, 2019
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace" (Harper, 2018)
64 hours 31 mins; June 13, 2019
Mark Galeotti, “The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia” (Yale UP, 2018)
73 hours 48 mins; June 10, 2019
Cathal J. Nolan, "The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost" (Oxford UP, 2019)
77 hours 10 mins; June 06, 2019
John Etty, "Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil’s Political Cartoons" (UP of Mississippi, 2019)
44 mins; May 30, 2019
Timothy A. Sayle, "Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order" (Cornell UP, 2019)
53 mins; May 28, 2019
John J. Curley, "Global Art and the Cold War" (Laurence King Publishers, 2019)
53 mins; May 27, 2019
Jeremy Black, "The World at War, 1914-1945" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
51 mins; May 22, 2019
Houri Berberian, "Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian and Ottoman Worlds" (U California Press, 2019)
56 mins; May 07, 2019
Nikolai Krementsov, "With and Without Galton: Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia" (Open Book Publishers, 2018)
82 hours 19 mins; May 02, 2019
Henning Pieper, "Fegelein’s Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare: The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
56 mins; April 30, 2019
Kate Brown, "Manuel for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future" (Norton, 2019)
44 mins; April 19, 2019
Eliot Borenstein, "Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism" (Cornell UP, 2019)
52 mins; April 16, 2019
Federico Varese, "Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories" (Princeton UP, 2011)
39 mins; April 12, 2019
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