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Jonathan Blackwood and Jasmina Tumbas, "Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space" (Routledge, 2025)
80 hours 49 mins; March 24, 2026
The Jews in Poland-Lithuania and Russia: 1350 to the Present Day
69 hours 21 mins; March 23, 2026
Andrew I. Port, "Germany" (Polity, 2025)
74 hours 6 mins; March 22, 2026
The Vilna Gaon and the Making of Modern Judaism
62 hours 20 mins; March 22, 2026
Gudrun Persson, "Russian Military Thought: The Evolution of Strategy Since the Crimean War" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
82 hours 13 mins; March 15, 2026
Populism, Polarization and Politics: Hungary on the Eve of Elections
68 hours 37 mins; March 10, 2026
The Shtetl: Myth and Reality with Samuel Kassow
68 hours 45 mins; February 27, 2026
Mark D. Steinberg, "Moral Storytelling in 1920s New York, Odessa, and Bombay: Sex, Crime, Violence, and Nightlife in the Modern City" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
63 hours 55 mins; February 21, 2026
Jeremy Black, "The Short History of Russia: Returning to Another Country" (Amberley, 2026)
56 mins; February 21, 2026
Shelley Puhak, "The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
52 mins; February 17, 2026
Alexis Lerner, "Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
46 mins; February 16, 2026
Colleen M. Moore, "The Peasants' War: Russia's Home Front in the First World War and the End of the Autocracy" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
55 mins; February 14, 2026
Claire Morelon, "Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague, 1914–1920" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
42 mins; February 13, 2026
Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
50 mins; February 07, 2026
Andrew Monaghan, "Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War" (Manchester UP, 2025)
101 hours 9 mins; February 03, 2026
Mark Harrison, "Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism" (Stanford UP, 2023)
63 hours 18 mins; January 31, 2026
Jovana Babović, "The Youngest Yugoslavs: An Oral History of Post-Socialist Memory" (Indiana UP, 2025)
45 mins; January 30, 2026
All You Need to Know about Russian Politics Today
49 mins; January 30, 2026
Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach, "A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe" (Princeton UP, 2025)
60 hours 11 mins; January 29, 2026
Anna Reid, "A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution" (Basic Books, 2024)
53 mins; January 24, 2026
Duncan Kelly, "Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
85 hours 30 mins; January 19, 2026
Clare Griffin, "Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
49 mins; January 11, 2026
Bruce Berglund, "The Moscow Playbook: How Russia Used, Abused, and Transformed Sports in the Hunt for Power" (Triumph Books, 2026)
63 hours 25 mins; January 10, 2026
Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)
71 hours 59 mins; December 30, 2025
Lisa Silverman, "The Postwar Antisemite: Culture and Complicity After the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2025)
69 hours 29 mins; December 28, 2025
Filip Kovacevic, "KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
51 mins; December 25, 2025
Alexandra Ghiț, "Welfare Work Without Welfare: ï»żï»żWomen and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest" (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)
44 mins; December 18, 2025
Lucy Jeffery and Anna VĂĄradi, "Replaying Communism: Trauma and Nostalgia in European Cultural Production" (CEU Press, 2025)
59 mins; December 17, 2025
Maja Davidović, "Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
54 mins; December 05, 2025
Jacob Daniels, "The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders" (Stanford UP, 2025)
81 hours 19 mins; December 03, 2025
Jochen Hellbeck, "World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews" (Penguin Group, 2025)
87 hours 51 mins; November 24, 2025
Marek Kohn, "The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey Through Cities at the Heart of Europe" (Yale UP, 2023)
59 mins; November 24, 2025
Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, "Videotape" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
44 mins; November 22, 2025
Carol Lilly, "Death and Burial in Socialist Yugoslavia: The Politicization of Cemeteries and Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans" (Bloomsbury, 2024).
57 mins; November 21, 2025
Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov, "Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
62 hours 34 mins; November 18, 2025
Susanna Rabow-Edling, "The First Russian Revolution: The Decembrist Revolt Of 1825" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
51 mins; November 16, 2025
Eric Halsey, "State Builders from the Steppe: A History of The First Bulgarian Empire" (This is RETHINK, 2025)
45 mins; November 13, 2025
Eric Lee, "The August Uprising, 1924: The Georgian Anti-Soviet Revolt and the Birth of Democratic Socialism" (McFarland, 2025)
72 hours 39 mins; November 11, 2025
Georgios Giannakopoulos, "The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe, 1870-1930" (Manchester UP, 2025)
38 mins; November 06, 2025
Elizabeth R. Hyman, "The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising" (Harper, 2025)
40 mins; November 03, 2025
Shaul Kelner, "A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized To Free Soviet Jews" (NYU Press, 2025)
36 mins; November 02, 2025
Cynthia Paces, "Prague: The Heart of Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)
46 mins; November 02, 2025
Elissa Bemporad, "Jews in the Soviet Union: A History: ï»żï»żRevolution, Civil War, and New Ways of Life, 1917–1930, Vol. 1" (NYU Press, 2025)
57 mins; October 30, 2025
Adair Rounthwaite, "This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
61 hours 44 mins; October 29, 2025
Paula Oppermann, "Thunder Cross: Fascist Antisemitism in Twentieth-Century Latvia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
64 hours 54 mins; October 29, 2025
Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland
55 mins; October 28, 2025
Democratic Dialogues: Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries
42 mins; October 28, 2025
Mark Mazower, "On Antisemitism: A Word in History" (Penguin Press, 2025)
45 mins; October 26, 2025
Cristina Plamadeala, "Dossierveillance, Collaboration, and Fear in Society: The Saga of a Journey Through the Securitate Archives and Beyond" (Routledge, 2025)
29 mins; October 22, 2025
Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Doctor" (Zantedeschi Books, 2019)
60 hours 44 mins; October 20, 2025
Martyn Whittock, "Vikings in the East: From Vladimir the Great to Vladimir Putin – The Origins of a Contested Legacy in Russia and Ukraine" (Biteback, 2025)
63 hours 8 mins; October 19, 2025
Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko "In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos" (MIT Press, 2023)
59 mins; October 15, 2025
Nicolae Steinhardt, "The Journal of Joy" (SVS Press, 2025)
94 hours 50 mins; October 09, 2025
Andrew Lambert, "No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One" (Yale UP, 2025)
53 mins; October 07, 2025
EmĂ­lia Barna, "Working in Music on the Semi-Periphery: Local Cultural Production and Global Capitalism" (CEU Press, 2025)
45 mins; October 03, 2025
Branka Bogdan, "The New Yugoslav Woman: Reproductive Regulation in Socialist Yugoslavia" (Indiana UP, 2025)
50 mins; September 30, 2025
Paris Papamichos Chronakis, "The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule" (Stanford UP, 2024)
71 hours 50 mins; September 25, 2025
Tanja Petrovic, "Utopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People's Army" (Duke UP, 2024)
43 mins; September 21, 2025
Bradley A. Gorski, "Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market After Socialism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2025)
61 hours 25 mins; September 19, 2025
Dani Belo, "Russian Warfare in the 21st Century" (Routledge, 2025)
63 hours 32 mins; September 17, 2025
Alex R. Tipei, "Unintended Nations: How French Liberals' Empire of Civilization Remade Southeast Europe and the Post-Napoleonic World" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
61 hours 55 mins; September 15, 2025
Huseyn Aliyev, "Who Fights for Governments? Paramilitary Mobilization in Ukraine and Beyond" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)
107 hours 50 mins; September 13, 2025
Vera Michlin-Shapir, "Fluid Russia: Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era" (Cornell UP, 2021)
54 mins; September 12, 2025
Chelsi West Ohueri, "Encountering Race in Albania: An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife" (Cornell UP, 2025)
51 mins; September 11, 2025
Jovana Diković, "The Laissez-Faire Peasant: Post-Socialist Rural Development in Serbia" (UCL Press, 2025)
55 mins; September 10, 2025
Thomas Graham, "Getting Russia Right" (Polity Press, 2023)
59 mins; September 10, 2025
Cynthia Paces, "Prague: The Heart of Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)
100 hours 9 mins; September 08, 2025
Stanley Bill and Ben Stanley, "Good Change: The Rise and Fall of Poland's Illiberal Revolution" (Stanford UP, 2025)
39 mins; September 08, 2025
Tia Sahrakorpi on a Use-Based History of Electricity in Finland
80 hours 25 mins; September 01, 2025
Thane Gustafson, "Perfect Storm: Russia's Failed Economic Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain Future" (Oxford UP, 2025)
62 hours 18 mins; August 29, 2025
Elizabeth White, "A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
76 hours 29 mins; August 29, 2025
Stanislav Kulchytsky, "The Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: An Anatomy of the Holodomor" (CIUS Press, 2018) - A Conversation with Bohdan Klid
68 hours 29 mins; August 27, 2025
Jonathan Daly and Leonid Trofimov, "The Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact: A Short History with Documents" (Hackett Publishing, 2017)
63 hours 50 mins; August 26, 2025
Nicholas Birman Trickett, "Empire of Austerity: Russia and the Breaking of Eurasia" (Hurst, 2025)
42 mins; August 25, 2025
Stephan Kieninger, "Securing Peace in Europe: Strobe Talbott, NATO, and Russia After the Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2025)
40 mins; August 24, 2025
Konrad H. Jarausch, "Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative" (Princeton UP, 2021)
31 mins; August 23, 2025
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2025)
64 hours 46 mins; August 19, 2025
José Vergara, "All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature" (Cornell UP, 2021)
56 mins; August 17, 2025
Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, "Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944–48" (Cambridge UP, 2014)
85 hours 22 mins; August 16, 2025
Inna Faliks, "Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage" (Backbeat Books, 2023)
45 mins; August 15, 2025
Enrique Dussel, "The Theological Metaphors of Marx" (Duke UP, 2024)–A Conversation with Camilo PĂ©rez-Bustillo and Eduardo Mendieta
55 mins; August 15, 2025
Michael Jabara Carley, "Stalin's Great Game: War and Neutrality, 1939-1941" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
89 hours 19 mins; August 13, 2025
JirĂ­ Anger, "Towards a Film Theory from Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
61 hours 34 mins; August 12, 2025
Karin Roginer Hofmeister, "Remembering Suffering and Resistance: Memory Politics and the Serbian Orthodox Church" (CEU Press, 2024)
65 hours 53 mins; August 10, 2025
Alexander Mikaberidze, "Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2022)
71 hours 47 mins; August 06, 2025
Craig W. H. Luther, "Guderian's Panzers: From Triumph to Defeat on the Eastern Front (1941)" (Stackpole Books, 2025)
63 hours 14 mins; August 05, 2025
Tricia Starks, "Smoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia" (Cornell UP, 2018)
60 hours 9 mins; August 03, 2025
Y. Kokosalakis and F. J. Leira-Castiñeira, "Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars" (Routledge, 2025)
54 mins; August 02, 2025
Richard W. Harrison, "The Soviet Army's High Commands in War and Peace, 1941–1992" (Casemate Academic, 2022)
106 hours 21 mins; July 28, 2025
John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak" (Northern Illinois UP, 2018)
68 hours 36 mins; July 27, 2025
Regina Kazyulina, "Women Under Suspicion: Fraternization, Espionage, and Punishment in the Soviet Union During World War II" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
49 mins; July 23, 2025
Joseph Kellner, "The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse" (Cornell UP, 2025)
60 hours 22 mins; July 21, 2025
Scott Harrison et al., "Socialist Subjectivities: Queering East Germany under Honecker" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
78 hours 4 mins; July 21, 2025
Darius Von Guttner-Sporzynski, "The Jagiellon Dynasty, 1386-1596: Politics, Culture, Diplomacy" (Brepols, 2024)
49 mins; July 21, 2025
Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, "Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe" (Indiana UP, 2018)
42 mins; July 20, 2025
Sean McMeekin, "Stalin's War: A New History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2021)
76 hours 10 mins; July 20, 2025
Volha Bartash, Tomasz Kamusella, and Viktor Shapoval eds., "Papusza/Bronislawa Wajs. Tears of Blood: A Poet's Witness Account of the Nazi Genocide of Roma" (Brill, 2024)
69 hours 20 mins; July 16, 2025
Juliane FĂŒrst, "Flowers Through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland" (Oxford UP, 2021)
81 hours 23 mins; July 13, 2025
Phil Tiemeyer, "Women and the Jet Age: A Global History of Aviation and Flight Attendants" (Cornell UP, 2025)
55 mins; July 11, 2025
Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom
55 mins; July 10, 2025
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