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New Books in Eastern European Studies
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Hannah Barker, "That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
55 mins; May 12, 2021
Christine M. Philliou, "Turkey: A Past Against History" (U California Press, 2021)
66 hours 21 mins; May 12, 2021
Erik Jones, "European Studies: Past, Present, and Future" (Agenda, 2020)
44 mins; May 07, 2021
Ora Szekely, et al., "Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars" (Georgetown UP, 2019)
43 mins; May 07, 2021
Amelia M. Glaser, "Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine" (Harvard UP, 2020)
59 mins; May 05, 2021
David Rainbow, "Ideologies of Race: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2019)
65 hours 32 mins; May 05, 2021
Marko Dumancic, "Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
74 hours 33 mins; May 05, 2021
Oksana Rosenblum et al., "Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul: Mykola (Nik) Bazhan’s Early Experimental Poetry" (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
60 hours 19 mins; May 05, 2021
Svenja Bethke, "Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
57 mins; April 30, 2021
Stella Ghervas, "Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union" (Harvard UP, 2021)
56 mins; April 28, 2021
Erik Grimmer-Solem, "Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
72 hours 50 mins; April 28, 2021
Ritchie Robertson, "The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790" (Harper, 2021)
40 mins; April 27, 2021
Serhiy Zhadan, "The Orphanage" (Yale UP, 2021)
54 mins; April 26, 2021
David Hosaflook (trans.), "The Siege of Shkodra: Albania's Courageous Stand Against Ottoman Conquest, 1478" (2017)
59 mins; April 15, 2021
Bruce Berglund, "The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of Sports" (U California Press, 2020)
80 hours 33 mins; April 14, 2021
Oksana Kis, "Survival As Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag" (Harvard UP, 2021)
34 mins; April 14, 2021
Matthew Frear, "Belarus under Lukashenka: Adaptive Authoritarianism" (Routledge, 2020)
42 mins; April 13, 2021
Mark A. Waddell, "Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
67 hours 29 mins; April 09, 2021
Sasha Roseneil, "The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm: Intimate Citizenship Regimes in a Changing Europe." (UCL Press, 2020)
52 mins; April 07, 2021
Siobhán Hearne, "Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia" (Oxford UP, 2021)
58 mins; April 07, 2021
Arthur Koestler, "Darkness at Noon" (Scribner, 2019)
50 mins; April 05, 2021
Victoria Shmidt and Bernadette N. Jaworsky, "Historicizing Roma in Central Europe: Between Critical Whiteness and Epistemic Injustice" (Routledge 2021).
58 mins; March 31, 2021
Roundtable on Medieval Conspiracy Theories
67 hours 3 mins; March 31, 2021
Agnieszka Kościańska, "Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland" (Indiana UP, 2021)
72 hours 49 mins; March 31, 2021
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, "The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics, and Community" (Edinburgh UP)
75 hours 13 mins; March 30, 2021
Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay, "Sovereignty Suspended: Political Life in a So-Called State" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
59 mins; March 26, 2021
Karl Schlögel, "The Scent of Empire: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow" (Polity, 2021)
61 hours 57 mins; March 24, 2021
Christian A. Nielsen, "Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations: The History and Legacy of Tito’s Campaign Against the Emigrés" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
81 hours 48 mins; March 23, 2021
Jeffrey Shandler, "Yiddish: Biography of a Language" (Oxford UP, 2020)
64 hours 10 mins; March 22, 2021
R. Chris Davis, "Hungarian Religion, Romanian Blood: A Minority's Struggle for National Belonging, 1920–1945" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
57 mins; March 22, 2021
Oya Dursun-Özkanca, "Turkey–West Relations: The Politics of Intra-alliance Opposition" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
60 hours 35 mins; March 22, 2021
Marina Zaloznaya, "The Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Transitional Eastern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
51 mins; March 18, 2021
Alexander Maxwell, "Everyday Nationalism in Hungary: 1789-1867" (De Gruyter, 2019)
57 mins; March 17, 2021
Trevor Erlacher, "Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov" (Harvard UP, 2021)
56 mins; March 15, 2021
Peter Hudis, ed., "The Letters Of Rosa Luxemburg" (Verso, 2013)
57 mins; March 09, 2021
Erik S. Herron, "Normalizing Corruption: Failures of Accountability in Ukraine" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
54 mins; March 05, 2021
David Stavrou, "Zion: The Israeli Diaspora in Europe" (Pardes, 2019)
61 hours 59 mins; March 02, 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
Naomi Seidman, "Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition" (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2019)
59 mins; February 19, 2021
Łukasz Stanek, "Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2020)
44 mins; February 11, 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
Katherine Zubovich, "Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital" (Princeton UP, 2020)
51 mins; February 10, 2021
András Körösényi, "The Orbán Regime: Plebiscitary Leader Democracy in the Making" (Routledge, 2020)
45 mins; February 03, 2021
Andrea Bohlman, "Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland" (Oxford UP, 2020)
63 hours 30 mins; January 26, 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)
57 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
Carol Rittner and John K. Roth, "Advancing Holocaust Studies" (Routledge, 2020)
71 hours 31 mins; January 14, 2021
Gábor Scheiring, "The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary" (Palgrave, 2020)
54 mins; January 14, 2021
Serhy Yekelchyk, "Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford UP, 2020)
72 hours 21 mins; January 12, 2021
Olena Palko, "Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
55 mins; January 08, 2021
Leslie Waters, "Borders on the Move: Territorial Change and Forced Migration in the Hungarian-Slovak Borderlands, 1938-1948" (U Rochester Press, 2020)
57 mins; December 31, 2020
Anna Hájková, "The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt" (Oxford UP, 2020)
56 mins; December 30, 2020
Myroslav Shkandrij, "Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930: Contested Memory" (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
48 mins; December 30, 2020
Adam Fabry, "The Political Economy of Hungary: From State Capitalism to Authoritarian Neoliberalism" (Palgrave, 2019)
57 mins; December 28, 2020
David Henig, "Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
57 mins; December 18, 2020
Mark Cornwall, "Sarajevo 1914: Sparking the First World War" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
42 mins; December 17, 2020
Kiran Klaus Patel, "Project Europe: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
41 mins; December 15, 2020
Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages: A Discussion with Roland Betancourt
68 hours 5 mins; December 15, 2020
Konstantina Zanou, "Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation" (Oxford UP, 2019)
57 mins; December 14, 2020
A. Achilli and S. Yekelchyk, "Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn" (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
60 hours 10 mins; December 03, 2020
Dominique Kirchner Reill, "The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire" (Harvard UP, 2020)
59 mins; December 02, 2020
Andrea Pető, "The Women of the Arrow Cross Party: Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
57 mins; November 27, 2020
Cristina A. Bejan, "Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania: The Criterion Association" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
52 mins; November 23, 2020
Mark Gilbert, "European Integration: A Political History" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
41 mins; November 20, 2020
Tatiana Zhurzhenko, "War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
48 mins; November 19, 2020
M. Wodziński and W. Spallek, "Historical Atlas of Hasidism" (Princeton UP, 2018)
44 mins; November 18, 2020
Jill Massino, "Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania" (Berghahn, 2019)
75 hours 21 mins; November 10, 2020
Erica Marat, "The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries" (Oxford UP, 2018)
45 mins; November 05, 2020
Thomas Fleischman, "Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall" (U Washington Press, 2020)
59 mins; November 03, 2020
Y. Gorlizski and O. Khlevniuk, "Substate Dictatorship Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union" (Yale UP, 2020)
57 mins; November 02, 2020
Andrew Demshuk, "Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany" (Cornell UP, 2020)
56 mins; October 26, 2020
Rachel Manekin, "The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia" (Princeton UP, 2020)
53 mins; October 21, 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)
57 mins; October 19, 2020
Jessica Zychowicz, "Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
57 mins; October 16, 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
Stephen Wall, "Reluctant European: Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit" (Oxford UP, 2020)
40 mins; October 09, 2020
Jeremy Black, "The Holocaust: History and Memory" (Indiana UP, 2016)
33 mins; October 08, 2020
Patrick Honohan, "Currency, Credit and Crisis: Central Banking in Ireland and Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
48 mins; October 08, 2020
Jennifer J. Carroll, "Narkomania: Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine" (Cornell UP, 2019)
58 mins; October 06, 2020
Sheri Berman, "Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day" (Oxford UP, 2019)
57 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
Kenneth Austin, "The Jews and the Reformation" (Yale UP, 2020)
40 mins; September 21, 2020
Anita Kurimay, "Queer Budapest, 1873-1961" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
59 mins; September 15, 2020
Jovana Babović, "Metropolitan Belgrade: Culture and Class in Interwar Yugoslavia" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)
47 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
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
Natan M. Meir, "Stepchildren of the Shtetl" (Stanford UP, 2020)
58 mins; August 19, 2020
Will Smiley, "From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire, Russia, and International Law" (Oxford UP, 2018)
72 hours 28 mins; August 18, 2020
Sonya Bilocerkowycz, "On Our Way Home from the Revolution: Reflections on Ukraine" (Mad Creek Books, 2019)
40 mins; August 10, 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
Jeremy Black, "War in Europe: 1450 to the Present" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)
44 mins; July 10, 2020
Francine Hirsch, "Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg" (Oxford UP, 2020)
84 hours 55 mins; July 09, 2020
Stephan Talty, "The Good Assassin" (HMH, 2020)
41 mins; July 06, 2020
Hope M. Harrison, "After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
74 hours 7 mins; July 06, 2020
Yitzhak Lewis, "Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity" (SUNY Press, 2020)
55 mins; June 29, 2020
Gabriel Finder, "Justice behind the Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
83 hours 19 mins; June 22, 2020
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