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Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania
32 mins; July 04, 2025
NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre: Migration Policies and Realities in Estonia and Japan
33 mins; July 02, 2025
Sergey Radchenko, "To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
74 hours 35 mins; June 29, 2025
Yaroslav Hrytsak, "Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
84 hours 37 mins; June 25, 2025
Danielle Leavitt, "By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025)
57 mins; June 25, 2025
Ewa Herbst, "Visionaries from Lviv: The Story of a Jewish Hospital" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
83 hours 13 mins; June 22, 2025
Amy Simon, "Emotions in Yiddish Ghetto Diaries: Encountering Persecutors and Questioning Humanity" (Routledge, 2024)
75 hours 36 mins; June 09, 2025
Semmy Stalhammer, "Codename Barber: My Father’s Story" (Albert Bonniers Publishers, 2007)
87 hours 29 mins; June 06, 2025
Tobias Brinkmann, "Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe" (Oxford UP, 2924)
94 hours 29 mins; June 03, 2025
Katarina KuĆĄic, "Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia" (University of Michigan Press, 2025)
63 hours 37 mins; June 01, 2025
Antonio J. Muñoz, "Hitler's War Against the Partisans During Operation Barbarossa: June 1941 to the Spring of 1942" (Frontline, 2025)
101 hours 25 mins; May 30, 2025
Thomas Mutch, "The Dogs of Mariupol: Russia's Invasion and the Forging of Ukraine's Iron Generation" (Biteback, 2025)
42 mins; May 29, 2025
Keir Giles, "Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent" (Hurst & Co., 2024)
42 mins; May 28, 2025
Greta Lynn Uehling, "Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
53 mins; May 26, 2025
Claire Knight, "Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953" (Cornell UP, 2024)
86 hours 23 mins; May 24, 2025
Yitzhak Conforti, "Zionism and Jewish Culture: A Study in the Origins of a National Movement" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
55 mins; May 23, 2025
Charles Hecker, "Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia" (Oxford UP, 2025)
63 hours 56 mins; May 22, 2025
Jan Borowicz, "Perverse Memory and the Holocaust: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders" (Routledge, 2024)
75 hours 10 mins; May 21, 2025
Richard Calis, "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius" (Harvard UP, 2025)
61 hours 51 mins; May 19, 2025
Ewa Herbst, "Visionaries from Lviv: The Story of a Jewish Hospital" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
86 hours 39 mins; May 17, 2025
JĂșlia KirĂĄly, "Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Troubles to Global Hurricane" (Springer, 2020)
46 mins; May 14, 2025
Victoria Khiterer, "Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration" (Purdue UP, 2025)
99 hours 28 mins; May 13, 2025
Paul R. Magocsi and Yohanan PetrovskiÄ­-Shtern, "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-existence" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
56 mins; May 12, 2025
Alex Storozynski, "Spies In My Blood: A Polish Family’s Secret Fight Against Nazis & Communists" (Polestar-Media, 2025)
51 mins; May 11, 2025
Chris Webb and Artur Hojan, "The Chelmno Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem Press, 2019)
53 mins; May 10, 2025
Katerina Krlov, "Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-46" (Brandeis UP, 2025)
81 hours 55 mins; May 09, 2025
Living Right: Far Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe
74 hours 22 mins; May 08, 2025
Deana Jovanović, "Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town" (Cornell UP, 2025)
83 hours 24 mins; May 06, 2025
Charlie English, "The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War" (Random House, 2025)
47 mins; May 05, 2025
Catching the China-Europe Express: Logistics, Local Agency & Eurasian Geopolitics in the Polish Borderlands
58 mins; May 04, 2025
Michael David-Fox, "Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule" (Harvard UP, 2025)
62 hours 54 mins; May 03, 2025
Polly Jones, "Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin" (Bloombury, 2024)
76 hours 44 mins; April 26, 2025
Udi Greenberg, "The End of the Schism: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of Christian Life in Europe, 1880s-1970s" (Harvard UP, 2025)
73 hours 56 mins; April 25, 2025
John Lechner, "Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare" (Bloombury, 2025)
89 hours 3 mins; April 24, 2025
Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)
69 hours 42 mins; April 23, 2025
Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
81 hours 26 mins; April 22, 2025
Maurizio Ferrera, "Politics and Social Visions: Ideology, Conflict, and Solidarity in the EU" (Oxford UP, 2024)
82 hours 50 mins; April 21, 2025
Sasha Colby, "The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance" (ECW Press, 2023)
85 hours 0 mins; April 19, 2025
Agnieszka Pasieka, "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe" (Princeton UP, 2024)
46 mins; April 18, 2025
Understanding Ukraine: A Discussion with Author Yaroslav Trofimov
53 mins; April 17, 2025
Serhiy Kudelia, "Seize the City, Undo the State: The Inception of Russia's War on Ukraine" (Oxford UP, 2015)
60 hours 43 mins; April 16, 2025
Ðermana Kuric on Muslimness in Bosnia
55 mins; April 11, 2025
Eli Rubin, "Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2025)
76 hours 42 mins; April 05, 2025
Research Spotlight: Revenant Project-Revivals of Empire
65 hours 23 mins; April 04, 2025
Alexander Hill, "The Routledge Handbook of Soviet and Russian Military Studies" (Routledge, 2025)
79 hours 27 mins; April 01, 2025
Lilia Topouzova, "Unsilencing: The History and Legacy of the Bulgarian Gulag" (Cornell UP, 2025)
66 hours 4 mins; March 31, 2025
The Free Speech and Poetry of Ana Blandiana
50 mins; March 26, 2025
Andrew Long, "BRIXMIS and the Secret Cold War: Intelligence Collecting Operations Behind Enemy Lines in East Germany" (Pen and Sword, 2024)
111 hours 27 mins; March 23, 2025
Oleksandr Melnyk, "World War II as an Identity Project: Historicism, Legitimacy Contests, and the (Re-) Construction of Political Communities in Ukraine, 1939–1946" (Ibidem, 2022)
64 hours 0 mins; March 22, 2025
Peter Whitewood, "The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy: Lenin’s Defeat and the Rise of Stalinism" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
74 hours 0 mins; March 22, 2025
Vuk Vuksanovic, "Serbia’s Balancing Act: Between Russia and the West" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
43 mins; March 21, 2025
Daniela Richterova, "Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
94 hours 45 mins; March 18, 2025
Ariel Evan Mayse, "Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
53 mins; March 16, 2025
Fractured Alliances: Trump, Ukraine, and Europe's Security Dilemma
32 mins; March 15, 2025
Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, "Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and Cult" (Ibidem Press, 2014)
58 mins; March 13, 2025
Sabrina P. Ramet and Lavinia Stan, "East Central Europe Since 1989" (Routledge, 2025)
92 hours 32 mins; March 09, 2025
Tamizdat under Putin: A Discussion with Publisher Feliks Sandalov
60 hours 59 mins; March 05, 2025
Stefan Cristian Ionescu, "Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
81 hours 28 mins; March 05, 2025
Robert C. Austin, "Royal Fraud: The Story of Albania's First and Last King" (Central European UP, 2024)
63 hours 17 mins; March 04, 2025
LĂĄszlĂł Borhi, "Survival under Dictatorships: Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes" (Central European UP, 2024)
47 mins; March 03, 2025
Victoria Khiterer, "Jewish Pogroms in Kiev During the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920" (Edwin Mellen, 2015)
83 hours 31 mins; March 01, 2025
Christina Kiaer, "Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
108 hours 43 mins; February 26, 2025
Doina Anca Cretu, "Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania" (Stanford UP, 2025)
61 hours 17 mins; February 26, 2025
Shay A. Pilnik, "The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War" (Purdue UP, 2025)
90 hours 54 mins; February 22, 2025
Noa Shashar, "The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
42 mins; February 21, 2025
Emine Ö Evered, "Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity" (U Texas Press, 2024)
56 mins; February 19, 2025
Adelina Stefan, "Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco's Spain" (Cornell UP, 2024)
65 hours 54 mins; February 17, 2025
Marek Kohn, "The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey Through Cities at the Heart of Europe" (Yale UP, 2023)
61 hours 34 mins; February 17, 2025
Saulius Suziedelis, "Crisis, War, and the Holocaust in Lithuania" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
69 hours 30 mins; February 14, 2025
Magdalena Buchczyk, "Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, History and Ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
53 mins; February 10, 2025
Finlandization to ‘Finland Boom‘ in Japan: Finland’s Public Diplomacy in Japan
25 mins; February 08, 2025
Peter Whitewood, "The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Soviet Military" (UP of Kansas, 2015)
81 hours 39 mins; February 07, 2025
Jonathan Haslam, "Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine" (Harvard UP, 2025)
68 hours 36 mins; February 06, 2025
"We Remember Lest the World Forget: Memories of the Minsk Ghetto" (JewishGen, 2018)
123 hours 56 mins; February 02, 2025
Ewa StaƄczyk, "Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland" (U Press of Mississippi, 2024)
59 mins; February 01, 2025
Eugene Finkel, "Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine" (Basic Books, 2024)
36 mins; January 29, 2025
Yanni Kotsonis, "The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
57 mins; January 29, 2025
Edward Westermann, "Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest" (U Oklahoma Press, 2016)
97 hours 38 mins; January 29, 2025
Viktoriya Fedorchak, "The Russia-Ukraine War: Towards Resilient Fighting Power" (Routledge, 2024)
92 hours 27 mins; January 28, 2025
Philip Rathgeb, "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" (Oxford UP, 2024)
56 mins; January 28, 2025
Roland Erne et al., "Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
64 hours 20 mins; January 28, 2025
Susan C. I. Grunewald, "From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union" (Cornell UP, 2024)
68 hours 39 mins; January 26, 2025
Leon Saltiel, "The Holocaust in Thessaloniki: Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution, 1942–1943" (Routledge, 2020)
55 mins; January 26, 2025
Anthony McElligott, "The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
84 hours 52 mins; January 20, 2025
Valentina N. Glajar, "The Secret Police Dossier of Herta MĂŒller: A "File Story" of Cold War Surveillance" (Camden House, 2023)
100 hours 18 mins; January 17, 2025
Isaac Stanley-Becker, "Europe Without Borders: A History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
45 mins; January 14, 2025
Victoria Harms, "The Making of Dissidents: Hungary’s Democratic Opposition and its Western Friends, 1973-1998" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2024)
68 hours 48 mins; January 10, 2025
Jacob Flaws, "Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
56 mins; January 09, 2025
Elissa Bemporad, "Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets" (Oxford UP, 2019)
61 hours 33 mins; January 07, 2025
David A. Harrisville, "The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944" (Cornell UP, 2021)
63 hours 19 mins; January 07, 2025
Polly Zavadivker, "A Nation of Refugees: Russia's Jews in World War I" (Oxford UP, 2024)
82 hours 54 mins; January 03, 2025
Joanna MizieliƄska, "Queer Kinship on the Edge?: Families of Choice in Poland" (Routledge, 2024)
50 mins; January 01, 2025
Ágnes Györke and Tamås Juhåsz, "Urban Culture and the Modern City: Hungarian Case Studies" (Leuven UP, 2024)
58 mins; December 30, 2024
Daniel B. Hinshaw, "Journey to Simplicity: The Life and Wisdom of Archimandrite Roman Braga" (St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 2023)
97 hours 1 min; December 27, 2024
Diana Dumitru, "The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
113 hours 20 mins; December 26, 2024
Ariel Evan Mayse, "Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
76 hours 0 mins; December 19, 2024
Nergis ErtĂŒrk, "Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union" (Columbia UP, 2024)
72 hours 22 mins; December 18, 2024
Alissa Klots, "Domestic Service in the Soviet Union; Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
66 hours 31 mins; December 15, 2024
Mie Nakachi, "Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union" (Oxford UP, 2021)
71 hours 6 mins; December 10, 2024
Jacob Flaws, "Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
60 hours 11 mins; December 09, 2024
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