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Cristina Vatulescu, "Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their Challenges" (Stanford UP, 2024)
47 mins; December 08, 2024
XosĂ© M. NĂșñez Seixas, "The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941–1945: War, Occupation, Memory" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
112 hours 24 mins; December 03, 2024
Krzysztof Bielawski, "The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
62 hours 35 mins; December 01, 2024
Maria Adamopoulou, "The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974)" (de Gruyter, 2024)
87 hours 34 mins; November 30, 2024
Johanna Drucker, "Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
67 hours 57 mins; November 29, 2024
Ken Krimstein, "Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
31 mins; November 23, 2024
S4E15 To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: A Conversation with Dr. Benjamin Nathans
52 mins; November 20, 2024
Victor P. Petrov, "Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain" (MIT Press, 2023)
57 mins; November 18, 2024
J. Arch Getty and Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Reflections on Stalinism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2024)
46 mins; November 16, 2024
Tom Theuns, "Protecting Democracy in Europe: Pluralism, Autocracy and the Future of the EU" (Hurst, 2024)
47 mins; November 16, 2024
Agustina Paglayan, "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" (Princeton UP, 2024)
26 mins; November 15, 2024
Hannah Pollin-Galay, "Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
60 hours 0 mins; November 15, 2024
Cathie Carmichael, "The Habsburg Garrison Complex in Trebinje: A Lost World" (CEU Press, 2024)
35 mins; November 14, 2024
Maksim Goldenshteyn, "So They Remember: A Jewish Family’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
90 hours 38 mins; November 13, 2024
S4E14 Our Enemies Will Vanish: A Conversation with Yaroslav Trofimov
45 mins; November 13, 2024
Anne Berg, "Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany" (Oxford UP, 2024)
61 hours 6 mins; November 11, 2024
Yaraslau Kot, "Central and Eastern European Histories and Heritages in Video Games" (Routledge, 2024)
35 mins; November 07, 2024
Thinking Machines: The First AI Takeover Story
33 mins; November 02, 2024
Larisa Jasarević, "Beekeeping in the End Times" (Indiana UP, 2024)
63 hours 18 mins; October 26, 2024
Peter Sarandinaki, "In Search of the Romanovs: A Family's Quest to Solve One of History's Most Brutal Crimes" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
43 mins; October 26, 2024
Larry E. Holmes, "Win or Else: Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921–1985" (Indiana UP, 2024)
40 mins; October 25, 2024
Alexis Peri, "Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence Between American and Soviet Women" (Harvard UP, 2024)
73 hours 44 mins; October 24, 2024
Beatrice de Graaf, "Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
54 mins; October 22, 2024
Susan Grant, "Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism" (Cornell UP, 2022)
51 mins; October 19, 2024
Rachel O'Sullivan, "Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative Perspective" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
63 hours 5 mins; October 16, 2024
V. Domontovych, "On Shaky Ground" (CEU Press, 2024)
28 mins; October 14, 2024
Norman Naimark, “Stalin’s Genocides” (Princeton UP, 2010)
73 hours 50 mins; October 09, 2024
Nick Lloyd, "The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918" (Norton, 2024)
55 mins; October 06, 2024
Sean McMeekin, "To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism" (Basic Books, 2024)
55 mins; October 04, 2024
Robert Rozett, "Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front During the Second World War" (Yad Vashem, 2014)
63 hours 0 mins; October 04, 2024
Samuel J. Hirst, "Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939" (Oxford UP, 2024)
64 hours 45 mins; September 28, 2024
Anthony Tucker-Jones, "The Fall of Berlin: The Final Days of Hitler's Evil Regime" (Sirius, 2024)
83 hours 48 mins; September 25, 2024
David M. Driesen, "The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power" (Stanford UP, 2021)
57 mins; September 23, 2024
Jack Palmer, "Zygmunt Bauman and the West: A Sociology of Intellectual Exile" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
80 hours 58 mins; September 22, 2024
Michael David-Fox, "The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
56 mins; September 21, 2024
Iemima Ploscariu, "Alternative Evangelicals: Challenging Nationalism in Interwar Romania's Multi-ethnic Borderlands" (Brill, 2024)
48 mins; September 19, 2024
Jack Margolin, "The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
52 mins; September 19, 2024
Azra HromadĆŸić, "Riverine Citizenship: A Bosnian City in Love with the River" (CEU Press, 2024)
40 mins; September 18, 2024
Mikhail Zygar, "War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (Scribner, 2023)
67 hours 18 mins; September 15, 2024
Lynn M. Tesser, "Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics" (Stanford UP, 2024)
55 mins; September 13, 2024
Aleksandra Djuric Milovanovic, "The Untold Journey of the Nazarene Emigration from Yugoslavia to North America" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
62 hours 20 mins; September 13, 2024
Isaac Nakhimovsky, "The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
72 hours 25 mins; September 12, 2024
Matthew C. Ehrlich, "The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
44 mins; September 11, 2024
Yakov Feygin, "Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform" (Harvard UP, 2024)
66 hours 55 mins; September 08, 2024
The Relations of Estonia and Japan from the 19th Century to early-21st Century
38 mins; September 08, 2024
Paul J. Kosmin, "Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire" (Harvard UP, 2018)
76 hours 0 mins; September 07, 2024
Jeremy Salamon, "Second Generation: 100 Hungarian and Jewish Classics Reimagined for the Modern Table" (Harvest Publications, 2024)
48 mins; September 06, 2024
Dan Stone, "Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2023)
69 hours 27 mins; September 05, 2024
John P. Davis, "Russia in the Time of Cholera" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
60 hours 29 mins; September 04, 2024
Daniel Laqua, "Activism Across Borders Since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and Beyond Europe" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
33 mins; September 04, 2024
Cynthia A. Ruder, “Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space” (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
62 hours 52 mins; August 31, 2024
What is Going on with Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?
40 mins; August 30, 2024
Aleksander Pluskowski, "The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation" (Reaktion, 2024)
56 mins; August 30, 2024
Michelle Tusan, "The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
63 hours 21 mins; August 27, 2024
Adam Zamoyski, "Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess" (William Collins, 2024)
56 mins; August 24, 2024
Cassio de Oliveira, "Writing Rogues: The Soviet Picaresque and Identity Formation, 1921-1938" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
73 hours 53 mins; August 24, 2024
Steven J. Zipperstein, “Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History” (Liveright/Norton, 2018)
54 mins; August 21, 2024
Jiƙí Hutečka, "Men Under Fire: Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918" (Berghahn Books, 2019)
63 hours 42 mins; August 20, 2024
Victoria Smolkin, "A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism" (Princeton UP, 2018)
63 hours 31 mins; August 18, 2024
Maria Taroutina and Allison Leigh, "Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940" (Manchester UP, 2023)
42 mins; August 17, 2024
Barbara Emerson, "The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century" (Hurst, 2024)
40 mins; August 13, 2024
Andrew R. Basso, "Destroy Them Gradually: Displacement as Atrocity" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
73 hours 7 mins; August 13, 2024
David L. Hoffmann, "The Stalinist Era" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
69 hours 5 mins; August 11, 2024
Janine P. Holc, "The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
55 mins; August 04, 2024
Benjamin Nathans, "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement" (Princeton UP, 2024)
74 hours 35 mins; July 30, 2024
Ewa K. Bacon, "Saving Lives in Auschwitz: The Prisoners’ Hospital in Buna-Monowitz" (Purdue UP, 2017)
84 hours 4 mins; July 29, 2024
Bastiaan Willems, "Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944–1945" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
89 hours 0 mins; July 29, 2024
Sonia-Doris Andras, "The Women of 'Little Paris': Fashion in Interwar Bucharest" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
41 mins; July 26, 2024
Jonathan Dimbleby, "Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
44 mins; July 24, 2024
Alexander Sasha Kondakov, "Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia" (UCL Press, 2022)
63 hours 9 mins; July 24, 2024
Frances Tanzer, "Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
67 hours 58 mins; July 20, 2024
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)
62 hours 45 mins; July 20, 2024
Sultan vs Dracula
19 mins; July 17, 2024
Kristen R. Ghodsee, "Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War" (Duke UP, 2019)
71 hours 29 mins; July 14, 2024
Maryna Shevtsova, "Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voices" (Lexington Books, 2024)
45 mins; June 30, 2024
Nicolas VĂ©ron, "Europe's Banking Union at Ten: Unfinished Yet Transformative" (Bruegel, 2024)
43 mins; June 28, 2024
Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn, "The Shochet: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
64 hours 4 mins; June 28, 2024
Oscar Sanchez-Sibony, "The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market: Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
53 mins; June 22, 2024
William W. Hagen, "Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914-1920" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
94 hours 57 mins; June 19, 2024
Klas-Göran Karlsson, "Lessons of History: The Holocaust and Soviet Terror as Borderline Events" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
73 hours 4 mins; June 15, 2024
David Stahel, "Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942" (FSG, 2019)
75 hours 15 mins; June 07, 2024
Gizem Zencirci, "The Muslim Social: Neoliberalism, Charity, and Poverty in Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
31 mins; June 07, 2024
Glenn Dynner, "The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2024)
73 hours 50 mins; June 05, 2024
Victoria Khiterer, "Jewish City Or Inferno of Russian Israel?: A History of the Jews in Kiev Before February 1917" (Academic Studies Press, 2017)
76 hours 59 mins; June 05, 2024
Elena Kochetkova, "The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology" (MIT Press, 2024)
65 hours 42 mins; June 05, 2024
Judy Batalion, "The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos" (William Morrow, 2021)
44 mins; May 27, 2024
Jan Grabowski, "On Duty: The Role of the Polish Blue and Criminal Police in the Holocaust" (Yad Vashem, 2024)
66 hours 13 mins; May 27, 2024
Adi Mahalel, "The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism" (SUNY Press, 2023)
70 hours 0 mins; May 26, 2024
Tracey German, "Russia and the Changing Character of Conflict" (Cambria Press, 2023)
89 hours 37 mins; May 25, 2024
Mark Jantzen and John D. Thiesen, "European Mennonites and the Holocaust" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
68 hours 11 mins; May 25, 2024
Asian Soft Power in Estonia: A Discussion with Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska
28 mins; May 24, 2024
Mirjam Rajner, "Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945" (Brill, 2019)
121 hours 8 mins; May 22, 2024
Yaroslav Trofimov, "Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence" (Penguin, 2024)
47 mins; May 18, 2024
Constantin Ardeleanu, "Steamboat Modernity: Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830–1860" (CEU Press, 2024)
71 hours 51 mins; May 18, 2024
Choi Chatterjee, "Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
68 hours 28 mins; May 15, 2024
Julia A. Cassiday, "Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
49 mins; May 14, 2024
Katya Hokanson, "A Woman's Empire: Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
57 mins; May 13, 2024
Per Högselius and Achim KlĂŒppelberg, "The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism" (CEU Press, 2023)
23 mins; May 12, 2024
Agnieszka Pasieka and PaweƂ Rodak, "Rethinking Modern Polish Identities: Transnational Encounters" (U Rochester Press, 2023)
59 mins; May 10, 2024
Lawrence Freedman, "Modern Warfare: Lessons from Ukraine" (Penguin, 2023)
42 mins; May 08, 2024
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