New Books in Eastern European Studies
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Sean Griffin, "The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
55 mins; May 07, 2024
Andriy Sodomora, "The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
35 mins; May 07, 2024
"The US Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume IV" (Indiana UP, 2022)
89 hours 24 mins; May 06, 2024
Rustam Alexander, "Gay Lives and ‘Aversion Therapy’ in Brezhnev’s Russia, 1964–1982" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
56 mins; May 06, 2024
Prit Buttar, "Centuries Will Not Suffice: A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust" (Amberley, 2023)
89 hours 50 mins; May 05, 2024
Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, "Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
63 hours 43 mins; May 05, 2024
Illia Ponomarenko, "I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
45 mins; May 03, 2024
Jen Stout, "Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia's War" (Polygon, 2024)
45 mins; May 02, 2024
Artem Chapeye, "The Ukraine" (Seven Stories Press, 2024)
49 mins; April 24, 2024
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, "Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State" (Stanford UP, 2024)
63 hours 56 mins; April 23, 2024
Bruce O'Neill, "Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
41 mins; April 17, 2024
Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I" (HarperCollins, 2023)
79 hours 40 mins; April 15, 2024
Jessica C. Robbins, "Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship, and Personhood" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
76 hours 4 mins; April 14, 2024
Maria Snegovaya, "When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)
63 hours 45 mins; April 13, 2024
Traian Sandu, "Ceausescu: The Ambiguous Dictator" (Perrin, 2023)
80 hours 58 mins; April 10, 2024
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)
35 mins; April 07, 2024
40 years of Croatian Studies at Macquarie University
54 mins; April 07, 2024
Louis Howard Porter, "Reds in Blue: UNESCO, World Governance, and the Soviet Internationalist Imagination" (Oxford UP, 2023)
40 mins; April 04, 2024
Larissa Babij, "A Kind of Refugee: The Story of an American Who Refused to Leave Ukraine" (Ibidem Press, 2024)
52 mins; April 03, 2024
Why Should We Preserve Memory of the Holocaust?
44 mins; April 02, 2024
Alexandrina Vanke, "The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggle" (Manchester UP, 2024)
38 mins; April 01, 2024
Alexej Lochmatow, "Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland: Scholarly Battles and the Clash of Virtues, 1945–1956" (Routledge, 2023)
64 hours 15 mins; April 01, 2024
Aleksandar Bosković and Steven Teref, "Zenithism (1921-1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
80 hours 15 mins; March 29, 2024
David E. Sutton, "Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples" (Berghahn, 2021)
58 mins; March 28, 2024
Kevin P. Reihle, "The Russian FSB: A Concise History of the Federal Security Service" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
95 hours 26 mins; March 26, 2024
Vladimir Solonari, "A Satellite Empire: Romanian Rule in Southwestern Ukraine, 1941–1944" (Cornell UP, 2019)
74 hours 5 mins; March 26, 2024
Dan Stone, "The Holocaust: An Unfinished History" (Mariner Books, 2023)
69 hours 57 mins; March 18, 2024
Erica L. Fraser, "Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union" (U Toronto Press, 2019)
64 hours 51 mins; March 17, 2024
Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa, "The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust" (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
74 hours 0 mins; March 17, 2024
Alina Nychyk, "Ukraine Vis-Ă -Vis Russia and the EU: Misperceptions of Foreign Challenges in Times of War, 2014-2015" (Ibidem Press, 2023)
51 mins; March 16, 2024
Emil Hilton Saggau, "Nationalisation of the Sacred: Orthodox Historiography, Memory, and Politics in Montenegro" (Peter Lang, 2023)
37 mins; March 11, 2024
Robert C. Austin, "Royal Fraud: The Story of Albania’s First and Last King" (CEU Press, 2024)
38 mins; March 09, 2024
Sarah A. Cramsey, "Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the Ethnic Revolution in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946" (Indiana UP, 2023)
55 mins; March 09, 2024
Matthew Longo, "The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain" (Norton, 2024)
50 mins; March 08, 2024
Dariusz ToƂczyk, "Blissful Blindness: Soviet Crimes under Western Eyes" (Indiana UP, 2023)
92 hours 39 mins; March 08, 2024
Leona Toker, "Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontexual Reading" (Indiana UP, 2019)
91 hours 29 mins; March 06, 2024
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, "Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State" (Stanford UP, 2024)
49 mins; March 06, 2024
Ilmari KĂ€ihkö, "'Slava Ukraini!': Strategy and the Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance 2014–2023" (Helsinki UP, 2023)
90 hours 19 mins; March 05, 2024
Roman Dziarski, "How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis: The True Story of the Holocaust Rescuers, Zofia Sterner and Her Family" (Academic Studies, 2024)
79 hours 34 mins; March 03, 2024
Ned Richardson-Little, "The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
84 hours 30 mins; February 26, 2024
Ivo Goldstein and Slavko Goldstein, "The Holocaust in Croatia" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
95 hours 0 mins; February 25, 2024
Bojan Aleksov, "Jewish Refugees in the Balkans, 1933-1945" (Brill, 2023)
85 hours 0 mins; February 24, 2024
Michael Kimmage, "Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability" (Oxford UP, 2024)
43 mins; February 23, 2024
Marko Attila Hoare, "Serbia: A Modern History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
53 mins; February 22, 2024
Rachel Applebaum, "Empire of Friendsï»ż: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia" (ï»żCornell UP, 2019)
80 hours 18 mins; February 16, 2024
Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium" (Harvard UP, 2019)
49 mins; February 13, 2024
George Eisen, "A Summer of Mass Murder: 1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust" (Purdue UP, 2022)
90 hours 29 mins; February 10, 2024
Putin's Exiles: Their Fight for a Better Russia
50 mins; February 07, 2024
Dallas Michelbacher, "Jewish Forced Labor in Romania, 1940-1944" (Indiana UP, 2020)
66 hours 42 mins; February 06, 2024
Alp Yenen and Erik-Jan ZĂŒrcher, "A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments" (Leiden UP, 2023)
57 mins; February 05, 2024
Serhiy Bilenky, "Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine Between Empire and Nation, 1772-1914" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
51 mins; February 05, 2024
Eglė RindzevičiĆ«tė, "The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future Through Science" (Cornell UP, 2023)
50 mins; February 04, 2024
Curtis Fox, "Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition and Conventional Military Conflict" (30 Press Publishing, 2023)
91 hours 49 mins; January 30, 2024
Anton Weiss-Wendt, "On the Margins: Essays on the History of Jews in Estonia" (CEU Press, 2017)
103 hours 29 mins; January 29, 2024
Anna Reid, "A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution" (Basic Books, 2024)
53 mins; January 29, 2024
Calder Walton, "Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West" (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
44 mins; January 28, 2024
Elliot Short, "Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
65 hours 51 mins; January 27, 2024
Simon Shuster, "The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky" (William Morrow, 2024)
43 mins; January 20, 2024
Adriana Helbig, "ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid" (Oxford UP, 2023)
44 mins; January 19, 2024
Matthew Romaniello, "Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
60 hours 50 mins; January 12, 2024
Till Hilmar, "Deserved: Economic Memories After the Fall of the Iron Curtain" (Columbia UP, 2023)
79 hours 3 mins; January 10, 2024
Yaroslav Trofimov, "Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence" (Penguin, 2023)
43 mins; January 09, 2024
Bryan Mark Rigg, "The Rabbi Saved by Hitler's Soldiers: Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and His Astonishing Rescue" (UP of Kansas, 2016)
55 mins; January 07, 2024
Kateryna Malaia, "Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room: Domestic Architecture before and after 1991" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
44 mins; January 07, 2024
Pavel Khazanov, "The Russia that We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
34 mins; January 06, 2024
Klaus Buchenau, "From Grand Estates to Grand Corruption: The Battle Over the Possessions of Prince Albert of Thurn and Taxis in Interwar Yugoslavia" (Brill, 2023)
63 hours 44 mins; January 06, 2024
Noel Malcolm, "Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750" (Oxford UP, 2019)
64 hours 1 min; January 03, 2024
Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, "Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920" (Ohio UP, 2019
53 mins; January 02, 2024
Jelena Subotić, "Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism" (Cornell UP, 2019)
50 mins; January 01, 2024
Christine E. Evans, “Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television” (Yale UP, 2016)
60 hours 39 mins; December 29, 2023
Ilkay Yilmaz, "Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
55 mins; December 24, 2023
Brian Jeffrey Maxson, "Early Modern Europe: Facts and Fictions" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
50 mins; December 21, 2023
Magda StroiƄska, "My Life in Propaganda: A Memoir about Language and Totalitarian Regimes" (Durvile, 2023)
64 hours 55 mins; December 20, 2023
Is Poland Back on Track? The Challenges for the New Government
46 mins; December 18, 2023
Cristina A. Pop, "The Cancer Within: Reproduction, Cultural Transformation, and Health Care in Romania" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
82 hours 27 mins; December 17, 2023
Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)
49 mins; December 17, 2023
Mario Baghos, "From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium: Kings, Symbols, and Cities" (Cambridge Scholars, 2021)
85 hours 56 mins; December 16, 2023
Jonathan Daly and Leonid Trofimov, "Seven Myths of the Russian Revolution" (Hackett, 2023)
64 hours 49 mins; December 15, 2023
Louis-Alexandre Berg, "Governing Security After War: The Politics of Institutional Change in the Security Sector" (Oxford UP, 2022)
82 hours 41 mins; December 14, 2023
Christian Raffensperger and Donald Ostrowski, "The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
63 hours 33 mins; December 11, 2023
Martin C. Dean, "Investigating Babyn Yar: Shadows from the Valley of Death" (Lexington Books, 2023)
36 mins; December 11, 2023
Everyday Life Behind the Berlin Wall
34 mins; December 11, 2023
Ramona Dima, "Queer Culture in Romania, 1920–2018" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
49 mins; December 08, 2023
Anna M. GrzymaƂa-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
55 mins; December 03, 2023
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
58 mins; December 02, 2023
Peter Samsonov, "IS-2: Development, Design, and Production of Stalin's Warhammer" (Military History Group, 2022)
37 mins; November 26, 2023
Katerina Lagos, "The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
82 hours 8 mins; November 25, 2023
Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel, "Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States" (Polity, 2023)
56 mins; November 24, 2023
The Idea of "Central Europe" from Naumann to Kundera
44 mins; November 24, 2023
Paul Le Blanc, "Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution" (Pluto Press, 2023)
92 hours 10 mins; November 23, 2023
David K. Zimmerman, "Ensnared Between Hitler and Stalin: Refugee Scientists in the USSR" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
80 hours 35 mins; November 22, 2023
Andrew Monaghan and Richard Connolly. "The Sea in Russian Strategy" (Manchester UP, 2023)
63 hours 43 mins; November 22, 2023
Antonis Klapsis et al., "The Greek Junta and the International System: A Case Study of Southern European Dictatorships, 1967-74" (Routledge, 2020)
85 hours 34 mins; November 20, 2023
Maxim Shrayer, "I Saw It: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah" (Academic Studies Press, 2013)
60 hours 59 mins; November 19, 2023
Nicole Eaton, "German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad" (Cornell UP, 2023)
72 hours 16 mins; November 18, 2023
BĂĄlint Madlovics and BĂĄlint Magyar, "The Russia-Ukraine War, Volumes 1-2" (CEU Press, 2023)
52 mins; November 17, 2023
Anthony Tucker-Jones, "Battle of the Cities: Urban Warfare on the Eastern Front" (Pen & Sword Military, 2023)
82 hours 15 mins; November 17, 2023
Natasha Wheatley, "The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty" (Princeton UP, 2023)
46 mins; November 12, 2023
Writing the History of Money and Monetary Policy
61 hours 9 mins; November 08, 2023
Valerie Kivelson et al., "Picturing Russian Empire" (Oxford UP, 2023)
57 mins; November 07, 2023