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New Books in Eastern European Studies

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Jan Selling, "Romani Liberation: A Northern Perspective on Emancipatory Struggles and Progress" (Central European UP, 2022)

58 mins; November 05, 2023

Roger R. Reese, "Russia's Army: A History from the Napoleonic Wars to the War in Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)

104 hours 48 mins; November 05, 2023

David Alan Parnell, "Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian" (Oxford UP, 2023)

60 hours 9 mins; November 04, 2023

Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)

71 hours 59 mins; October 30, 2023

Marat Grinberg, "The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines" (Brandeis UP, 2023)

74 hours 56 mins; October 29, 2023

Linda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)

43 mins; October 26, 2023

Owen Matthews, "Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine" (Mudlark, 2022)

59 mins; October 25, 2023

Trenton W. Holliday, "Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe" (Columbia UP, 2023)

42 mins; October 23, 2023

Sonja K. Pieck, "Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain" (MIT Press, 2023)

52 mins; October 22, 2023

Philip Jenkins, "A Storm of Images: Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World" (Baylor UP, 2023)

33 mins; October 22, 2023

The Family in History, History in the Family: National Identity in Nineteenth-century Kyiv and Immigration Politics in West Germany after 1955

66 hours 1 min; October 21, 2023

Immo Rebitschek and Aaron B. Retish, "Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

73 hours 38 mins; October 21, 2023

Stefan C. Ionescu, "Jewish Resistance to ‘Romanianization’, 1940-44" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

160 hours 59 mins; October 20, 2023

Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, "The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina" (Stanford UP, 2023)

63 hours 9 mins; October 20, 2023

Tom Gallagher, "Europe's Leadership Famine: Portraits of Defiance and Decay 1950-2022" (Scotview, 2023)

50 mins; October 16, 2023

Jana Randow and Alessandro Speciale, "Mario Draghi, the Craftsman: The True Story of the Man Who Saved the Euro" (Rizzoli, 2019)

55 mins; October 14, 2023

C. J. Wagevier, "Fighting for Napoleon's Army in Russia: A POW's Memoir" (Pen and Sword, 2023)

43 mins; October 12, 2023

Valentina Marcella, "Laughing Matters: Graphic Satire Reckoning with the 1980 Coup in Turkey" (Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino, 2022)

50 mins; October 12, 2023

Rory Finnin, "Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

67 hours 16 mins; October 11, 2023

Gültan Kışanak, "The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison" (Pluto Press, 2022)

53 mins; October 10, 2023

Harriet Murav and Gennady Estraikh, "Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering" (Academic Studies Press, 2018)

62 hours 43 mins; October 07, 2023

Books in Early Modern Europe

63 hours 53 mins; October 07, 2023

Daniel Satinsky, "Creating the Post-Soviet Russian Market Economy: Through American Eyes" (Routledge, 2023)

59 mins; October 06, 2023

Zeynep K. Korkman, "Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey" (Duke UP, 2023)

45 mins; October 05, 2023

Isaac McKean Scarborough, "Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2023)

74 hours 55 mins; October 01, 2023

Gwendolyn Sasse, "Russia's War Against Ukraine" (Polity, 2023)

41 mins; September 29, 2023

Series Spotlight: Central European Medieval Texts (CEMT)

38 mins; September 29, 2023

Alex J. Bellamy, "Warmonger: Vladimir Putin's Imperial Wars" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)

60 hours 55 mins; September 28, 2023

Timur Warner Hammond, "Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul" (U California Press, 2023)

53 mins; September 27, 2023

Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)

57 mins; September 26, 2023

The Future of Ukraine: A Discussion with Christopher Miller

44 mins; September 24, 2023

Erik R. Scott, "Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World" (Oxford UP, 2023)

50 mins; September 24, 2023

Martyn C. Rady, "The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe" (Basic Books, 2023)

89 hours 12 mins; September 23, 2023

Antony Kalashnikov, "Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time" (Cornell UP, 2023)

59 mins; September 23, 2023

Ruth Schwertfeger, "A Nazi Camp Near Danzig: Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

61 hours 52 mins; September 22, 2023

Malgorzata Fidelis, "Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth and the Global Sixties in Poland" (Oxford UP, 2022)

100 hours 35 mins; September 22, 2023

Katarzyna Person and Johannes-Dieter Steinert, "Przemysłowa Concentration Camp: The Camp, the Children, the Trials" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

88 hours 47 mins; September 21, 2023

Anthony Gad Bigio, "A Sephardi Turkish Patriot: Gad Franco in the Turmoil of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic" (Hamilton Books, 2023)

52 mins; September 17, 2023

Ainsley Morse, "Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children's Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2021)

60 hours 49 mins; September 16, 2023

Avigdor Hameiri, "Under a Bloodred Sky: Avigdor Hameiri’s War Stories and Poetry" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)

81 hours 53 mins; September 15, 2023

Dženita Karić, "Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

59 mins; September 15, 2023

Pallavi Narayan, "Pamuk's Istanbul: The Self and the City" (Routledge, 2022)

51 mins; September 15, 2023

Prit Buttar, "To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941-42" (Osprey, 2023)

101 hours 9 mins; September 14, 2023

The Shadow War between America and Russia

64 hours 47 mins; September 13, 2023

A Better Way to Buy Books

34 mins; September 12, 2023

Ryan Tucker Jones, "Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

59 mins; September 09, 2023

Katja Hoyer, "Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany" (Basic Books, 2023)

34 mins; September 08, 2023

Andrea Muehlebach, "A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe" (Duke UP, 2023)

37 mins; September 08, 2023

Valerie Hébert ed., "Framing the Holocaust: Photographs of a Mass Shooting in Latvia, 1941" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

56 mins; September 07, 2023

Endre Sashalmi, "Russian Notions of Power and State in a European Perspective, 1462-1725: Assessing the Significance of Peter's Reign" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)

62 hours 7 mins; September 04, 2023

Davide Rodogno, "Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918–1930" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

60 hours 12 mins; September 02, 2023

Pothiti Hantzaroula, "Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Greece: Memory, Testimony and Subjectivity" (Routledge, 2020)

94 hours 31 mins; August 29, 2023

Hans-Lukas Kieser, "When Democracy Died: The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

77 hours 41 mins; August 28, 2023

Anna Wylegała et al., "No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe: Vanishing Others" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

75 hours 16 mins; August 25, 2023

Samuel Ramani, "Putin's War on Ukraine: Russia’s Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution" (Hurst, 2023)

65 hours 48 mins; August 17, 2023

Hans Kundnani, "Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project" (Hurst, 2023)

48 mins; August 17, 2023

Christopher Harrison, "Genocidal Conscription: Drafting Victims and Perpetrators Under the Guise of War" (Lexington Books, 2023)

67 hours 12 mins; August 15, 2023

Toward a More Expansive View of Medieval Europe: Kyivan Rus and Norman Salerno in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

68 hours 19 mins; August 14, 2023

Mark Edele, "Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story" (Melbourne University, 2023)

45 mins; August 13, 2023

Michael Broers, "Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire, 1811-1821" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

35 mins; August 12, 2023

Olena Palko and Manuel Férez Gil, "Ukraine's Many Faces: Land, People, and Culture Revisited" (Transcript Publishing, 2023)

45 mins; August 11, 2023

Jacob Mikanowski, "Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land" (Pantheon Books, 2023)

72 hours 40 mins; August 11, 2023

Xenia A. Cherkaev, "Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice" (Cornell UP, 2023)

72 hours 54 mins; August 10, 2023

Andrii Portnov, "Dnipro: An Entangled History of a European City" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)

60 hours 17 mins; August 09, 2023

Yiannis Kokosalakis, "Building Socialism: The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921–1941" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

77 hours 31 mins; August 06, 2023

Maria Falina, "Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia: Serbian Nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity" (Bloombury, 2023)

68 hours 23 mins; August 05, 2023

Christopher Miller, "The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

67 hours 32 mins; August 04, 2023

Melis Hafez, "Inventing Laziness: The Culture of Productivity in Late Ottoman Society" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

77 hours 36 mins; August 04, 2023

Stipe Odak et al., "Jasenovac Concentration Camp: An Unfinished Past" (Routledge, 2023)

67 hours 35 mins; July 31, 2023

Archaeology and Nomadism in the Russian Empire: An interview with Ismael Biyashev

56 mins; July 29, 2023

Ronan Bolton, "Making Energy Markets: The Origins of Electricity Liberalisation in Europe" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

57 mins; July 24, 2023

Oyman Başaran, "Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey" (U Texas Press, 2023)

41 mins; July 23, 2023

Ilkim Büke Okyar, "Arabs in Turkish Political Cartoons, 1876-1950: National Self and Non-National Other" (Syracuse UP, 2023)

69 hours 15 mins; July 22, 2023

Nataša Jagdhuhn, "Post-Yugoslav Metamuseums: Reframing Second World War Heritage in Postconflict Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

86 hours 0 mins; July 22, 2023

Paul Hanebrink, "In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944" (Cornell UP, 2018)

65 hours 35 mins; July 21, 2023

Béla Bodó, "Black Humor and the White Terror" (Routledge, 2023)

76 hours 55 mins; July 19, 2023

Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2018)

72 hours 7 mins; July 19, 2023

Jade McGlynn, "Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

63 hours 20 mins; July 14, 2023

Alfred J. Rieber, "Stalin As Warlord" (Yale UP, 2022)

69 hours 31 mins; July 12, 2023

Serhii Plokhy, "The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History" (Norton, 2023)

73 hours 33 mins; July 11, 2023

Oksana Lutsysyna, "Ivan and Phoebe" (Deep Vellum, 2023)

41 mins; July 11, 2023

Jane Rogoyska, "Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth" (Oneworld, 2021)

55 mins; July 09, 2023

Andrew Harding, "A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, Death and Defiance in Ukraine" (Ithaka, 2023)

32 mins; July 07, 2023

James Crossland, "The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Terrorism" (Manchester UP, 2023)

59 mins; July 06, 2023

Apostolos Andrikopoulos, "Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

47 mins; July 05, 2023

Danny Orbach, "Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War" (Pegasus Books, 2022)

58 mins; July 05, 2023

Mikhail Shishkin, "My Russia: War Or Peace?" (RiverRun Press, 2023)

40 mins; July 05, 2023

Anna Müller, "An Ordinary Life?: The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918-1996" (Ohio UP, 2023)

73 hours 50 mins; June 30, 2023

Joscha Abels, "The Politics of the Eurogroup: Governing Crisis and Conflict in the European Union" (Routledge, 2023)

58 mins; June 30, 2023

Long Live the Empire! (with Amb. Archd. Eduard Habsburg)

59 mins; June 29, 2023

Kaya Sahin, "Peerless Among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman" (Oxford UP, 2023)

66 hours 58 mins; June 29, 2023

Mark Harrison, "Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism" (Stanford UP, 2023)

63 hours 18 mins; June 28, 2023

Miri Rubin, "The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2014)

50 mins; June 27, 2023

Thomas Arentzen, et al., "Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality" (Fordham UP, 2022)

55 mins; June 24, 2023

Anna Schur, "The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

73 hours 51 mins; June 20, 2023

Liisa Kovala, "Surviving Stutthof: My Father's Ordeal in a Nazi Concentration Camp" (Latitude 46, 2017)

74 hours 3 mins; June 19, 2023

Simon Dreher and Wolfgang Mueller, "Foreigners in Muscovy: Western Immigrants in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Russia" (Routledge, 2023)

68 hours 31 mins; June 18, 2023

Pinchas Blitt, "A Promise of Sweet Tea" (Azrieli Foundation, 2021)

95 hours 37 mins; June 16, 2023

Socialist Cultures and Politics of Secularism and Atheism

72 hours 43 mins; June 13, 2023

Robert Aldrich and Andreas Stucki, "The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

90 hours 1 min; June 12, 2023

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