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R. T. Howard, "Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2023)
34 mins; June 11, 2023
Peter H. Wilson, "Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500" (Harvard UP, 2023)
60 hours 11 mins; June 10, 2023
Osman Balkan, "Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
65 hours 59 mins; June 10, 2023
New Histories of Violence in and around the Second World War
83 hours 51 mins; June 10, 2023
Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
50 mins; June 08, 2023
Marius Wamsiedel, "The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania" (Lexington, 2023)
59 mins; June 08, 2023
Randy Grigsby, "A Train to Palestine: The Tehran Children, Anders' Army and Their Escape from Stalin's Siberia, 1939-1943" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2019)
58 mins; June 06, 2023
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, "Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul" (Routledge, 2023)
55 mins; June 06, 2023
Eliyana R. Adler and Katerina CapkovĂĄ, "Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
56 mins; June 04, 2023
James H. Meyer, "Red Star over the Black Sea: Nazim Hikmet and His Generation" (Oxford UP, 2023)
61 hours 14 mins; June 03, 2023
BĂ©la BodĂł, "The White Terror: Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary, 1919-1921" (Routledge, 2019)
107 hours 39 mins; May 30, 2023
A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise of the New Art Practice in Yugoslavia
51 mins; May 29, 2023
Halyna Kruk, "A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails" (Arrowsmith Press, 2023)
45 mins; May 27, 2023
NaoĂ­se Mac Sweeney, "The West: A New History of an Old Idea" (Dutton, 2023)
42 mins; May 27, 2023
Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky, "In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine" (Arrowsmith Press, 2023)
64 hours 38 mins; May 24, 2023
Empires after World War II: The Cases of the USSR and France
65 hours 27 mins; May 20, 2023
Elly Gotz, "Flights of Spirit" (Azrieli Foundation, 2018)
55 mins; May 20, 2023
Simon GeissbĂŒhler, ed., "Romania and the Holocaust: Events, Contexts, Aftermath" (Ibidem Press, 2016)
60 hours 43 mins; May 19, 2023
Serhii Plokhy, "The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History" (Norton, 2023)
54 mins; May 12, 2023
Cristina-Ioana Dragomir, "Power on the Move: Adivasi and Roma Accessing Social Justice" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
57 mins; May 12, 2023
Katherine Bowers, "Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
55 mins; May 11, 2023
Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)
34 mins; May 10, 2023
Mark Galeotti, "Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
71 hours 30 mins; May 05, 2023
GönĂŒl Tol, "Erdoğan's War: A Strongman's Struggle at Home and in Syria" (Oxford UP, 2023)
49 mins; May 05, 2023
Stéfanie von Hlatky, "Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations" (Oxford UP, 2022)
64 hours 38 mins; May 01, 2023
Ostap Kin, "Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond" (HURI, 2022)
51 mins; April 29, 2023
Evert van der Zweerde, "Russian Political Philosophy: Anarchy, Authority, Autocracy" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
84 hours 15 mins; April 26, 2023
Artan R. Hoxha, "Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania" (Central European UP, 2023)
52 mins; April 25, 2023
Dejan Djokić, "A Concise History of Serbia" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
72 hours 9 mins; April 25, 2023
Volodymyr Rafeyenko, "The Length of Days: An Urban Ballad" (HURI, 2023)
47 mins; April 23, 2023
Crispin Brooks and Kiril Feferman, "Beyond the Pale: The Holocaust in the North Caucasus" (U Rochester Press, 2020)
111 hours 45 mins; April 22, 2023
Paul Hansbury, "Belarus in Crisis: From Domestic Unrest to the Russia-Ukraine War" (Hurst, 2023)
50 mins; April 21, 2023
Elena Pedigo Clark, "Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
60 hours 38 mins; April 19, 2023
Vitalii Ogiienko, "The Holodomor and the Origins of the Soviet Man: Reading the Testimony of Anastasia Lysyvets" (Ibidem Press, 2022)
64 hours 23 mins; April 17, 2023
Piotr M. A. CywiƄski, "Auschwitz: A Monograph on the Human" (Muzeum Auschwitz, 2022)
61 hours 8 mins; April 16, 2023
Samuel Ramani, "Putin's War on Ukraine: Russia's Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution" (Hurst, 2023)
50 mins; April 14, 2023
Catherine Wanner, "Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine" (Cornell UP, 2022)
53 mins; April 11, 2023
Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov, "Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia" (Brill, 2022)
66 hours 24 mins; April 10, 2023
Iain MacGregor, "The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Heart of the Greatest Battle of World War II" (Scribner, 2022)
66 hours 13 mins; April 09, 2023
Jade McGlynn, "Russia's War" (Polity, 2023)
56 mins; April 07, 2023
Helene J. Sinnreich, "The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz and Krakow Ghettos during World War II" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
47 mins; April 07, 2023
Marianna Kiyanovska, "The Voices of Babyn Yar" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2022)
49 mins; April 07, 2023
Ari Joskowicz, "Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust" (Princeton UP, 2023)
65 hours 53 mins; April 02, 2023
Keir Giles, "Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
57 mins; March 31, 2023
Suzanna Eibuszyc, "Memory Is Our Home: Loss and Remembering--Three Generations in Poland and Russia 1917-1960s" (Ibidem, 2022)
112 hours 34 mins; March 29, 2023
Wolfgang Marx, "I Don't Belong Anywhere: Gyorgy Ligeti At 100" (Brepols Publishers, 2022)
42 mins; March 29, 2023
War, Optimism, Humility: A Conversation with Literary Critic Mariia Shuvalova
62 hours 13 mins; March 25, 2023
Oleksandra Keudel, "How Patronal Networks Shape Opportunities for Local Citizen Participation in a Hybrid Regime: A Comparative Analysis of Five Cities in Ukraine" (Ibidem, 2022)
51 mins; March 22, 2023
Peter Heather, "Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300" (Knopf, 2023)
60 hours 25 mins; March 21, 2023
Megan Swift, "Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
60 hours 28 mins; March 20, 2023
Valeriu Gafencu, "White Lilies: Letters, Conversations, and Poems from Prison" (STM Press, 2023)
50 mins; March 19, 2023
Philip W. Blood, "Birds of Prey: Hitler's Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers, and the Holocaust in Poland" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
68 hours 6 mins; March 13, 2023
Iva Vukuơić, "Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia" (Routledge, 2022)
52 mins; March 13, 2023
Megan Buskey, "Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet: A Family Story of Exile and Return" (Ibidem-Verlag, 2023)
57 mins; March 12, 2023
Omer Bartov, "The Butterfly and the Axe" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2023)
66 hours 50 mins; March 10, 2023
Elina Gertsman and Barbara H. Rosenwein, "The Middle Ages in 50 Objects" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
70 hours 16 mins; March 08, 2023
The Sobibor and Treblinka Death Camps: A Discussion with Chris Webb
67 hours 50 mins; March 08, 2023
Constantin Iordachi, "The Fascist Faith of the Legion Archangel Michael in Romania, 1927-1941" (Routledge, 2022)
86 hours 34 mins; March 08, 2023
Martin K. Dimitrov, "Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China" (Oxford UP, 2023)
51 mins; March 07, 2023
Clare Griffin, "Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
50 mins; March 06, 2023
Greta Lynn Uehling, "Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine" (Cornell UP, 2023)
62 hours 2 mins; March 02, 2023
Kyrill Kunakhovich, "Communism's Public Sphere: Culture As Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany" (Cornell UP, 2023)
68 hours 57 mins; March 01, 2023
Soviet Hippies and German “Other ‘68ers”: A Conversation about Youth Non-Conformity and Protest
66 hours 56 mins; February 28, 2023
Alexandra Chiriac, "Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest" (de Gruyter, 2022)
70 hours 19 mins; February 25, 2023
Sarah M. Zaides, "Tevye's Ottoman Daughter: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews at the End of Empire" (Libra Kitap, 2022)
67 hours 40 mins; February 24, 2023
More on Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust
82 hours 20 mins; February 24, 2023
The Future of Democratic Capitalism: A Discussion with Martin Wolf
47 mins; February 24, 2023
Peter Hayes, "Why? Explaining the Holocaust" (Norton, 2017)
63 hours 36 mins; February 22, 2023
Tara Zahra, "Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars" (Norton, 2023)
65 hours 20 mins; February 22, 2023
Rethinking the End of the Russian and Habsburg Empires
61 hours 57 mins; February 21, 2023
Anna M. GrzymaƂa-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
44 mins; February 19, 2023
Sofia Gavrilova, "Russia's Regional Museums: Representing and Misrepresenting Knowledge about Nature, History and Society" (Routledge, 2022)
39 mins; February 18, 2023
Sara Pugach, "African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
67 hours 45 mins; February 17, 2023
RĆ«ta Vanagaitė and Efraim Zuroff, "Our People: Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
55 mins; February 15, 2023
Jacky Comforty, "The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust" (Lexington Books, 2021)
87 hours 43 mins; February 13, 2023
Tore JĂžrgensen, "Stutthof Diaries Collection: For Truth & Honor" (FriesenPress, 2022)
92 hours 22 mins; February 12, 2023
Piro Rexhepi, "White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route" (Duke UP, 2022)
72 hours 22 mins; February 12, 2023
Golda Akhiezer, "Historical Consciousness, Haskalah, and Nationalism Among the Karaites of Eastern Europe" (Brill, 2017)
90 hours 13 mins; February 11, 2023
Natasha Lance Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
31 mins; February 10, 2023
Where is the Left? The Rise and Decline of Social Democratic Movements
43 mins; February 06, 2023
Alan Verskin, "Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni Through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe" (Stanford UP, 2023)
73 hours 29 mins; February 06, 2023
Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
77 hours 26 mins; February 06, 2023
Tim Harte, "Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
65 hours 40 mins; February 05, 2023
Anthony Tucker-Jones, "Kursk 1943: Hitler's Bitter Harvest" (History Press, 2018)
74 hours 59 mins; February 04, 2023
Richard Overy, "Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945" (Viking, 2022)
59 mins; February 04, 2023
Geneviùve Zubrzycki, "Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival" (Princeton UP, 2022)
71 hours 2 mins; February 03, 2023
Catherine Ashton, "And Then What?: Stories from Twenty-First-Century Diplomacy" (Elliott & Thompson, 2023)
51 mins; February 03, 2023
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, "Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow" (Routledge, 2022)
76 hours 18 mins; February 02, 2023
Chris Webb, "The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem, 2016)
40 mins; January 31, 2023
Maria Sonevytsky, "Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine" (Wesleyan UP, 2019)
61 hours 11 mins; January 28, 2023
Radu Ioanid, "The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
83 hours 22 mins; January 28, 2023
Business in Socialist Hungary
70 hours 51 mins; January 28, 2023
Robert Holzmann and Fernando Restoy, "Central Banks and Supervisory Architecture in Europe: Lessons from Crises in the 21st Century" (Edward Elgar, 2022)
53 mins; January 27, 2023
Postscript: Narrative and Influence Activities in the Russo-Ukraine War
51 mins; January 26, 2023
Frank Wolff, "Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund" (Haymarket Books, 2021)
80 hours 37 mins; January 25, 2023
Michael Fleming, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
63 hours 58 mins; January 25, 2023
Mostafa Minawi, "Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire" (Stanford UP, 2022)
62 hours 55 mins; January 23, 2023
Podcast Series: Hell on Earth--The 30 Years War and the Violent Birth of Capitalism
86 hours 8 mins; January 22, 2023
The Future of the European Left
48 mins; January 20, 2023
Tricia Starks, "Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2022)
42 mins; January 11, 2023
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