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New Books in Eastern European Studies
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Tricia Starks, "Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2022)
42 mins; January 11, 2023
Franziska Exeler, "Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus" (Cornell UP, 2022)
91 hours 40 mins; January 06, 2023
The Russo-Ukrainian War from a Military Point of View
11 mins; January 03, 2023
Paul Nelles and Rosa Salzberg, "Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
33 mins; January 02, 2023
Svetlana Lavochkina, "Carbon: Song of Crafts" (Lost Horse Press, 2020)
52 mins; December 31, 2022
Aaron Moulton, "The Influencing Machine" (Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, 2022)
82 hours 49 mins; December 31, 2022
Sean Patterson, "Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917-1921" (U Manitoba Press, 2020)
68 hours 50 mins; December 28, 2022
Julia Elsky, "Writing Occupation: Jewish ÉmigrĂ© Voices in Wartime France" (Stanford UP, 2020)
75 hours 25 mins; December 28, 2022
Ian Garner, "Stalingrad Lives!: Stories of Combat and Survival" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)
54 mins; December 26, 2022
Kenneth B. Moss, "An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland" (Harvard UP, 2021)
64 hours 11 mins; December 24, 2022
Mariëlle Wijermars et al., "The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
55 mins; December 24, 2022
Elena Goodwin, "Translating England into Russian: The Politics of Children's Literature in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
55 mins; December 23, 2022
The Future of Global Trade: A Discussion with Shannon K. O'Neil
45 mins; December 22, 2022
Andreas Guidi, "Generations of Empire: Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
70 hours 4 mins; December 22, 2022
Sandra Frimmel, "Art Judgements: Art on Trial in Russia After Perestroika" (Vernon Press, 2021)
62 hours 47 mins; December 21, 2022
Jane Freeland, "Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002" (Oxford UP, 2022)
57 mins; December 20, 2022
Zvi Preigerzon, "Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2022)
129 hours 32 mins; December 20, 2022
Muhammet Koçak, "Turkey-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century: Cooperation and Competition Amid Systemic Turbulence" (Lexington, 2022)
65 hours 3 mins; December 19, 2022
Kiril Feferman, "The Holocaust in the Crimea and the North Caucasus" (Yad Vadhem, 2016)
132 hours 50 mins; December 17, 2022
Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)
58 mins; December 16, 2022
Beverley Chalmers, "Betrayed: Child Sex Abuse in the Holocaust" (Grosvenor House, 2020)
64 hours 24 mins; December 15, 2022
Joanne Yao, "The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order" (Manchester UP, 2022)
40 mins; December 14, 2022
Vladislav M. Zubok, "Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union" (Yale UP, 2021)
56 mins; December 13, 2022
Yannis Stouraitis, "Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
54 mins; December 10, 2022
Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, "Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires" (Cornell UP, 2022)
42 mins; December 10, 2022
Emily Channell-Justice, "Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
48 mins; December 09, 2022
James Mark and Paul Betts, "Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation" (Oxford UP, 2022)
81 hours 55 mins; December 09, 2022
Jay Michaelson, "The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth" (Oxford UP, 2022)
65 hours 8 mins; December 06, 2022
Ruti G. Teitel, "Transitional Justice" (Oxford UP, 2000)
59 mins; December 04, 2022
Andrew Spria, "Foreshadowed: Malevich’s "Black Square" and Its Precursors" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
60 hours 42 mins; December 03, 2022
Sofya Glazunova, "Digital Activism in Russia: The Communication Tactics of Political Outsiders" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
46 mins; November 30, 2022
Olena Braichenko et al., "Ukraine: Food and History" (O. Braichenko, 2020)
41 mins; November 30, 2022
Nathanael Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff, "The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021)
60 hours 2 mins; November 30, 2022
Eugenia Roussou, "Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion: The 'Evil Eye' in Greece" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
48 mins; November 29, 2022
What will be the Role of Europe in the Changing World Order?
35 mins; November 29, 2022
Darra Goldstein, "The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food" (U California Press, 2022)
77 hours 29 mins; November 28, 2022
Dalibor Roháč, "Governing the EU in an Age of Division" (Edward Elgar, 2022)
50 mins; November 25, 2022
Kees Boterbloem, "Russia and the Dutch Republic, 1566–1725: A Forgotten Friendship" (Lexington Books, 2021)
47 mins; November 24, 2022
Eli Gumener, "A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir Of Sorrow" (Slavica, 2022)
122 hours 46 mins; November 23, 2022
Gary Kates, "The Books that Made the European Enlightenment: A History in 12 Case Studies" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
63 hours 19 mins; November 23, 2022
Constantin Noica, "Pray for Brother Alexander" (Punctum Books, 2018)
64 hours 40 mins; November 22, 2022
What is the Future of Populism?
51 mins; November 21, 2022
Holger Afflerbach, "On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
58 mins; November 09, 2022
Natasha Lance Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
43 mins; November 09, 2022
Daniel Scarborough, "Russia's Social Gospel: The Orthodox Pastoral Movement in Famine, War, and Revolution" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
66 hours 33 mins; November 07, 2022
Sara Jones, "Towards a Collaborative Memory: German Memory Work in a Transnational Context" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
62 hours 34 mins; November 04, 2022
Jonathan Brunstedt, "The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
58 mins; November 03, 2022
Eleanor Knott, "Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
58 mins; November 02, 2022
Michael Herzfeld, "Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage" (Duke UP, 2022)
48 mins; November 02, 2022
Nicholas Micinski, "Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
61 hours 5 mins; October 31, 2022
Matthias Bernt, "The Commodification Gap: Gentrification and Public Policy in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg" (Wiley, 2022)
57 mins; October 28, 2022
Anton Weiss-Wendt and Nanci Adler, eds., "The Future of the Soviet Past: The Politics of History in Putin's Russia" (Indiana UP, 2021)
52 mins; October 28, 2022
ÁgĂșst MagnĂșsson, "Kierkegaard and Eastern Orthodox Thought: A Comparative Philosophical Analysis" (Gorgias Press, 2019)
96 hours 2 mins; October 28, 2022
Anna Triandafyllidou and Ruby Gropas, "What is Europe?" (Routledge, 2022)
39 mins; October 28, 2022
Anna Triandafyllidou and Ruby Gropas, "What is Europe?" (Routledge, 2022)
39 mins; October 28, 2022
John Jeffries Martin, "A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2022)
58 mins; October 27, 2022
The Future of Vladimir Putin: A Discussion with Philip Short
60 hours 0 mins; October 25, 2022
Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe
59 mins; October 25, 2022
Miglena S. Todorova, "Unequal under Socialism: Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
75 hours 44 mins; October 24, 2022
A Most Similar Comparison: The Authoritarianism of Poland and Hungary with Edit Zgut-Przybylska
38 mins; October 24, 2022
Thomas E. Burman et al., "The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650" (U California Press, 2022)
60 hours 30 mins; October 21, 2022
Orli Fridman, "Memory Activism and Digital Practices After Conflict: Unwanted Memories" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
61 hours 23 mins; October 19, 2022
Loukas Tsoukalis, "Europe's Coming of Age" (Polity Press, 2022)
45 mins; October 11, 2022
Ewa StaƄczyk, "Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
37 mins; October 11, 2022
Alexander Mikaberidze, "Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2022)
70 hours 2 mins; October 10, 2022
Daniel B. Rowland, "God, Tsar, and People: The Political Culture of Early Modern Russia" (Northern Illinois UP, 2020)
64 hours 50 mins; October 06, 2022
Ofer Fridman, "Russian 'Hybrid Warfare': Resurgence and Politicization" (Oxford UP, 2022)
62 hours 31 mins; October 06, 2022
How to Avoid More Damage from the Russian War on Ukraine
33 mins; October 06, 2022
The Future of the Legitimate Opposition: A Discussion with Alexander S. Kirshner
43 mins; October 04, 2022
Ion Popa, "The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust" (Indiana UP, 2017)
122 hours 16 mins; October 03, 2022
NBN Classic: Catherine Baker, “Race and the Yugoslav Region: Postsocialist, Post-Conflict, Postcolonial?” (Manchester UP, 2018)
64 hours 37 mins; October 02, 2022
Sean Brennan, "The KGB and the Vatican: Secrets of the Mitrokhin Files" (CUA Press, 2022)
57 mins; September 30, 2022
Donald Ostrowski, "Russia in the Early Modern World: The Continuity of Change" (Lexington, 2022)
72 hours 41 mins; September 27, 2022
Andreea Kaltenbrunner, "For the Faith, Against the State: Old Calendarism in Romania (1924-1936)" (De Gruyter, 2022)
34 mins; September 27, 2022
Sibel Oktay, "Governing Abroad: Coalition Politics and Foreign Policy in Europe" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
42 mins; September 26, 2022
Mila Dragojević, "Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War" (Cornell UP, 2019)
44 mins; September 23, 2022
Andrey V. Ivanov, "A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia, 1700–1825" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
46 mins; September 22, 2022
Måté Rigó, "Capitalism in Chaos: How the Business Elites of Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War" (Cornell UP, 2022)
59 mins; September 20, 2022
Sasha Senderovich, "How the Soviet Jew Was Made" (Harvard UP, 2022)
88 hours 57 mins; September 14, 2022
Joseph Torigian, "Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China After Stalin and Mao" (Yale UP, 2022)
61 hours 32 mins; September 07, 2022
Alexandr Dugin, Russia’s Imperial Philosopher: Into the Mind of a Russian Political Theorist
43 mins; September 06, 2022
Fritz Bartel, "The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism" (Harvard UP, 2022)
58 mins; September 05, 2022
Tommi Koivula and HeljĂ€ Ossa, "NATO’s Burden-Sharing Disputes: Past, Present and Future Prospects" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
35 mins; September 01, 2022
The Future of the European Union: A Discussion with Luuk van Middelaar
48 mins; August 30, 2022
Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, "Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2013)
62 hours 40 mins; August 26, 2022
Christina E. Crawford, "Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union" (Cornell UP, 2022)
23 mins; August 19, 2022
Alex Drace-Francis, "The Making of Mămăligă: Transimperial Recipes for a Romanian National Dish" (Central European UP, 2022)
66 hours 55 mins; August 19, 2022
Mark D. Steinberg, "Russian Utopia: A Century of Revolutionary Possibilities" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
68 hours 26 mins; August 19, 2022
Marc Roscoe Loustau, "Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Contemporary Romania: Reforming Apostles" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
61 hours 37 mins; August 17, 2022
On Sholem Aleichem’s "The Tevye Stories"
24 mins; August 12, 2022
Helen Pfeifer, "Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands" (Princeton UP, 2022)
43 mins; August 11, 2022
Anthony Pagden, "The Pursuit of Europe: A History" (Oxford UP, 2022)
68 hours 15 mins; July 28, 2022
Jeff Hayton, "Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany" (Oxford UP, 2022)
67 hours 3 mins; July 28, 2022
Kathryn E. Stoner, "Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order" (Oxford UP, 2020)
33 mins; July 26, 2022
Olena Palko and Constantin Ardeleanu, "Making Ukraine: Negotiating, Contesting, and Drawing the Borders in the Twentieth Century" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
59 mins; July 26, 2022
Dennis Deletant, "In Search of Romania" (Hurst, 2022)
54 mins; July 22, 2022
Francine Friedman, "Like Salt for Bread: The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina" (Brill, 2021)
86 hours 59 mins; July 20, 2022
Sergei Zhuk, "KGB Operations Against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine 1953-1991" (Routledge, 2022)
58 mins; July 18, 2022
Yehudah Mirsky, "Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity: The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
87 hours 30 mins; July 13, 2022
Finnish Maritime Interaction with China in the 18th Century
30 mins; July 08, 2022
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