New Books in Eastern European Studies
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Jasmina Tumbas, "I Am Jugoslovenka!: Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism" (Manchester UP, 2022)
69 hours 17 mins; July 01, 2022
War and Peace: America's Humane War and the Crisis in Ukraine
101 hours 47 mins; June 30, 2022
Lauren K. Stokes, "Fear of the Family: Guest Workers and Family Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany" (Oxford UP, 2022)
68 hours 7 mins; June 29, 2022
Hikmet Karčić, "Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
69 hours 51 mins; June 29, 2022
Joshua D. Zimmerman, "Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland" (Harvard UP, 2022)
98 hours 35 mins; June 23, 2022
Ukrainian Nationalism in Historical Context
66 hours 28 mins; June 21, 2022
Andrew Monaghan, "Russian Grand Strategy in the Era of Global Power Competition" (Manchester UP, 2022)
71 hours 21 mins; June 20, 2022
Andrew Monaghan, "Russian Grand Strategy in the Era of Global Power Competition" (Manchester UP, 2022)
71 hours 21 mins; June 20, 2022
Menachem Kaiser, "Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure" (Mariner Books, 2021)
71 hours 20 mins; June 14, 2022
Paul Lerner et al., "Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
65 hours 55 mins; June 13, 2022
Philippe Henri Blasen, "La 'primaute' de la nation roumaine" et les 'etrangers': Les minorites et leur liberte du travail sous le cabinet Goga et la dictature royale" (2022)
66 hours 27 mins; June 13, 2022
David de Jong, "Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties" (Mariner Books, 2022)
53 mins; June 13, 2022
Denisa NesƄåkovå and Katja Grosse-Sommer, "If This Is a Woman: Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
49 mins; June 13, 2022
Ralph Hope, "The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present" (Oneworld, 2021)
55 mins; June 10, 2022
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of Germany" (Robinson, 2022)
50 mins; June 09, 2022
Zarina Burkadze, "Great Power Competition and the Path to Democracy: The Case of Georgia, 1991-2020" (U Rochester Press, 2022)
66 hours 18 mins; June 08, 2022
Ioana Florea et al., "Contemporary Housing Struggles: A Structural Field of Contention Approach" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
80 hours 25 mins; June 07, 2022
Olga Bertelsen, "In the Labyrinth of the KGB: Ukraine's Intelligentsia in the 1960s-1970s" (Lexington Books, 2022)
55 mins; June 06, 2022
Tomek Jankowski, "Eastern Europe!: Everything You Need to Know about the History (and More) of a Region That Shaped Our World and Still Does" (New Europe, 2021)
58 mins; June 03, 2022
Stefan Auer, "European Disunion: Democracy, Sovereignty and the Politics of Emergency" (Oxford UP, 2022)
55 mins; May 26, 2022
Yechiel Weizman, "Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces After the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2022)
39 mins; May 26, 2022
K. Friedla and M. Nesselrodt, "Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939-1959): History and Memory of Deportation, Exile, and Survival" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
45 mins; May 25, 2022
Putin's War on Ukraine in Historical Perpective
70 hours 13 mins; May 24, 2022
Olga Bertelsen, "In the Labyrinth of the KGB: Ukraine's Intelligentsia in the 1960s–1970s" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
78 hours 44 mins; May 20, 2022
Charters Wynn, "The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936" (Brill, 2022)
62 hours 4 mins; May 18, 2022
Ferenc Hörcher, "The Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis, Through City-State, to Megalopolis?" (Lexington Book, 2021)
81 hours 7 mins; May 16, 2022
Katharine Hodgson and Alexandra Smith, "Canonicity, Twentieth-Century Poetry and Russian National Identity After 1991" (Peter Lang, 2020)
54 mins; May 13, 2022
Victoria A. Malko, "The Ukrainian Intelligentsia and Genocide: The Struggle for History, Language, and Culture in the 1920s and 1930s" (Lexington Books, 2021)
52 mins; May 13, 2022
Bruce Clark, "Athens: City of Wisdom" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
62 hours 16 mins; May 09, 2022
Piotr H. Kosicki, "Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and 'Revolution,' 1891-1956" (Yale UP, 2018)
57 mins; May 09, 2022
Jaclyn Granick, "International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
51 mins; May 06, 2022
Lea Ypi, "Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History" (Norton, 2021)
56 mins; May 05, 2022
Stanley Bill, "CzesƂaw MiƂosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity" (Oxford UP, 2021)
74 hours 50 mins; May 04, 2022
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, "Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time" (Princeton UP, 2022)
65 hours 26 mins; May 04, 2022
Charles J. Halperin, "Ivan the Terrible in Russian Historical Memory Since 1991" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
65 hours 45 mins; April 29, 2022
HélÚne Bienvenu, et al., "La Hongrie sous Orban" (Plein Jour, 2022)
54 mins; April 22, 2022
Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, "Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
63 hours 36 mins; April 21, 2022
Susanne A. Wengle, "Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
61 hours 52 mins; April 15, 2022
Vicki Squire, "Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
52 mins; April 11, 2022
Albena Shkodrova, "Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
51 mins; April 06, 2022
Jochen Lingelbach, "On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
70 hours 0 mins; April 06, 2022
Piotr Puchalski, "Poland in a Colonial World Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918-1939" (Routledge, 2021)
60 hours 53 mins; April 05, 2022
Valerie A. Kivelson and Christine D. Worobec, "Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900: A Sourcebook" (Northern Illinois UP, 2020)
60 hours 8 mins; March 29, 2022
Ayße Zarakol, "Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
45 mins; March 29, 2022
Caroline Mezger, "Forging Germans: Youth, Nation, and the National Socialist Mobilization of Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, 1918-1944" (Oxford UP, 2020)
79 hours 0 mins; March 28, 2022
Lasse Skytt, "Orbanland: Why Viktor OrbĂĄn's Hungary Matters" (New Europe Books, 2022)
48 mins; March 28, 2022
Vanessa Rampton, "Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia: From Catherine the Great to the Russian Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
57 mins; March 25, 2022
Lucy Ward, "The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus" (ONEWorld, 2022)
75 hours 57 mins; March 25, 2022
Tinatin Japaridze, "Stalin's Millennials: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism" (Lexington Books, 2022)
81 hours 38 mins; March 22, 2022
Ken Krimstein, "When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
43 mins; March 22, 2022
Joanna Mishtal, "The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland" (Ohio UP, 2015)
87 hours 45 mins; March 21, 2022
Mark Edele, "Debates on Stalinism" (Manchester UP, 2020)
59 mins; March 15, 2022
Carter R. Johnson, "Partition and Peace in Civil Wars: Dividing Lands and Peoples to End Ethnic Conflict" (Routledge, 2021)
50 mins; March 15, 2022
Ruta Sepetys, "I Must Betray You" (Philomel Books, 2022)
30 mins; March 14, 2022
David A. Harrisville, "The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944" (Cornell UP, 2021)
60 hours 19 mins; March 10, 2022
Vassilis Petsinis, "National Identity in Serbia: The Vojvodina and a Multi-Ethnic Community in the Balkans" (I.B. Tauris, 2019)
58 mins; March 09, 2022
Jeremy Black, "The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Strategies for a World War" (Roman and Littlefield, 2022)
34 mins; March 08, 2022
Fabio Mattioli, "Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe" (Stanford UP, 2020)
74 hours 40 mins; March 07, 2022
Hannes Grandits, "The End of Ottoman Rule in Bosnia: Conflicting Agencies and Imperial Appropriations" (Routledge, 2021)
48 mins; March 04, 2022
Maria Bucur, "The Nation’s Gratitude: World War I and Citizenship Rights in Interwar Romania" (Routledge, 2022)
75 hours 47 mins; March 04, 2022
Jadwiga Biskupska, "Survivors: Warsaw under Nazi Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
61 hours 34 mins; March 04, 2022
Lili Zách, "Imagining Ireland Abroad, 1904–1945: Conceiving the Nation, Identity, and Borders in Central Europe" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
46 mins; March 02, 2022
Eva Fodor, "The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary" (Palgrave, 2022)
62 hours 56 mins; March 02, 2022
Mark Edele, "Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
45 mins; March 01, 2022
Joanna Sliwa, "Jewish Childhood in KrakĂłw: A Microhistory of the Holocaust" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
84 hours 35 mins; February 25, 2022
Samuel Clowes Huneke, "States of Liberation: Gay Men Between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
58 mins; February 25, 2022
Paul M. Dover, "The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
80 hours 6 mins; February 25, 2022
Exploring Autonomy: A History of Jewish Self-Governance in Eastern Europe
20 mins; February 23, 2022
Teresa Kulawik and Zhanna Kravchenko, "Borderlands in European Gender Studies: Beyond the East-West Frontier" (Routledge, 2020)
88 hours 16 mins; February 22, 2022
Stanislav Aseyev, "In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas" (HURI, 2022)
44 mins; February 22, 2022
Regina Smyth, "Elections, Protest, and Authoritarian Regime Stability: Russia 2008–2020" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
65 hours 34 mins; February 18, 2022
Marc David Baer, "The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs" (Basic Books, 2021)
46 mins; February 17, 2022
Melissa Feinberg, "Communism in Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)
79 hours 30 mins; February 14, 2022
Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod, "Narratives of Victimhood and Perpetration: The Struggle of Bosnian and Rwandan Diaspora Communities in the United States" (Peter Lang, 2021)
57 mins; February 08, 2022
Ola Hnatiuk, "Courage and Fear" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2019)
63 hours 0 mins; February 07, 2022
Zachary Austin Doleshal, "In the Kingdom of Shoes: Bata, ZlĂ­n, Globalization, 1894-1945" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
75 hours 11 mins; February 07, 2022
David L. Hoffmann, "The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia" (Routledge, 2021)
70 hours 15 mins; February 04, 2022
PaweƂ Markiewicz, "Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II" (Purdue UP, 2021)
55 mins; February 01, 2022
Bojana Videkanic, "Nonaligned Modernism: Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2019)
96 hours 37 mins; January 27, 2022
Nicholas Jubber, "The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales" (John Murray, 2022)
54 mins; January 26, 2022
Samuel J. Spinner, "Jewish Primitivism" (Stanford UP, 2021)
77 hours 21 mins; January 26, 2022
Judith McCormack, "The Singing Forest" (Biblioasis, 2021)
25 mins; January 25, 2022
Katja Hoyer, "Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire" (Pegasus Books, 2021)
63 hours 23 mins; January 25, 2022
Richard Bellamy et al., "Flexible Europe: Differentiated Integration, Democracy, and Domination" (Bristol UP, 2022)
51 mins; January 24, 2022
James Koranyi, "Migrating Memories: Romanian Germans in Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
75 hours 8 mins; January 18, 2022
Glenn Cronin, "Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev" (Northern Illinois UP, 2021)
51 mins; January 18, 2022
Karlo Basta, "The Symbolic State: Minority Recognition, Majority Backlash, and Secession in Multinational Countries" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2021)
73 hours 8 mins; January 17, 2022
Ronald Beiner, "Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
47 mins; January 14, 2022
Marc Caplan, "Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism" (Indiana UP, 2021)
70 hours 24 mins; January 13, 2022
Anat Plocker, "The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland: Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties" (Indiana UP, 2022)
70 hours 28 mins; January 12, 2022
Matthew P. Romaniello, et al., "The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600-Present" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
35 mins; January 10, 2022
Malika Maskarinec, "The Forces of Form in German Modernism" (Northwestern UP, 2018)
74 hours 48 mins; January 05, 2022
Rich Brownstein, "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" (McFarland, 2021)
66 hours 6 mins; December 31, 2021
Putin's Attempt to Hide the Crimes of Stalinism
50 mins; December 30, 2021
Tomek Jankowski, "Eastern Europe! Everything You Need to Know" (New Europe Books, 2021)
40 mins; December 28, 2021
Paul Bushkovitch, "Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia: The Transfer of Power 1450-1725" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
67 hours 15 mins; December 28, 2021
Lucie Fremlova, "Queer Roma" (Routledge, 2021)
61 hours 21 mins; December 24, 2021
E. Natalie Rothman, "The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism" (Cornell UP, 2021)
71 hours 50 mins; December 24, 2021
Jeffrey Brooks, "The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
40 mins; December 22, 2021
Tibor MartĂ­ and Roberto Quiros Rosado, "Eagles Looking East and West: Dynasty, Ritual and Representation in Habsburg Hungary and Spain" (Brepols, 2021)
49 mins; December 17, 2021