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New Books in Eastern European Studies
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Izabela Wagner, "Bauman: A Biography" (Polity, 2020)
59 mins; December 17, 2021
Andrew Gilbert, "International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy: Encounters in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina" (Cornell UP, 2020)
70 hours 31 mins; December 17, 2021
Bogdan Popa, "De-Centering Queer Theory: Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and After the Cold War" (Manchester UP, 2021)
57 mins; December 17, 2021
Alex Panasenko, "The Long Vacation: A Memoir" (Iris Press, 2020)
53 mins; December 16, 2021
Anna Machcewicz, "Civility in Uncivil Times: Kazimierz Moczarski's Quiet Battle for Truth, from the Polish Underground to Stalinist Prison" (Peter Lang, 2020)
60 hours 18 mins; December 15, 2021
Andrew Demshuk, "Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
43 mins; December 14, 2021
David Moon et al., "Place and Nature: Essays in Russian History" (White Horse Press, 2021)
66 hours 10 mins; December 08, 2021
Barbara Martin, "Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union: From De-Stalinization to Perestroika" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
61 hours 22 mins; December 03, 2021
Devin J. Vartija, "The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
72 hours 54 mins; December 02, 2021
James Kapaló and Kinga Povedák, "The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)
63 hours 17 mins; December 01, 2021
Grant T. Harward, "Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2021)
84 hours 43 mins; November 26, 2021
Katarzyna Bartoszyńska, "Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
31 mins; November 26, 2021
Jessie Barton-Hronešová, "The Struggle for Redress: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
65 hours 7 mins; November 24, 2021
Molly Thomasy Blasing, "Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture" (Cornell UP, 2021)
59 mins; November 23, 2021
Karla Huebner, "Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
71 hours 19 mins; November 16, 2021
Svitlana Biedarieva, "Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
47 mins; November 16, 2021
Mark Mazower, "The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe" (Penguin, 2021)
56 mins; November 16, 2021
Katja Praznik, "Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
60 hours 48 mins; November 11, 2021
Yuri Kostenko, "Ukraine's Nuclear Disarmament: A History" (HURI, 2020)
31 mins; November 09, 2021
Julia E. Ault, "Saving Nature Under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968-1990" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
54 mins; November 09, 2021
Andrea Gondos, "Kabbalah in Print: The Study and Popularization of Jewish Mysticism in Early Modernity" (SUNY Press, 2020)
50 mins; November 04, 2021
Jan Rybak, "Everyday Zionism in East-Central Europe: Nation-Building in War and Revolution, 1914-1920" (Oxford UP, 2021)
82 hours 18 mins; November 02, 2021
Meni Even-Israel, "The Steinsaltz Tanya V3: Sha'ar Hayihud Veha'emuna and Iggeret Hateshuva" (Maggid, 2021)
44 mins; October 27, 2021
Serhii Plokhy, "The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present" (HURI, 2021)
55 mins; October 27, 2021
Machteld Venken, "Peripheries at the Centre: Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe" (Berghahn Books, 2021)
62 hours 6 mins; October 27, 2021
Emily Greble, "Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe" (Oxford UP, 2021)
56 mins; October 25, 2021
Jay Rubenstein, “Apocalypse Then: The First Crusade” (Open Agenda, 2021)
113 hours 1 min; October 22, 2021
Eunice Blavascunas, "Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles: The Future of Europe's Last Primeval Forest" (Indiana UP, 2020)
59 mins; October 20, 2021
Leonidas Mylonakis, "Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Maritime Marauders in the Greek and Ottoman Aegean" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
35 mins; October 20, 2021
Ivor Sokolić, "International Courts and Mass Atrocity: Narratives of War and Justice in Croatia" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
66 hours 26 mins; October 15, 2021
Eliyana R. Adler, "Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union" (Harvard UP, 2020)
63 hours 34 mins; October 14, 2021
Josiah Ober, “Democratic Lessons: What the Greeks Can Teach Us” (Open Agenda, 2021)
127 hours 31 mins; October 14, 2021
Gábor Ágoston, "The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe" (Princeton UP, 2021)
149 hours 30 mins; October 13, 2021
Jeffrey Veidlinger, "In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
54 mins; October 12, 2021
John-Paul Himka, "Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust: OUN and UPA's Participation in the Destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, 1941-1944" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
60 hours 39 mins; October 12, 2021
Rano Turaeva and Rustamjon Urinboyev, "Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)
53 mins; October 11, 2021
Olesya Khromeychuk, "A Loss: The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister" (Ibidem, 2021)
61 hours 30 mins; October 06, 2021
Maria Mavroudi, “Byzantium: Beyond the Cliché” (Open Agenda, 2021)
148 hours 31 mins; October 01, 2021
Patrice M. Dabrowski, "The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine" (Northern Illinois UP, 2021)
56 mins; October 01, 2021
Paul Betts, "Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe After the Second World War" (Basic Books, 2021)
49 mins; September 30, 2021
Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic, "Can You Run Away from Sorrow?: Mothers Left Behind in 1990s Belgrade" (Indiana UP, 2020)
64 hours 31 mins; September 29, 2021
Samuel Foster, "Yugoslavia in the British Imagination: Peace, War and Peasants Before Tito" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
54 mins; September 27, 2021
Vladislav Davidzon, "From Odessa with Love: Political and Literary Essays in Post-Soviet Ukraine" ( Academica Press, 2020)
58 mins; September 27, 2021
Mark Baker, "Time of Changes" (Albatros Books, 2021)
56 mins; September 24, 2021
Petr Roubal, "Spartakiads: The Politics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia" (Karolinum Press, 2020)
69 hours 1 min; September 23, 2021
Brigitte Le Normand, "Citizens Without Borders: Yugoslavia and Its Migrant Workers in Western Europe" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
90 hours 5 mins; September 10, 2021
Paul Werth, "1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2021)
68 hours 37 mins; September 07, 2021
Tímea Drinóczi and Agnieszka Bień-Kacała, "Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary" (Routledge, 2021)
42 mins; September 03, 2021
Gerd Horten, "Don't Need No Thought Control: Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
94 hours 14 mins; September 02, 2021
Nadieszda Kizenko, "Good for the Souls: A History of Confession in the Russian Empire" (Oxford UP, 2021)
57 mins; September 01, 2021
A. S. Agadjanian and S. M. Kenworthy, "Understanding World Christianity: Russia" (Fortress Press, 2021)
60 hours 13 mins; August 25, 2021
Salvatore Pappalardo, "Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870-1945" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
51 mins; August 24, 2021
Zuza Zak, "Amber & Rye: A Baltic Food Journey: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania" (Allen & Unwin, 2021)
52 mins; August 20, 2021
James Mark et al., "1989: A Global History of Eastern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
79 hours 4 mins; August 16, 2021
Margarita M. Balmaceda, "Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union" (Wilson Center, 2021)
49 mins; August 13, 2021
Volodymyr Vynnychenko, "Disharmony and Other Plays" (CIUS Press, 2020)
57 mins; August 13, 2021
Eliza Ablovatski, "Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe: The Deluge of 1919" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
62 hours 8 mins; August 11, 2021
Lucy Kinski, "European Representation in EU National Parliaments" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
47 mins; August 10, 2021
Ian Ona Johnson, "Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
58 mins; August 10, 2021
Miljenko Jergović, "Kin" (Translated by R. S. Valentino; Archipelago Books, 2021)
50 mins; August 09, 2021
Richard Mills, "The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia: Sport, Nationalism and the State" (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
66 hours 26 mins; August 06, 2021
Chiara Bonfiglioli, "Women and Industry in the Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector" (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
71 hours 38 mins; August 03, 2021
Alison K. Smith, "Cabbage and Caviar: A History of Food in Russia" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
62 hours 56 mins; July 27, 2021
Michal Kšiňan, "Milan Rastislav Štefánik: The Slovak National Hero and Co-Founder of Czechoslovakia" (Routledge, 2021)
73 hours 23 mins; July 27, 2021
Eszter Varsa, "Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the 'Gypsy Question' in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949–1956" (Central European UP, 2020)
49 mins; July 26, 2021
Malte Dold and Tim Krieger, "Ordoliberalism and European Economic Policy: Between Realpolitik and Economic Utopia" (Taylor & Francis, 2021)
57 mins; July 21, 2021
Andrew Jenks, "Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth" (Anthem Press, 2021)
57 mins; July 21, 2021
Russell E. Martin, "The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495-1745" (Northern Illinois UP, 2021)
63 hours 49 mins; July 15, 2021
Timothy Frye, "Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia" (Princeton UP, 2021)
49 mins; July 13, 2021
Marta Dyczok, "Ukraine Calling: A Kaleidoscope from Hromadske Radio 2016-2019" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
57 mins; July 09, 2021
Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel, "Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews" (North Atlantic Books, 2021)
62 hours 46 mins; July 09, 2021
Kristin Poling, "Germany's Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
59 mins; July 07, 2021
Ayse Parla, "Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey" (Stanford UP, 2019)
61 hours 52 mins; July 07, 2021
Rossen Djagalov, "From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema Between the Second and the Third Worlds" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
81 hours 2 mins; July 06, 2021
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, "Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)
58 mins; July 06, 2021
Stephen V. Bittner, "Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar" (Oxford UP, 2021)
57 mins; July 01, 2021
Alessandro Testa, "Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe" (Routledge, 2020)
65 hours 6 mins; June 25, 2021
Mariusz Kalczewiak, "Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture" (U Alabama Press, 2019)
52 mins; June 25, 2021
Juliane Fürst, "Flowers Through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland" (Oxford UP, 2021)
81 hours 23 mins; June 24, 2021
Chad Bryant, "Prague: Belonging in the Modern City" (Harvard UP, 2021)
59 mins; June 23, 2021
Sean McMeekin, "Stalin's War: A New History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2021)
76 hours 10 mins; June 23, 2021
Veronika Pehe, "Velvet Retro: Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
80 hours 52 mins; June 21, 2021
Theodora K. Dragostinova, "The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene" (Cornell UP, 2021)
57 mins; June 18, 2021
Stephen M. Norris, "Museums of Communism: New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe" (Indiana UP, 2020)
65 hours 25 mins; June 18, 2021
Edward B. Westermann, "Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany" (Cornell UP, 2021)
72 hours 47 mins; June 10, 2021
Talking Ethnographic Fiction with Alexandros Plasatis
55 mins; June 10, 2021
Jelena Đureinović, "The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia" (Routledge, 2020)
58 mins; June 07, 2021
Suzanne L. Marchand, "Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)
61 hours 47 mins; June 04, 2021
Christopher Ocker, "Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
38 mins; June 04, 2021
Larry E. Holmes, "Revising the Revolution: The Unmaking of Russia's Official History of 1917" (Indiana UP, 2021)
57 mins; June 03, 2021
Kristy Ironside, "A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union" (Harvard UP, 2021)
56 mins; June 02, 2021
Natalia Aleksiun, "Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
63 hours 19 mins; May 31, 2021
Paolo Dardanelli and Oscar Mazzoleni, "Dealing with Europe: Lessons from Switzerland's Experience" (Routledge, 2021)
51 mins; May 31, 2021
Katarzyna Person, "Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation" (Cornell UP, 2021)
56 mins; May 28, 2021
Georgiy Kasianov et al., "From 'the Ukraine' to Ukraine: A Contemporary History, 1991-2021" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
52 mins; May 27, 2021
Linda Colley, "The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World" (Liveright, 2021)
46 mins; May 26, 2021
Beatrice de Graaf, "Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
54 mins; May 21, 2021
Ned Richardson-Little, "The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
84 hours 30 mins; May 21, 2021
Faith Hillis, "Utopia's Discontents: Russian Emigres and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s" (Oxford UP, 2021)
56 mins; May 18, 2021
Sten Rynniing et al., "War Time: Temporality and the Decline of Western Military Power" (Chatham House, 2020)
63 hours 19 mins; May 17, 2021
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