New Books Network
Eastern European Studies
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel January 19, 2021

The Last Million

Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War

David Nasaw

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
In May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of global military conflict did not cease with …

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Eastern European Studies January 18, 2021

Roma Rights and Civil Rights

A Transatlantic Comparison

Felix B. Chang and Sunnie T. Rucker-Chang

Hosted by Steven Seegel
F. B. Chang and S. T. Rucker-Chang's Roma Rights and Civil Rights: A Transatlantic Comparison (Cambridge UP, 2020) tackles the movements for - and expressions of - equality for Roma in …
European Studies January 14, 2021

The Retreat of Liberal Democracy

Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary

Gábor Scheiring

Hosted by Tim Jones
As Donald Trump's presidency draws to a close, his opponents give thanks that he never developed a strategy or learned to use his powers and agencies efficiently. If he had …
Genocide Studies January 14, 2021

Advancing Holocaust Studies

Carol Rittner and John K. Roth

Hosted by Kelly McFall
I think this is the fifth time I've interviewed John K. Roth for the podcast (and the second for Carol Rittner).  He has always been relentlessly realistic about the challenges, intellectual …
Eastern European Studies January 12, 2021

Ukraine

What Everyone Needs to Know

Serhy Yekelchyk

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
In 2020, Oxford University Press published a second edition of Serhy Yekelchyk’s Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford UP, 2020). This series is based on the reference format that …
Eastern European Studies January 8, 2021

Making Ukraine Soviet

Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin

Olena Palko

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Olena Palko’s Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin (Bloomsbury Academic Press 2020) offers an intriguing investigation that zeroes in on the intersection of history and …
Eastern European Studies December 31, 2020

Borders on the Move

Territorial Change and Forced Migration in the Hungarian-Slovak Borderlands, 1938-1948

Leslie Waters

Hosted by Steven Seegel
The movement of borders and people was a remarkably common experience for mid-twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europeans. Such was the case along the border between Czechoslovakia and Hungary, where territory …
Literary Studies December 30, 2020

Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930

Contested Memory

Myroslav Shkandrij

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Myroslav Shkandrij’s Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930: Contested Memory (Academic Studies Press, 2019) offers an insight into the development of the Ukrainian avant-garde, a topic which still remains unjustifiably understudied …
Eastern European Studies December 28, 2020

The Political Economy of Hungary

From State Capitalism to Authoritarian Neoliberalism

Adam Fabry

Hosted by Steven Seegel
Adam Fabry's book The Political Economy of Hungary: From State Capitalism to Authoritarian Neoliberalism (Palgrave, 2019) explores the political economy of Hungary from the mid-1970s to the present. Widely considered a …
Eastern European Studies December 18, 2020

Remaking Muslim Lives

Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina

David Henig

Hosted by Steven Seegel
The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia and the cultural and economic dispossession caused by the collapse of socialism continue to force Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina to reconfigure their religious lives …
History December 17, 2020

Sarajevo 1914

Sparking the First World War

Mark Cornwall

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. This key event in 20th-century history continues to fascinate the public imagination, yet few historians have …
European Studies December 15, 2020

Project Europe

A History

Kiran Klaus Patel

Hosted by Tim Jones
Project Europe made waves when it was published in German in 2018 (CH Beck) and was soon translated into English as Project Europe: A History (Cambridge UP, 2020). A clue to …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast December 15, 2020

Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages

A Discussion with Roland Betancourt

Roland Betancourt

Hosted by Allison Leigh
In Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2020), Roland Betancourt reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around matters …
Eastern European Studies December 14, 2020

Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850

Stammering the Nation

Konstantina Zanou

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Konstantina Zanou is an Assistant Professor of Italian and Mediterranean Studies at Columbia University. Her captivating book Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation (Oxford University Press, 2018) …
Eastern European Studies December 9, 2020

Men Under Fire

Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918

Jiří Hutečka

Hosted by Steven Seegel
In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. As a result, the …
Eastern European Studies December 3, 2020

Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes

Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn

Alessandro Achilli, Serhy Yekelchyk and Dmytro Yesypenko

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in honor of Marko Pavlyshyn (Academic Studies Press, 2020) is an impressive volume of essays on a variety of topics and issues …
Eastern European Studies December 2, 2020

The Fiume Crisis

Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire

Dominique Kirchner Reill

Hosted by Steven Seegel
The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire (Harvard UP, 2020) recasts what we know about the birth of fascism, the rise of nationalism, and the fall …
Eastern European Studies November 27, 2020

The Women of the Arrow Cross Party

Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War

Andrea Pető

Hosted by Steven Seegel
Andrea Pető's book The Women of the Arrow Cross Party: Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of …
Eastern European Studies November 23, 2020

Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania

The Criterion Association

Cristina A. Bejan

Hosted by Steven Seegel
In 1930s Bucharest, some of the country's most brilliant young intellectuals converged to form the Criterion Association. Bound by friendship and the dream of a new, modern Romania, their members …
European Studies November 20, 2020

European Integration

A Political History

Mark Gilbert

Hosted by Tim Jones
“Awareness of the EU's undeniable past and present importance can - and has - led to complacency and hubris. There is nothing inevitable about European integration". So writes Mark Gilbert …