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April 17, 2024
Underground
Bruce O'Neill's Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, li…
April 15, 2024
The Last Ships from Hamburg
Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the Unite…
April 14, 2024
Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland
How embedded are the dignity and personhood of the elderly in the collective memory of their nation? In Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memor…
April 13, 2024
When Left Moves Right
In her new book, When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe (Oxford University Press, 2…
April 10, 2024
Ceausescu
Today I talked to Traian Sandu about his book Ceausescu: Le dictateur ambigu (Perrin, 2023). Born in January 1918, Nicolae Ceauşescu began his appre…
April 7, 2024
40 years of Croatian Studies at Macquarie University
Ingrid Piller speaks with Jasna Novak Milić, the director of the Croatian Studies Center at Macquarie University. The Croatian Studies Center at Mac…
April 7, 2024
The New Roman Empire
In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated mo…
April 4, 2024
Reds in Blue
Before Josef Stalin's death in 1953, the USSR had, at best, an ambivalent relationship with noncommunist international organisations. Although it had …
April 3, 2024
A Kind of Refugee
American-born Larissa Babij is at home in Kyiv when Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Her grandparents left Ukr…
April 2, 2024
Why Should We Preserve Memory of the Holocaust?
Wojtek Soczewica has led the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation since 2019, near the site of the killing fields. The Foundation aims at the preservation of…
April 1, 2024
Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland
In the years after World War II, Polish scholars and scientists faced a complex and deeply personal political reality, the result of a long and violen…
April 1, 2024
The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia
Despite the intense processes of deindustrialisation around the world, the working class continues to play an important role in post-industrial societ…
March 29, 2024
Zenithism (1921-1927)
Zenithism (1921-1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology (Academic Studies Press, 2023) is the first-ever English language anthology of zenithism – an …
March 28, 2024
Bigger Fish to Fry
What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? Bigger Fish to Fry: A…
March 26, 2024
A Satellite Empire
A Satellite Empire: Romanian Rule in Southwestern Ukraine, 1941–1944 (Cornell UP, 2019) is an in-depth investigation of the political and social histo…
March 26, 2024
The Russian FSB
Since its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia's Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era…
March 18, 2024
The Holocaust
The Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialized and much-portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning …
March 17, 2024
Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union
Catastrophic wartime casualties and postwar discomfort with the successes of women who had served in combat roles combined to shatter prewar ideals …
March 17, 2024
The Counterfeit Countess
World War II and the Holocaust have been the subject of many remarkable stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Wom…
March 16, 2024
Ukraine Vis-à-Vis Russia and the EU
Ukraine Vis-à-Vis Russia and the EU: Misperceptions of Foreign Challenges in Times of War, 2014-2015 (Ibidem Press, 2023) investigates the making of U…