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Russian and Eurasian Studies
Interviews with scholars of Russia and Eurasia about their new books.
July 25, 2024
Past Progress
Anxiety may have been abounding in the old Cold War West that progress - whether political or economic - has been reversed, but for citizens of former…
July 24, 2024
Violent Affections
Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia (UCL Press, 2022) by Alexander Sasha Kondakov uncovers techniques of power…
July 24, 2024
Endgame 1944
The war on the Eastern front remains relatively less well explored as compared to the western front of World War II. Yet some of the most titanic batt…
July 24, 2024
Displaced Comrades
Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Ebony Nilsson explores the lives o…
July 14, 2024
Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE
Numerous Iron-Age nomadic alliances flourished along the 5000-mile Eurasian steppe route. From Crimea to the Mongolian grassland, nomadic image-making…
July 14, 2024
Second World, Second Sex
Last week, I had the privilege to talk with Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee about her most recent book Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and…
June 30, 2024
Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine
Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voices came out with Lexington Books at the two-year’s mark of Russia’s full-scale invasion …
June 28, 2024
The Shochet
Today we are going to explore a fascinating volume of the Yiddish library, the autobiography of Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn. Set in Ukraine and Crimea, t…
June 22, 2024
The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market
In The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market. Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971 (Cambridge University Pr…
June 19, 2024
When Emancipation Came
Linked by declarations of emancipation within the same five-year period, two countries shared human rights issues on two distinct continents. In When …
June 15, 2024
Lessons of History
Lessons of history are often referred to in public discourse, but seldom in scholarly discussions. Klas-Göran Karlsson's book Lessons of History: The …
June 7, 2024
Retreat from Moscow
Germany’s winter campaign of 1941–1942 is commonly seen as the Wehrmacht's first defeat. In Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Cam…
June 5, 2024
The Green Power of Socialism
In The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology (MIT Press, 2024), Elena Kochetkova examines the…
June 5, 2024
Jewish City Or Inferno of Russian Israel?
Victoria Khiterer's book Jewish City Or Inferno of Russian Israel?: A History of the Jews in Kiev Before February 1917 (Academic Studies Press, 2017) …
May 25, 2024
Russia and the Changing Character of Conflict
Russia's actions in and around Ukraine in 2014, as well as its activities in Syria and further afield, sparked renewed debate about the character …
May 18, 2024
Our Enemies Will Vanish
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. …
May 15, 2024
Russia in World History
Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach (Bloomsbury, 2022) uses a comparative framework to understand Russian history in a global context. T…
May 14, 2024
Russian Style
Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023) provides a critical and nuanced analysis of the relationsh…
May 13, 2024
A Woman's Empire
A Woman's Empire: Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia (U Toronto Press, 2023) explores a new dimension of Russian imperialism: women actively…
May 12, 2024
The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago
In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with Per Högselius and Achim Klüppelberg to dis…