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About Roland Clark

Dr Roland Clark is a Reader in Modern European History at the University of Liverpool, a Senior Fellow with the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right, and the Principal Investigator of an AHRC-funded project on European Fascist Movements. He is also the current President of the Society of Romanian Studies. Clark has written Holy Legionary Youth: Fascist Activism in Interwar Romania (Cornell University Press, 2015), Sectarianism and Renewal in 1920s Romania: The Limits of Orthodoxy and Nation-Building (Bloomsbury, 2021), and numerous journal articles and book chapters. His interests include fascism, lived religion, the Holocaust, gender, and student movements.

Roland Clark is a Reader in Modern European History at the University of Liverpool, a Senior Fellow with the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right, and the Principal Investigator of an AHRC-funded project on European Fascist Movements.

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Eastern European Studies August 5, 2023

Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia

Serbian Nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity

Maria Falina

Hosted by Roland Clark
The persistence of religion in modern Europe and the challenges of transitioning from a religious to a secular state has all too often been overlooked in the history of the …
French Studies June 22, 2023

The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939

Chris Millington

Hosted by Roland Clark
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The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939 (Stanford UP, 2023) investigates the political and social imaginaries of 'terrorism' in early twentieth-century France. Chris Millington traces the development of how the …
Women's History June 14, 2023

Warrior Women

The Cultural Politics of Armed Women, c. 1850-1945

Alison S. Fell

Hosted by Roland Clark
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Alison S. Fell's book Warrior Women: The Cultural Politics of Armed Women, c.1850-1945 (Cambridge UP, 2023) examines women warriors as vehicles of mobilisation. It argues that women warrior figures from the …
Eastern European Studies June 8, 2023

The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients

An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania

Marius Wamsiedel

Hosted by Roland Clark
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Marius Wamsiedel's book The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania (Lexington, 2023) is an ethnography of the social process by which healthcare workers ration …
Latin American Studies April 29, 2023

Liberationist Christianity in Argentina (1930-1983)

Faith and Revolution

Pablo Bradbury

Hosted by Roland Clark
How did liberationist Christianity develop in Argentina between the 1930s and early 1970s? And how did it respond to state terrorism during the Dirty War? How did liberation theology develop …
Eastern European Studies April 25, 2023

Sugarland

The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania

Artan R. Hoxha

Hosted by Roland Clark
In Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania (Central European UP, 2023), Artan Hoxha discusses the ambitious development project in state socialist Albania that turned a swampland into a site of …
General History April 4, 2023

Journeys of Soviet Things

Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India

Sudha Rajagopalan

Hosted by Roland Clark
At the intersection of history, material culture studies, and post-socialist memory studies, Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India (Routledge, 2023) is an oral …
Eastern European Studies March 8, 2023

The Fascist Faith of the Legion Archangel Michael in Romania, 1927-1941

From Martyrdom to National Purification

Constantin Iordachi

Hosted by Roland Clark
The Fascist Faith of the Legion "Archangel Michael" in Romania, 1927–1941 (Routledge, 2022) engages critically with recent works on fascism, totalitarianism, and religion, and advances an original theoretical and methodological approach to …
Eastern European Studies February 25, 2023

Performing Modernism

A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest

Alexandra Chiriac

Hosted by Roland Clark
Alexandra Chiriac's book Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest (de Gruyter, 2022) examines the reach of modernism in design and performance in interwar Romania. It follows the transnational trajectories of …
Russian and Eurasian Studies November 7, 2022

Russia's Social Gospel

The Orthodox Pastoral Movement in Famine, War, and Revolution

Daniel Scarborough

Hosted by Roland Clark
The late Russian Empire experienced rapid economic change, social dislocation, and multiple humanitarian crises, enduring two wars, two famines, and three revolutions. A "pastoral activism" took hold as parish clergymen …
Eastern European Studies October 11, 2022

Comics and Nation

Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland

Ewa Stańczyk

Hosted by Roland Clark
Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland (Ohio State UP, 2022) offers a fresh perspective on the role of popular culture in the one-hundred-year history of …
Eastern European Studies September 27, 2022

For the Faith, Against the State

Old Calendarism in Romania (1924-1936)

Andreea Kaltenbrunner

Hosted by Roland Clark
In For the Faith, Against the State: Old Calendarism in Romania (1924-1936)* (De Gruyter, 2022), Andreea Kaltenbrunner uses Old Calendarism, a movement of orthodox believers against the introduction of a new church calendar …
Eastern European Studies September 20, 2022

Capitalism in Chaos

How the Business Elites of Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War

Máté Rigó

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Capitalism in Chaos: How the Business Elites of Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War (Cornell UP, 2022) explores an often-overlooked consequence and paradox of the First World …
Eastern European Studies August 19, 2022

The Making of Mămăligă

Transimperial Recipes for a Romanian National Dish

Alex Drace-Francis

Hosted by Roland Clark
Mămăligă, maize porridge or polenta, is a universally consumed dish in Romania and a prominent national symbol. But its unusual history has rarely been told. Alex Drace-Francis surveys the arrival …
Eastern European Studies July 22, 2022

In Search of Romania

Dennis Deletant

Hosted by Roland Clark
The imposition of Communist ideology was a misfortune for millions in Eastern Europe, but never for Dennis Deletant. Instead, it drew him to Romania. The renowned historian’s association with the …
Eastern European Studies June 13, 2022

La 'primaute' de la nation roumaine" et les 'etrangers'

Les minorites et leur liberte du travail sous le cabinet Goga et la dictature royale

Philippe Henri Blasen

Hosted by Roland Clark
After decades of rule by the National Liberal Party or one of its centre-right, mainstream rivals – usually either the Conservative Party or the National Peasant Party, – in December …
Eastern European Studies April 6, 2022

Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria

Albena Shkodrova

Hosted by Roland Clark
How did people exist and resist in their daily lives under Soviet control in the Cold War period? Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria (Bloomsbury, 2021) shows how …
Eastern European Studies March 4, 2022

The Nation’s Gratitude

World War I and Citizenship Rights in Interwar Romania

Maria Bucur

Hosted by Roland Clark
A pioneering work for the history of veterans’ rights in Romania, Maria Bucur's book The Nation’s Gratitude: World War I and Citizenship Rights in Interwar Romania (Routledge, 2022) brings into focus …
Eastern European Studies January 18, 2022

Migrating Memories

Romanian Germans in Modern Europe

James Koranyi

Hosted by Roland Clark
Romanian Germans, mainly from the Banat and Transylvania, have occupied a place at the very heart of major events in Europe in the twentieth century yet their history is largely …
Eastern European Studies December 1, 2021

The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe

James A. Kapalo and Kinga Povedák

Hosted by Roland Clark
This new book by James Kapaló and Kinga Povedák explores the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation of the religious underground in communist-era Eastern Europe. In sixteen …
Eastern European Studies November 26, 2021

Romania's Holy War

Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust

Grant T. Harward

Hosted by Roland Clark
What motivated conscripted soldiers to fight in the Romanian Army during the Second World War? Why did they obey orders, take risks, and sometimes deliberately sacrifice their lives for the …