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About Roland Clark
Dr Roland Clark is a Reader in Modern European History at the University of Liverpool, and the Past 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 edited European Fascist Movements: A Sourcebook (20222) as well as 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.
NBN Episodes hosted by Roland:
September 4, 2024
Activism Across Borders Since 1870
From the Occupy protests to climate change school strikes and the Black Lives Matter movement, the 21st century has been rife with activism. Although …
July 26, 2024
The Women of 'Little Paris'
Filling a gap in Eastern European fashion studies, this book presents middle-class women consuming fashion in the symbolic 'Little Paris' of interwar …
May 18, 2024
Steamboat Modernity
Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on Moldavia and Wallachia of steam navigation on the D…
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 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…
March 11, 2024
Nationalisation of the Sacred
The Eastern Orthodox Churches in post-communist Eastern Europe are embroiled in long-running conflicts over ownership of territory, saints, sites, nat…
January 6, 2024
From Grand Estates to Grand Corruption
Today I talked to Klaus Buchenau about his new book From Grand Estates to Grand Corruption: The Battle Over the Possessions of Prince Albert of Thurn …
December 8, 2023
Queer Culture in Romania, 1920–2018
Ramona Dima's book Queer Culture in Romania, 1920–2018 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023) is an in depth, extensive study of Romanian queer cultural products.…
August 5, 2023
Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia
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…
June 22, 2023
The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939
The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939 (Stanford UP, 2023) investigates the political and social imaginaries of 'terrorism' in early twentiet…
June 14, 2023
Warrior Women
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 mob…
June 8, 2023
The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients
Marius Wamsiedel's book The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania (Lexington, 2023) is an ethnog…
April 29, 2023
Liberationist Christianity in Argentina (1930-1983)
How did liberationist Christianity develop in Argentina between the 1930s and early 1970s? And how did it respond to state terrorism during the Dirty …
April 25, 2023
Sugarland
In Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania (Central European UP, 2023), Artan Hoxha discusses the ambitious development …
April 4, 2023
Journeys of Soviet Things
At the intersection of history, material culture studies, and post-socialist memory studies, Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience i…
March 8, 2023
The Fascist Faith of the Legion Archangel Michael in Romania, 1927-1941
The Fascist Faith of the Legion "Archangel Michael" in Romania, 1927–1941 (Routledge, 2022) engages critically with recent works on fascism, totalitar…
February 25, 2023
Performing Modernism
Alexandra Chiriac's book Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest (de Gruyter, 2022) examines the reach of modernism in design and perf…
November 7, 2022
Russia's Social Gospel
The late Russian Empire experienced rapid economic change, social dislocation, and multiple humanitarian crises, enduring two wars, two famines, and t…
October 11, 2022
Comics and Nation
Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland (Ohio State UP, 2022) offers a fresh perspective on the role of popular …
September 27, 2022
For the Faith, Against the State
In For the Faith, Against the State: Old Calendarism in Romania (1924-1936)* (De Gruyter, 2022), Andreea Kaltenbrunner uses Old Calendarism, a movemen…
September 20, 2022
Capitalism in Chaos
Capitalism in Chaos: How the Business Elites of Europe Prospered in the Era of the Great War (Cornell UP, 2022) explores an often-overlooked consequen…
August 19, 2022
The Making of Mămăligă
Mămăligă, maize porridge or polenta, is a universally consumed dish in Romania and a prominent national symbol. But its unusual history has rarely bee…
July 22, 2022
In Search of Romania
The imposition of Communist ideology was a misfortune for millions in Eastern Europe, but never for Dennis Deletant. Instead, it drew him to Romania. …
June 13, 2022
La 'primaute' de la nation roumaine" et les 'etrangers'
After decades of rule by the National Liberal Party or one of its centre-right, mainstream rivals – usually either the Conservative Party or the Natio…