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NBN Episodes hosted by Hugo:
May 1, 2018
Jewish Poland Revisited
Sometime in the very early 1990s, while I was in grad school, I got a call from a student at Grinnell College, where I myself had graduated asking me …
October 18, 2017
The Habsburg Empire
Pieter Judson established himself as one of the top scholars of the East Central Europe with his first two books Exclusive Revolutionaries (University…
July 5, 2017
Mapping Europe's Borderlands
Since the publication of this book five years ago, Steven Seegel has become a leading authority on map-making in the Russian Empire with particular ex…
September 26, 2015
Student Politics in Communist Poland
In the conventional narratives of Communist Poland, and Eastern Europe more generally, student activism tends to get short shrift. While the role of s…
February 15, 2013
Moscow Believes in Tears
Did you see one of Eisenstein's masterpieces "The Battleship Potemkin" and "Alexander Nevsky" in a Russian or Soviet history class? Were you captivate…
January 11, 2013
The Ukrainian West
During the Cold War few Westerners gave much thought to Western Ukraine, and its main city, Lviv. It was what happened in Moscow and St. Petersburg th…
June 15, 2012
Guardians of the Nation
What if much of what we think we know about nationalism and the spread of the national identity over the course of the nineteenth century were wrong? …
June 15, 2012
Choosing Slovakia
On 1 January 1993 Slovakia became an independent nation. According to conventional Slovak nationalist history that event was the culmination of a roug…
May 15, 2012
Dacha Idylls
Russians' dachas are regularly mentioned in a sentence or two in newspaper articles about life in Russia, and many of who have visited the lands of th…
May 15, 2012
The Hidden Europe
Most of the specialists in Eastern Europe I know first got truly interested in the region after a trip, which then triggered applications to grad scho…
March 11, 2012
Pleasures in Socialism
We all know socialism failed in Eastern Europe and that failure reflected two great shortcomings: a lack of democracy and an economic system that cons…
February 23, 2012
The Orient Within
Eastern Europe has never had the draw for scholars or tourists of France, Italy, Germany, or Great Britain, and within eastern Europe Bulgaria has inv…
February 23, 2012
Becoming Metropolitan
When I began my graduate history, virtually all my fellow apprentice historians of eastern Europe were captivated by nationalism and focused their res…
November 9, 2011
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Europe may currently be in crisis and riven with divisions, but at least it's a Europe of independent states. It was not always so. The Soviets domina…
October 25, 2011
Bloodlands
Neville Chamberlain described Czechoslovakia as a far away land we know little about. He could have said it about any of the countries of east-central…