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About Stephen Bittner
Stephen V. Bittner is Special Topics Editor at Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History and Professor of History at Sonoma State University.
NBN Episodes hosted by Stephen:
November 8, 2023
Writing the History of Money and Monetary Policy
What do the histories of currency and monetary policy tell us about societies at large, political structures, and cultures? Ekaterina Pravilova and Re…
October 21, 2023
The Family in History, History in the Family
In two new books, Fabian Baumann and Lauren Stokes examine the past through the lens of family structures and relations. In Dynasty Divided: A Family …
August 14, 2023
Toward a More Expansive View of Medieval Europe
Focusing on gender relations, family formation, and marriage patterns in areas peripheral to the England, France, and the Holy Roman Empire, Christian…
June 13, 2023
Socialist Cultures and Politics of Secularism and Atheism
Two new books on secularism and atheism in German and Soviet socialist cultures are reshaping scholarly understandings of the relationship between soc…
June 10, 2023
New Histories of Violence in and around the Second World War
Why does state-led and intercommunal violence occur? How do past episodes of mass violence reverberate in the present? How do victims and perpetrators…
May 20, 2023
Empires after World War II: The Cases of the USSR and France
Where lay the fissures of Soviet power in Eastern Europe during the Cold War? Why did France fail in its postwar efforts to make its African colonies …
February 28, 2023
Soviet Hippies and German “Other ‘68ers”
On first glance, Soviet hippies would seem to have little in common with right-wing student protestors in West Germany in 1968. Yet as Juliane Fürst a…
February 21, 2023
Rethinking the End of the Russian and Habsburg Empires
Historians often think of World War I and the period surrounding it as the acme of nationalism in European politics. In two very different books, Josh…