Lee tells the story of the events leading up to the little-known revolt of Georgian Wehrmacht recruits against the Germans on the island of Texel, which was part of the Atlantic Wall fortifications off the Dutch coast...

Wasyl Kushnir goes back to the second half of the 19th century and takes the reader to the present moment: the story provides a glimpse into a family that seems to be shaped by all the atrocities of the 20th century...

Bukh provides critical historical perspective on the social construction of territorial disputes between Japan and its neighbors in Northeast Asia...

The balance of power in nineteenth-century Europe was anchored on one end by the redoubtable Queen Victoria (1819 -1901), the doyenne of sovereigns, and at the opposite end by the autocratic Romanov dynasty...

Glisic demonstrates that Futurism took a calculated and systematic approach to its contemporary socio-political reality...

Lounsbery investigates the long-standing trope of the “provinces” – an imaginary space of static non-modernity where time stands still and where residents nurse an inferiority complex...

McGeever examines Bolshevik and Jewish communists' attempts to confront antisemitism, including within the revolutionary movement itself...

As Russia’s 1917 October Revolution distended itself across north Asia and reverberated globally, socialism acted – not unlike today’s pandemic – as a Rorschach test revealing divisions in societies and politics, and to some offering cautious hope for a new world which might be constructed in the aftermath...

Monaghan argues that Western policy makers are using an outdated Cold War model of ideology, language and institutions, which is wholly unsuited for understanding, engaging, and countering where necessary Russia in the 21st century...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Danielle Ross looks at how the Tatars of Kazan participated in the formation of the Russian empire through their various activities in trade, settlement, clerical work, intellectual culture, and trade...

Qualls examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War...

The drying up of the Aral Sea - a major environmental catastrophe of the late twentieth century - is deeply rooted in the dreams of the irrigation age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,..

Almost unknown in the West, this siege of Przemysl was one of the great turning points of the First World War...

Latvia's elegant capital, Riga, is one of Europe's best-kept secrets...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Germany’s winter campaign of 1941–1942 is commonly seen as the Wehrmacht's first defeat. Stahel argues that it was in fact their first strategic success in the east.

Keller provides an excellent introduction and overview of the history of Central Asia, from roughly the 14th century to the present...

Who or what originated and/or caused the Great War from breaking out in July 1914?

Vogel tells the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage operations of the Cold War—and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it...

Kim's book is the first monograph published in English on the early modern history of the Orochen, an ethnic group that has inhabited northeast Asia for centuries...

Goldstein set out on a challenging but ultimately rewarding journey to discover the "quintessential flavors of Russia."

Pomfret looks at the economies of the five former Soviet Republics of Kazkahstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, considering the different trajectories of each of the countries...

The Baltics are about to be thrust onto the world stage.

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