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."

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

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...

How does the world of book reviews work?

Taroutina examines how the traditional interests of institutions such as the crown, the church, and the Imperial Academy of Arts temporarily aligned with the radical, leftist, and revolutionary avant-garde at the turn of the twentieth century...

The book argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence...

Mark Reese’s recent translation of Abdullah Qodiriy’s 1920s novel "Bygone Days" brings an exemplary piece of modern Uzbek literature to English-speaking audiences...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

The term ‘Manchuria’ conjures up all manner of evocative associations for people interested in East Asian and world history,..

With Vladimir Putin’s Russia threatening the peace in Europe following the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the North Atlantic and other maritime domains around Europe are once again vitally important...

Park focuses on the movement of Koreans around the point where China, Russia and Korea converged from the mid-19th century onwards...

In pre-emancipation Europe, most Jews followed Jewish law most of the time, but by the turn of the twentieth century, a new secular Jewish identity had begun to take shape...

Fort gives readers a chance to dive into the world of early 20th century Uzbek literature and understand the complex social problems of late Russian imperial Turkestan...

In the aftermath of the February Revolution in 1917 Panina served on the Petrograd city council and as an assistant cabinet minister—the first female cabinet member in world history...