The event that is commonly labeled as the ‘Holocaust’, was one of the most horrific of the Twentieth Century. It is also one of the most popularly discussed events of both the past and the current century. And like many popular events it is filled with mis-understandings and mis-interpretations...

At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years it competed with various forms of dictatorship...

Carroll considers whether substance use disorders are everywhere the same and whether our responses to drug use presuppose what kind of people those who use drugs really are...

Marples highlights the dramatic changes of the late Soviet and post-Soviet periods, his travel stories, experiences, and the Stalinist legacy in both countries...

Connelly traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War...

Austin describes the long and complex history of the two traditions, shows how both religions defined themselves in opposition to each other...

Kurimay tells the riveting story of nonnormative sexualities in Hungary as they were understood, experienced, and policed between the birth of the capital as a unified metropolis in 1873 and the decriminalization of male homosexual acts in 1961....

Babović examines the ways in which middle-class Belgraders negotiated metropolitan modernity in the interwar era.

Puleri examines a complex process of identity formation in the context of exposure to a diversity of linguistic and cultural influences...

A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tens of thousands of Jews fled their homes, or were captured and trafficked across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa....

Meir reconsiders the place of the lowliest members of an already stigmatized minority....

Smiley examines the emergence of rules of warfare surrounding captivity and slavery in the context of Ottoman-Russian military rivalry between 1700 and 1878....

Bilocerkowycz speculates on the possibility of future revolutions built on the lessons of revolutions past—both big, and small...

Combing English, German and crucially Polish language sources, Moorhouse reveals to the reader the German campaign from start to finish...

Kudaibergenova takes the new states and nations of Eurasia that emerged in 1991, Latvia and Kazakhstan, and seeks to better understand the phenomenon of post-Soviet states tapping into nationalism to build legitimacy....

Black offers a masterful overview of war and military development in Europe since 1450, bringing together the work of a renowned historian of modern European and military history in a single authoritative volume...

How did an authoritarian regime help lay the cornerstones of human rights and international law?

Talty tells the untold story of an Israeli spy’s epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvia to justice—a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis...

How should Germans remember the Berlin Wall?

Lewis lays out a new paradigm for understanding R. Nachman’s thought and writing...

Finder and Prusin offer comprehensive account of the trials of Nazi perpetrators conducted in liberated and postwar Poland....

D'Anieri documents in a nuanced way the development of the current military conflict between Russia and Ukraine...

Perhaps nothing was as unexpected in this conflict as the sudden termination of the same in November 1918...

Cvajner focuses on a group of women who migrated from areas in the former Soviet Union to northern Italy...

Gendler offers an extensive collection of eye-witness testimonies and official communications revealing the genocidal destruction of Jewish life by the Russian army during World War I....