Kulchytsky presents a meticulous research that unveils the mechanism of the Holodomor as a man-made famine...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Though his advice has saved the lives of millions of people, the name Ignaz Semmelweis is not one commonly known today...

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...

Bemporad examines the uneasy and often ambivalent but mutually dependent, and ever-shifting relationship between the regime and the Jewish population as the Soviet century unfolds...

What happens when a court tries to become a “new” court? What happens to the many artifacts of its history—previous laws and jurisprudence, the building that it inhabits, the people who weave in and out of it?

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

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...

Redwood gives us fresh insights into why the populist movements and parties have been winning elections...

Paul Celan's poetry marks the end of European modernism..

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

Georgescu offers a marvelous exploration of Romania's rich culinary heritage, inspired by her family's recipe collection and her recollections of the family's "all hands on deck" approach to cooking and eating...

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.

Seegel offers an insightful contribution to the history of map making which is written through and by individual geographers/cartographers/map men...

While there are still occasional uses of it today, the term "Central Europe" carries little of the charge that it did in the 1980s and early 1990s...

Sinkoff offers s the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called "Holocaust Studies"..

Hanebrink shows how Fascists, Conservatives and Nazis imagined Jewish Bolsheviks as enemies who crossed borders to subvert order from within and bring destructive ideas from abroad...

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

Wolff traces how Wilson's emerging definition of national self-determination and his practical application of the principle changed over time as negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference unfolded...

What does the success of 1960s values mean for the reiteration of religious identities?

Stein weaves a narrative tapestry whose threads are drawn from the archives of one Sephardic family, with roots in the city of Salonica, then in the Ottoman Empire, now Thessaloniki in Greece...

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

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