New Books in Eastern European Studies
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Kenneth Austin, "The Jews and the Reformation" ...
Austin describes the long and complex history of the two traditions, shows how both religions defined themselves in opposition to each other...
37 min
1002
Anita Kurimay, "Queer Budapest, 1873-1961" (U C...
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....
56 min
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Jovana Babović, "Metropolitan Belgrade: Culture...
Babović examines the ways in which middle-class Belgraders negotiated metropolitan modernity in the interwar era.
44 min
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Marco Puleri, "Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) R...
Puleri examines a complex process of identity formation in the context of exposure to a diversity of linguistic and cultural influences...
53 min
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Adam Teller, "Rescue the Surviving Souls: The G...
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....
72 min
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Natan M. Meir, "Stepchildren of the Shtetl" (St...
Meir reconsiders the place of the lowliest members of an already stigmatized minority....
56 min
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Will Smiley, "From Slaves to Prisoners of War: ...
Smiley examines the emergence of rules of warfare surrounding captivity and slavery in the context of Ottoman-Russian military rivalry between 1700 and 1878....
69 min
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Sonya Bilocerkowycz, "On Our Way Home from the ...
Bilocerkowycz speculates on the possibility of future revolutions built on the lessons of revolutions past—both big, and small...
37 min
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Roger Moorhouse, "Poland 1939: The Outbreak of ...
Combing English, German and crucially Polish language sources, Moorhouse reveals to the reader the German campaign from start to finish...
42 min
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Diana T. Kudaibergenova, "Toward Nationalizing ...
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....
51 min
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Jeremy Black, "War in Europe: 1450 to the Prese...
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...
41 min
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Francine Hirsch, "Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg...
How did an authoritarian regime help lay the cornerstones of human rights and international law?
82 min
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Stephan Talty, "The Good Assassin" (HMH, 2020)
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...
38 min
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Hope M. Harrison, "After the Berlin Wall: Memor...
How should Germans remember the Berlin Wall?
71 min
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Yitzhak Lewis, "Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman...
Lewis lays out a new paradigm for understanding R. Nachman’s thought and writing...
52 min
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Gabriel Finder, "Justice behind the Iron Curtai...
Finder and Prusin offer comprehensive account of the trials of Nazi perpetrators conducted in liberated and postwar Poland....
80 min
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Paul D’Anieri, "Ukraine and Russia: From Civili...
D'Anieri documents in a nuanced way the development of the current military conflict between Russia and Ukraine...
46 min
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Why Did the Allies Win World War One?
Perhaps nothing was as unexpected in this conflict as the sudden termination of the same in November 1918...
34 min
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Martina Cvajner, "Soviet Signoras: Personal and...
Cvajner focuses on a group of women who migrated from areas in the former Soviet Union to northern Italy...
47 min
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Alexander Gendler, "Khurbm 1914-1922: Prelude t...
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....
67 min
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Stanislav Kulchytsky, "The Famine of 1932-1933 ...
Kulchytsky presents a meticulous research that unveils the mechanism of the Holodomor as a man-made famine...
96 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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Andrei Kushnir, "Epic Journey: Life and Times o...
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...
48 min
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Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Docto...
Though his advice has saved the lives of millions of people, the name Ignaz Semmelweis is not one commonly known today...
57 min
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Elissa Bemporad, "Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogrom...
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...
56 min