New Books in Eastern European Studies
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1051
The Treaty of Versailles One Hundred Years On
The Versailles Treaty of 1919, celebrates its one-hundred anniversary this year...
37 min
1052
April Eisman, "Bernhard Heisig and the Fight fo...
Eisman examines one of East Germany's most successful artists as a point of entry into the vibrant art world of the "other" Germany. In the 1980s..
54 min
1053
Giuliana Chamedes, "A Twentieth-Century Crusade...
Chamedes explores how World War I galvanized the central government of the Catholic Church to craft its own variety of internationalism...
67 min
1054
Katya Cengel, "From Chernobyl with Love" (U Neb...
Cengel has written an engaging memoir of a Western newspaper reporter’s youthful experiences in Latvia and Ukraine...
55 min
1055
Oleksandra Humenna, "Ukraine 2030: The Doctrine...
"Ukraine 2030" offers a program that includes complex strategies for the economic development of Ukraine...
33 min
1056
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
1057
Srdja Popovic, "Blueprint for Revolution" (Spie...
20 years ago, Srdja Popovic was part of a revolution — literally.
40 min
1058
Emanuela Grama, "Socialist Heritage: The Politi...
Grama explores the socialist state's attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the legacy of that project...
54 min
1059
Daniel Schwartz, "Ghetto: The History of a Word...
The word “ghetto” has taken on different meanings since its coinage in the 16th century...
52 min
1060
Michael Khodarkovsky, "Russia's 20th Century: A...
Khodarkovsky has taken a novel approach to charting the century by crafting one hundred vignettes, one for each year of the century...
68 min
1061
Daniel Reynolds, "Postcards from Auschwitz: Hol...
Millions of tourists visit Holocaust museums and memorials every year.,,
54 min
1062
Donald Ostrowski, "Europe, Byzantium, and the '...
Why did intellectual path of Medieval Russian culture differ so much from its counterparts in Western Europe?
76 min
1063
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
1064
Tamara Hundorova, "The Post-Chornobyl Library: ...
Hundorova has written a compelling study of the literary changes that mark Ukrainian literature at the end of the 20th century...
45 min
1065
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
1066
Vladimir Dzuro, "The Investigator: Demons of th...
Dzuro provides a first-hand look at the establishment of the International Crime Tribunal for Yugoslavia to prosecute Balkan war criminals...
53 min
1067
Perin Gürel, "The Limits of Westernization: A C...
In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?"
34 min
1068
Jasper Heinzen, "Making Prussians, Raising Germ...
How does civil war shape state building and national identity over the long term?
77 min
1069
Alma Jeftić, "Social Aspects of Memory: Stories...
Jeftić presents the compelling results of an empirical psychological study on how ordinary people remember war...
54 min
1070
A. Lakhtikova, A. Brintlinger, and I. Glushchen...
Food plays a pivotal role throughout Russian history, but perhaps no more so than during the Soviet era, when the perennial Russian cycle of feast and famine took on a highly political aspect...
59 min
1071
James W. Pardew, "Peacemakers: American Leaders...
Pardew describes the role of the U.S. involvement in ending the wars and genocide in the Balkans...
41 min
1072
Sergei Zhuk, "Soviet Americana: The Cultural Hi...
Zhuk offers an insightful investigation of the development of American studies in the Soviet Union, with a specific emphasis on Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine...
78 min
1073
Caroline Boggis-Rolfe, "The Baltic Story: A Tho...
The story of the littoral nations of the Baltic Sea is like a saga, that genre perfected by those tenacious inhabitants of the rocky shores of this ancient trading corridor...
51 min
1074
Stephen Hardy and Andrew Holman, "Hockey: A Glo...
In "Hockey," Hardy and Holman offer a comprehensive and engaging history of the fastest game from it’s origins in a series of stick based contests, including early hockey, bandy, and polo through to the development of our contemporary commercial hockey best exhibited by the NHL and KHL.
68 min
1075
Erik Sjöberg, "The Making of the Greek Genocide...
Sjöberg is interested in the violence and expulsion of ethnic Greeks from Anatolia before, during and especially after World War One...
71 min