1178 Episodes

  1. Serhiy Kudelia, "Seize the City, Undo the State: The Inception of Russia's War on Ukraine" (Oxford UP, 2015)

    Published: 4/16/2025

  2. Ðermana Kuric on Muslimness in Bosnia

    Published: 4/11/2025

  3. Eli Rubin, "Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2025)

    Published: 4/5/2025

  4. Research Spotlight: Revenant Project-Revivals of Empire

    Published: 4/4/2025

  5. Alexander Hill, "The Routledge Handbook of Soviet and Russian Military Studies" (Routledge, 2025)

    Published: 4/1/2025

  6. Lilia Topouzova, "Unsilencing: The History and Legacy of the Bulgarian Gulag" (Cornell UP, 2025)

    Published: 3/31/2025

  7. The Free Speech and Poetry of Ana Blandiana

    Published: 3/26/2025

  8. Andrew Long, "BRIXMIS and the Secret Cold War: Intelligence Collecting Operations Behind Enemy Lines in East Germany" (Pen and Sword, 2024)

    Published: 3/23/2025

  9. Peter Whitewood, "The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy: Lenin’s Defeat and the Rise of Stalinism" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

    Published: 3/22/2025

  10. Oleksandr Melnyk, "World War II as an Identity Project: Historicism, Legitimacy Contests, and the (Re-) Construction of Political Communities in Ukraine, 1939–1946" (Ibidem, 2022)

    Published: 3/22/2025

  11. Vuk Vuksanovic, "Serbia’s Balancing Act: Between Russia and the West" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

    Published: 3/21/2025

  12. Daniela Richterova, "Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

    Published: 3/18/2025

  13. Ariel Evan Mayse, "Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/16/2025

  14. Fractured Alliances: Trump, Ukraine, and Europe's Security Dilemma

    Published: 3/15/2025

  15. Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, "Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and Cult" (Ibidem Press, 2014)

    Published: 3/13/2025

  16. Sabrina P. Ramet and Lavinia Stan, "East Central Europe Since 1989" (Routledge, 2025)

    Published: 3/9/2025

  17. Stefan Cristian Ionescu, "Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/5/2025

  18. Tamizdat under Putin: A Discussion with Publisher Feliks Sandalov

    Published: 3/5/2025

  19. Robert C. Austin, "Royal Fraud: The Story of Albania's First and Last King" (Central European UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/4/2025

  20. László Borhi, "Survival under Dictatorships: Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes" (Central European UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/3/2025

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