1171 Episodes

  1. Jochen Hellbeck, "World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews" (Penguin Group, 2025)

    Published: 11/24/2025

  2. Marek Kohn, "The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey Through Cities at the Heart of Europe" (Yale UP, 2023)

    Published: 11/24/2025

  3. Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, "Videotape" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

    Published: 11/22/2025

  4. Carol Lilly, "Death and Burial in Socialist Yugoslavia: The Politicization of Cemeteries and Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans" (Bloomsbury, 2024).

    Published: 11/21/2025

  5. Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov, "Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation" (PublicAffairs, 2025)

    Published: 11/18/2025

  6. Susanna Rabow-Edling, "The First Russian Revolution: The Decembrist Revolt Of 1825" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

    Published: 11/16/2025

  7. Eric Halsey, "State Builders from the Steppe: A History of The First Bulgarian Empire" (This is RETHINK, 2025)

    Published: 11/13/2025

  8. Eric Lee, "The August Uprising, 1924: The Georgian Anti-Soviet Revolt and the Birth of Democratic Socialism" (McFarland, 2025)

    Published: 11/11/2025

  9. Thomas Fleischman, "Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall" (U Washington Press, 2020)

    Published: 11/9/2025

  10. Georgios Giannakopoulos, "The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe, 1870-1930" (Manchester UP, 2025)

    Published: 11/6/2025

  11. Elizabeth R. Hyman, "The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising" (Harper, 2025)

    Published: 11/3/2025

  12. Shaul Kelner, "A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized To Free Soviet Jews" (NYU Press, 2025)

    Published: 11/2/2025

  13. Cynthia Paces, "Prague: The Heart of Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)

    Published: 11/2/2025

  14. Elissa Bemporad, "Jews in the Soviet Union: A History: Revolution, Civil War, and New Ways of Life, 1917–1930, Vol. 1" (NYU Press, 2025)

    Published: 10/30/2025

  15. Paula Oppermann, "Thunder Cross: Fascist Antisemitism in Twentieth-Century Latvia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)

    Published: 10/29/2025

  16. Adair Rounthwaite, "This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

    Published: 10/29/2025

  17. Democratic Dialogues: Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries

    Published: 10/28/2025

  18. Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland

    Published: 10/28/2025

  19. Mark Mazower, "On Antisemitism: A Word in History" (Penguin Press, 2025)

    Published: 10/26/2025

  20. Cristina Plamadeala, "Dossierveillance, Collaboration, and Fear in Society: The Saga of a Journey Through the Securitate Archives and Beyond" (Routledge, 2025)

    Published: 10/22/2025

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