1171 Episodes

  1. Catching the China-Europe Express: Logistics, Local Agency & Eurasian Geopolitics in the Polish Borderlands

    Published: 5/4/2025

  2. Michael David-Fox, "Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule" (Harvard UP, 2025)

    Published: 5/3/2025

  3. Polly Jones, "Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin" (Bloombury, 2024)

    Published: 4/26/2025

  4. Udi Greenberg, "The End of the Schism: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of Christian Life in Europe, 1880s-1970s" (Harvard UP, 2025)

    Published: 4/25/2025

  5. John Lechner, "Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare" (Bloombury, 2025)

    Published: 4/24/2025

  6. Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)

    Published: 4/23/2025

  7. Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)

    Published: 4/22/2025

  8. Maurizio Ferrera, "Politics and Social Visions: Ideology, Conflict, and Solidarity in the EU" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 4/21/2025

  9. Sasha Colby, "The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance" (ECW Press, 2023)

    Published: 4/19/2025

  10. Agnieszka Pasieka, "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 4/18/2025

  11. Understanding Ukraine: A Discussion with Author Yaroslav Trofimov

    Published: 4/17/2025

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

    Published: 4/16/2025

  13. Ðermana Kuric on Muslimness in Bosnia

    Published: 4/11/2025

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

    Published: 4/5/2025

  15. Research Spotlight: Revenant Project-Revivals of Empire

    Published: 4/4/2025

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

    Published: 4/1/2025

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

    Published: 3/31/2025

  18. The Free Speech and Poetry of Ana Blandiana

    Published: 3/26/2025

  19. 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

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

    Published: 3/22/2025

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