New Books in Eastern European Studies

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  • Amy Simon, "Emotions in Yiddish Ghetto Diaries: Encountering Persecutors and Questioning Humanity" (Routledge, 2024)
    Jun 9, 2025 – 01:15:36
  • Semmy Stalhammer, "Codename Barber: My Father’s Story" (Albert Bonniers Publishers, 2007)
    Jun 6, 2025 – 01:27:29
  • Tobias Brinkmann, "Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe" (Oxford UP, 2924)
    Jun 3, 2025 – 01:34:29
  • Katarina Kušic, "Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia" (University of Michigan Press, 2025)
    Jun 1, 2025 – 01:03:37
  • Antonio J. Muñoz, "Hitler's War Against the Partisans During Operation Barbarossa: June 1941 to the Spring of 1942" (Frontline, 2025)
    May 30, 2025 – 01:41:25
  • Thomas Mutch, "The Dogs of Mariupol: Russia's Invasion and the Forging of Ukraine's Iron Generation" (Biteback, 2025)
    May 29, 2025 – 42:03
  • Keir Giles, "Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent" (Hurst & Co., 2024)
    May 28, 2025 – 42:18
  • Greta Lynn Uehling, "Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
    May 26, 2025 – 53:32
  • Claire Knight, "Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953" (Cornell UP, 2024)
    May 24, 2025 – 01:26:23
  • Yitzhak Conforti, "Zionism and Jewish Culture: A Study in the Origins of a National Movement" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
    May 23, 2025 – 55:50
  • Charles Hecker, "Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia" (Oxford UP, 2025)
    May 22, 2025 – 01:03:56
  • Jan Borowicz, "Perverse Memory and the Holocaust: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders" (Routledge, 2024)
    May 21, 2025 – 01:15:10
  • Richard Calis, "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius" (Harvard UP, 2025)
    May 19, 2025 – 01:01:51
  • Júlia Király, "Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Troubles to Global Hurricane" (Springer, 2020)
    May 14, 2025 – 46:31
  • Victoria Khiterer, "Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration" (Purdue UP, 2025)
    May 13, 2025 – 01:39:28
  • Paul R. Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovskiĭ-Shtern, "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-existence" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
    May 12, 2025 – 56:16
  • Alex Storozynski, "Spies In My Blood: A Polish Family’s Secret Fight Against Nazis & Communists" (Polestar-Media, 2025)
    May 11, 2025 – 51:12
  • Chris Webb and Artur Hojan, "The Chelmno Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem Press, 2019)
    May 10, 2025 – 53:43
  • Katerina Krlov, "Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-46" (Brandeis UP, 2025)
    May 9, 2025 – 01:24:12
  • Living Right: Far Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe
    May 8, 2025 – 01:14:22
  • Deana Jovanović, "Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town" (Cornell UP, 2025)
    May 6, 2025 – 01:23:24
  • Charlie English, "The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War" (Random House, 2025)
    May 5, 2025 – 47:32
  • Catching the China-Europe Express: Logistics, Local Agency & Eurasian Geopolitics in the Polish Borderlands
    May 4, 2025 – 58:34
  • Michael David-Fox, "Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule" (Harvard UP, 2025)
    May 3, 2025 – 01:02:54
  • Polly Jones, "Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin" (Bloombury, 2024)
    Apr 26, 2025 – 01:16:44
  • Udi Greenberg, "The End of the Schism: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of Christian Life in Europe, 1880s-1970s" (Harvard UP, 2025)
    Apr 25, 2025 – 01:13:56
  • John Lechner, "Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare" (Bloombury, 2025)
    Apr 24, 2025 – 01:29:03
  • Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)
    Apr 23, 2025 – 01:09:42
  • Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
    Apr 22, 2025 – 01:21:26
  • Maurizio Ferrera, "Politics and Social Visions: Ideology, Conflict, and Solidarity in the EU" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Apr 21, 2025 – 01:22:50
  • Sasha Colby, "The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance" (ECW Press, 2023)
    Apr 19, 2025 – 01:25:00
  • Agnieszka Pasieka, "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe" (Princeton UP, 2024)
    Apr 18, 2025 – 46:29
  • Understanding Ukraine: A Discussion with Author Yaroslav Trofimov
    Apr 17, 2025 – 53:52
  • Serhiy Kudelia, "Seize the City, Undo the State: The Inception of Russia's War on Ukraine" (Oxford UP, 2015)
    Apr 16, 2025 – 01:00:43
  • Ðermana Kuric on Muslimness in Bosnia
    Apr 11, 2025 – 55:23
  • Eli Rubin, "Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2025)
    Apr 5, 2025 – 01:16:42
  • Research Spotlight: Revenant Project-Revivals of Empire
    Apr 4, 2025 – 01:05:23
  • Alexander Hill, "The Routledge Handbook of Soviet and Russian Military Studies" (Routledge, 2025)
    Apr 1, 2025 – 01:19:27
  • Lilia Topouzova, "Unsilencing: The History and Legacy of the Bulgarian Gulag" (Cornell UP, 2025)
    Mar 31, 2025 – 01:06:04
  • The Free Speech and Poetry of Ana Blandiana
    Mar 26, 2025 – 50:34
  • Andrew Long, "BRIXMIS and the Secret Cold War: Intelligence Collecting Operations Behind Enemy Lines in East Germany" (Pen and Sword, 2024)
    Mar 23, 2025 – 01:51:27
  • Peter Whitewood, "The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy: Lenin’s Defeat and the Rise of Stalinism" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
    Mar 22, 2025 – 01:14:00
  • 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)
    Mar 22, 2025 – 01:04:00
  • Vuk Vuksanovic, "Serbia’s Balancing Act: Between Russia and the West" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
    Mar 21, 2025 – 43:58
  • Daniela Richterova, "Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
    Mar 18, 2025 – 01:34:45
  • Ariel Evan Mayse, "Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
    Mar 16, 2025 – 53:23
  • Fractured Alliances: Trump, Ukraine, and Europe's Security Dilemma
    Mar 15, 2025 – 32:14
  • Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, "Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and Cult" (Ibidem Press, 2014)
    Mar 13, 2025 – 58:45
  • Sabrina P. Ramet and Lavinia Stan, "East Central Europe Since 1989" (Routledge, 2025)
    Mar 9, 2025 – 01:32:32
  • Stefan Cristian Ionescu, "Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Mar 5, 2025 – 01:21:28
Recent Reviews
  • Knihovnik527
    today’s show
    worthwhile content today with john connelly...he is easily understood but the host is barely intelligible...please fix this...hard to spend an hour listening to such poor audio...
  • Caliwinter
    Great content, but bad quality
    Great, interesting content, excellent books. Just wish that the audio quality would be on the level. A lot odd noise, fade outs, tough to hear parts make it not easy to enjoy.
  • NemoX1970
    5 stars content. 1 start production.
    This work is too important to have such poor production values. Echoes, fade out, stuttered audio. Some fantastic books. Articulate authors who are able to discuss their work so that the educated layman may follow it. The audio should be the easy part. The guests (and listeners) deserve better.
  • t78tt.r
    Deserves 5 stars except for one thing--sound quality
    Dear God these people at the New Books Network must have a tin-ear. Far too many of the podcasts are poorly recorded enough to realize that they seem to not care or made their interviewers try to maintain quality recording . I listen to several other podcasts, NONE have the quality control problems the "New Books Network" seems to have on some of theirs. C'mon guys get your act together, podcasts have come a long way.
  • Ricardo Villalobos
    Epic!
    Wow. I am very happy to have come across this podcast. As someone who has a huge interest in the Cold War, in particular eastern Europe and the events that lead to the dissolution of 'Communism', I can't say how awesome and informative this podcast is. I have learned several 'iron curtain' languages (Russian, Polish, and German) because I am very much addicted to the foreign films that were made depicting life behind this region. I find the discussions between the host and the guest quite fascinating. I learned a lot that I had not read in several Cold War books I've read. The content is rich, and I can't wait to listen to future episodes. I hope there are more to come in the future. This is good stuff and wonderful knowledge to pass down, pertaining to an important part of our world history that is still fairly recent. Thank YOU!!
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