long read February 2026

My deceased masters: Portrait of three European historians

By Ferenc Laczó

Three side-by-side portraits of men: left, a man with glasses in a dark coat indoors; center, an older bearded man in a tweed jacket holding papers and smoking a pipe; right, a smiling man in formal wear with a bow tie and black beret against a plain background.

Ferenc Laczó remembers his mentors Włodzimierz Borodziej, Lutz Niethammer, and Mathieu Segers, historians of Europe's recent past.

Review February 2026

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Peasant revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe

Review by Mathias Fuelling

Review February 2026

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The future possibilities of home

Review by Petra Tamášová

Long Read December 2025

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Fraught but exciting: Using fiction to bridge history with memory

by Kurt Johnson

Review January 2026

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Exposing the political foundations of Eastern Europe and Eurasia during the pandemic

Review by Jack Dean

Review January 2026

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Narratives of imprisonment from Stalin to Putin

Review by Lucy Jeffery

Review December 2025

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Jewish belonging in East-Central Europe

Review by Kamil Kijek

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