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April 2025
The bottom half of the book cover shows an Orthodox Church in the background, with a figurative sculpture in the foreground. The sky looks dark and ominous. The Church and the statue are on a green grass field, nothing else is visible around them.
The memory politics of the Serbian Church
Karin Roginer Hofmeister, 2024
Review by Sabrina P. Ramet
April 2025
The top half of the cover shows a Yugoslav building estate with a small tree in the middle and apartment blocks on the right and left. The bottom half of the cover is dark blue and displays the author, title and publisher of the book. Towards the bottom left corner the red logo of the publisher is displayed.
A history of mass housing in Yugoslavia
Lea Horvat, 2024
Review by Maja Lorbek
April 2025
Academic women in 20th-century Poland
Iwona Dadej, 2022
Review by Kornelia Kończal
April 2025
Socialist Silicon Valley
Victor Petrov, 2023
Review by Vedran Duančić
March 2025
Book cover. The top and bottom third of the cover is in a yellowish green with geometric shapes. In the middle of the cover the title and the author are displayed on a white background. On the bottom right corner the logo to Routledge is visible.
Socialist Poland's economic opening up
Aleksandra Komornicka, 2024
Review by Jack Dean
March 2025
Radio politics in Czechoslovakia
Rosamund Johnston, 2024
Review by David M. Durant
February 2025
Networks of feminist nationalism in the Habsburg Monarchy
Edited by Marta Verginella, 2023
Review by Lea Horvat
February 2025
The new woman in Vienna
Katya Motyl, 2024
Review by Scott Spector
January 2025
The place and power of translation during Communism
Edited by Christopher Rundle, Anne Lange, and Daniele Monticelli, 2022
Review by Lucy Jeffery
January 2025
Spaces of interaction in the Second-Third World
Edited by Kristin Roth-Ey, 2023
Review by Agustín Cosovschi
January 2025
Challenging stereotypes of post-Soviet Russian workers
Alexandrina Vanke, 2024
Review by Viktoria Kobzeva
January 2025
Complexities of resistance in Southeastern Europe during the Second World War
Edited by John Paul Newman, Ljubinka Škodrić, and Rade Ristanović, 2023
Review by Milorad Lazić
December 2024
Sounds and sights of the Great War in Prague
Claire Morelon, 2024
Review by David Smrček
December 2024
Different from the others: queer mobilization before Stonewall
Ervin Malakaj, 2023
Review by Giselle Bernard
November 2024
The last postcard from Prague
Derek Sayer, 2022
Review by Felix Jeschke
November 2024
Remembering the last decade of Eastern Europe
Edited by Veronika Pehe and Joanna Wawrzyniak, 2023
Review by Aleksandra Komornicka
November 2024
Fear in public and private in East Germany
Ines Geipel, 2024
Review by Jack Dean
October 2024
The unknown story of the Soviet Eastern International
Masha Kirasirova, 2024
Review by Aleksandr Korobeinikov
October 2024
State approaches to family in Poland, Hungary and Romania
Tomasz Inglot, Dorottya Szikra, Cristina Raț
Review by Orel Beilinson
October 2024
A new history of the Middle Kingdoms
Martyn Rady, 2023
Review by Joseph F. Patrouch
October 2024
Fear and biopolitics in East Central Europe
Edited By Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, Joachim von Puttkamer, Immo Rebitschek, 2022
Review by Vojtěch Pojar
September 2024
Life and death under Hungarian dictatorships
László Borhi, 2024
Review by Lucy Jeffery
September 2024
The Mediterranean in the Age of Revolutions
Maurizio Isabella, 2023
Review by Paul Csillag
September 2024
An intimate history of Eastern Europe
Jacob Mikanowski, 2023
Review by Jack Dean
September 2024
Tracing the missing in the Arolsen Archives
Dan Stone, 2023
Review by Barnabas Balint
September 2024
Enter the libertarian multiverse
Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi, 2023
Review by Dennis Kölling
August 2024
Reimagining Czech military history
Edited by Petr Wohlmuth, 2022
Review by Kevin Hoeper
July 2024
A New Diplomatic History of early modern Europe
Edited by Dorothée Goetze and Lena Oetzel, 2024
Review by Maxime Morel
July 2024
Muhajirs in the Late Ottoman Empire
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, 2024
Review by Paul Csillag
July 2024
More children at any price in Slovak family planning
Denisa Nešťáková, 2023
Review by Fanni Svégel
July 2024
It is no longer Greek to us
Giedre Mickunaite, 2023
Review by Jan Blonski
July 2024
Bridging past and present: A critical exploration of transition memories
Edited by Ksenia Robbe, 2023
Review by Daria Gordeeva
July 2024
A return to history and the Russo-Ukrainian War
Serhii Plokhy, 2023
Review by Oleksa Drachewych
July 2024
A biography of the Polessian "boggy land"
Sławomir Łotysz, 2022
Review by Patrice M. Dabrowski
June 2024
Bessarabia and the collapse of empires
Svetlana Suveica, 2022
Review by Anca Filipovici
June 2024
The legacy of globalization, nationalism and imperialism in Eastern Europe
James W. Peterson and Jacek Lubecki, 2023
Review by Lia Chkhetiani
June 2024
Bystanders in Nazi Germany
Mary Fulbrook, 2023
Review by Jan Burzlaff
June 2024
A critical travelogue to Central Europe’s old towns
Marek Kohn, 2023
Review by Paul Csillag
June 2024
Race and coloniality in the Balkans
Piro Rexhepi, 2022
Review by Harun Buljina
June 2024
Women of the Ottoman Empire
Suraiya Faroqhi, 2023
Review by Nora Lafi
May 2024
The brutal world of detention centres in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hikmet Karčić, 2022
Review by Emily Greble
May 2024
Habsburg Central Europe as a crucible of world order
Natasha Wheatley, 2023
Review by Franz L. Fillafer
May 2024
The consumerism of “real” socialism
György Péteri, 2023
Review by Nigel Swain
May 2024
Mixed flavors of vegetarianism
Julia Hauser, 2023
Review by M. Buna
May 2024
The Trieste arson that engulfed Europe
Borut Klabjan and Gorazd Bajc, 2021
Review by Sabine Rutar
May 2024
Modernity, cosmopolitanism and the Czechoslovak railways
Felix Jeschke, 2021
Review by Tess Megginson
May 2024
Historical veracity under siege
Edited By Kornelia Kończal and A. Dirk Moses, 2023
Review by Paul Doolan
April 2024
The societal impact of universal conscription in Austria-Hungary
Christa Hämmerle, 2022
Review by Tobias Neubauer
April 2024
A bold new look at Ukraine's history, people and culture
Edited by Olena Palko and Manuel Férez Gil, 2023
Review by Ruslana Bovhyria
April 2024
East Asian and European border experiences
Edited by Stefan Berger and Nobuya Hashimoto, 2022
Review by Mátyás Mervay
April 2024
A history of Russian food
Darra Goldstein, 2022
Review by Jason A. Reuscher
April 2024
Czech childhood in interwar Vienna
Edited by Vojtěch Kessler and David Smrček, 2021
Review by Jan Jiráň
April 2024
Hungary and Germany in the mirror of the Bolshevik regimes of 1919
Eliza Ablovatski, 2021
Review by Václav Šmidrkal
March 2024
An examination of Polish Displaced Persons after the Second World War
Samantha K. Knapton, 2023
Review by Katarzyna Nowak
March 2024
An insider’s view of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
R. Eugene Parta, 2022
Review by Anna Grutza
March 2024
Galician refugees during the First World War
Kamil Ruszała, 2021
Review by Patrice M. Dabrowski
February 2024
Materia medica and the global drug trade in early modern Russia
Clare Griffin, 2022
Review by Paula DeVos
February 2024
How to break a promise: Ideologies of austerity in Eastern Europe
Fritz Bartel, 2022
Review by Sinéad Carolan
February 2024
The Czechoslovak government-in-exile as performance
Pavel Horák, 2022
Review by Johana Kłusek
February 2024
The life and times of Péter Hanák
Péter Csunderlik, 2023
Review by Ferenc Laczó
February 2024
Imagining Pragues of the past
Chad Bryant, 2021
Review by Anna West
January 2024
The untold history of gay oppression in the USSR
Rustam Alexander, 2023
Review by Siobhán Hearne
December 2023
The everyday lives of Soviet things in Cuba and India
Sudha Rajagopalan, 2023
Review by Hana Bortlová-Vondráková
December 2023
Youth and memory regimes in Europe
edited by Félix Krawatzek and Nina Friess, 2022
Review by David Leupold
December 2023
A global history of radio broadcasting
Simon J. Potter, David Clayton, Friederike Kind-Kovacs, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, Nelson Ribeiro, Rebecca Scales, and Andrea Stanton, 2022
Review by Rosamund Johnston
December 2023
Remembering post-socialist economic transformation
Till Hilmar, 2023
Review by Veronika Pehe
December 2023
Slovaks in America, 1914-1948
Michael R. Cude, 2022
Review by Lukáš Perutka
November 2023
Debunking miracles in Polish history
Maciej Górny, 2022
Review by Jesse Kauffman
November 2023
New perspectives on Jewish lives under Communism
Edited by Kateřina Čapková and Kamil Kijek, 2022
Review by Arkadi Zeltser
November 2023
Orthodoxy and nationalism in interwar Yugoslavia
Maria Falina, 2023
Review by Pieter Troch
November 2023
Uncovering the role of the Bosnian Serb Police during the war
Christian Axboe Nielsen, 2022
Review by Iva Vukušić
October 2023
An overview of post-communist Romania
Edited by Liliana Corobca, 2022
Review by Claudia-Florentina Dobre
October 2023
State intervention and the transformation of nature in Eastern Europe
Edited by Stefan Dorondel and Stelu Şerban
Review by Doubravka Olšáková
October 2023
Czechoslovakia’s forgotten university
Marta Edith Holečková
Review by Mikuláš Pešta
October 2023
Nightworkers: Life on the graveyard shift
Edited by Lucie Dušková and Ger Duijzings, 2022
Review by Julius-Cezar MacQuarie
October 2023
Challenging the Bauhaus myth
Edited by Beate Störtkuhl and Rafał Makała, 2022
Review by Jana Hunter
October 2023
An environmental biography of Krakow
Edited by Adam Izdebski and Rafał Szmytka, 2021
Review by Eunice Blavascunas
October 2023
Interwar Czechoslovakia’s “Gypsy question”
Pavel Baloun, 2022
Review by Celia Donert
September 2023
A sweeping history of Europe’s revolutionary spring
Christopher Clark, 2023
Review by Michael Ignatieff
September 2023
Neighbors at the heart of Central Europe
Edited by Niklas Perzi, Hildegard Schmoller, Ota Konrád, Václav Šmidrkal, 2019
Review by Kathryn Densford
September 2023
The Jewish Civic Court and postwar retribution in Poland
Jakub Szymczak, 2022
Review by Katarzyna Person
September 2023
Maria Theresa’s body politic
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, 2021
Review by Lucy Coatman
September 2023
Shifts in Indian and Central European relations from the Cold War to today
edited by Rajendra K. Jain, 2021
Review by Priya Vijaykumar Poojary
September 2023
Reintegrating Czechoslovakia’s Jewish survivors after the Holocaust
Magdalena Sedlická, 2021
Review by Jan Láníček
August 2023
Entangled Easts: East Asia and Eastern Europe in a global perspective
Jie-Hyun Lim, 2022
Review by Ron Leonhardt
August 2023
The remarkable life of the historian István Deák
István Deák, 2023
Review by Ferenc Laczó
August 2023
The Ambivalent Autonomies of Romania’s Socialist Youth
Edited by Mioara Anton, Bogdan C. Iacob, Cristian Vasile, 2022
Review by M. Buna
August 2023
The politics of humanitarian aid and Budapest’s children after the Great War
Friederike Kind-Kovács, 2022
Review by Sara Silverstein
August 2023
Socialist Yugoslavia’s migrant workers in the capitalist West
Brigitte Le Normand, 2021
Review by Emily Greble
July 2023
The recent history of the Baltic states in focus
Edited by Charles Clarke, 2023
Review by Vello Pettai
July 2023
Book cover of The Meddlers by Jamie Martin. The cover is white, on the left had corner the title appears in large letters. The cover is made up of an orange dot, surrounded by orange circles and half circles.
The birth of global economic meddling
Jamie Martin, 2022
Review by Zachary Mazur
July 2023
Voices of female prisoners in Stalinist Eastern Europe
Anna Müller, 2022
Review by Malgorzata Fidelis
July 2023
Mapping language and nationalism in modern Central Europe
Tomasz Kamusella, 2022
Review by Alexander Maxwell
July 2023
Expert cultures in socialist Czechoslovakia and its contemporary echoes
Vítězslav Sommer with Matěj Spurný and Jaromír Mrňka, 2019
Review by Maciej Górny
July 2023
Victims’ State: War and Welfare in Austria, 1868-1925 by Ke-Chin Hsia
War victims and the making and unmaking of Austrian welfare 
Ke-Chin Hsia, 2022
Review by Doina Anca Cretu
June 2023
Nevidljivi neprijatelj: Variola vera 1972 by Radina Vučetić
Politics and everyday life during the 1972 smallpox epidemic in socialist Yugoslavia
Radina Vučetić, 2022
Review by Vedran Duančić
June 2023
Struggles for Belonging: Citizenship in Europe, 1900-2020 by Dieter Gosewinke
Citizenship and belonging in Europe
Dieter Gosewinkel, 2022
Review by Orel Beilinson
June 2023
Ukrainian cinema: Belonging and identity during the Soviet Thaw by Joshua First
Ukrainian cinema in the spotlight during the Soviet Thaw era
Joshua First, 2015
Review by Dina Iordanova