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By Andrea

January 2026 Book cover of Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin by Polly Jones. The design features dark blue and red abstract shapes, the title in large white lettering, and a grainy black-and-white photograph of a long corridor with a shadowy human figure at the far end. The Bloomsbury publisher logo appears at the bottom.

Narratives of imprisonment from Stalin to Putin

Polly Jones, 2024

Lucy Jeffery

By Andrea

December 2025 A book cover featuring a historical map of Central and Eastern Europe at the top, showing regions in various colors with political boundaries. Below the map, bold text reads “Sarah A. Cramsley” and the title “Uprooting the Diaspora” in large white and red letters. A subtitle underneath says “Jewish Belonging and the ‘Ethnic Revolution’ in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936–1946.” The design uses black, white, and red accents.

Jewish belonging in East-Central Europe

Sarah A. Cramsey, 2023

Kamil Kijek

By Andrea

November 2025 Book cover featuring a black-and-white photograph of two men standing on a nearly empty train platform with tracks and city buildings in the background. Overlaid on the left side is a white panel with the author’s name, Maciej Pietrzak, and the title ‘Koniec złudzeń. Film wobec Marca ’68’ in large gray and red text. The publisher’s name, Universitas, appears at the bottom.

March '68 in Polish cinema

Maciej Pietrzak, 2025

Ewa Mazierska

By Andrea

November 2025 Book cover for Europe Without Borders: A History by Isaac Stanley-Becker, featuring a scenic aerial view of a European countryside with rolling green hills, a river, and a small town under a soft, cloudy sky.

The promise of free movement

Isaac Stanley-Becker, 2025

Eike Klages

By Andrea

November 2025 Cover of the book "Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944–1950" by Stefan Cristian Ionescu. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of three women standing together on a building’s steps, smiling at the camera.

Postwar reparatory justice and restitution in Romania

Stefan Cristian Ionescu, 2025

Anca Filipovici

By Andrea

November 2025 Book cover of Weibliche Handlungsmacht und Mobilität by Corinna Schattauer. The cover shows a vintage illustration of a woman wearing a sash labeled 'Miss Germany' holding a trophy, with international flags in the background and the title 'Das Magazin' above her.

Beauty contests and women’s agency in early-20th-century Germany

Corinna Schattauer, 2024

Louisa Niesen

By Andrea

October 2025 Book cover of Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania: In Quest of an Ideal by Doina Anca Cretu. The cover features a sepia-toned historical photograph of a woman standing beside a stove and cooking equipment, with an American flag hanging on the wall behind her.

Humanitarian aid and philanthropy in interwar Romania

Doina Anca Cretu, 2024

Mathias Fuelling

By Andrea

October 2025

Building the canon: The past and present of sexuality in East Central Europe

Edited by Agnieszka Kościańska, Anita Kurimay, Kateřina Lišková, Hadley Z. Renkin, 2025

Zsófia Veszely

By Andrea

October 2025

The borders of diversity: Red lines in the Soviet experiment

Stephan Rindlisbacher, 2025

Aleksandr Korobeinikov

By Andrea

October 2025 Largely white book cover, with a map of northeastern Eurasia at the bottom, tilted towards the right. On the right hand side of the cover the name of the authors is written in yellow font, and the title is written in black font.

Rethinking the history of Northern Eurasia

Marina B. Mogilner, Alexander Semyonov, Ilya V. Gerasimov, and Sergey Glebov; 2025

Arina Fedorova