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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

By Andrea

September 2025 Book cover depicts black and white scene from the First World War with a soldier in the middle. The title of the books is written in red lettering in the front, above it praise for the book. The author's name appears at the bottom in white font against the dark grey background of the battlefield.

A new history of the Eastern Front

Nick Lloyd, 2024

David M. Durrant

By Andrea

July 2025 The book cover is made up of colourful pixels in green, white, grey and back. In the middle of the cover a black box contains the title and the author.

Listening after the end: The ethics of algorithmic memory

Todd Presner, 2024

Jan Burzlaff

By Andrea

July 2025 Side profile photo of a woman on the cover of the book. On the black and white image, the title of the book is written in a light blue font.

The fashionable women of interwar Bucharest

Sonia-Doris Andraș, 2024

Mariana Neţ

By Andrea

July 2025 A group of people are standing in front of a small aircraft. The picture is a light sepia colour. The title of the books is presented in the middle in large letters.

Austrian migration and asylum policies during the Cold War

Sarah Knoll, 2024

Emma Dal Mas

By Andrea

June 2025

Belarus from the Middle Ages to the War in Ukraine

Toni Stenström, 2024

Alesia Mankouskaya

By Andrea

June 2025 The cover image depicts a room with a chair and radiator visible in the background. In the foreground a person's right foot in visible. That person is lying down. On the right side of the picture someone else's arms are visible. The person is holding a long stick in their arms and are hitting the soles of the other person's feet.

The "Greek case", the Council of Europe, and international human rights

Edited by Kostis Kornetis, Victor Fernandez Soriano, Kristin Kjaersgaard, Nicolas Manitakis, Alexandros Nafpliotis, Anna Papaeti, 2024

George Kordas

By Andrea

June 2025 The middle of the book cover includes a black and white image of people marching with a banner. The rest of the cover is a deep shade of blue with the title appearing in a white font. The name of the editors appears in a yellow font.

Gendered work in Central and Eastern Europe

Edited by Selin Çağatay, Alexandra Ghit, Olga Gnydiuk, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, and Susan Zimmermann, 2024

Ambika Natarajan

By Andrea

May 2025 Book cover of the book. At the bottom of the cover on a black background the authors' names are listed. On the rest of the cover a female peasant figure stands, left arm outstretched, holding a bunch of wheat in the right hand. She and the rest of the cover is in a golden hue.

Food independence in Putin's Russia

Janetta Azarieva, Yitzhak M. Brudny, and Eugene Finkel, 2023

Jason A. Reuscher