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February 2025
Left decline and rising populism in Eastern Europe
Review by George Kordas
February 2025
The new woman in Vienna
Review by Scott Spector
January 2025
The place and power of translation during Communism
Review by Lucy Jeffery
January 2025
Spaces of interaction in the Second-Third World
Review by Agustín Cosovschi
January 2025
Challenging stereotypes of post-Soviet Russian workers
Review by Viktoria Kobzeva
January 2025
Complexities of resistance in Southeastern Europe during the Second World War
Review by Milorad Lazić
December 2024
Sounds and sights of the Great War in Prague
Review by David Smrček
December 2024
Different from the others: queer mobilization before Stonewall
Review by Giselle Bernard
November 2024
The last postcard from Prague
Review by Felix Jeschke
November 2024
Remembering the last decade of Eastern Europe
Review by Aleksandra Komornicka
November 2024
Fear in public and private in East Germany
Review by Jack Dean
October 2024
The unknown story of the Soviet Eastern International
Review by Aleksandr Korobeinikov
October 2024
State approaches to family in Poland, Hungary and Romania
Review by Orel Beilinson
October 2024
A new history of the Middle Kingdoms
Review by Joseph F. Patrouch
October 2024
Fear and biopolitics in East Central Europe
Review by Vojtěch Pojar
September 2024
Life and death under Hungarian dictatorships
Review by Lucy Jeffery
September 2024
The Mediterranean in the Age of Revolutions
Review by Paul Csillag
September 2024
An intimate history of Eastern Europe
Review by Jack Dean
September 2024
Tracing the missing in the Arolsen Archives
Review by Barnabas Balint
September 2024
Enter the libertarian multiverse
Review by Dennis Kölling
August 2024
Reimagining Czech military history
Review by Kevin Hoeper
July 2024
A New Diplomatic History of early modern Europe
Review by Maxime Morel
July 2024
The appeal of nativist politics and what comes next
Review by Tamara Kolarić
July 2024
Muhajirs in the Late Ottoman Empire
Review by Paul Csillag
July 2024
More children at any price in Slovak family planning
Review by Fanni Svégel
July 2024
It is no longer Greek to us
Review by Jan Blonski
July 2024
Bridging past and present: A critical exploration of transition memories
Review by Daria Gordeeva
July 2024
A return to history and the Russo-Ukrainian War
Review by Oleksa Drachewych
July 2024
A biography of the Polessian "boggy land"
Review by Patrice M. Dabrowski
June 2024
Bessarabia and the collapse of empires
Review by Anca Filipovici
June 2024
Populism in Greece and the USA
Review by Francesco Campo
June 2024
The legacy of globalization, nationalism and imperialism in Eastern Europe
Review by Lia Chkhetiani
June 2024
Bystanders in Nazi Germany
Review by Jan Burzlaff
June 2024
A critical travelogue to Central Europe’s old towns
Review by Paul Csillag
June 2024
Race and coloniality in the Balkans
Review by Harun Buljina
June 2024
Women of the Ottoman Empire
Review by Nora Lafi
May 2024
The brutal world of detention centres in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Review by Emily Greble
May 2024
Habsburg Central Europe as a crucible of world order
Review by Franz L. Fillafer
May 2024
The consumerism of “real” socialism
Review by Nigel Swain
May 2024
Mixed flavors of vegetarianism
Review by M. Buna
May 2024
The Trieste arson that engulfed Europe
Review by Sabine Rutar
May 2024
Modernity, cosmopolitanism and the Czechoslovak railways
Review by Tess Megginson
May 2024
Historical veracity under siege
Review by Paul Doolan
April 2024
An interwar plot and America's place in the global far-right order
Review by Nick Warmuth
April 2024
The societal impact of universal conscription in Austria-Hungary
Review by Tobias Neubauer
April 2024
A bold new look at Ukraine's history, people and culture
Review by Ruslana Bovhyria
April 2024
East Asian and European border experiences
Review by Mátyás Mervay
April 2024
A history of Russian food
Review by Jason A. Reuscher
April 2024
Czech childhood in interwar Vienna
Review by Jan Jiráň
April 2024
Hungary and Germany in the mirror of the Bolshevik regimes of 1919
Review by Václav Šmidrkal
March 2024
An examination of Polish Displaced Persons after the Second World War
Review by Katarzyna Nowak
March 2024
An insider’s view of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Review by Anna Grutza
March 2024
The foreign exchange brokers of Cold War Czechoslovakia and USA
Review by Antonín Zita
March 2024
Galician refugees during the First World War
Review by Patrice M. Dabrowski
February 2024
Materia medica and the global drug trade in early modern Russia
Review by Paula DeVos
February 2024
How to break a promise: Ideologies of austerity in Eastern Europe
Review by Sinéad Carolan
February 2024
Moscow’s First Hybrid War
Review by Tomasz Kamusella
February 2024
The Czechoslovak government-in-exile as performance
Review by Johana Kłusek
February 2024
The life and times of Péter Hanák
Review by Ferenc Laczó
February 2024
Imagining Pragues of the past
Review by Anna West
January 2024
The untold history of gay oppression in the USSR
Review by Siobhán Hearne
December 2023
The everyday lives of Soviet things in Cuba and India
Review by Hana Bortlová-Vondráková
December 2023
Youth and memory regimes in Europe
Review by David Leupold
December 2023
A global history of radio broadcasting
Review by Rosamund Johnston
December 2023
Remembering post-socialist economic transformation
Review by Veronika Pehe
December 2023
Slovaks in America, 1914-1948
Review by Lukáš Perutka
November 2023
Examining Hana Ponická's dissent and poetry 
Review by Charles Sabatos
November 2023
Debunking miracles in Polish history
Review by Jesse Kauffman
November 2023
New perspectives on Jewish lives under Communism
Review by Arkadi Zeltser
November 2023
Orthodoxy and nationalism in interwar Yugoslavia
Review by Pieter Troch
November 2023
Uncovering the role of the Bosnian Serb Police during the war
Review by Iva Vukušić
October 2023
An overview of post-communist Romania
Review by Claudia-Florentina Dobre
October 2023
State intervention and the transformation of nature in Eastern Europe
Review by Doubravka Olšáková
October 2023
Sexual politics in Serbia
Review by Aleksandar Ranković
October 2023
Czechoslovakia’s forgotten university
Review by Mikuláš Pešta
October 2023
Nightworkers: Life on the graveyard shift
Review by Julius-Cezar MacQuarie
October 2023
Challenging the Bauhaus myth
Review by Jana Hunter
October 2023
An environmental biography of Krakow
Review by Eunice Blavascunas
October 2023
Interwar Czechoslovakia’s “Gypsy question”
Review by Celia Donert
September 2023
A sweeping history of Europe’s revolutionary spring
Review by Michael Ignatieff
September 2023
Neighbors at the heart of Central Europe
Review by Kathryn Densford
September 2023
The Jewish Civic Court and postwar retribution in Poland
Review by Katarzyna Person
September 2023
The undermining of gender-equal democracy in Eastern Europe
Review by Barbara Havelková
September 2023
Maria Theresa’s body politic
Review by Lucy Coatman
September 2023
Shifts in Indian and Central European relations from the Cold War to today
Review by Priya Vijaykumar Poojary
September 2023
Reintegrating Czechoslovakia’s Jewish survivors after the Holocaust
Review by Jan Láníček
August 2023
Entangled Easts: East Asia and Eastern Europe in a global perspective
Review by Ron Leonhardt
August 2023
The remarkable life of the historian István Deák
Review by Ferenc Laczó
August 2023
The Ambivalent Autonomies of Romania’s Socialist Youth
Review by M. Buna
August 2023
The politics of humanitarian aid and Budapest’s children after the Great War
Review by Sara Silverstein
August 2023
Socialist Yugoslavia’s migrant workers in the capitalist West
Review by Emily Greble
July 2023
The recent history of the Baltic states in focus
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
Review by Zachary Mazur
July 2023
Voices of female prisoners in Stalinist Eastern Europe
Review by Malgorzata Fidelis
July 2023
The State of the European Union
Review by Anders Åslund
July 2023
Mapping language and nationalism in modern Central Europe
Review by Alexander Maxwell
July 2023
Expert cultures in socialist Czechoslovakia and its contemporary echoes
Review by Maciej Górny
July 2023
Russia’s war and public support for the invasion of Ukraine
Review by Robert Dale
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 
Review by Doina Anca Cretu
June 2023
Ukrainian cinema: Belonging and identity during the Soviet Thaw by Joshua First
Ukrainian cinema in the spotlight during the Soviet Thaw era
Review by Dina Iordanova
June 2023
Struggles for Belonging: Citizenship in Europe, 1900-2020 by Dieter Gosewinke
Citizenship and belonging in Europe
Review by Orel Beilinson
June 2023
Unherrschaft und Gegenherrschaft by Florian Mühlfried
Political freedom and its pitfalls in Georgia
Review by David Leupold
June 2023
Nevidljivi neprijatelj: Variola vera 1972 by Radina Vučetić
Politics and everyday life during the 1972 smallpox epidemic in socialist Yugoslavia
Review by Vedran Duančić
June 2023
From Economic to Energy Transition: Three Decades of Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe edited by Matúš Mišík and Veronika Oravcová
Listening to Central and Eastern Europe on low-carbon energy transition
Review by Ana Stojilovska