New Books in Eastern European Studies

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    Apr 16, 2025 – 01:00:43
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    Apr 11, 2025 – 55:23
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    Apr 4, 2025 – 01:05:23
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    Apr 1, 2025 – 01:19:27
  • Lilia Topouzova, "Unsilencing: The History and Legacy of the Bulgarian Gulag" (Cornell UP, 2025)
    Mar 31, 2025 – 01:06:04
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    Mar 26, 2025 – 50:34
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    Mar 23, 2025 – 01:51:27
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    Mar 22, 2025 – 01:04:00
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    Mar 22, 2025 – 01:14:00
  • Vuk Vuksanovic, "Serbia’s Balancing Act: Between Russia and the West" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
    Mar 21, 2025 – 43:58
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    Mar 18, 2025 – 01:34:45
  • Ariel Evan Mayse, "Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
    Mar 16, 2025 – 53:23
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    Mar 15, 2025 – 32:14
  • Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, "Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and Cult" (Ibidem Press, 2014)
    Mar 13, 2025 – 58:45
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    Mar 9, 2025 – 01:32:32
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    Mar 5, 2025 – 01:21:28
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    Mar 5, 2025 – 01:00:59
  • Robert C. Austin, "Royal Fraud: The Story of Albania's First and Last King" (Central European UP, 2024)
    Mar 4, 2025 – 01:03:17
  • László Borhi, "Survival under Dictatorships: Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes" (Central European UP, 2024)
    Mar 3, 2025 – 47:49
  • Victoria Khiterer, "Jewish Pogroms in Kiev During the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920" (Edwin Mellen, 2015)
    Mar 1, 2025 – 01:23:31
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    Feb 26, 2025 – 01:48:43
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    Feb 26, 2025 – 01:01:17
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    Feb 22, 2025 – 01:30:54
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    Feb 21, 2025 – 42:42
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    Feb 19, 2025 – 56:25
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    Feb 17, 2025 – 01:05:54
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    Feb 17, 2025 – 01:01:34
  • Saulius Suziedelis, "Crisis, War, and the Holocaust in Lithuania" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
    Feb 14, 2025 – 01:09:30
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    Feb 10, 2025 – 53:48
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    Feb 8, 2025 – 25:09
  • Peter Whitewood, "The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Soviet Military" (UP of Kansas, 2015)
    Feb 7, 2025 – 01:21:39
  • Jonathan Haslam, "Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine" (Harvard UP, 2025)
    Feb 6, 2025 – 01:08:36
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    Feb 2, 2025 – 02:03:56
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    Feb 1, 2025 – 59:02
  • Eugene Finkel, "Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine" (Basic Books, 2024)
    Jan 29, 2025 – 36:33
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    Jan 29, 2025 – 57:52
  • Edward Westermann, "Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest" (U Oklahoma Press, 2016)
    Jan 29, 2025 – 01:37:38
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    Jan 28, 2025 – 01:32:27
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    Jan 28, 2025 – 56:44
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    Jan 28, 2025 – 01:04:20
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    Jan 26, 2025 – 55:42
  • Susan C. I. Grunewald, "From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union" (Cornell UP, 2024)
    Jan 26, 2025 – 01:08:39
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    Jan 21, 2025 – 01:24:52
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    Jan 17, 2025 – 01:40:18
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    Jan 14, 2025 – 45:14
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    Jan 10, 2025 – 01:08:48
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    Jan 9, 2025 – 56:47
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    Jan 7, 2025 – 01:01:33
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