1175 Episodes

  1. Adair Rounthwaite, "This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

    Published: 10/29/2025

  2. Democratic Dialogues: Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries

    Published: 10/28/2025

  3. Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland

    Published: 10/28/2025

  4. Mark Mazower, "On Antisemitism: A Word in History" (Penguin Press, 2025)

    Published: 10/26/2025

  5. Cristina Plamadeala, "Dossierveillance, Collaboration, and Fear in Society: The Saga of a Journey Through the Securitate Archives and Beyond" (Routledge, 2025)

    Published: 10/22/2025

  6. Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Doctor" (Zantedeschi Books, 2019)

    Published: 10/20/2025

  7. Martyn Whittock, "Vikings in the East: From Vladimir the Great to Vladimir Putin – The Origins of a Contested Legacy in Russia and Ukraine" (Biteback, 2025)

    Published: 10/19/2025

  8. Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko "In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos" (MIT Press, 2023)

    Published: 10/15/2025

  9. Nicolae Steinhardt, "The Journal of Joy" (SVS Press, 2025)

    Published: 10/9/2025

  10. Andrew Lambert, "No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One" (Yale UP, 2025)

    Published: 10/7/2025

  11. Emília Barna, "Working in Music on the Semi-Periphery: Local Cultural Production and Global Capitalism" (CEU Press, 2025)

    Published: 10/3/2025

  12. Branka Bogdan, "The New Yugoslav Woman: Reproductive Regulation in Socialist Yugoslavia" (Indiana UP, 2025)

    Published: 9/30/2025

  13. Paris Papamichos Chronakis, "The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule" (Stanford UP, 2024)

    Published: 9/25/2025

  14. Tanja Petrovic, "Utopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People's Army" (Duke UP, 2024)

    Published: 9/21/2025

  15. Bradley A. Gorski, "Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market After Socialism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2025)

    Published: 9/19/2025

  16. Dani Belo, "Russian Warfare in the 21st Century" (Routledge, 2025)

    Published: 9/17/2025

  17. Alex R. Tipei, "Unintended Nations: How French Liberals' Empire of Civilization Remade Southeast Europe and the Post-Napoleonic World" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)

    Published: 9/15/2025

  18. Huseyn Aliyev, "Who Fights for Governments? Paramilitary Mobilization in Ukraine and Beyond" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)

    Published: 9/13/2025

  19. Vera Michlin-Shapir, "Fluid Russia: Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era" (Cornell UP, 2021)

    Published: 9/12/2025

  20. Chelsi West Ohueri, "Encountering Race in Albania: An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife" (Cornell UP, 2025)

    Published: 9/11/2025

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