1178 Episodes

  1. Alexander Maxwell, “Choosing Slovakia: Slavic Hungary, the Czechoslovak Language, and Accidental Nationalism” (Tauris Academic Studies, 2009)

    Published: 6/15/2012

  2. Kimberly Zarecor, “Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960” (Pittsburgh UP, 2011)

    Published: 5/31/2012

  3. Melissa Caldwell, “Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia’s Countryside” (University of California Press, 2010)

    Published: 5/15/2012

  4. Francis Tapon, “The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us” (WanderLearn, 2012)

    Published: 5/15/2012

  5. David Crowley and Susan Reid, “Pleasures in Socialism: Leisure and Luxury in the Eastern Block” (Northwestern UP, 2010)

    Published: 3/11/2012

  6. Mary Neuburger, “The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria (Cornell UP, 2004)

    Published: 2/23/2012

  7. Nathaniel Wood, “Becoming Metropolitan: Urban Selfhood and the Making of Modern Cracow” (Northern Illinois UP, 2010 )

    Published: 2/23/2012

  8. Andrew Wilson, “Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship” (Yale UP, 2011)

    Published: 12/2/2011

  9. Gale Stokes, “The Walls Came Tumbling Down” (2nd Edition, Oxford UP, 2011)

    Published: 11/9/2011

  10. Elizabeth Gowing, “Travels in Blood and Honey: Becoming a Beekeeper in Kosovo” (

    Published: 10/25/2011

  11. Timothy Snyder, “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin” (Basic Books, 2011)

    Published: 10/25/2011

  12. Richard C. Hall, “The Modern Balkans: A History” (Reaktion Books, 2011)

    Published: 6/17/2011

  13. Matthew Kelly, “Finding Poland: From Tavistock to Hruzdowa and Back Again” (Jonathan Cape, 2010)

    Published: 6/2/2011

  14. Michael A. Reynolds, “Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908-1918” (Cambridge UP, 2011)

    Published: 4/22/2011

  15. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, “The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew” (Yale UP, 2009)

    Published: 3/26/2010

  16. Stephen Kotkin, “Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment” (Modern Library, 2009)

    Published: 12/31/2009

  17. Padraic Kenney, “1989: Democratic Revolutions at the Cold War’s End” (Bedford-St. Martin’s, 2009)

    Published: 11/6/2009

  18. Timothy Snyder, “The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of A Habsburg Archduke” (Basic Books, 2008)

    Published: 7/3/2008

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