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Russian and Eurasian Studies
Interviews with scholars of Russia and Eurasia about their new books.
May 13, 2024
A Woman's Empire
A Woman's Empire: Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia (U Toronto Press, 2023) explores a new dimension of Russian imperialism: women actively…
May 12, 2024
The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago
In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with Per Högselius and Achim Klüppelberg to dis…
May 8, 2024
Modern Warfare
The foremost authority on modern war in the English-speaking world examines Europe's most important conflict since World War II. More than any other …
May 7, 2024
The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus
Dr. Sean Griffin's book, The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus (Cambridge UP, 2019), takes on the question of the source materials for the Pr…
May 6, 2024
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume IV (Indiana UP, 2022) examines an under-researched se…
May 6, 2024
Gay Lives and ‘Aversion Therapy’ in Brezhnev’s Russia, 1964–1982
Rustam Alexander's Gay Lives and 'Aversion Therapy' in Brezhnev's Russia, 1964-1982 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) examines the autobiographies and diarie…
May 5, 2024
Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000-mile American road trip from New York to Hollywood and back. They immort…
May 3, 2024
I Will Show You How It Was
The spring 2022 battle for Kyiv was "one of the most tragic – and the most bizarre – events in modern history," writes Illia Ponomarenko. "Outnumbered…
May 2, 2024
Night Train to Odesa
As a teenager in Shetland, Jen Stout fell in love with Russia and, later, Ukraine – their languages, cultures, and histories. Although life kept gett…
April 23, 2024
Empire of Refugees
Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees…
April 22, 2024
Asif Siddiqi on Rockets, Prisons, Pop Songs, and So Much More
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Asif Siddiqi, Professor of History at Fordham University, about the arc of his career and his wide-rangi…
April 15, 2024
The Last Ships from Hamburg
Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the Unite…
April 13, 2024
When Left Moves Right
In her new book, When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe (Oxford University Press, 2…
April 13, 2024
State-Building as Lawfare
State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Egor Lazarev explores the use o…
April 4, 2024
Reds in Blue
Before Josef Stalin's death in 1953, the USSR had, at best, an ambivalent relationship with noncommunist international organisations. Although it had …
April 1, 2024
The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia
Despite the intense processes of deindustrialisation around the world, the working class continues to play an important role in post-industrial societ…
March 26, 2024
The Russian FSB
Since its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia's Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era…
March 24, 2024
Cold War 2.0
A vivid, thoughtful examination of how technological innovation—especially AI—is shaping the tensions between democracy and autocracy during the new C…
March 20, 2024
Lenin's Childhood
On January 21, 1924 and at the age of 53, Vladimir Lenin passed away. We’ve now had a century of a world without him, but also a century of a worl…
March 20, 2024
Russian-Arab Worlds
The roots of the Arab world’s current Russian entanglements reach deep into the tsarist and Soviet periods. To explore those entanglements, Russian-Ar…