New Books Network
Russian and Eurasian Studies
Central Asian Studies March 2, 2021

The Russian Conquest of Central Asia

A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914

Alexander Morrison

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
Alexander Morrison’s study of the conquest of Central Asia offers new perspectives on a topic long obscured by misleading grand narratives. Based on years of research in several countries, The Russian …

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Eastern European Studies February 23, 2021

Empire of Friends

Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia

Rachel Applebaum

Hosted by Jill Massino
The familiar story of Soviet power in Cold War Eastern Europe focuses on political repression and military force. But in Empire of Friends: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold …
Russian and Eurasian Studies February 22, 2021

Only Among Women

Philosophies of Community in the Russian and Soviet Imagination, 1860–1940

Anne Eakin Moss

Hosted by Colleen McQuillen
In Only Among Women: Philosophies of Community in the Russian and Soviet Imagination, 1860–1940 (Northwestern University Press, 2019), Anne Eakin Moss examines idealized relationships between women in Russian literature and …
Russian and Eurasian Studies February 22, 2021

The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917

Roger R. Reese

Hosted by Aaron Weinacht
Roger Reese’s recent book, The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917 (University of Kansas, 2019), takes a deep dive into the internal workings of the Russian army …
Russian and Eurasian Studies February 15, 2021

Journeys through the Russian Empire

The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

William Craft Brumfield

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
In his latest authoritative book, Journeys Through the Russian Empire: The Photographic Legacy of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky (Duke University Press, 2020) Russian scholar, photographer, and chronicler of Russian architecture William …
Russian and Eurasian Studies February 10, 2021

Moscow Monumental

Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital

Katherine Zubovich

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
In Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital (Princeton University Press, 2021), Professor Katherine Zubovich of the University of Buffalo of the State University of New York …
National Security February 10, 2021

How to Lose the Information War

Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict

Nina Jankowicz

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
Barely a month after the riot on the Capitol Building, the United States is no more adept at fending off foreign information operations than it was four years ago, when …
Russian and Eurasian Studies February 10, 2021

It Will Be Fun and Terrifying

Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia

Fabrizio Fenghi

Hosted by Steven Seegel
The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different ideologies. In the years that followed, Limonov, Dugin …
Genocide Studies February 9, 2021

The Resistance Network

The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918

Khatchig Mouradian

Hosted by Steven Seegel
The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 (Michigan State University Press, 2020) is the history of an underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats …
Jewish Studies February 5, 2021

Transatlantic Russian Jewishness

Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Gennady Estraikh

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of Yiddish speaking immigrants actively participated in the American Socialist and labor movement. They formed the milieu of the …
East Asian Studies January 25, 2021

Constructing Empire

The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–45

Bill Sewell

Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
What happens to everyday-life in a city when it becomes subsumed into an empire? Who becomes responsible for the everyday building and management of the new imperial enclave? How do …
Eastern European Studies January 22, 2021

On Civilization's Edge

A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World

Kathryn Ciancia

Hosted by Steven Seegel
As a resurgent Poland emerged at the end of World War I, an eclectic group of Polish border guards, state officials, military settlers, teachers, academics, urban planners, and health workers …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel January 19, 2021

The Last Million

Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War

David Nasaw

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
In May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of global military conflict did not cease with …
Eastern European Studies January 18, 2021

Roma Rights and Civil Rights

A Transatlantic Comparison

Felix B. Chang and Sunnie T. Rucker-Chang

Hosted by Steven Seegel
F. B. Chang and S. T. Rucker-Chang's Roma Rights and Civil Rights: A Transatlantic Comparison (Cambridge UP, 2020) tackles the movements for - and expressions of - equality for Roma in …
Eastern European Studies January 12, 2021

Ukraine

What Everyone Needs to Know

Serhy Yekelchyk

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
In 2020, Oxford University Press published a second edition of Serhy Yekelchyk’s Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford UP, 2020). This series is based on the reference format that …
Eastern European Studies January 8, 2021

Making Ukraine Soviet

Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin

Olena Palko

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Olena Palko’s Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin (Bloomsbury Academic Press 2020) offers an intriguing investigation that zeroes in on the intersection of history and …
Literary Studies December 30, 2020

Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930

Contested Memory

Myroslav Shkandrij

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Myroslav Shkandrij’s Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930: Contested Memory (Academic Studies Press, 2019) offers an insight into the development of the Ukrainian avant-garde, a topic which still remains unjustifiably understudied …
Performing Arts December 18, 2020

And Then Came Dance

The Women Who Led Volynsky to Ballet's Magic Kingdom

Stanley J. Rabinowitz

Hosted by Renee Garris
Dr. Stanley Rabinowitz once again immerses us into the world of ballet and Akim Volynsky with his book And Then Came Dance: The Women Who Led Volynsky to Ballet's Magic Kingdom …
Russian and Eurasian Studies December 2, 2020

Conspiracy Culture

Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination

Keith A. Livers

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Conspiracy theories prove to be popular and widely-spread. As a rule, we do not tend to take them seriously, but it would be wrong to suggest that audiences are not …
Asian Review of Books November 19, 2020

Young Mongols

Forging Democracy in the Wild, Wild East

Aubrey Menard

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Mongolia is sometimes seen as one of the few examples of a successful youth-led revolution, where a 1990 movement forced the Soviet-appointed Politburo to resign. In Young Mongols: Forging Democracy …