In Credit to the Nation (Harvard University Press, 2026), Rebecca Kobrin shows how Eastern European Jewish immigrant bankers transformed commercial banking in the United States by extending credit to ...

In Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World (Bloomsbury, 2024), edited by Su Lin Lewis and Nana Osei-Opare, the contributors show how the countries of the Global South collabora...

In Marxism and the Interpretation of Dreams (Stanford University Press, 2026), Molly Pucci recounts the story of one of interwar Europe’s largest and most multinational parties, the Czechoslovak Commu...

In The New Yugoslav Woman (Indiana University Press, 2025), Branka Bogdan examines reproductive regulation in socialist Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1989, tracing the gap between the postwar constituti...

Mikuláš Pešta talks about his new book, Student Internationalism and the Global Cold War: The International Union of Students in Socialist Prague (Bloomsbury, 2026).

In The Discovery of Ottoman Greece (Harvard University Press, 2025), Richard Calis offers a richly documented portrait of Martin Crusius, an early modern scholar who never set foot in Greece yet dedic...

The Aesthetics of Populism (Brill, 2025), edited by Leszek Koczanowicz, Michał Stambulski, Wojciech Ufel, and Rafał Włodarczyk, explores not only what populism says and does, but what it looks like in...

In Engineering Global Socialism (Indiana University Press, 2026), Anna Calori provides a window into Yugoslavia’s global history through the Bosnian global corporation Energoinvest. Jure Ramšak writes...

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond edited by Dariusz Brzeziński, Kamil Filipek, Kuba Piwowar, and Małgorzata Winiarska-Brodowska (Routledge, 2025) examines algorithms and AI's social, cult...

In Aleksandr Tvardovskii (CEU Press, 2025), Geoffrey Hosking gives a balanced account of Tvardovskii's strengths and weaknesses, and his achievements and failures, offering the fullest picture yet ava...

In Enver Hoxha (Reaktion Books, 2026), Robert C Austin and Artan R. Hoxha provide readers with the first full-length biography of Albania’s Communist dictator. Lucy Jeffery writes that the authors com...

In The Island of the Pope (Beghahn, 2025), Dimitris Kousouris demonstrates how global power relations, regional struggles, and local renegotiations were deeply intertwined, and how Syros was caught in...

In The Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe (OUP, 2025), Pieter M. Judson and Tara Zahra analyse the war not as the end of the Monarchy, but rather as a series of socio-politica...

Szabolcs László talks to us about his new book, Cold War Brokers: Hungarian-American Cultural Exchanges and Transnational Mobility, 1956-1989 (Bloomsbury, 2026).

In Bukovina (Princeton University Press, 2025), Cristina Florea provides a definitive history spanning nearly two centuries of this small Eastern European region, now divided between Romania and Ukrai...

Amsterdam Publishers have published a book that has a longer publishing history: the memoirs of Iboja Wandall-Holm have now been published in English after having already appeared in both Slovak and D...

Cynthia Paces’ book Prague: The Heart of Europe (Oxford University Press, 2026) offers a sweeping history of the city from its beginnings to today. Anna West writes that the book serves as a wonderful...

In Omeljan Pritsak and the intellectual origins of the Ukrainian “Harvard Miracle” (HURI, 2026), Andrii Portnov offers the first English-language biography of the co-founder of the Harvard Ukrainian R...

Published online in stages beginning in 2022 and released in print in April 2025, The Oxford Handbook of Tourism History, edited by Eric G. E. Zuelow and Kevin J. James, brings together a broad range ...

In Nonaligned Imagination (Northwestern University Press, 2025), Nataša Kovačević examines transnational encounters and the networks that emerged among Yugoslav writers, academics, literary critics, a...

Socialism and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2024), edited by Raluca Grosescu and Ned Richardson-Little, examines how socialist actors and governments from Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asi...

In The Invention of the Eastern Question (I.B. Tauris, 2025), Ozan Ozavci provides an analysis of Euro-Ottoman relations through the life of the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire , Sir Robert L...

In Habsburgs on the Rio Grande (Harvard University Press, 2024), Raymond Jonas re-examines the Second Mexican Empire and argues that rather than being a historical sideshow, it was at the centre of wo...

In The Last Peasant War (Princeton University Press, 2025), Jakub S. Beneš shows how the peasant revolutions between 1917 and 1921 in Central and Eastern Europe shaped not only interwar politics, but ...

In Feeling at Home (Verso, 2025), Alva Gotby addresses the meaning of “home” through various lenses, arguing that solving our current housing crises would revolutionize our everyday lives. Petra Tamáš...

In The Politics of the Pandemic in Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Routledge, 2024), edited by Margarita Zavadskaya, the contributors provide an overview of the political impact of COVID-19 in the region ...

In Gulag Fiction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), Polly Jones surveys Russian prose that articulates the experiences, traumas, and memories of life in Soviet penal institutions. Lucy Jeffery writes that J...

Kurt Johnson reviews Cécile Desprairies’s semi-autobiographical novel The Propagandist and Lea Ypi’s Indignity: A Life Reimagined, arguing that while literature can bridge history and memory, it carri...

In Uprooting the Diaspora (Indiana University Press, 2023), Sarah A. Cramsey examines changes in the transnational patterns of thinking about Jewish belonging in Poland and Czechoslovakia, through thr...

In Koniec złudzeń (Universitas, 2025), Maciej Pietrzak examines the effects of March ‘68 in Polish fiction and documentary cinema, from the first such traces to the most recent ones. Ewa Mazierska rev...

In Europe without Borders (Princeton University Press, 2025), Isaac Stanley-Becker explores the contested creation of free movement for goods and people in the Schengen area. Eike Klages describes the...

In Weibliche Handlungsmacht und Mobilität (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024), Corinna Schattauer examines how female beauty contestants in interwar Germany used such contests as a means of pursuing their ...

Stefan B. Kirmse talks to us about his ERC-funded project, In Pursuit of ‘Legality’ and ‘Justice’ – Minority Struggles in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (JUSTIMINO).

In Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania (Stanford UP, 2024), Doina Anca Cretu explores how Romania leveraged American aid for post–First World War modernization and reconstruction. Mathi...

The editors of The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe (2025), Agnieszka Kościańska, Anita Kurimay, Kateřina Lišková, and Hadley Z. Renkin, offer a rich and extensive volume that co...

In Borders in Red (Northern Illinois University Press, 2025), Stephan Rindlisbacher examines how territorial and ethnic boundaries were constructed during the formative years of the Soviet state. Alek...

In A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 1700–1918: From Russian to Global History (Bloomsbury, 2025), Marina B. Mogilner, Alexander Semyonov, Ilya V. Gerasimov, and Sergey Glebov present a de-c...

Mariana Neţ reviews The Women of ‘Little Paris’ (Bloomsbury, 2024) by Sonia-Doris Andraș, describing the book as a kaleidoscope of information, providing valuable insights into the country’s nation-bu...

In The Eastern Front (W.W. Norton & Company, 2024), Nick Lloyd presents a detailed, rich history of the Eastern front during the First World War, a vast theatre of war that brought about the collapse ...