New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

Interviews with Scholars of Russia and Eurasia about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/russian-studies

Paul R. Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovskiĭ-Shtern, "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-existence" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
May 12, 2025 – 56:16
Victoria Khiterer, "Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration" (Purdue UP, 2025)
May 11, 2025 – 01:39:28
Charlie English, "The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War" (Random House, 2025)
May 4, 2025 – 47:32
Michael David-Fox, "Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule" (Harvard UP, 2025)
May 3, 2025 – 01:02:54
Shaun Walker, "The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West" (Knopf, 2025)
Apr 29, 2025 – 01:00:13
Polly Jones, "Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin" (Bloombury, 2024)
Apr 26, 2025 – 01:16:44
John Lechner, "Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare" (Bloombury, 2025)
Apr 24, 2025 – 01:29:03
Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)
Apr 23, 2025 – 01:09:42
Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
Apr 22, 2025 – 01:21:26
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, ed., "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" (U Notre Dame Press, 2025)
Apr 20, 2025 – 46:19
Sasha Colby, "The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance" (ECW Press, 2023)
Apr 19, 2025 – 01:25:00
Understanding Ukraine: A Discussion with Author Yaroslav Trofimov
Apr 17, 2025 – 53:52
Serhiy Kudelia, "Seize the City, Undo the State: The Inception of Russia's War on Ukraine" (Oxford UP, 2015)
Apr 16, 2025 – 01:00:43
Xiaolu Ma, "Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia Via Japan (1880-1930)" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Apr 5, 2025 – 01:04:35
Alexander Hill, "The Routledge Handbook of Soviet and Russian Military Studies" (Routledge, 2025)
Apr 1, 2025 – 01:19:27
Mikhail Goldis, "Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
Mar 28, 2025 – 48:20
Simon Morrison, "Tchaikovsky's Empire: A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer" (Yale UP, 2024)
Mar 25, 2025 – 37:10
Andrew Long, "BRIXMIS and the Secret Cold War: Intelligence Collecting Operations Behind Enemy Lines in East Germany" (Pen and Sword, 2024)
Mar 24, 2025 – 01:51:27
Peter Whitewood, "The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy: Lenin’s Defeat and the Rise of Stalinism" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Mar 23, 2025 – 01:14:00
Oleksandr Melnyk, "World War II as an Identity Project: Historicism, Legitimacy Contests, and the (Re-) Construction of Political Communities in Ukraine, 1939–1946" (Ibidem, 2022)
Mar 22, 2025 – 01:04:00
Vuk Vuksanovic, "Serbia’s Balancing Act: Between Russia and the West" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Mar 21, 2025 – 43:58
Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, "Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and Cult" (Ibidem Press, 2014)
Mar 13, 2025 – 58:45
Tamizdat under Putin: A Discussion with Publisher Feliks Sandalov
Mar 5, 2025 – 01:00:59
László Borhi, "Survival under Dictatorships: Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes" (Central European UP, 2024)
Mar 3, 2025 – 47:49
Victoria Khiterer, "Jewish Pogroms in Kiev During the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920" (Edwin Mellen, 2015)
Mar 1, 2025 – 01:23:31
Irina Rebrova, "Re-Constructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory: The Case of the North Caucasus" (de Gruyter, 2020)
Feb 27, 2025 – 55:45
Christina Kiaer, "Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Feb 26, 2025 – 01:48:43
Shay A. Pilnik, "The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War" (Purdue UP, 2025)
Feb 22, 2025 – 01:30:54
Trevor Wilson, "Alexandre Kojève and the Specters of Russian Philosophy" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
Feb 15, 2025 – 47:01
Laurel Victoria Gray, "Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan: Legacy of the Silk Road" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Feb 10, 2025 – 34:17
Canada and Eastern Europe, 1945–1991: Meeting in the Middle
Feb 10, 2025 – 33:01
Peter Whitewood, "The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Soviet Military" (UP of Kansas, 2015)
Feb 7, 2025 – 01:21:39
Jonathan Haslam, "Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Feb 6, 2025 – 01:08:36
Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Feb 5, 2025 – 01:05:08
Hal Brands, "The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World" (Norton, 2025)
Feb 5, 2025 – 52:28
"We Remember Lest the World Forget: Memories of the Minsk Ghetto" (JewishGen, 2018)
Feb 2, 2025 – 02:03:56
Eugene Finkel, "Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine" (Basic Books, 2024)
Jan 29, 2025 – 36:33
Benjamin Carter Hett, "The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War" (Henry Holt, 2020)
Jan 28, 2025 – 01:24:11
Viktoriya Fedorchak, "The Russia-Ukraine War: Towards Resilient Fighting Power" (Routledge, 2024)
Jan 28, 2025 – 01:32:27
Susan C. I. Grunewald, "From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Jan 26, 2025 – 01:08:39
Gabriel Gavin, "Ashes of Our Fathers: Inside the Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh" (Hurst, 2025)
Jan 9, 2025 – 54:41
Rebecca Charbonneau, "Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain" (Polity, 2024)
Jan 8, 2025 – 55:17
David A. Harrisville, "The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Jan 7, 2025 – 01:03:19
Elissa Bemporad, "Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 7, 2025 – 01:01:33
Simon Miles, "Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Jan 4, 2025 – 01:16:26
Polly Zavadivker, "A Nation of Refugees: Russia's Jews in World War I" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 3, 2025 – 01:22:54
Vicky Davis, "Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting for the Soviet Union" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dec 28, 2024 – 01:22:58
Marianne Kamp, "Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Dec 26, 2024 – 01:07:19
Diana Dumitru, "The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Dec 26, 2024 – 01:53:20
Nergis Ertürk, "Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Dec 18, 2024 – 01:12:22

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