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In Feeling at Home (@versobooks.bsky.social , 2025), Alva Gotby addresses the meaning of “home” through various lenses, arguing that solving our current housing crises would revolutionize our everyday lives. Petra Tamášová reviews the book.

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The future possibilities of home - CEU Review of Books
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...
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February 4, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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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 with a focus on Russia. Jack Dean reviews the volume.

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Exposing the political foundations of Eastern Europe and Eurasia during the pandemic - CEU Review of Books
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 ...
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January 28, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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In Gulag Fiction ( @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2024), Polly Jones surveys Russian prose that articulates the experiences, traumas, and memories of life in Soviet penal institutions. Lucy Jeffery reviews the book.

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Narratives of imprisonment from Stalin to Putin - CEU Review of Books
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...
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January 13, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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@kujo4pm.bsky.social reviews Cécile Desprairies’ "The Propagandist" and Lea Ypi’s "Indignity", arguing that while literature can bridge history and memory, it carries an inherent risk: histories vulnerable to erasure are also vulnerable to fabrication.

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Fraught but exciting: Using fiction to bridge history with memory - CEU Review of Books
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...
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December 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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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.

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Jewish belonging in East-Central Europe - CEU Review of Books
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...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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New on the CEURB site. 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 reviews the book.

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March '68 in Polish cinema - CEU Review of Books
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...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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New review out now!

In Europe without Borders (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025), Isaac Stanley-Becker explores the contested creation of free movement for goods and people in the Schengen area. Eike Klages reviews the book.

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The promise of free movement - CEU Review of Books
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...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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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 own agency and mobility.

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Beauty contests and women’s agency in early-20th-century Germany - CEU Review of Books
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 ...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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New interview!

Stefan B. Kirmse (@zmo-berlin.bsky.social) talked to us about his @erc.europa.eu-funded project, "In Pursuit of ‘Legality’ and ‘Justice’ – Minority Struggles in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union" #JUSTIMINO.

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Legality and justice in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: An interview with Stefan B. Kirmse - CEU Review of Books
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).
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November 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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In Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024), Doina Anca Cretu explores how Romania leveraged American aid for post–First World War modernization and reconstruction. Mathias Fuelling reviews the book.

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Humanitarian aid and philanthropy in interwar Romania - CEU Review of Books
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...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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The editors of The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe, Agnieszka Kościańska, Anita Kurimay, Kateřina Lišková, & Hadley Z. Renkin, offer a cornerstone in the canon of academic scholarship on sexuality.
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Building the canon: The past and present of sexuality in East Central Europe - CEU Review of Books
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...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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October 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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In Borders in Red (@cornellupress.bsky.social, 2025), Stephan Rindlisbacher examines how territorial and ethnic boundaries were constructed during the formative years of the Soviet state. Aleksandr Korobeinikov reviews the book.

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The borders of diversity: Red lines in the Soviet experiment - CEU Review of Books
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...
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October 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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In A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 1700–1918 (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2025), Marina B. Mogilner, Alexander Semyonov, Ilya V. Gerasimov, and Sergey Glebov present a de-centred history of Northern Eurasia. Arina Fedorova reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/rethi...
Rethinking the history of Northern Eurasia - CEU Review of Books
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...
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October 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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How does the “Second World” invite us to rethink international law?

Read the interview with @pilabuda.bsky.social & Marek Wasiński on how SWAIL emerges from Eastern & Central Europe’s liminal position.

By @polinakulish.bsky.social & @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social

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(Re)Searching for SWAIL. Part I
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September 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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While you’re at it, check out the first academic review of my book on @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social by Prof. Mariana Neț here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/the-f...
The fashionable women of interwar Bucharest - CEU Review of Books
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...
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September 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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In "The Eastern Front" (@wwnorton.com, 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 of three empires. David M. Durrant reviews the book.

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A new history of the Eastern Front - CEU Review of Books
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 ...
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September 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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New long read! @ferenclaczo.bsky.social delves into Mark Mazower’s forthcoming book, Antisemitism: A Word in History ( @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social, 2025), commenting that its proposal for a kind of progressive centrism is difficult to disagree with.

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Do not surrender to words! Mark Mazower on two histories of Antisemitism - CEU Review of Books
Ferenc Laczó delves into Mark Mazower's forthcoming book, Antisemitism: A Word in History (Allen Lane, 2025), writing that its proposal is to combat anti-Jewish prejudice not in isolation but as part ...
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September 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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A big thank you to @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social for a fun interview about my new project.
September 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM