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European indecisiveness in the face of a “predatory American republic” - a problem that already existed 200 years ago. 👑🦅🇲🇽 Read my review of Raymond Jonas’ latest book on @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social and embrace the eternal timeliness of Habsburg history. 🖤💛
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A Habsburg imperial experiment in Mexico - CEU Review of Books 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 Habsburgs on the Rio Grande (@harvardpress.bsky.social), Raymond Jonas re-examines the Second Mexican Empire & argues that rather than being a historical sideshow, it was at the centre of historic power struggles. @barnabas-szabo.bsky.social reviews the book.
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Ferenc Laczó remembers his mentors Włodzimierz Borodziej, Lutz Niethammer, and Mathieu Segers, historians of Europe’s recent past.

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Peasant revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe - CEU Review of Books 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 The Last Peasant War (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025), Jakub S. Beneš shows how the peasant revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe shaped not only interwar politics, but also resistance to totalitarian regimes. Mathias Fuelling 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...

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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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 ...

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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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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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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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...

@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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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...

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.

Read Kamil Kijek's review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/jewis...

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...

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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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...

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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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 ...

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.

Read Louisa Niesen's review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/beaut...

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).

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.

Read the interview here: ceureviewofbooks.com/interview/le...

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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...

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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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...

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.
Read @zsofia-v.bsky.social's review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/build...

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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...

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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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...

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...

(Re)Searching for SWAIL. Part I

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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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...

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...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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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A big thank you to @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social for a fun interview about my new project.