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...

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...

Thank you for the critical eye and big picture!

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. Read here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/human...

You can read my review here:

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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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. Read the review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/the-b...

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...

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 voelkerrechtsblog.org/researching-...

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...

Mark Mazower’s judicious interpretation Antisemitism is released this week - and already covered @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social! ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/do-...

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. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/a-new...

My new long read - a review essay really & not at all that long! - at the amazing @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social platform

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. ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/do-...

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

Great conversation with @blenormand.bsky.social @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social @umceehub.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social

Back from our summer ☀️ break with an interview! Read about @blenormand.bsky.social's new @erc.europa.eu project, "Women Migrants from the Northern Mediterranean and Work in Postwar Northwestern Europe" (FeMMiWork). Read the interview here: ceureviewofbooks.com/interview/in...

I am so happy and honoured for Prof. Mariana Net's review of my monograph "The Women of 'Little Paris: Fashion in Interwar Bucharest" (Bloomsbury Visual Arts , 2024, @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social) on @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social to be mentioned here!

New long read! Read Lucy Jeffery’s in-depth review of Benjamin Nathans’ Pulitzer Prize-winning book, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause (@princetonupress.bsky.social). Jeffery notes that the parallels with Russia today will not be lost on contemporary readers. ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/a-d...

In Ethics of the Algorithm (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2024), Todd Presner proposes ethical design, metadata reform, and responsible infrastructure for Holocaust memory and history. Reviewed by Jan Burzlaff. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/liste...

I’m overjoyed the first academic review of my monograph, “The Women of ‘Little Paris’: Fashion in Interwar Bucharest” (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024, Dress Cultures Series @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social ), by Prof. Mariana Neț in @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social !

"'The Women of Little Paris' is a valuable and fascinating book.... @soniadandras.bsky.social makes an enticing and original analyses, often from unexpected perspectives." — @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 See the book: bit.ly/4kUarBy @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social #Fashion #AcWri

In The Women of ‘Little Paris’ (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2024), Sonia-Doris Andraș examines middle-class women in interwar Bucharest and their consumption of fashion, offering readers a glimpse into a modernising Romania. Mariana Neţ reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/the-f...

New interview out on the @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social Kornelia Kończal interviews Bohdan Shumylovych and Magdalena Zolkos, the editors of Psychosocial and Cultural Perspectives on the War in Ukraine: Imprints and Dreamscapes published by Routledge in 2024. ceureviewofbooks.com/interview/th...

So very grateful for the opportunity to showcase my book! Many many thanks to @anditalaber.bsky.social for her time, patience, and reading of this material.

New podcast episode out! 🎧 @dacretu.bsky.social talked to us about her first book, Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024). Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcast and on all major podcasting platforms. ceureviewofbooks.com/podcast/auth...

In Zwischen Aufnahme und Transit (@transcript-verlag.bsky.social, 2024), Sarah Knoll examines how Austria reacted and managed the population movements resulting from major Cold War tensions and changes. Emma Dal Mas reviews the book. Read the review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/austr...

A big shoutout to @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social, happy 2nd bday! 🎊 If you click on the link, in the highlights you will see my musings on Poland’s post-1945 border shifts and German expulsions as seen through @karolinarogalska.bsky.social awesome book “Ziemie”. Enjoy & 100 lat, CEURB!

The @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social is two today! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who contributed to, engaged with, and followed the CEURB in its first two years! There is a lot more to come, stay tuned! See some of the highlights of the past year: bento.me/ceurb2ndanni...

Alesia Mankouskaya reviews Belarus - A Silenced History (ibidem. 2024) by Toni Stenström. Mankouskaya writes that despite its flaws, the book implicitly challenges the historical silence and attempts to reclaim and retell Belarusian national history. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/belar...

The 1969 “Greek Case” in the Council of Europe (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2024) ed. by Kostis Kornetis et al, explores the pressure the Council of Europe exerted for the international condemnation of the Greek junta. @kordasgeorge.bsky.social reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/the-g...

Through the Prism of Gender and Work (@dgb-history.bsky.social, 2024), ed. by Selin Çağatay et al, explores women’s activism, social movements, political and intellectual history in CEE throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Ambika Natarajan reviews the volume. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/gende...

We appreciate this thoughtful perspective from @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social! Title details: www.academicstudiespress.com/9798887194158/

In Bread and Autocracy (@oxunipress.bsky.social, 2023), Janetta Azarieva, Yitzhak M. Brudny, and Eugene Finkel argue that Russia’s pursuit of food independence is the result of a deliberate, long-term strategic plan. Jason A. Reuscher reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/food-...

📣 New Long Read! @agatumilowicz.bsky.social explores Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska’s Ziemie. Historie odzyskiwania i utraty (Radio Naukowe, 2024), a study of Poland’s post-1945 border shifts, German expulsions, and Polish displacement. ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/a-b...

Published today: My long read of @karolinarogalska.bsky.social's new book Ziemie [Lands: Stories of Recovery and Loss]. It's a Polish book about the "Recovered Territories" and post-1945 displacement. I poured all my love for the subject into this text. Enjoy! ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/a-b...

In this in-depth review of Zack Beauchamp's The Reactionary Spirit: How America’s Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World (PublicAffairs, 2024), Nick Warmuth explores how a distinctly American reactionary tradition now threatens democracies worldwide. ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/the...

In this incisive Long Read, @ferenclaczo.bsky.social critically engages with Globalizing Europe, edited by David Motadel (@cambridgeup.bsky.social, 2025). Laczó highlights the volume’s intellectual ambition and scholarly range, while probing its limitations. ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/stu...

In Remembering Suffering and Resistance (CEU Press, 2024), Karin Roginer Hofmeister traces the Serbian Church's engagement with the memory of Serbian heroic victimhood in WWII. Sabrina P. Ramet reviews the book: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/the-m...

Wow, just saw a review of my book and it's a generous one and at the same time raising very good points! Having people engage with your work like this is such a gift. 🙏 @majalorbek.bsky.social

Took me a while, but my review is finally out. Looking back, I wouldn’t phrase it as “after 1992, as Yugoslavia dissolved amid both peaceful secessions and violent conflicts” — not that many peaceful ones, really. I highly recommend Horvat's book.

New review! In Harte Währung Beton (Böhlau Verlag, 2024), Lea Horvat provides a panoramic overview of the cultural history of mass housing in Yugoslavia. @majalorbek.bsky.social reviews the book. Read the review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/a-his...

In Habilitacja – bariera czy kariera? (IHPAN/ Wydawnictwo Neriton, 2022) Iwona Dadej asks whether the habilitation served as a barrier or as a vehicle for the careers of Polish women in the first half of the 20th century. Kornelia Kończal reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/acade...

We've got you covered for your weekend listening needs with the new episode of our Podcast. Jeremy F. Walton, Kevin Kenjar, & Matea Magdić discussed their @erc.europa.eu project @revenantempires.bsky.social. Listen here: tinyurl.com/RevenantERC & on all other podcast platforms.

In Balkan Cyberia (@mitpress.bsky.social, 2023), Victor Petrov tells the story of how Bulgaria in the 1960s made a high-risk strategic bet on the emerging electronics industrial-technological sector. Vedran Duančić reviews the book. Read the review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/socia...

In Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s (@routledgehistory.bsky.social, 2024), Aleksandra Komornicka offers a history of the Polish socialist regime’s opening up towards the West in the 1970s. @jackddean.bsky.social reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/socia...

New review out! In Red Tape (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024), Rosamund Johnston shows how Czechoslovak Radio became a site of negotiation between the regime, the listeners and the people who worked there. David M. Durant reviews the books. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/radio...

New Long Read in which Nikolaos Paraschis provides an in-depth review of World Literature in the Soviet Union edited by Galin Tihanov, Anne Lounsbery and Rossen Djagalov (Academic Studies Press, 2023). Paraschis writes that this is an indispensable volume. ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/a-p...