In Omeljan Pritsak and the intellectual origins of the Ukrainian “Harvard Miracle” (HURI, 2026), Andrii Portnov offers the first English-language biography of the first professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard. @yevhenyashchuk.bsky.social reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/an-in...

The Oxford Handbook of Tourism History (@academic.oup.com, 2025), edited by Eric G. E. Zuelow and Kevin J. James, brings together a broad range of scholars tracing the historical development of tourism. Louisa Niesen reviews the volume. Read the review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/a-com...

Grateful to @rekakrizmanics.bsky.social for this thoughtful review!

In Nonaligned Imagination (@nupress.bsky.social, 2025), Nataša Kovačević examines transnational encounters and networks among Yugoslav intellectuals, diplomats and their counterparts across the Global South. @rekakrizmanics.bsky.social reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/yugos...

Socialism and International Law (@academic.oup.com), edited by Raluca Grosescu and Ned Richardson-Little, examines how socialist actors & governments from Eastern Europe, Africa, & Asia contributed to shaping international law. Sandra Ricker reviews the volume. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/inter...

In The Invention of the Eastern Question (@ibtauris.bsky.social, 2025), Ozan Ozavci provides an analysis of Euro-Ottoman relations through the life of the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire , Sir Robert Liston. Paul Csillag reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/the-e...

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. 🖤💛 #habsburg #geopolitics #mexico

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. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/a-hab...

Ferenc Laczó remembers his mentors Włodzimierz Borodziej, Lutz Niethammer, and Mathieu Segers, historians of Europe’s recent past. Read the piece here: ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/my-...

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. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/peasa...

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

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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. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/expos...

📣 New review! 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. Read the review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/narra...

@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. ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/fra...

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...

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. Read the review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/march...

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

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...

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

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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. 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...

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...

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.

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...