New Books in Eastern European Studies

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Christina E. Crawford, "Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union" (Cornell UP, 2022)
August 19, 2022
An interview with Christina E. Crawford
Mark D. Steinberg, "Russian Utopia: A Century of Revolutionary Possibilities" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
August 19, 2022
An interview with Mark D. Steinberg
Alex Drace-Francis, "The Making of Mămăligă: Transimperial Recipes for a Romanian National Dish" (Central European UP, 2022)
August 19, 2022
An interview with Alex Drace-Francis
Marc Roscoe Loustau, "Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Contemporary Romania: Reforming Apostles" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
August 17, 2022
An interview with Marc Roscoe Loustau
Helen Pfeifer, "Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands" (Princeton UP, 2022)
August 11, 2022
An interview with Helen Pfeifer
Jeff Hayton, "Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany" (Oxford UP, 2022)
July 28, 2022
An interview with Jeff Hayton
Anthony Pagden, "The Pursuit of Europe: A History" (Oxford UP, 2022)
July 28, 2022
An interview with Anthony Pagden
Olena Palko and Constantin Ardeleanu, "Making Ukraine: Negotiating, Contesting, and Drawing the Borders in the Twentieth Century" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
July 26, 2022
An interview with Olena Palko and Constantin Ardeleanu
Kathryn E. Stoner, "Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order" (Oxford UP, 2020)
July 26, 2022
Too often, we are told that Russia plays a weak hand well. But, perhaps the nation's cards are better than we know. Russia ranks significantly behind the US and China by traditional measures of power: GDP, population size and health, and military might. Y