The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe
Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina
Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular
Examines how Bosnian Muslims navigated the Ottoman and Habsburg domains following the Habsburg occupation of Bosnia Herzegovina after the 1878 Berlin Congress.
Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
5 December 2023 332pp
9781503636705 £60.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
After the Gulag A History
of
Memory
in Russia's Far North
Tyler C. Kirk
Using previously unavailable personal records, alongside newspapers, photographs, interviews, and other non-state archival sources, After the Gulag sheds new light not only on how former prisoners experienced life after release but also how they laid the foundations for the future commemoration of Komi's dark past.
5 December 2023 308pp
9780253067500 £22.99 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
All Consuming Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of Meat
John M. Efron
Goes beyond a discussion of dietary laws and ritual slaughter to take a broad view of what meat can tell us about German-Jewish identity and culinary culture, Jewish and Christian religious sensibilities, and religious freedom for minorities in Germany. In so doing, Efron provides a singular window into the rich, fraught, and ultimately tragic history of German Jewry.
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
30 May 2025 400pp
9781503642607 £24.99 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Between Empire and Nation
Muslim Reform in the Balkans
Milena B. Methodieva
Disects the story of the transformation of the Muslim community in modern Bulgaria during a period of imperial dissolution, conflicting national and imperial enterprises, and the emergence of new national and ethnic identities.
Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
12 January 2021 344pp
9781503613379 £60.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Border Conditions
Russian-Speaking Latvians between World Orders
Kevin M. F. Platt
Combines history and memory studies with literary and cultural studies to examine lives at the limits of contemporary Europe: Russian speakers living in Latvia. Kevin Platt describes how members of this population have defined themselves through art, literature, cultural institutions, film, music, and how others have sought to define them.
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
15 February 2024 342pp
9781501773709
£46.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bound by Exclusion and Violence
A History of Belarusian Armed Struggle in the Twentieth Century
Aleksandra Pomiecko
From the First World War to the Cold War, the activities of Belarusian nationalists were central to the country's involvement in broader geopolitical struggles.
31 July 2025 272pp
9781487562663 £24.99 PB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
The Czech Manuscripts
Forgery, Translation, and National Myth
David L. Cooper
Dedicated to one of the most important literary forgeries on the model of Macpherson's Ossianic poetry. The Queen's Court and Green Mountain Manuscripts, discovered in 1817 and 1818, went on to play an outsized role in the Czech National Revival, functioning as founding texts of the national mythology.
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
15 October 2023 276pp
9781501771934 £48.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania
In Quest of an Ideal
Doina Anca Cretu
Considers the role of foreign aid in Romania between 1918 and 1940, offering a new history of the interrelation between state building and nongovernmental humanitarianism and philanthropy in the interwar period.
Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
10 December 2024 322pp 9781503636781 £56.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Genocide in the Carpathians
War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945
Raz Segal
3 March 2020 232pp
Presents the history of Subcarpathian Rus', a multiethnic and multireligious borderland in the heart of Europe. Genocide unfolded as a Hungarian policy, and Hungarian authorities committed mass robbery, deportations, and killings against all non-Magyar groups.
Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
9781503613607 £22.99 PB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Haunted Empire
Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny
Valeria Sobol
Brings together theories of empire and colonialism with close readings of canonical and lessstudied literary texts as Sobol explores how Gothic horror arises from the threatening ambiguity of Russia's own past and present.
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
15 October 2023 216pp
9781501770104 £20.99 PB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
How Russian Literature Became Great
Rolf Hellebust
Explores the cultural and political role of a modern national literature, orchestrated in a Slavonic key but resonating far beyond Russia's borders. Rolf Hellebust investigates a range of literary tendencies, philosophies, and theories from antiquity to the present.
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
15 January 2024 252pp 9781501773419 £40.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Monuments Askew
An Elliptical History of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor
Maria Corrigan
Presents a cultural history of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS), an avant-garde collective of Ukrainian artists whose unique approach to monumental history generated a new kind of cinema for a modernizing Soviet era. Often lost in the shuffle of this period, FEKS’s vibrant and experimental cinematic output initiated a youthful and cheeky overhaul of Soviet revolutionary culture.
Media Matters
12 August 2025 180pp 30 b&w photos 9781978843011 £20.99 PB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Russian Liberalism
Paul Robinson
Charts the development of liberal ideas and political organizations in Russia as well as the implementation of liberal reforms by the Russian and Soviet governments at various points in time. NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
15 September 2023 300pp 9781501772177 £19.99 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sociology of Corruption Patterns of Illegal Association in Hungary
David Jancsics
Based on data from 2022, Hungary is now the most corrupt member state of the European Union. David Jancsics provides a fresh approach to the study of corruption in Hungary, which once seemed to be the most likely of the excommunist bloc nations to catch up to the West and is, according to many experts and scholars, a country with a highly corrupt dynamic.
15 April 2024 174pp 9781501774324 £35.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Underground
Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest
Bruce O'Neill
Details how developers and municipal officials have invested tremendous sums of money to gentrify and expand Bucharest's constellation of subterranean Metro stations and pedestrian pathways, basements and cellars, bunkers and crypts to provide upwardly mobile residents with space to live, work, and play in an overcrowded and increasingly unaffordable city center.
The City in the Twenty-First Century 02 April 2024 272pp 38 b&w photos 9781512825831 £22.99 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Unsilencing
The History and Legacy of the Bulgarian Gulag
31 July 2025 318pp
Lilia Topouzova
Provides the first comprehensive study of Bulgaria's forced-labor camps, a network of repression that operated throughout the communist era from 1945 to 1989. Lilia Topouzova uncovers the hidden histories of these camps, where thousands were interned without trial, subjected to inhumane conditions, and silenced.
9781501782022 £52.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
We Have Ceased to See the Purpose
Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Edited by Ignat Solzhenitsyn
Compiles ten of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's most memorable and consequential speeches, delivered in the West and in Russia between 1972 and 1997. Rendered in English by skilled translators, including Solzhenitsyn's sons.
The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series 01 April 2025 228pp
9780268208585 £21.99 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Work Flows
Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture
Maya Vinokour
Investigates the emergence of "flow" as a metaphor within Russian labor culture since 1870. Vinokour frames concern with fluid channeling as immanent to vertical power structures and whether that verticality derives from the state, as in Stalin's Soviet Union and present-day Russia, or from the proliferation of corporate monopolies, as in the contemporary Anglo-American West.
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
15 February 2024 324pp
9781501773679 £46.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
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