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Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "Mud Sweeter Than Honey," an oral history of Communist Albania into the 1990s

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews Madina Tlostanova's seminal work examing how decolonial art can build a new future within post-Soviet states

Katherine Leung reviews A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Elizabeth White.

"This book is a very high-level look at the culture and economics of Russia, Eastern Europe, and China", writes Katherine Leung.

Katherine Leung review Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach by Choi Chatterjee.

Katherine Leung review Barbara Martin's Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union: From De-Stalinization to Perestroika.

Although much is known about life in the gulag via the memoirs of political prisoners such as Eugenia Ginzburg and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, there is little research on the experience of the 49ers. [...]

"Armchair historians rejoice. Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II by Roger Moorhouse is the book you didn’t know you were waiting for." Book review by Katherine Leung.

Katherine Leung review Slavoj Žižek's latest book Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World.

Katherine Leung review Karl D. Qualls' Stalin's Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-1951.