When, upon graduation from college in 1973, I traveled for several months throughout communist Eastern Europe, I was warned that I would be entering a dreary gray zone pulverized by the regime-induced ...

With the first sentence of his kaleidoscopic guide to Eastern Europe’s past, the journalist Jacob Mikanowski reveals that his work is meant to discover, to unearth: “This is a history of a place that ...

A major new work, weaving together historical anecdote and the author’s family history, laments the slow erasure of centuries of linguistic, ethnic and cultural diversity in an increasingly ...

Certain European cities have truly ancient roots, but Budapest’s origin story dates closer to the founding of Chicago than Rome. The city has a few notable ruins — a northbound highway runs right by ...

John Connelly, From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020), 968 pp., $35.00. IF ONE had to come up with a single sentence to sum up all of the ...

Origins of the Modern World to 1500/ Since 1500 (Honors); History of Eastern Europe; History of Russia to 1905; History of Russia since 1905; Senior Seminar: Nationalism in the Nineteenth and Early ...

Historian Joe Skvarenina shows a photo that was part of a collection he donated to the Hancock County Public Library in 2016. As county historian, he has long studied the county’s history. He also is ...

Last week, Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a controversial law criminalizing statements that attribute responsibility for the Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities to “the Polish nation.” In a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As MiG-31 fighter jets and Russian military drones violate the airspace of the eastern and northern flank of ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). How would you define the cuisine of Eastern Europe? The tradition of sharing food around the table with multiple generations and ...