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 ...

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 ...

Central Europe has long been a crossroads of cultures, where Eastern and Western influences collide in fascinating ways. From ...

Begin with a geographic overview of Eastern Europe, a region that begins at the Baltic Sea in the north and spans 20 countries to the Black Sea in the south. Here, Professor Liulevicius introduces you ...

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 ...

A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present: Modernisation, Ideology and Nationality. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Well, to give an answer to that we have to go back in European history. Historically seen Western Europe and Eastern Europe ...

Eastern Europe carries a fascinating mix of history, culture, and resilience, and nowhere is this more visible than in the cars that rolled across its roads. Built during decades of political change, ...

New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried ...