This book is the first to provide an in-depth understanding of the 2014 crisis, Russia's
annexation of Crimea and Europe's de facto war between Russia and Ukraine. The book …

On 16 July 1941, Adolf Hitler convened top Nazi leaders at his headquarters in East Prussia
to dictate how they would rule the newly occupied eastern territories. Ukraine, the" jewel" in …

The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands investigates the Soviet response
to nationalist insurgencies that occurred between 1944 and 1953 in the regions the Soviet …

Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason
Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of …

What happens when a region accustomed to violent shifts in borders is subjected to a new,
peaceful partitioning? Has the European Union spent the last decade creating a new Iron …

Both celebrated and condemned, Ukrainian nationalism is one of the most controversial and
vibrant topics in contemporary discussions of Eastern Europe. Perhaps today there is no …

This article provides a comprehensive analysis of Ukraine's adoption of four
decommunisation laws in April 2015, their implementation and the controversy they …

Ukraine, during the first half of the twentieth century, underwent a series of man‐made
demographic catastrophes—World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, the 1932/33 famine …

From the Soviet perspective, Eastern Europe was the near abroad–more accessible than the
capitalist West, yet also unambiguously foreign. Observing their western neighbours …

It is a crisp sunny day in October. The air is fresh and clear in Rivne. The leaves are turning
yellow, red and brown. It rained the night before. The road is still wet. Some patches are …