Author interview: Mikuláš Pešta - CEU Review of Books

Mikuláš Pešta talks about his new book, Student Internationalism and the Global Cold War: The International Union of Students in Socialist Prague (Bloomsbury, 2026).

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Ottoman Greece from a study in Tübingen - CEU Review of Books

In The Discovery of Ottoman Greece (Harvard University Press, 2025), Richard Calis offers a richly documented portrait of Martin Crusius, an early modern scholar who never set foot in Greece yet dedic...

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What does populism look like? - CEU Review of Books

The Aesthetics of Populism (Brill, 2025), edited by Leszek Koczanowicz, Michał Stambulski, Wojciech Ufel, and Rafał Włodarczyk, explores not only what populism says and does, but what it looks like in...

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Energoinvest and the making of global Yugoslavia - CEU Review of Books

In Engineering Global Socialism (Indiana University Press, 2026), Anna Calori provides a window into Yugoslavia’s global history through the Bosnian global corporation Energoinvest. Jure Ramšak writes...

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The algorithmic condition and its limits - CEU Review of Books

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond edited by Dariusz Brzeziński, Kamil Filipek, Kuba Piwowar, and Małgorzata Winiarska-Brodowska (Routledge, 2025) examines algorithms and AI's social, cult...

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The life of Aleksandr Tvardovskii - CEU Review of Books

In Aleksandr Tvardovskii (CEU Press, 2025), Geoffrey Hosking gives a balanced account of Tvardovskii's strengths and weaknesses, and his achievements and failures, offering the fullest picture yet ava...

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Enver Hoxha: from playboy to politician - CEU Review of Books

In Enver Hoxha (Reaktion Books, 2026), Robert C Austin and Artan R. Hoxha provide readers with the first full-length biography of Albania’s Communist dictator. Lucy Jeffery writes that the authors com...

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Revolutionary waves in imperial waters - CEU Review of Books

In The Island of the Pope (Beghahn, 2025), Dimitris Kousouris demonstrates how global power relations, regional struggles, and local renegotiations were deeply intertwined, and how Syros was caught in...

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The long end to Habsburg Central Europe’s long nineteenth century - CEU Review of Books

In The Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe (OUP, 2025), Pieter M. Judson and Tara Zahra analyse the war not as the end of the Monarchy, but rather as a series of socio-politica...

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Author interview: Szabolcs László - CEU Review of Books

Szabolcs László talks to us about his new book, Cold War Brokers: Hungarian-American Cultural Exchanges and Transnational Mobility, 1956-1989 (Bloomsbury, 2026).

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A longue durée history of Bukovina - CEU Review of Books

In Bukovina (Princeton University Press, 2025), Cristina Florea provides a definitive history spanning nearly two centuries of this small Eastern European region, now divided between Romania and Ukrai...

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The extraordinary life of Iboja Wandall-Holm - CEU Review of Books

Amsterdam Publishers have published a book that has a longer publishing history: the memoirs of Iboja Wandall-Holm have now been published in English after having already appeared in both Slovak and D...

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East, West, Central? Getting to the heart of Prague’s place in history - CEU Review of Books

Cynthia Paces’ book Prague: The Heart of Europe (Oxford University Press, 2026) offers a sweeping history of the city from its beginnings to today. Anna West writes that the book serves as a wonderful...

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Amidst displacement and ruptures: An intellectual biography of Omeljan Pritsak - CEU Review of Books

In Omeljan Pritsak and the intellectual origins of the Ukrainian “Harvard Miracle” (HURI, 2026), Andrii Portnov offers the first English-language biography of the co-founder of the Harvard Ukrainian R...

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A comprehensive overview of tourism history - CEU Review of Books

Published online in stages beginning in 2022 and released in print in April 2025, The Oxford Handbook of Tourism History, edited by Eric G. E. Zuelow and Kevin J. James, brings together a broad range ...

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Yugoslav cultural diplomacy and the Global South - CEU Review of Books

In Nonaligned Imagination (Northwestern University Press, 2025), Nataša Kovačević examines transnational encounters and the networks that emerged among Yugoslav writers, academics, literary critics, a...

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International law and the socialist world - CEU Review of Books

Socialism and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2024), edited by Raluca Grosescu and Ned Richardson-Little, examines how socialist actors and governments from Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asi...

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The Eastern Question through diplomatic eyes - CEU Review of Books

In The Invention of the Eastern Question (I.B. Tauris, 2025), Ozan Ozavci provides an analysis of Euro-Ottoman relations through the life of the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire , Sir Robert L...

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A Habsburg imperial experiment in Mexico - CEU Review of Books

In Habsburgs on the Rio Grande (Harvard University Press, 2024), Raymond Jonas re-examines the Second Mexican Empire and argues that rather than being a historical sideshow, it was at the centre of wo...

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Peasant revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe - CEU Review of Books

In The Last Peasant War (Princeton University Press, 2025), Jakub S. Beneš shows how the peasant revolutions between 1917 and 1921 in Central and Eastern Europe shaped not only interwar politics, but ...

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The future possibilities of home - CEU Review of Books

In Feeling at Home (Verso, 2025), Alva Gotby addresses the meaning of “home” through various lenses, arguing that solving our current housing crises would revolutionize our everyday lives. Petra Tamáš...

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Exposing the political foundations of Eastern Europe and Eurasia during the pandemic - CEU Review of Books

In The Politics of the Pandemic in Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Routledge, 2024), edited by Margarita Zavadskaya, the contributors provide an overview of the political impact of COVID-19 in the region ...

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Narratives of imprisonment from Stalin to Putin - CEU Review of Books

In Gulag Fiction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), Polly Jones surveys Russian prose that articulates the experiences, traumas, and memories of life in Soviet penal institutions. Lucy Jeffery writes that J...

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Fraught but exciting: Using fiction to bridge history with memory - CEU Review of Books

Kurt Johnson reviews Cécile Desprairies’s semi-autobiographical novel The Propagandist and Lea Ypi’s Indignity: A Life Reimagined, arguing that while literature can bridge history and memory, it carri...

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Jewish belonging in East-Central Europe - CEU Review of Books

In Uprooting the Diaspora (Indiana University Press, 2023), Sarah A. Cramsey examines changes in the transnational patterns of thinking about Jewish belonging in Poland and Czechoslovakia, through thr...

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