“This is a history of a place that doesn’t exist,” Mikanowski asserts at the start of the book. “There is no such thing as Eastern Europe anymore.

After the Berlin Wall fell, few states wanted to identify as ‘Eastern European.’ But the region has a rich and vital common history.

Eastern European history shows it isn't rare for major powers to decide the fate of smaller states.This Tuesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and their ...

The influence of Eastern Europe immigration in Latin America can be heard in the way the accordion was adapted and adopted in countries like Mexico, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Brazil and ...

Russian and East European history has been part of a broader program of study and research in the context of Central and Western European history, plus languages, literature, economics, religion, and ...

The ongoing effort since 1991 to bring Eastern Europe into the fold of Nato and the European Union is not the first such integration attempt by Western Europe in recent history.. The Nazis would ...

One of the merits of “Goodbye, Eastern Europe” by Jacob Mikanowski, an American writer and scholar brought up partly in Poland, is that it challenges this glib view from several angles, some ...

I set out on an unforgettable journey across Eastern Europe - from the castles of Romania to the quiet streets of Moldova, the frozen-in-time world of Transnistria, and the resilience of Ukraine. This ...

RES 300lt Seminar: Advanced Topics in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies- Lev Tolstoy and the Narrative Shape of History (4 Credits) The fiction of Tolstoy is unrivaled in its psychological ...