Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Vangeli, Anastas / Pavlicevic, Dragan (eds.), Yugoslavia and China: Histories, Legacies, Afterlives. (Southeast European Studies) 306 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <750-875>
ISBN 978-1-032-76788-8 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book explores the historical relationship between Yugoslavia and China, examining its features, significance, and reverberations today. Studying a wide array of state-to-state and society-to-society connections and interactions, it provides novel perspectives on Yugoslavia's and China's intertwined trajectories and relations. Drawing from a rich array of primary sources and multidisciplinary approaches, the contributors shed light on the key events, major developments, and important aspects of the Sino-Yugoslav relationship and analyze contemporary relations between China and the Yugoslav successor states. The volume offers a timely intervention in the global history of the Cold War, area studies of Southeast Europe and of China, and studies of socialist and post-socialist transformations.Conclusion of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

19世紀以降のドイツとウクライナ
Schulze Wessel, Martin, Die uebersehene Nation: Deutschland und die Ukraine seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. 288 S. 2025:10 (Beck, GW) <750-1586>
ISBN 978-3-406-82174-5 hard ¥6,714.- (税込) EUR 28.00

Schuld und Chance: Die Geschichte der deutsch-ukrainischen Beziehungen Was geht uns die Ukraine an? Dass Deutschland wegen der Verbrechen des Zweiten Weltkriegs eine historische Verantwortung gegenueber Russland besitzt, wird nur selten in Zweifel gezogen. Dass dasselbe auch fuer die Ukraine gilt, ist dagegen sehr viel weniger im oeffentlichen Bewusstsein verankert. Martin Schulze Wessel ruft in Erinnerung, wie eng die deutsche und die ukrainische Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert miteinander verflochten sind, zeigt, wie historische Erfahrungen und Wahrnehmungen bis heute fortwirken, und fragt, was das fuer unser heutiges Verhaeltnis zur Ukraine bedeutet. Im Ersten Weltkrieg verbanden sich die deutschen kolonialen Plaene fuer Osteuropa mit den Bestrebungen der ukrainischen Nationalbewegung. Die Gruendung eines ukrainischen Nationalstaats wurde 1918 moeglich durch die deutsche Besatzung des Landes. Auch deshalb suchte Stepan Bandera im Zweiten Weltkrieg die Allianz mit NS-Deutschland, doch Hitlers koloniales Projekt unterschied sich fundamental von dem des kaiserlichen Deutschlands. Die Ukraine wurde zum Zentrum des deutschen Vernichtungskrieges. Nach 1945 verschwand die Ukraine fuer viele wieder in der Sowjetunion und auch nach 1991 blieb sie eine vielfach uebersehene Nation ? mit fatalen Folgen fuer die deutsche Reaktion auf den russischen Angriffskrieg seit 2014. Wer sich die deutsch-ukrainische Geschichte vergegenwaertigt, wie es Martin Schulze-Wessel tut, dem wird es schwerer fallen gegenueber dem Schicksal des Landes gleichgueltig zu sein.

Auerbach, Inge, Das Gemeine Wohl im Osten Europas Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts. (Schriften zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 39) 524 S. 2025:4 (Kovac, GW) <750-1619>
ISBN 978-3-339-14314-3 paper ¥31,125.- (税込) EUR 129.80 *

Wer fragt, warum ist Demokratieexport in einigen Laendern erfolgreich moeglich, in anderen nicht, wird auf Mentalitaetsunterschiede stossen, die sich aus unterschiedlichen Erfahrungen von Voelkern erklaeren lassen. Es gibt eine Art von ?kollektivem Gedaechtnis“, das sich aus z.T. sehr alten Elementen zusammensetzt. Hier geht es um uebernationale Gemeinsamkeiten ostmitteleuropaeischer Gesellschaften um die Wende vom 16. zum 17. Jahrhundert, in allem Faellen gepraegt durch ein Leben in Staendestaaten. Institutionen sind damals vergleichbar. Sie sind verschwunden. Die damalige Freiheit des Adels entwickelte sich zu Menschenrechten fuer alle. Als laenger wirksam haben sich politische Konzepte erwiesen, die als Argumente im Aushandeln von Kompromissen zwischen Herrscher und Untertan sichtbar werden. Auch in der Gegenwart gelten das Gemeinwohl, die Nation, das Vaterland, fuer Polen die Rzeczpospolita als Richtschnur fuer eine gute Politik. Bereits in unserem Untersuchungszeitraum sind die auf den Reichs- oder Landtagen vertretenen Staende eingeuebt in ein Zurueckstellen eigener Interessen, in finanzielle Opfer zugunsten der Allgemeinheit, das Aushandeln von Kompromissen. Die Untersuchung zeigt, welche Wurzeln diese noch nur vom Adel erwartete Haltung hat. Der zentrale Begriff des Gemeinwohls ist eine Besonderheit des roem.-kath. Kulturraumes. Moscovien kannte das Konzept nicht, die Hohe Pforte Vergleichbares (Kreis der Gerechtigkeit). Um basierend auf politischer Propaganda einer Idealisierung der Verhaeltnisse vorzubeugen, wird am Beispiel Ungarns in normalen Zeiten und in der Krisensituation des 13-jaehrigen Krieges untersucht, wo Eigennutz vor Gemeinsinn stand. Verbesserungswuensche orientierten sich haeufig an einem idealisierten osmanischen Reich, forderten eine Staerkung der Macht des Herrschers, Absolutismus. Zeitgenoessische Tuerken aber sahen sich in einer Zeit des Verfalls, auch sie forderten Reformen. Unter Siebenbuergern fanden sich Befuerworter einer Verfassungsaenderung nach venezianischem Muster. Und es gab ueberall Aussteiger aus dem System, radikale Christen, die in einer vermeintlichen Endzeit nach dem Muster der Urchristen lebten und als Gerechte im Juengsten Gericht auf ein gnaediges Urteil spekulierten. Religioese Toleranz war selbstverstaendlich. Noch gab es im ostmitteleuropaeischen Adel politisch-gesellschaftlich Wichtigeres als die Zugehoerigkeit zu einer Konfessionsgemeinschaft.

Baraniecka-Olszewska, Kamila, Ambient History: Material Traces of World War II in Contemporary Warsaw. (Material Culture and Modern Conflict) 240 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <750-1620>
ISBN 978-1-032-79124-1 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

The book presents the role urban fabric plays in constructing the wartime history of Warsaw. It focuses on history embedded in matter and details the practices followed by municipal institutions, artists and historical reenactors, who pull history out of the background through their actions.The book offers a new perspective on the material history of the city. It presents the concept of ambient history, history hidden in the background, in the landscape, waiting to be utilised by individuals coming into contact with the fabric of the city. It draws on anthropological considerations of history which embrace non-academic methods of conceptualising the past, and processes of democratising history. The book has two principal objectives. One is to give theoretical grounding to the term 'ambient history', which facilitates the conceptualisation of material history and the role experiencing it plays in the process of constructing history. The other is to try and determine the limits of the heuristic potential of post-humanist reflection on materiality in reference to research focused on the making of history.Therefore, the book is valuable reading for researchers studying non-academic methods of curating history: scholars investigating materiality and things, anthropologist of history, scholars of heritage studies, experts in urban studies, historians focused on public history and archaeologists analysing the discipline's theory.

Calic, Marie-Janine, Balkan-Odyssee, 1933-1941: Auf der Flucht vor Hitler durch Suedosteuropa. 336 S. 2025:10 (Beck, GW) <750-1622>
ISBN 978-3-406-83634-3 hard ¥6,714.- (税込) EUR 28.00

Zuflucht Balkan ? das vergessene Exil Dass Deutsche vor den Nationalsozialisten in den demokratischen Westen und die kommunistische Sowjetunion fluechteten, ist bekannt. Doch viele Verfolgte retteten sich auch in den vermeintlich rueckstaendigen Suedosten Europas, mindestens 55 000 allein nach Jugoslawien. Unter ihnen waren Juden und Nichtjuden, Konservative und Kommunisten, Zionisten und Internationalisten, Widerstandskaempfer und Unpolitische. Fuer viele begann eine jahrelange Irrfahrt. Marie-Janine Calic erzaehlt in "Balkan-Odyssee" ihre ebenso dramatischen wie beruehrenden Geschichten, die heute weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten sind. Die Flucht auf der Balkanroute begann gleich Anfang 1933, als die ersten Verfolgungswellen diejenigen traf, die von den Nationalsozialisten ausgesondert wurden. Den Theaterstar Tilla Durieux und den Schriftsteller Manes Sperber verschlug es zunaechst nach Zagreb, den Maler Richard Ziegler auf die Insel Kor?ula und eine bunte Gesellschaft Berliner Emigranten in das dalmatinische Fischerdorf Zaton Mali. 1938 liessen der "Anschluss" Oesterreichs und das Novemberpogrom den Strom der Fluechtenden nach Jugoslawien schlagartig anschwellen, weil kaum noch andere Routen offenstanden. Doch als Italien Ende Oktober 1940 das Koenigreich Griechenland ueberfiel und Hitler den Angriff auf die Balkanlaender plante, war ploetzlich auch dieser letzte Fluchtweg verschlossen. Tausende sassen in der Falle. In der griechischen Sage endete die abenteuerliche Irrfahrt fuer den Helden gluecklich ? fuer viele der Balkan-Fluechtlinge tat sie das nicht.

Kochne, Ernst Rudolf, Oesterreich-Ungarn post mortem: Die Aufteilung des gemeinsamen Erbes am Beispiel der Republik Oesterreich. (Schriften zur Geschichtsforschung des 20. Jahrhunderts 28) 328 S. 2025:5 (Kovac, GW) <750-1624>
ISBN 978-3-339-14470-6 paper ¥11,701.- (税込) EUR 48.80 *

東欧とソ連の国境地帯における下からのナショナリズム－国家建設への大衆の反応　1900～40年－
Negura, Petru / Cusco, Andrei / Suveica, Svetlana (eds.), Nationalism From Below in the East European and Soviet Borderlands: Popular Responses to Nation-Building, 1900-1940. (A Modern History of Politics and Violence) 320 pp. 2025:12 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <750-1626>
ISBN 978-1-350-44375-4 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Bringing together an international cast of contributors, this book engages with popular responses to nationalising and state-building projects in Eastern Europe. The volume focuses specifically on the Western border regions of the Soviet Union and the eastern provinces of Romania, Poland, and the Baltic States during the interwar period, as well as their imperial legacies, in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.Top-down studies, which focus on political and intellectual elites, state structures and state policies, continue to dominate the historiography. Nationalism from Below in the Soviet and East European Borderlands compensates for this imbalance by approaching the East European borderlands from a 'bottom-up' perspective; it is based on the perceptions, discourses and practices of ordinary people as a response to the nation- and state-building projects. The book uses several case studies to highlight, from a comparative perspective, the local population's social and political peculiarities around national identification. It considers how these positions have changed over time and impacted the relationships between these neighbouring regions, which today make up parts of various independent states. Lastly, it reflects on how gender-based statuses and hierarchies overlap and intertwine in everyday settings of staging nationhood, alongside ethnicity, religious affiliation, class, and age.

Nunez Seixas, Xose M., The Eastern Front in European Memory: On Victims and Heroes, 1945-2024. Tr. by C. Patterson. 304 pp. 2025:10 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <750-1627>
ISBN 978-1-350-43599-5 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

This is the first comprehensive study to examine the place of the Eastern Front or Soviet-German War in European memory from a truly comparative perspective across Europe; it encompasses the Soviet and post-Soviet space, Germany (both GDR and FRG, and the Berlin Republic after 1990), Western Europe and Finland. Covering the whole post-war period to the present, with a particular emphasis on recent events, this book offers a cultural perspective on the different ways in which the politics of memory dictated by states interact with and are sometimes counteracted by grass-roots memory initiatives.The Eastern Front and European Memory focuses on a diversity of sources and agents of memory, from monuments and public ceremonies to literary narratives, films and other aspects of popular culture that contribute to shaping the historical culture of the societies concerned.

Thakur, Ashoke Ranjan, Cultural Resurgence in Soviet Russia, 1917-1935. 220 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-1629>
ISBN 978-0-367-54516-1 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This volume presents a new cultural history of the transformation of Russia to the Soviet Union. It looks at how literature, the sciences and the arts played a key role in the emergence from a largely agrarian economy to world order. It traces the multiple revolutions that resulted in the overthrow of the Tsar's regime during the First World War; society, polity, cultural life, and the economy saw major upheavals as the country went into turmoil following the War and the revolution. However, the volume highlights the continuities from the previous regime, as the communists built on the work done by their predecessors, including monarchists. Finally, the volume connects it to the larger currents in Europe and Asia at the time.The volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of modern Europe, history, social movements, and communism. It will also find interest among general readers.

いかにロシアが大きくなったか－領土の歴史
Werth, Paul W., How Russia Got Big: A Territorial History. (Russian Shorts) 184 pp. 2025:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <750-1631>
ISBN 978-1-350-28401-2 hard ¥12,870.- (税込) GB￡ 45.00
ISBN 978-1-350-28400-5 paper ¥3,714.- (税込) GB￡ 12.99

How Russia Got Big accounts for Russia's changing physical scope over some seven centuries.Even people who know little about Russia know that it is big. This concise book tells the story of how it became so. Beginning with the small principality of Moscow in the early 14th century, Paul W. Werth recounts the construction of the world's largest country-from Muscovy and the Russian Empire through the USSR to today's Russian Federation-as well as its territorial retrenchment and even collapse on several occasions. Integrating geography, diplomacy, war, and imperial politics, the book ranges across three continents and recounts diverse interactions with neighboring polities and peoples. Werth likewise contemplates different ways of conceptualizing territorial possession and related understandings of sovereignty, authority, and belonging. The result, illustrated with 29 original maps, is a grand story from a bird's-eye view that reveals deeper rhythms to Russia's territorial history involving alternations of enlargement and crisis-ones that continue in our own day.

Wright, Alistair S., Revolution and Civil War in North Russia: Karelia and the Murmansk Region, 1917-1920. 256 pp. 2025:6 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <750-1632>
ISBN 978-1-350-43401-1 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Revolution and Civil War in North Russia shines a much-needed light on the establishment and consolidation of Bolshevik power on the civil war periphery and examines the Allied/anti-Bolshevik military and home fronts from a previously uncharted perspective. Expanding our understanding of the Russian civil war, this book provides the first detailed, archival-based study in English to analyse the two neighbouring regions of Karelia and Murmansk. Despite not being far from the revolutionary capital, Petrograd, both territories resisted the establishment of Bolshevik power longer than many others and so this study offers novel insights into the complexities of the struggle that eventually led to communist rule. Alistair S. Wright reflects on how both Karelia and Murmansk relied on food being imported, comparing how this problem was dealt with by the two independent local governments. Wright shows, for the first time, how providing Murmansk with food supplies was a key feature of Allied intervention during the conflict, part of an informative analysis of Bolshevik and Allied food supply polices to be found throughout the book.

ロシアの学校の歴史教科書におけるソ連時代の語り
Konkka, Olga, Narrating the Soviet Era in Russian School History Textbooks. (Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe) 236 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-1337>
ISBN 978-1-032-21438-2 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This study focuses on how Russian history textbooks published between 1992 and 2021 dealt with the topic of the Soviet period (1917-1991).Representations of this part of Russia's past in school manuals have provoked vivid debates and bolstered government intervention in the field, while a gradual shift towards a less critical narrative of the USSR in more recent textbooks is often presented as directed by Vladimir Putin. This study combines research into these texts and inquiry into those who write, publish, approve, or criticize them. Bringing together these perspectives provides a more complex view of school textbooks as final products of both top-down and bottom-up processes.This volume is aimed at postgraduates, researchers, and academics specializing in Soviet history, contemporary Russian politics and society, and history education and textbooks.

Faygnberg, Rokhl, The Destruction of Dubova: Chronicle of a Dead City. Ed. by E. Bemporad. Tr. by C. Madansky. (Yiddish Voices) 184 pp. 2025:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <750-1455>
ISBN 978-1-350-51710-3 hard ¥14,300.- (税込) GB￡ 50.00
ISBN 978-1-350-51709-7 paper ¥4,858.- (税込) GB￡ 16.99

Written by Yiddish writer Rokhl Faygnberg, The Destruction of the Dubova Shtetl is a powerful account of the elimination of the Jewish community of one shtetl during the pogroms of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1921. Based on her personal interviews with survivors, Faygnberg presents a detailed description of the evisceration of the vibrant Jewish community of Dubova, which, after enduring torture, killings, and destruction-was ultimately wiped off the map of Ukraine. In this unique memorial book, translated into English here for the first time, Faygnberg chronicles the demise of a typical shtetl, which like so many others at the time, was caught up in the genocidal violence of the civil war, a period that is largely forgotten, overshadowed by the Holocaust that took place in these same lands some twenty years later. The biographical details of the Jewish community members of Dubova provide a moving portrait of the familiar and neighborly relations, as well as of the pettiness of everyday life on the eve of destruction, made of conflict, class tension, and intermarriage. Faygnberg's narrative also captures the extreme violence of the pogroms of the Russian Civil War, by dwelling on the perpetrators' actions and motivations, and on the intimacy of genocide made of neighbors killing neighbors, and by bringing to life the Jewish community's desperate attempts to resist and survive the brutality.By building on the most recent historiography on the Russian Civil War and anti-Jewish violence, Elissa Bemporad expertly contextualizes the destruction of the shtetl of Dubova within the political and military events of 1918-1921 in the volume's introduction. Bemporad explores both the perpetrators' motivations and the victims' responses to the pogroms, as well as examining the original writing produced by Rokhl Faygnberg, whose genre straddles between a historical chronicle based on witness accounts, and a work of literature. Lastly, the introduction discusses the fascinating history of Faygnberg's text, uncovering the different political and cultural purposes it served at different times and what it can tell us about anti-Jewish violence today.

Bukowczyk, John J. / Filipowicz, Halina (eds.), Pole/Jew: History, Literature, Identity, Future. (Polish and Polish-American Studies Series) 277 pp. 2025:11 (Ohio U. Pr., US) <750-1456>
ISBN 978-0-8214-2648-7 hard ¥16,632.- (税込) US$ 80.00

Pole/Jew brings together a group of scholars-about half of them Jewish, about half of them ethnic Poles-from the United States, Poland, the United Kingdom, and Canada and enlists their diverse methodological and generational perspectives to push debates over Polish-Jewish relations beyond entrenched and reductive positions. At the core of the volume are the following questions: -What impact has the Holocaust had on Polish history and Polish literature? -How has the Holocaust affected Polish-Jewish-and Polish-identity? -What future is there for relations between Poland's small Jewish minority and the country's overwhelming ethnic Polish majority? Between Poland and Israel? Between Jews of the diaspora and ethnic Poles abroad? -Which research areas have yet to be addressed or revisited and reexamined? -Are there ways to move beyond the reductive notion of 1989 (i.e., the fall of the communist regime in Poland) as wall and fulcrum? By addressing these compelling questions, this volume offers fresh perspectives and encourages a nuanced understanding of Polish-Jewish relations. Contributors: M. B. B. Biskupski Robert Blobaum John J. Bukowczyk Patrice M. Dabrowski Halina Filipowicz Agnieszka Jezyk Bozena Karwowska Kamil Kijek Kate Korycki Elzbieta Kossewska Grazyna J. Kozaczka Stanislaw Krajewski Adam Lipszyc Wiktor Marzec Alina Molisak Stanislaw Obirek Benjamin Paloff Antony Polonsky Brian Porter-Szucs Piotr Puchalski Roma Sendyka Dariusz Stola Katarzyna Zechenter Joshua D. Zimmerman Genevieve Zubrzycki Slawomir Zurek