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

東欧における大恐慌
Richter, Klaus / Mandru, Anca / Nithammer, Jasmin (eds.), The Great Depression in Eastern Europe. 364 pp. 2025:5 (Central European U. Pr., HU) <752-264>
ISBN 978-963-386-894-2 hard ¥38,476.- (税込) GB￡ 133.00

As the centenary of the Great Depression approaches, this book offers a historical study of its impact on Eastern Europe. Due to its agricultural dominance this region was particularly hard hit. The volume focuses on ten states of the interwar period that had emerged from the Ottoman, Romanov, Habsburg, and Hohenzollern empires and where national sovereignty was particularly contested. The contributing authors apply an integrative approach that uses economic change as a starting point for analysing socio-institutional changes and political realignments. They review the main responses that the respective countries have made to try to mitigate the impact of the crises, such as economic protectionism or the construction of welfare states. The contributions also examine the profound impact of the Depression on the relationship between societies and states, between genders, between social classes, and between different nationalities. By moving the study of economic nationalism from economic history to the center of social and political history, the volume contributes to a much better understanding of states, societies and nationalism in Eastern Europe in the 1930s.

Pakucs-Willcocks, Maria / Derzsi, Julia (eds.), Towns between Empires: Good Governance and "Police" in Case Studies from Transylvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia, 1500s-1800s. 338 pp. 2025:5 (Central European U. Pr., HU) <752-1315>
ISBN 978-963-386-900-0 hard ¥37,030.- (税込) GB￡ 128.00 *

Towns between Empires contains contributions regarding urban administration and governance in the historical regions that are now in Romania, and that fall under the early modern concept of good governance. Chapters give insight into the concepts and solutions applied by urban governments to political, social and economic issues that were under their care and control. The authors approach various aspects of this topic: town councils as political and economic elites of early modern towns, urban political systems as models of early modern ideas of administration, relations between towns and central authorities (the Prince), healthcare as good governance. The chapters in the volume capture the widest possible variety of political and administrative systems in the region. Transylvanian towns were structured and governed similarly to other small Central European urban centers, however significant diversity can be discerned following the Reformation. Moldavian and Wallachian towns in the 18th and 19th century are little known to international scholarship, and the chapters in this volume will fill this gap.

Oppermann, Paula A., Thunder Cross: Fascist Antisemitism in Twentieth-Century Latvia. (George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas) 280 pp. 2025:10 (U. Wisconsin Pr., US) <752-1323>
ISBN 978-0-299-35310-0 hard ¥16,885.- (税込) US$ 79.95

Founded in 1932, the Perkonkrusts ("Thunder Cross") was the largest and most prominent right-wing political party in Latvia in the early twentieth century. Its motto-"Latvia for Latvians!"-echoed the ultranationalist rhetoric of similar movements throughout Europe at the time. Unlike the Nazis in Germany or the Fascists in Italy, however, the Perkonkrusts never succeeded in seizing power. Nevertheless, Holocaust historian Paula A. Oppermann argues, its movement left an indelible mark on the country. The antisemitism at the core of the Perkonkrusts' ideology remained a driving force for Latvian fascists throughout the twentieth century, persisting despite shifting historical and political contexts. Thunder Cross is the most comprehensive study of Latvia's fascist movement in English to date, and the only work that investigates the often neglected continuities of fascist antisemitism after World War II. Formulated as an empirical case study, this book draws on international and interdisciplinary secondary literature and sources in seven languages to broaden our understanding of fascism, antisemitism, and mass violence from Germany and Italy to the larger European context.

モロトフ＝リッベントロップ協定と歴史の改竄
Salomoni, Antonella, The Secret Protocol: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the Falsification of History. 240 pp. 2026:1 (U. Wisconsin Pr., US) <752-1450>
ISBN 978-0-299-35490-9 hard ¥16,885.- (税込) US$ 79.95

In 1939, the Soviet Union and Germany agreed to a nonaggression treaty known by the names of its signatories, foreign ministers Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop. Kept hidden from the public was an addendum to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a 'secret protocol' whose existence was officially denied by the Soviet Union until 1992. It defined new borders for German and Soviet spheres of influence, effectively preparing for the partition of Poland, the Baltic states, and Bessarabia. Shortly afterward, both the USSR and Nazi Germany invaded Poland. In this volume, Antonella Salomoni scrutinizes this consequential document and its many afterlives, focusing less on its well-studied history and more on the discourse that surrounded it. From the moment of the secret protocol's inception - and the near-instantaneous rumors of its existence - it generated friction and competing narratives. The document became public during the Nuremberg trials, but the USSR declared it a fabrication evidencing the West's willingness to falsify history during the Cold War. It continues to be relevant to the reconfiguration of history being organized by Vladimir Putin. By centering the rumors, accusations, and propaganda that the pact precipitated, Salomoni illuminates how political actors can use and abuse history, how they create and disseminate truths and falsehoods, and how they can blur the boundary between truths and falsehoods even in the glaring face of black-and-white documentation.

スターリンのグレート・ゲーム－戦争と中立　1939～41年
Carley, Michael Jabara, Stalin's Great Game: War and Neutrality, 1939-1941. 488 pp. 2025:4 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <752-1463>
ISBN 978-1-4875-6258-8 hard ¥25,344.- (税込) US$ 120.00

The period from September 1939 to early 1942 was crucial for Soviet foreign policy and coincided with the early stages of the Second World War, including the Great Patriotic War. In Stalin's Great Game, Michael Jabara Carley unpacks the complexities of Soviet diplomacy during this time, addressing key issues such as the Soviet-Finnish Winter War, Soviet views on the fall of France and the Battle of Britain, efforts to remain neutral in Europe, Soviet relations with both Britain and Nazi Germany, and the formation of the Grand Alliance against the Axis powers.Drawing on extensive research from multilingual archives in France, Britain, the United States, and the USSR, Carley offers a comprehensive narrative that explores Soviet intelligence activities, especially of the "Cambridge Five" spy ring and Nazi Germany's preparations for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. The book also re-evaluates historiographical debates on Stalin's interpretation of Soviet intelligence and Hitler's intentions towards the USSR. The third volume in Carley's trilogy on the origins and early conduct of the Second World War, Stalin's Great Game provides a fresh re-examination of key events and interpretations by both Western and Soviet historians, introducing new ideas and perspectives on this critical period.

Gabowitsch, Mischa / Homanyuk, Mykola, Monuments and Territory: War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine. (Memory, Heritage and Public History in Central and Eastern Europe) 238 pp. 2025:5 (Central European U. Pr., HU) <752-1465>
ISBN 978-963-386-822-5 hard ¥34,137.- (税込) GB￡ 118.00

From the very first weeks of Russia's large-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022, Russian soldiers, politicians, and proxy administrators expended considerable effort interacting with monuments on newly occupied territory. Why did the invaders care enough about war memorials to divert scarce resources to destroying, maintaining, or building them amid a massive war? Why did they remove some memorials and spare others? What was the point of commemorating past victories and defeats while bombing Ukrainian cities, and how did commemorative ceremonies in the occupied territories change over the first year of the war? What was the broader impact of monument-related practices beyond the local settings in which they occurred? And what does the Ukrainian case teach us more generally about how memorials to past wars can be used to justify new conquests? These are some of the questions this book explores, based on fieldwork in occupied Ukraine and online research.

第一次世界大戦と専制政治の終焉におけるロシアの銃後
Moore, Colleen M., The Peasants' War: Russia's Home Front in the First World War and the End of the Autocracy. (States, People, and the History of Social Change) 288 pp. 2025:11 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <752-1466>
ISBN 978-0-228-02640-2 hard ¥23,232.- (税込) US$ 110.00

During the First World War, Russia relied on the mass mobilization of its peasant population. In the summer of 1914, approximately four million peasants answered the state's call to arms, while the millions who remained at home donated labour and other resources to the cause. Within three short years these same peasants were refusing to pay taxes or turn over their grain, dooming the autocracy to collapse.The Peasants' War argues that the experience of total war convinced peasants that the measure of a state's legitimacy was its ability to safeguard the wellbeing of its subjects. When the autocracy failed to meet this standard, peasants rejected its authority by challenging four areas of wartime policy: the prohibition of vodka, the conscription of peasant families' only workers, the redistribution of land belonging to enemy subjects, and the provisioning of the home front. The war awakened peasants to the reciprocal nature of the relationship between a state and its people. Colleen Moore investigates how peasants leveraged their wartime service to negotiate with the state for improved rights and privileges and how they used this power to shape the contours and legitimize the authority of the world's first socialist state.The Peasants' War charts the timing and success of the 1917 Russian Revolution by showing how total war flipped the script on peasant-state relations, transforming the state from something that peasants existed to serve into something that existed to serve peasants.

Podrabinek, Alexander, Between Prison and Freedom: Memoir of a Soviet Dissident. Tr. by M. Schwartz. 277 pp. 2025:8 (U. Notre Dame Pr., US) <752-1470>
ISBN 978-0-268-20965-0 hard ¥8,025.- (税込) US$ 38.00 *

This thrilling memoir documents the early life of Russian journalist and human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek as he and other dissidents fearlessly fought against the Soviet Union. Between Prison and Freedom chronicles Alexander Podrabinek's deeply personal recollections of his early life fearlessly opposing the injustices of the Soviet Union. He vividly describes his turbulent journey from silently protesting at Pushkin Square as a teenager to his exile in a brutal prison camp for publishing Punitive Medicine. Between Prison and Freedom is a powerful tribute to the Russian dissidents, desperately loyal to their country and to each other, as they fought for freedom and justice, all while cunningly evading the KGB's nearly successful efforts to break-or kill-them. Through his personal experiences, the dissident reality unfolds as an onslaught of surveillance and false accusations, corrective labor camps and exile, and a consistent disregard for basic human freedoms. In this captivating story about standing against tyranny, Podrabinek captures the spirit of the dissident movement, the painful intersections between personal and political in a dissident's life, and the solidarity that kept the resistance moving forward.

Pomiecko, Aleksandra, Bound by Exclusion and Violence: A History of Belarusian Armed Struggle in the Twentieth Century. 277 pp. 2025:7 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <752-1471>
ISBN 978-1-4875-6265-6 hard ¥21,120.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4875-6266-3 paper ¥8,437.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

Initially perceived as a peripheral region, Belarus has played a crucial role in shaping historical narratives. From the First World War to the Cold War, the activities of Belarusian nationalists were central to the country's involvement in broader geopolitical struggles. Bound by Exclusion and Violence uses the lives of these nationalists as a lens to explore their motivations and collaborations with various states and intelligence agencies, focusing on political activism, armed resistance, and covert espionage operations. Drawing from archival research in seven countries that shed light on local, regional, and global dynamics, Aleksandra Pomiecko reveals Belarus's active role in key ideological, military, and political conflicts. The book offers a fresh perspective on the country's historical significance and its impact on major global events of the twentieth century. In today's era of heightened geopolitical awareness, Bound by Exclusion and Violence highlights Belarus's complex history and its continued relevance in contemporary discussions of political agency and international power dynamics.

Cowan, Felix, The Kopeck Press: Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908-1918. 344 pp. 2025:5 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <752-1045>
ISBN 978-1-4875-6121-5 hard ¥16,896.- (税込) US$ 80.00

The Imperial Russian penny press was a vast network of newspapers sold for a single kopeck per issue. Emerging in cities and towns across the empire between the 1905 Revolution and the onset of the First World War, these sensational tabloids quickly became the Russian Empire's most popular periodical genre. They appealed to a mass audience of poor and less-literate readers with their low prices and accessible language.The Kopeck Press presents a comprehensive study of this phenomenon, examining its role both as a media genre and its significance as a vital forum for lower class political culture. Drawing on over seventy kopeck newspapers from thirty locations, Felix Cowan analyses these publications as a dialogic genre, emphasizing the interaction between journalists and readers. The book highlights how sensationalism was strategically used to advance the political goals of progressive journalists, editors, and publishers. As a genre of political media, the kopeck press revealed a moderate reformist current in Russian politics, aimed at democratizing the empire and empowering marginalized groups, significantly contributing to the political and cultural foundations of the Russian Revolution. The Kopeck Press sheds light on the crucial role of popular media in shaping public discourse and mobilizing political change in early twentieth-century Russia.

Petrenko, Olena, Women in the Ukrainian Underground. Tr. by E. Janik. 288 pp. 2025:12 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <752-1149>
ISBN 978-0-228-02647-1 hard ¥23,232.- (税込) US$ 110.00

Eastern Poland's inclusion in the Soviet Union through the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact initiated the local Ukrainian population's long and bloody resistance to Soviet rule. Even after the end of the Second World War, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) persisted in their fight for an independent Ukrainian state. The continued confrontations between the Ukrainian underground and the Soviet security service lasted until the late 1950s. While existing scholarship has focussed on the political aspects of this conflict, women's participation in opposing Sovietization is largely ignored.Women in the Ukrainian Underground foregrounds women's experience in the resistance movement during the conflict with the Soviet secret service between 1944 and 1954. Olena Petrenko describes various methods and waves of women's mobilization in the OUN and the UPA, and examines women's role as agents in the underground struggle. The book also considers female sexuality as an instrument of power and gendered experiences of violence. Petrenko's examination of archival records challenges stereotypes of female insurgents as bloodthirsty, easily compromised, or unthinking subordinates and considers women's representation in film and literature. Changes in memorialization practices demonstrate how the perception of women's activities in the nationalist underground has been shaped by competing historical views - in the USSR, among Ukrainian exiles, in post-Soviet Ukraine, and in Russia.Drawing on both Soviet and underground documents, as well as oral histories, Women in the Ukrainian Underground depicts the fates of the individual women involved in fighting communism.

Verginella, Marta / Strle, Urska (eds.), Women and Work in the North-Eastern Adriatic: Postwar Transitions. (Work and Labor - Transdisciplinary Studies for the 21st Century) 272 pp. 2025:4 (Central European U. Pr., HU) <752-1157>
ISBN 978-963-386-751-8 hard ¥34,137.- (税込) GB￡ 118.00

The volume offers a comparative and transnational exploration of women's work in the twentieth century, concentrating especially on the turbulent periods after both World Wars and the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s. The spatial focus of the analysis is the northeastern Adriatic region, which includes the border areas of Italy and Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia. The study is one of the results of an international research project carried out with the support of the European Research Council. The seven studies in the book represent a cross-section of specific professional groups of women. The spectrum ranges from female teachers, clerks, tobacco and textile workers to intellectual, artistic or entrepreneurial activities of women. Although "gender" is a central category of analysis in the book, the aspect of representativeness was also observed in relation to other social factors such as race, class, generations, educational and religious background, etc. The main question of the study was the extent to which new state affiliations, geopolitical boundaries, and the establishment of new political regimes affected the women's labor market in the three postwar constellations.

Wilson, Tracie L., Narrating the Sex Trade: Bodies and Boundaries from the Eastern Borderlands of Europe. (Routledge Studies in Modern European History) 206 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <752-1159>
ISBN 978-1-032-56148-6 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Examining a range of sex trade accounts from state documents, activist groups, folk narratives, and key figures in Polish, Ukrainian, and Yiddish literature, this book applies new materialist perspectives to cultural history, coloniality, and imperiality in the study of Europe's eastern borderlands.The text centers on late 19th- and early 20th-century contexts, with eastern Galicia and Lviv as its focal point. However, these narratives flow across time and space, stretching back to the early modern period and continuing to the present across cities in the Americas, Asia, and along the Mediterranean Sea. The book addresses the convergence of sex trade stories with older narratives, including links to early modern abduction accounts and antisemitic tropes. It also examines the involvement of prominent activists whose personal lives contributed to modern research in psychology and sexuality such as Bertha Pappenheim ("Anna O.") and Karl M. Baer. Its groundbreaking approach, unsettling notions of center and periphery, is relevant to study of a myriad of geographic contexts worldwide and to both historical analysis and present-day situations.This volume is intended for undergraduates, postgraduates, specialists and general readers interested in east-central Europe, gender, coloniality/imperiality, migration, technology and modernity, narrative and literary studies, and new materialist approaches.