In the late nineteenth century, France experienced concurrent revolutions in domestic politics and international affairs. Anti-parliamentary, anti-capitalist and anti-Semitic movements corroded the liberal foundations on which the Republican project rested. Meanwhile, France concluded an alliance with its longtime geopolitical and ideological…[Read more]

Examines competing projects to manage late imperial Kiev’s multi-ethnic society and their political consequences.

Explores how migration changed the political landscape of late imperial Kiev.

Explores the relationship between the Ukrainian nation-building process and the tsarist state.

Explores what the complex entangled histories of Russia and Ukraine can teach us about their trouble relationship today.

Memories of Soviet Jews who were born during the first two decades of the existence of the USSR show that the destruction of the Soviet society and its ideological tenets is central to their experience of the Nazi genocide. Elderly survivors of the Nazi genocide remember their lives based on comparative evalu- ations of their lives in the Soviet…[Read more]

Explores how young Soviet Jews survived the German occupation of Soviet territories, specifically ghettoization and mass murder.