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History, Memory, and the Art of Protest in Belarus	Dispatches from the Armenian Revolution	The Alpha and Omega of the Greek Debt Crisis
The Long Legacy of World War I	The Hajj and Europe	Treating the Symptoms: Northern Ireland’s Incomplete Peace
Russia, Gay Rights, and the Sochi Olympics	European Disunion: The Rise and Fall of a Post-War Dream?	Socialism Takes Over France, Again?
1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe	Becoming 'European:' The Diverging Paths of the Czech and Slovak Republics	Kosovo's Year Zero: Between a Balkan Past and a European Future
After Putin? Russia's Presidential Elections	Recovering the History of the French Far-Right	The Rise of Freethinkers
The Blood Behind the Beauty	Victorious Weimar: Reframing the German Revolution	Political Economy in the Late Roman Empire
Khrushchev’s Great American Road Trip	Medieval Public Relations Battles	The Society That Started It All: The Origins of Modern Science
When the Soviets Domesticated the West	Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?	The Iberian Realm of Islam
The World of Opium: From “Free” to Illicit Trade	Russia’s Lost Empire	The Old Informing the New
Russia’s Trial by Fire	The Causes and Costs of Barrenness	From Dixie to the Third Reich
The Pandora’s Box of Religious Pluralism in the English Reformation	From Kulikovo Field to Kursk: Russia’s Forever War	Public Perceptions: Ballooning and Political Culture
Paleotechnic Machines in the Middle Ages	A Sheep in Sheep’s Clothing	Weathering the Storm: Wartime Lives of Ordinary People
The Space In Between	Crimea: A General Introduction	By Invitation Only
Dismantling a Legacy: The Last Days of Stalin	A Who’s Who of Jihadi Terrorism in Europe	Ukraine, In a Nutshell
Kitchen Wisdom	Financing Salvation in Late Antiquity	The Collapse of Ottoman Power
Poland Takes Charge of Its Own Revolution	All Aboard!: A Train Ride through the British Twentieth Century in 100 Maps	The Imperial Presidency Pushes Back
…And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: A History of Contingency and Happenstance	An Imperial Person	Rome's Wondrous Rivers
"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"	Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom?	Reverence and Relics: The Holy Dead in the Pre-Modern Christian World
Power Behind the Throne: The Women of the War of the Roses	The Idiot’s Guide to Enlightened Matrimony	Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century
How the Sun Rose Again on the City of Light	Is It Only A Game?	Blood and Steel
Long Live the Soviet Motherland?	Knighthood As It Was, Not As We Wish It Were	The End of the World as We Know It?
A Time For War	Dangerous (Thinking) Liaisons	The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC

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