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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	The Soviet-German Exchange: Beyond Ideology and Opportunism	A History of Athens Beyond Decline
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

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