By Oksana Ermolaeva
This suicide note was written in Finnish from a Petrozavodsk prison in September 1937 by nineteen-year-old Atto Liesi, a native of Finland and a resident of Vyborg.
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By Jordan T. Kuck
The political leadership in Baltic countries is an antidote to the patriarchal propaganda emanating from the Kremlin. In addition to rebuking Putin’s machismo culture with examples of steady woman leadership, the Baltic states have also advanced on support for LGBT rights.
By Marc Jansen
The war between Ukraine and Russia can best be understood as the result of a profound shift over the last thirty years in the relationship between Russia and Europe, particularly the European Union (EU).
By Emilian Kavalski
From providing armaments and diplomatic support to hosting refugees and pushing their counterparts in Western Europe, North America, and beyond to offer more advanced weapons systems and include Kyiv in European and Euro-Atlantic organizations, the CEE states have been at the forefront of the Ukrainian support network.
Reviewed by Nathan Bracher
Jackson exposes the flaws of a legal case that placed the blame for France’s faults squarely on Pétain’s individual shoulders.
Reviewed by Elizabeth B. Jones
Many of the poems in Eccentric Days, with their juxtapositions of pain and confusion, hope and comfort, are emblematic of Ukraine’s present catastrophe.
Reviewed by Alyssa Culp
The social dimensions investigated by Hausse help depict the true complexity of amputation in the early modern Germany.
Reviewed by Richard Overy
The use of poison gas in war has long been part of the grimier side of World War I history, but it could have been part of World War II as well, when the use of chemical weapons was never far below the surface of Western strategy but restraint proved paramount.
Translated by Julia Conrad
For a Sicilian, understanding Sicily means understanding oneself. It means choosing to be absolved or condemned. And it means resolving the fundamental tension that plagues us, the oscillation between claustrophobia and claustrophilia, between a hatred and love of seclusion.
