“This is a history of a place that doesn’t exist,” Mikanowski asserts at the start of the book. “There is no such thing as Eastern Europe anymore.

After the Berlin Wall fell, few states wanted to identify as ‘Eastern European.’ But the region has a rich and vital common history.

I set out on an unforgettable journey across Eastern Europe - from the castles of Romania to the quiet streets of Moldova, the frozen-in-time world of Transnistria, and the resilience of Ukraine. This ...

The ongoing effort since 1991 to bring Eastern Europe into the fold of Nato and the European Union is not the first such integration attempt by Western Europe in recent history.. The Nazis would ...

Russian and East European history has been part of a broader program of study and research in the context of Central and Western European history, plus languages, literature, economics, religion, and ...

The influence of Eastern Europe immigration in Latin America can be heard in the way the accordion was adapted and adopted in countries like Mexico, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Brazil and ...

One of the merits of “Goodbye, Eastern Europe” by Jacob Mikanowski, an American writer and scholar brought up partly in Poland, is that it challenges this glib view from several angles, some ...

In the 1800s, archaeologists began reconstructing the deep history of Europe from the bones of ancient hunter-gatherers and the iconic art they left behind, like cave paintings, fertility ...