If one had to come up with a single sentence to sum up all of the brutality, folly, tragedy, chaos, villainy, and occasional moments of heroism that John Connelly surveys in From Peoples into Nations: ...

When, upon graduation from college in 1973, I traveled for several months throughout communist Eastern Europe, I was warned that I would be entering a dreary gray zone pulverized by the regime-induced ...

The 2nd Battle of Kosovo in 1448 brought John Hunyadi and Sultan Murad II into a direct clash that would shape the future of ...

"Even though the Iron Curtain fell decades ago, today's historiography often still includes a Cold War inspired East-West perspective, especially when it comes to the topic of violence. Western Europe ...

Well, to give an answer to that we have to go back in European history. Historically seen Western Europe and Eastern Europe ...

On the night after the Berlin Wall fell, as I watched crowds of delirious East Germans surge down West Berlin’s broad Kurfürstendamm street, it didn’t occur to me that history was ending. On the ...

This chapter reviews Andreas Kappeler’s oeuvre through the prism of entangled history. Even if Andreas Kappeler generally refrained from adhering dogmatically to any theoretical approach, he has ...

This Tuesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and their respective teams conferred for hours in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Beyond the established resumption of ...

Earlier this month, world leaders gathered in Paris to mark the centennial of the armistice that ended World War I. Scores of articles and essays accompanied these events, discussing the war and the ...

Eastern Europe carries a fascinating mix of history, culture, and resilience, and nowhere is this more visible than in the cars that rolled across its roads. Built during decades of political change, ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). How would you define the cuisine of Eastern Europe? The tradition of sharing food around the table with multiple generations and ...