A journal placing Europe in the world
“An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance.” –Patricia Hampl
By MORITZ FÖLLMER | Achilles argues that constitutional patriotism was vibrant in Weimar Germany and that it was embraced both by political leaders in Berlin and by ordinary citizens in small towns. She conveys her appreciation of “civic habitus of democratic equality” but recognizes that this popular republicanism encountered some serious problems, describing how hostility to the Republic remained strong throughout the 1920s.
By JOHN PICKLES | In making women’s stories central rather than treating them as add‑ons to the biographies of male leaders, Ioffe produces a rich genealogy of the Soviet and Russian twentieth century in which reproductive politics, everyday survival, and domestic arrangements are placed alongside the changing scope of professional roles women played in Soviet society.
By SOPHIA KALASHNIKOVA HOROWITZ | The volume assesses informer effectiveness in controlling and limiting religious life in the USSR.
By EDINA PALEVIQ | Women found power even within constraint. They shared not status or fame, but action.
