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  • Book Review: Rowe-McCulloch on Enstad, ’Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II’
    5 December 2020

    Johannes D. Enstad. Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 272 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42126-3; $32.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-43166-8.
    Reviewed by Maris Rowe-McCulloch (University of Regina) Published on H-Russia (July, 2020) Commissioned by Oleksa Drachewych (Western University)
    Johannes Enstad’s Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II is a history of the (…)

  • Bliss on Jaffary, ’Abortion in Mexico: A History
    13 September 2025

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    Abortion in Mexico: A History
    by Nora E. Jaffary
    University of Nebraska Press
    Series: Engendering Latin America
    2024, 163 pp.
    (paper), ISBN 978-1-4962-4021-7
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    Reviewed by Katherine E. Bliss (Global Policy Center, Center for Strategic and International Studies)
    In this new volume, historian Nora E. Jaffary examines how and why legal approaches to abortion in Mexico have changed over time. In particular, she seeks (…)

  • Arcimovich on Ayers and Alves and Leal and Hjartarson, ’Globalizing the Avant-Garde’
    23 August 2025

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    Globalizing the Avant-Garde
    David Ayers, Margarida Brito Alves, Joana Cunha, Benedikt Hjartarson, eds.
    Walter de Gruyter
    2025. 499 pp.
    (cloth), ISBN 9783111317533
    ISBN-10 : ?3111317536
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    Reviewed by Tania Arcimovich (Erfurt University)
    Globalizing the Avant-Garde, edited by David Ayers, Margarida Brito Alves, Joana Cunha Leal, and Benedikt Hjartarson, continues the European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (…)

  • Dwindling Loyalty of India
    9 August 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    Secession of the Successful: The Flight out of New India
    by Sanjaya Baru
    Penguin/Viking
    Pages: xxix + 289
    Price: Rs 799

  • Review of Minami’s, People’s Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold Wa
    17 August 2025

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    People’s Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War
    by Kazushi Minami
    Cornell University Press
    2024. 270 pp.
    (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-7415-7
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    Reviewed by Yanqiu Zheng (St. Lawrence University)
    Kazushi Minami

  • Ghachar Ghochar Waited for Me to Grow Up
    17 August 2025, by Disha

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    Ghachar Ghochar
    by Vivek Shanbhag
    HarperCollins Publishers India
    2015
    124 pages
    ISBN-10: ? 9789351776178
    ISBN-13: ? 978-9351776178
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    Sometimes a story does not unfold for the sake of entertainment or instruction but simply sits in a room, quietly existing, until you are ready to meet it on its own terms. Ghachar Ghochar is not a loud novel, nor is it in a rush to deliver a climax or resolution. It simply waits, almost (…)

  • Book Review: Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism | ACG
    11 December 2020

    Review by Anarchist Communist Group (ACG)
    November 23, 2020
    Darch, Colin. Nestor Makhno and rural anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921. Pluto Press.238 pages. £17.99
    I approached this book with some enthusiasm. A new book on the Makhnovist movement using sources previously unreferenced in the English language world. I was sorely disappointed. I should have read Darch’s doctoral thesis on Makhno, where his bias against Makhno and anarchism is immediately apparent. An example of that (…)

  • When America rained horror on Japan
    30 August 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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    The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb and the Fateful Decision to Use It
    by Iain MacGrego
    Constable/Great Britain (Hachette India)
    2025
    ISBN-10: ?1408719517 / Pages: 429; Price: Rs 799
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    It was finally left to a crusading American journalist to puncture Washington

  • Book Review: Kramer on Woodhouse, ’The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism’
    8 November 2020

    Keith Makoto Woodhouse. The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 392 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-16588-4
    Reviewed by Anna Kramer (University of Colorado)
    (August, 2020)
    One of our central tasks as historians is to take our subjects seriously, and Keith Makoto Woodhouse does just that in The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism, successfully wrestling with the ideas and methods of radical environmentalists (…)

  • The ground-breaking theorisation on the people as co-authors of the constitution and their central role as constitutional actors | Vijay Kumar
    8 November 2025, by Vijay Kumar

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    Assembling India