Goodbye Eastern Europe? An Interview with Jacob Mikanowski
"That’s what I’m pushing again – to say: no, this is a unique and uniquely rich human landscape that has had also some of the most extreme experiences in all…Continue Reading →
The Latvian Operation: Stalin's Purge of the Old Bolsheviks
by Vincent Hunt Twenty years passed. Latvians held senior jobs in the Soviet regime in economic planning, the military, in the arts and in the security police. Their homeland was…Continue Reading →
One City, Many Stories: The Interwar Art of Vilnius, Wilno, Vilne
In the years after World War I, Vilnius spent stretches, some very short, under German, Lithuanian, Soviet and Polish controlContinue Reading →
“All Is Lost. I Am Chased by English”: How Estonia Got a Navy
In 1918, the Baltic was ablaze with a range of conflicting polities. All along the littoral, a plethora of factions staged a bloody and vicious conflict for control of the…Continue Reading →
Words Lost in the Forest: The Strange Case of "Pagan Dialects from Narew"
A chance discovery deep in a Belarusian forest gave a glimpse into the extinct Baltic language YotvingianContinue Reading →