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Here’s an interview by the brilliant @Tonisenior with @CharlieEnglish1 - about “The CIA Book Club”. A fascinating episode in the history of the Cold War and of modern #Poland. Do give it a listen. #Polska
🚨 New Spymasters Podcast episode! 🚨
How did the CIA use books as a weapon in the Cold War? 📚🕵️♂️
Host @Tonisenior speaks with @CharlieEnglish1 about The CIA Book Club, revealing the secret mission to smuggle banned books behind the Iron Curtain.
🔍 Cold War espionage 📖 The power of underground literature 🇵🇱 Soviet censorship & ideological battles
Don’t miss this real-life spy thriller! 🎧👇 #CIA#ColdWar#Espionage#BannedBooks#SpyHistory#Intelligence#SpymastersPodcast
Episode 2 of The Ukraine Shelf is out! We were thrilled to welcome @sasha_weirdsley and @eugene_finkel to discuss books by Eugene and by Victoria Amelina and all the ways in which russia has tried - and failed! - over the centuries to destroy Ukraine. ucl.ac.uk/european-institute…
Things found in SSEES Library books - an Occasional Series. Issue No. 10: The Lottery Ticket 🤞🍀😊
ALT A copy of Sergei Dovlatov's collected works, volume 3. A beige coloured hardback volume, with the author's name in red at the top. The cover design features a large number 3.
ALT An open library book with a National Lottery ticket being used as a bookmark. The ticket is rectangular with mainly red text on a white background. It says "Lotto" and "Lotto Extra" at the top. Some lottery numbers have been selected in pen.
ALT A paper National Lottery ticket. The ticket is rectangular with mainly red text on a white background. It says "Lotto" and "Lotto Extra" at the top. Some lottery numbers have been selected in pen.
📢 Exciting news! SSEES Hungarian Language & Literature students are curating a library exhibition on Nyugat (West, 1908–1941), the influential Hungarian literary journal, and multilingual Central Europe. 🌍📚 Stay tuned for more! #MultilingualCentralEurope#LiteraryHistory
How can we rethink traditional area studies to better understand the world? This book uses a variety of genres from travel guides and historical maps to data visualisations to encourage critical thinking. Read it Free. #OpenAccess#AreaStudiesbit.ly/41GHinh
ALT Book cover of "ANTI-ATLAS: Critical area studies from the East of the West," edited by Wendy Bracewell and Tim Beasley-Murray, featuring a vintage cityscape with colorful advertisements and a double-decker bus, published by UCL Press.
Happy World Book Day 📖
Celebrate by exploring the latest publications from our academics including books from Dr Tim Beasley-Murray, Dr Peter Zusi, Prof. Wendy Sims-Schouten and Prof. Samantha Rayner.
buff.ly/3NPIgaK@UCLPress@UCLSSEES@UCLDIS@UCLArtsSciences
Please join us for a conversation with @vsdonovan
on her latest book 'Life in Spite of Everything. Tales from the Ukrainian East', which explores the lived experiences of communities in Ukraine’s #Donbas region.
🗓️ 14 March at 5.30pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/41bybJE
ALT Event poster for 'Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East' with a photo of the book cover.
Next Friday at @UCLSSEES we'll be discussing Victoria @vsdonovan's new book about eastern Ukraine. We will be joined by SSEES's own Volodymyr Kulikov, a brilliant historian of the same region. All welcome, free registration below! ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2025/…
.@BlackerUilleam and I are delighted to launch The Ukraine Shelf, a podcast where we speak with leading authors, intellectuals, scholars, and journalists about Ukraine and its place in the world. 📚Time to make space for a new bookshelf—you’ll need it! 🎧Link below.
Please join us for the launch of 'The Last Peasant War' by Jakub Beneš, who will discuss his new book with
@annamkoch and @celiadonert.
Co-organised by #SSEES and @EuropeModern.
🗓️ 11 March at 6pm
📍 SSEES
➡️ buff.ly/3EGeZwh
ALT Event poster for 'Book Launch: The Last Peasant War (2025) by Jakub Beneš'. In-person event.
Join us for an evening with Slovene writer, poet and storyteller Anja Štefan, who will present her work and poems from the award-winning collection 'Drobtine iz mišje doline'.
🗓️04 March at 6.30pm
📍 UCL Bentham House
ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2025/…@centerslo@SLOinUK@mk_gov_si
"The SSEES Library is not just a place to study - it’s an entire world waiting to be explored."
Thank you, Sofi Vanyan, for your kind words! Student Blog: Things I Discovered After a Term at SSEES | UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) ucl.ac.uk/ssees/news/2025/fe…
What's lurking in the deep dark woods of copyright? This #FairDealingWeek read our post about being creative and resourceful with copyright exceptions blogs.ucl.ac.uk/copyright/20…
ALT A dense forest with tall trees and paths obstructed by fallen branches and overgrown grass.
ALT Cover of the book Anti-Atlas: Critical Studies from the East of the West, featuring a vibrant cityscape with towering buildings and bustling streets with traffic and billboards.
It's the third anniversary of Russia's invasion and the future of Ukraine is more uncertain than ever.
To better understand the background to the war, we have updated our reading list of Yale books with relevant free extracts of each.
yalebooksblog.co.uk/2022/03/…#UkraineWar