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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
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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…
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Things found in SSEES Library books - an Occasional Series. Issue No. 10: The Lottery Ticket 🤞🍀😊
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📢 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
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7 Mar 2025
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 #AreaStudies bit.ly/41GHinh
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The UK/Poland Season 2025 is here! We’re launching a season of 100 cultural events across the UK and Poland, celebrating creativity, collaboration, and connection between the two countries. 🔗 britishcouncil.pl/projekty/u… #UKPolandSeason @PLInst_London @InstytutAM @ukinpoland
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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
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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
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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/…
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.@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.
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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
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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
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"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…
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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…
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25 Feb 2025
Congratulations to Tim Beasley-Murray, Wendy Bracewell, Michał Murawski and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book open access Anti-Atlas published today. Read and download free at: uclpress.co.uk/book/anti-atl… #AreaStudies #EasternEurope
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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
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