Lacking any quantitative evidence, I'd wager that a majority of Americans primarily associate Central and Eastern Europe with travel, a trip they took or hope to take — like a visit to Prague or ...

When, upon graduation from college in 1973, I traveled for several months throughout communist Eastern Europe, I was warned that I would be entering a dreary gray zone pulverized by the regime-induced ...

Something is wrong with YouTuber Johnny Harris’ lens — not the one he uses to film himself, but his view of Eastern European history. Known for his unquenchable thirst for maps and archival documents, ...

Women giving birth in metro stations. Kindergartens bombed. Tanks running over civilian cars. Over a million displaced. Eight years after the territorial integrity of Ukraine was first violated by its ...

Rumania, bah! It is neither a state nor a nation, but a profession. —Nicholas II of Russia The floods came early to western Rumania, spilling in thunderous green torrents from the snowy Carpathians, ...

"Even though the Iron Curtain fell decades ago, today's historiography often still includes a Cold War inspired East-West perspective, especially when it comes to the topic of violence. Western Europe ...

Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2015), 480 pp., $30.00. SEVENTY YEARS after it ended, the Holocaust remains the black hole at the heart ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). How would you define the cuisine of Eastern Europe? The tradition of sharing food around the table with multiple generations and ...

Certain European cities have truly ancient roots, but Budapest’s origin story dates closer to the founding of Chicago than Rome. The city has a few notable ruins — a northbound highway runs right by ...