Borders in Red shows how Lenin and his Bolshevik leadership embraced the nationality question as a way of managing diversity and institutionalized it as a means of governance. Stephan Rindlisbacher uses the making of national borders as a lens through which to examine the Bolsheviks‘ fundamental shift from proletarian internationalism to ethnonational federalism sui generis.… Read More Stephan Rindlisbacher (2025): Borders in Red. Managing Diversity in the Early Soviet Union. Cornell: New York.

This book provides a well-researched, well-structured, interesting, and informative narrative depicting the little-known yet successful efforts of the Captain Arve Staxrud Norwegian Arctic Rescue Expedition of 1913 that searched for and saved members of the Lieutenant Herbert Schröder-Stranz German Arctic Expedition of 1912 in Spitsbergen (Svalbard). The book portrays the cooperative and strategic endeavors of… Read More Mary R. Tahan and Cornelia Lüdecke (2024): Stranded at the Top of the World. A Story of Exploration and Heroic Rescue in the Arctic. Springer: Cham