Journal of Slavic Military Studies

The full collection of review articles can be found here in @josms.bsky.social ’s volume 38, issue 3 of 2025: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fslv20/3...

JSMS Books for Review - PUBLIC Books that The Journal of Slavic Military Studies would welcome a review of. Reviews can look at a single book or spend additional length doing a more involved review essay on a couple texts (and othe...

As always, if you are interested in writing for @josms.bsky.social check out our list here docs.google.com/document/d/1... but please reach out to an editor first to make sure something isn’t already in the works. An author or publisher with a recommendation, reach out too!

Spetsnaz In January 1951, Lieutenant Evgeniy Borisov was sent to the headquarters of the Soviet 5th Army in Spassk-Dalnii, a small city in the Russian Far East. Boris...

And finally, Nicolas Leixner looks at Spetsnaz: A History of the Soviet and Russian Special Forces, by Tor Bukkvoll. this work comes from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social, and a link here kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700637911/

Alexander Hill reviews Britanskii soiuznik: organizatsiia voenno-ekonomicheskikh postavok v SSSR v 1941-1945 gg. Dokumental’noe issledovanie, by Irina Bystrova...

Lincoln Flake reviews On Contested Shores: The Evolving Role of Amphibious Operations in the History of Warfare, Volume 2, from Marine Corps University Press...

The Red Army Towards the Oder: Then and Now, also via @casematepublishers.bsky.social (www.casematepublishers.com), along with Fallschirmjager in the Defense of the Oder 1945, from Helion & Company www.helion.co.uk...

Timothy Heck has a review essay: "Vistula-Oder Offensive (January-February 1945)” that covers The German Infantryman on the Eastern Front and The Vistula-Oder Offensive: The Soviet Destruction of German Army Group A, 1945, both from @casematepublishers.bsky.social...

It’s the holiday season, so get your friends and loved ones books or journal subscriptions to read (instead of new brain-rot devices). Even better if you go directly to a publisher or through your local bookstore! That said, here are some recent JSMS book reviews...

Obviously doing it so they can get a mineral for a superweapon is classic SciFi nonsense, but the whole thing with the ISB deliberately building up radical groups with agents of dubious loyalty and then having it all blow up in their face is *extremely* early 20th century Okhrana-coded.

Good to see the U.S. and Ukraine agree to a joint peace plan. However, this plan is irrelevant.

Russia never proposed a legitimate plan. The 28 point “Dim-Witt” plan was an influence operation rather than a plan for a just and lasting peace.

I just want to say there are a lot of journalists and writers who do real, incredible work on topics that matter while maintaining high standards. Many of them do not have stable employment or recognition from major institutions.

Stop asking the internet if people still go to the library. Yes, every day, 7 days a week. Still free. Still a safe space. Still no purchase required

MOTHERLAND is finally out today! And she's a finalist for the National Book Award.

Get your copy today!

bookshop.org/p/books/moth...

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.

RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

and "Espionage and destructive activities of the communist and Soviet secret services on the territory of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes (Yugoslavia) in the 1920s and 1930s" by Andrzej Krzak... We've got a handful of book reviews as well, noted in in the next post...

‘The longer the war lasts, the harder it gets.’ Heinz Guderian’s Private Letters in Operation Typhoon (October-December 1941), from David Stahel...

Meanwhile, historical pieces, especially useful for folks grown fuzzy about fascism, include "Hitler’s Bandit Hunters? The Efficacy of Bandenbekämpfung: A Case Study from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" via Vlasta Kordová

Łukasz Stach has "Sunk? The Polish Submarine Fleet After 20 Years of Poland’s Membership in NATO" which asks questions about national decisionmaking, potential purchases from Germany, and looming threats from Russia...

Katri Pynnöniemi & Amelie Tolvin have a piece on "Reconstructing Kremlin strategic deception: the logic of disinformation narratives during the first phase of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine" looking at imperialism, ideology, and reflexive control theory...

The Journal of Slavic Military Studies Volume 38, Issue 3 of The Journal of Slavic Military Studies

Looking for a distraction from the news? Turn your attention the latest JSMS issue found here www.tandfonline.com/toc/fslv20/3..., volume 38, issue 3, including papers about fascists, and antifascists... we'll let you delve into which is which...

We have a new author interview up on @peripheralhist.bsky.social We were lucky enough to speak to Isaac McKean Scarborough about his excellent book 'Moscow's Heavy Shadow: the Violent Collapse of the USSR' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/moscow-...

But if that’s too high level, maybe foreign minister and sec state?

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Historians who write books, please a) set up your own author website, independent of your university profile and b) get some professional headshots taken. Love, your friendly neighborhood podcaster.

CRESTRICTED] ORIENTATION FACT SHEET 64 WAR DEPARTMENT-WASHINGTON 25, D. C. • 24 March 1945 FASCISM! Note For This Week's Discussion: Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze; nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it. Points to stress are: (1) Fascism is more apt to come to power at a time of economic crisis; (2) fascism inevitably leads to war; (3) it can come to any country; (4) we can best combat it by making our democracy work.

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Fascinating article from 1941, by the great Dorothy Thompson. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Why do some publishers keep table of contents a secret? What possible reason?

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

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