A scholarly journal from the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) Södertörn University, Stockholm.
Issue 2026, 1: Download.
Martin Kragh died on 23 July 2026, at the age of 45. His death is a profound loss to Swedish scholarship on Russia and Eastern Europe, and to all those who valued his ability to make history and international affairs understandable, relevant and deeply human.
Abstract [en] This dissertation, Care to Live, offers an in-depth ethnographic study of well-educated single mothers navigating everyday life in Kaunas, […]
Places of Remembrance examines the cultural functions served by the Hungarian (1909–), Polish (1932–), and Czech-Slovak (1926–) pavilions in the Venice […]
Abstract [en] This thesis breaks with tradition by reading Salomon Maimon’s Lebensgeschichte as a work of philosophy. Rather than the mere re-telling […]
Abstract [en] This thesis investigates contemporary practices focused on facilitating the integration of those who, for various reasons, are perceived […]
Kristian Gerner (b. 1942), esteemed historian and emeritus professor of history at Lund University, passed away on April 2, 2026, in Lund, Sweden, at the age of 83. His voice in Sweden’s public and academic life will be greatly missed.
An important goal for the new series is to create a space where scholars from different disciplines can engage with one another. Research on Belarus is often dispersed across various fields — political science, history, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies — and the series aims to bring these perspectives into dialogue.
Postcolonial scholarship has made a significant contribution by highlighting and critically assessing the liminal, inbetween positionality of Eastern Europe, which has contributed to the neglect of voices and experiences from the region. Discourses that construct and reproduce the notion of Eastern Europe “catching up” have been examined in historical, anthropological, and sociological contexts, as well as across various fields, including international relations, memory studies, democratization, and European integration. This theme section explores some of these intricacies through the case studies of Poland, Hungary, Latvia and Estonia.
Views of the past are constantly being revised, with the impact of different political and social occurrences generating new narratives and ways of interpreting history. This essay focuses on three cases of recent spatial reconfiguration in Estonia, all demonstrating how contrasting memoryscapes are perceived, especially after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Since then, the Soviet memorials, symbols and murals in public space in Estonia have fallen under intense scrutiny as remnants and symbols of the Soviet regime. Russian aggression towards Ukraine seemed to reopen the wound of the most recent trauma. At the same time, the legacies of more remote oppressors, the Baltic Germans, has taken on a new meaning as a more neutral and even positive heritage. With three examples of spatial transformation, the essay examines the choices made on treating the layers of Estonian history and raises questions about how current decisions could shape our perception in the future.
Abstract [en] In the 1790s, many post-Kantian German philosophers attempted to lay a new foundation for the historiography of philosophy. […]
Issue 2026, 2: Download.
Baltic Worlds covers; the Baltic Sea Region, Eastern Europe, Russia, CentralAsia, Caucasus and the Balkan area.