Books
Kızıl Yıldız: Sovyetler Birliği Tarihi (with Samuel J. Hirst, Kronik, 2025)
Co-authored with Samuel J. Hirst, this comprehensive history explores the Soviet Union through the lives of political leaders, writers, artists, and ordinary citizens, offering a human perspective on one of the twentieth century's defining superpowers. Blending archival research with literature and cultural history, it presents the Soviet experience beyond the traditional narrative of ideology and geopolitics.
Harp Yahut İhtilal: Rusya İmparatorluğu'nun Çöküşü 1881–1917 (Kronik, 2019)
A political and social history of the final decades of the Russian Empire, this book traces how imperial reform, revolution, war, and competing ideologies culminated in the collapse of Romanov rule. It situates the Russian Revolution within the broader crises of late imperial Europe while highlighting the individuals and ideas that transformed the twentieth century.
Turkey and the Soviet Union During World War II: Diplomacy, Discord and International Relations (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2019)
Drawing on newly accessible Turkish archival sources, this book reinterprets the collapse of Turkish-Soviet relations during the Second World War and explains how historical memory, rather than immediate strategic calculations alone, reshaped Turkey's foreign policy. It argues that the wartime breakdown with Moscow marked a decisive turning point that ultimately paved Turkey's path into the Western alliance.