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To many, Russia, and the wider Eurasia, is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. But it doesn’t have to be. The SRB Podcast dispels the stereotypes and myths about the region with lively and informative interviews on Eurasia’s complex past, present, and future. New episodes drop weekly with an eclectic mix of topics from punk rock to Putin, and everything in-between. Subscribe on your favorite podcasts app, grab your headphones, hit play, and tune in. Eurasia will never appear the same.
Guest: Benjamin Nathans on To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement published by Princeton University Press.
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Guest: Ian Lanzillotti guides through the history of Kabardino-Balkaria in his book Land, Community, and the State in the Caucasus published by Bloomsbury.
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Guest: Erin Hutchinson on her award-winning article, “Gathering the Nation in the Village: Intellectuals and the Cultural Politics of Nationality in the Late Soviet Period” in the January 2023 issue of the Russian Review.
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Guest: Maurice Casey on the “lost world” of international communism in his book, Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals published by Footnote Press.
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Guest: Tyler Kirk on After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia's Far North published by Indiana University Press.
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Guest: Pavel Khazanov on The Russia That We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
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Guest: Ambassador Eric Rubin on the efforts to free Marc Fogel, an American serving 14 years in the Russian prison for possessing 17 g of medical marijuana.
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Guests: Marina Mogilner and Ilya Gerasimov on their new textbook, A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600–1700: From Russian to Global History published by Bloomsbury.
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Guest: Andrea Bohlman on the curious history of the sound postcard in People's Republic of Poland.
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Guest: Valeria Umanets on women in municipal governance in the Soviet Union and under Putin.
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Guest: Daniel Mikecz on Civil Movements in an Illiberal Regime: Political Activism in Hungary published by Central European University Press.
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Guest: Matthew Kendall on his article “Room for Noise in Soviet Sound Recording” in the Winter 2023 issue of the Slavic Review.
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Guest: Gabrielle Cornish on the sound of Lenin's voice and other sounds of socialism.
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Guest: Masha Kirasirova on The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire published by Oxford University Press.
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Guest: Sergey Radchenko on To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power published by Cambridge University Press.
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Guests: Anna Arutunyan and Mark Galeotti on their new book Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the New Fight for the Future of Russia published by Penguin.
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Guest: Kevin Platt on Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians Between World Orders published by Cornell University Press.
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Guest: Lisa Kirschenbaum on Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip published by Cambridge University Press.
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Guest: Vassily Klimentov on A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communists, and Islam published by Cornell University Press.
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Guest: Alexandar Mikhailovic on the unlikely convergence of the American and Russian far-right.
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Guest: Elena Kochetkova on wood, forests and industrial ecology in the Soviet Union.
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Guest: Greta Uehling on the ethics of care in Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine published by Cornell University Press.
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Guest: Artan Hoxha on his new book, Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania published by Central European University Press.
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Guest: Russian poet Dmitrii Bykov on the War in Ukraine, the role of art in politics, satire, his poisoning in 2019, protest, love and family.
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Guest: Sara Brinegar on her book The Power and Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus: Periphery Unbound, 1920-29 published by Bloomsbury.
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Guest: Xenia Cherkaev on her book Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice published by Cornell University Press.
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Guest: Andy Bruno on his new book Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and its Environmental Legacy published by Cambridge University Press.
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Guest: Natasha Lance Rogoff on making Sesame Street in Russia in the turbulent 1990s.
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Guest: Paula Chan on the Extraordinary State Commission and its investigations in the Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union.
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Guest: Karl Schlogel on the lost world of Soviet civilization.
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Guest: Mariia Koskina on Siberian industrialization, the environment and the black skies over Krasnoyarsk.
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Guests: Tigran Grigoryan (The Regional Center for Democracy and Security) and Kelsey Rice (Berry College) revisiting the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Guest: Natalia Krylova on life, love, language, and the Soviet Avant Garde.
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Guest: Nicholas Bujalski on his prize-winning Russian Review article, “Tuk, tuk, tuk!” A History of Russia’s Prison Knocking Language.”
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Guest: Brian Milakovsky with a grim update on Ukraine, the war, and the shrinking prospects of even a lousy peace.
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Guest: Christopher Read on Vladimir Lenin's legacy 100 years since his death.
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Guest: Maria Lotsmanova on her genealogical journey to find information about her repressed great-grandfather, Jacob Jansen.
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Guest: Vladimir Alexandrov on The Black Russian published by Grove Press.
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Guest: Gabriella Safran on Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century published by Cornell University Press.
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Guest: Sasha Senderovich on How the Soviet Jew Was Made published by Harvard University Press.
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Guest: Erik Scott on defection, the Cold War, and the regulation of borders and movement in a globalizing world.
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Guests: Geneviève Zubrzycki and Jose Casanova on the place of the Catholic Church in Polish politics and national identity.
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Guests: Anca Sincan and Tatiana Vagramenko discuss the how secret police files document religious belief and worship in communist Romania and Ukraine.
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Guest: Catherine Wanner on lived religion in Ukraine, belief, belonging and community, and the impact of the war on religion.
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Guest: Bruce Grant revisits his book, In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas, on the Nivkhi of Sakhalin, their Soviet experience, and the complexities of indigeneity.
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It’s Pride month! Misha Appeltova, Irina Roldugina, and Kate Davison join us to talk about their research on gender, sexuality and queer under state socialism.
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The Soviet Union was a latecomer to the whaling industry. But after a bumbling start, by the 1960s, Soviet whalers were slaughtering over 20,000 whales a year. The decimation of the world’s whales in the 20th century, a genocide in which the Soviets played no small part, has had catastrophic results on the world’s ocean environments. Ryan Tucker Jones tells us about the Soviet whaling industry, the lives of Soviet whalers, their attitudes toward their craft, and the lasting trauma of the hunt the ocean’s majestic creatures.
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Roma Shatrov is the founder of the Silent Cape Nature Park in Sakhalin. Irina Grudova is Ainu, the indigenous inhabitants of Sakhalin. Roma is obsessed with Ainu history and culture and has dedicated the Silent Cape to revitalizing their tradition. Irina is a local Ainu activist and is skeptical of such outsiders looking to exploit her heritage. Yet Roma and Irina instantly hit it off and formed a strong bond over their mutual love of the Ainu. Rusana Novikova brings us a story about the romanticism and self-discovery at the heart of Irina and Roma’s complicated friendship, and its potential promise for Ainu and Russian relations.
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Guest: Mark Gamsa on Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography
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Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin.
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Ed Pulford and Soren Urbansky on the cross-cultural and diverse past and present of the Russian Far East.
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It all started with a letter to Stalin in 1935. And when a Kremlin clerk opened it, there was a piece of shit inside.
Was the turd an insult? A way of saying to Stalin, “You’re a shit. Here’s some shit”?
Perhaps.
But I ended Part One of a Gift for Stalin on a different note: that the turd addressed to Stalin was no slight at all. It was, in fact, a gift.
A little brown present for Comrade Stalin.
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It’s Sunday, October 13, 1935, and someone, we don’t know who mails a letter from the outskirts of Moscow. It’s addressed: “Kremlin. To Comrade Stalin.” It arrives a few days later. And when Comrade Sentaretskya, one of the secretaries sorting Stalin’s mail, got to this letter, she had no reason to worry . . . . that is until she opened it.
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It’s Sunday, October 13, 1935, and someone, we don’t know, who mails a letter. It’s addressed: “Kremlin. To Comrade Stalin.”
Now, there was nothing odd about people writing Stalin. They wrote to him a lot.
So, when Comrade Sentaretskaya, one of the secretaries sorting Stalin’s mail, got to this letter, she had no reason to worry . . . . that is until she opened it.
Just what was in this letter?
Find out March 31 when The Eurasian Knot debuts with A Gift to Stalin, two episodes about a letter mailed to the Soviet dictator and what it might have meant in the Soviet Union. Available wherever you get your podcasts.
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Teddy Goes to the USSR explored American tourism, KGB surveillance, consumerism, race, and daily life through Teddy Roe’s trip to the USSR. And many of Teddy’s observations were inevitably informed by the Cold War and American tropes. So, what to make of Teddy’s journey and what it says about Soviet life? In this final episode, TGU host Sean Guillory and historian Leah Goldman highlight key moments in the series to tease out the contradictions and reflect on America’s and the Soviet Union’s entangled relationship.
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American tourists expected few chances to meet Soviet people. You’d only see what Soviet officials wanted to show you. Touring the USSR, many assumed, was nothing more than a front row seat at a big show. And real Soviet life was hidden under layers upon layers of propaganda. So, if you wanted to see the truth of Soviet life—avoid officials and seek out “regular people.” Teddy wanted to seek out “regular” Soviet people. And he had a few chances to visit people’s homes. What did Teddy discover about “regular Soviet life and people” as a result? And what did it say about the Soviet system as a lived experience?
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Guests: Drs. Carmen Andreescu and Alex Dombrovski on their work on mental health in Ukraine though the Global Initiative on Psychiatry - USA.
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Guest: Christian Raffensperger on the place of Kyivan Rus' in the wider European medieval world.
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Guest: Sean Griffin on his prize winning article “Revolution, Raskol, and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The 1,020th Anniversary of the Day of the Baptism of Rus” published in the Russian Review.
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Guests: Victoria Smolkina and Georgyi Kasianov on the complexities of memory, history, and politics in narrating Ukrainian history.
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Guest: Artemy Troitsky reflecting on his life in the Soviet and Russian rock scenes.
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Guests: Polly Jones and Zuzanna Bogumil on memory, politics, and trauma of Stalinism.
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Guests: Polly Jones and Zuzanna Bogumil on memory, politics, and trauma of Stalinism.
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Guests: Polly Jones and Zuzanna Bogumil on memory, politics, and trauma of Stalinism.
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REEES faculty profile on Zoltan Zelemen about his research on neo-medievalism in international relations, law, and democracy.
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REEES faculty profile on Zoltan Zelemen about his research on neo-medievalism in international relations, law, and democracy.
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REEES faculty profile on Zoltan Zelemen about his research on neo-medievalism in international relations, law, and democracy.
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Guests: Ben Aris and Ilya Matveev on the Russian economy during wartime.
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Guests: Ben Aris and Ilya Matveev on the Russian economy during wartime.
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Guests: Ben Aris and Ilya Matveev on the Russian economy during wartime.
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Guest: Adrienne Edgar on Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia published by Cornell University Press.
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Guest: Adrienne Edgar on Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia published by Cornell University Press.
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Guests: Alessandro Iandolo and Natalia Telepneva on Soviet engagement with West Africa during the Cold War.
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Guest: Jonathan Brunstedt on The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR published by Cambridge University Press.
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Guest: Olga Petri on Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg published by Cornell University Press.
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Guest: Timothy Blauvelt on Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba published by Routledge.
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Guest: Fabrizio Fenghi on It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia published by University of Wisconsin Press.
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Guest: Sarah Riccardi-Swartz on Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia published by Fordham University Press.
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Teddy had few “official” meetings in the USSR. A factory here. A collective farm there. Maybe a school or two. And there was one question Teddy’s hosts always asked: “Why are you still lynching Blacks?” American racism was a global issue during the Cold War. And pointing to it was a strike at America’s Achilles heel. Soviet media devoted a lot of time to the Civil Rights Movement. And Teddy arrived in the USSR just when Martin Luther King was assassinated. So, just what was this Soviet concern for American Blacks? Was it merely a whataboutism, a way to deflect American criticism of Soviet life? Or was there something more to it?
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Guest: Ilya Budraitskis on Russia's war in Ukraine, fascism, and his essay collection, Dissidents among Dissidents. Ideology, politics and The Left in Post-Soviet Russia published by Verso.
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Guest: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova on The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure Identity published by Oxford University Press.
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Guest: Brian Milakovsky on everyday life in the Donbas and the effort to evacuate civilians.
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Episode One of the six-part audio series, Teddy Goes to the USSR.
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Guest: Adeeb Khalid on Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present published by Princeton University Press.
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Guest: Alexei Yurchak on perestroika, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the experiences of the last Soviet generation.
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Coming May 30!
Teddy Goes to the USSR, a new six-part podcast series follows one such American, Teddy Roe, to shine light on Soviet tourism, police surveillance, consumerism, race, and everyday life through his extraordinary three-month trip to the Soviet Union in 1968.
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Guest: Jeffrey Hass on The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944 published by Oxford University Press.
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Coming May 30! Teddy Goes to the USSR, a new six-part podcast series follows one such American, Teddy Roe, to shine light on Soviet tourism, police surveillance, consumerism, race, and everyday life through his extraordinary three-month trip to the Soviet Union in 1968.
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Guest: Vladislav Zubok on Collapse: The End of the Soviet Union published by Yale University Press.
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Guest: Nanci Adler on Memorial, Stalinist repression, and Russia's incomplete transitional justice.
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Guest: Isaac Scarborough on perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet system in Tajikistan.
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Guest: Brigid O'Keeffe on Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia published by Bloomsbury.
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Guest: Mie Nakachi on Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Oxford University Press.
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Guest: Courtney Doucette on letter writing, Nina Andreeva, and perestroika "from below."
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Guest: Geoffrey Roberts on Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books published by Yale University Press.
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This discussion was recorded on Wednesday, February 23, 2022, the morning before Russia invaded Ukraine.
Guests: Michael Kimmage, Marlene Laruelle, and Fyodor Lukyanov on the ongoing geopolitical crisis between Russia, Ukraine and the West.
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Stephen Crowley on Putin’s Labor Dilemma: Russian Politics between Stability and Stagnation published by Cornell University Press.
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Guest: Tom Junes on Poland in the 1980s and its legacies.
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Guest: Catriona Kelly on Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev published by Oxford University Press.
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Guest: Alexey Golubev on The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia published by Cornell University Press.
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Juliane Furst on Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in the Soviet Hippieland and Beyond published by Oxford University Press.
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Guest: The Americans creator Joe Weisberg on Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy from the Second Cold War published by Public Affairs.
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Guest: Russell Martin on the recent wedding of George Romanov and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini.
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Guest: Theodora Dragostinova on The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene, was published by Cornell University Press.
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Guest: Irina Erman on her article “Nation and Vampiric Narration in Aleksey Tolstoy’s “The Family of the Vourdalak” published in the January 2020 issue of The Russian Review.
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Guest: Clare Ibarra on scientific exchange between Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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Guest: Constantin Katsakioris on the experience of African students in the USSR during the Cold War.
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Guests: Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, and Ben Noble on Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? published by Hurst Publishers.
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Guests: Michael Kofman and Dmitry Gorenburg give an update on the Russian military.
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Guest: Alexander Morrison on The Russian Conquest of Central Asia published by Cambridge University Press.
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REEES faculty profile on Ana Sekulic and her work on Catholic-Muslim relations in Bosnia under the Ottoman empire.
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REEES faculty profile of Attila Kenyeres on his research into media manipulation and "fake news."
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Guest: Faith Hillis on Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Exiles and the Quest for Freedom, 1830–1930 published by Oxford University Press.
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Guest: Timothy Frye on Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia published by Princeton University Press.
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Russell Martin on The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495–1745 published by Cornell University Press.
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SRB interns Amelia Parlier and Felix Helbing dive into the weird world of advice columns. Two unlikely parings on the block—Komsomol decorum and the diva of dish, Emily Post. It’s wine and cheese!
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Guest: Tricia Starks on Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press.
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Guest: Kristy Ironside on A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Harvard University Press.
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Dina Fainberg on Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines published by John Hopkins University Press.
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Guest: Guido Sechi on Tolyatti: Exploring Post-Soviet Spaces, co-authored with Michele Cera is published by the Velvet Cell and VAC Foundation.
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Guest: Marko Dumančić on Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties published by the University of Toronto Press.
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Guest: Andrei Tsygankov on the ongoing US-Russia rivalry.
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Guest: Thomas Graham on the new "Cold War," the United States, Russia, and China.
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Guest: Mark Vincent on Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps published by Bloomsbury.
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Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press.
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Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War.
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Guests: Konstantin Fokin and Angelina Davydova on environmental activism in Russia.
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Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press.
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Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.
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Guests: Ilya Budraitskis, Svetlana Erpyleva, and Greg Yudin on Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition, and the prospects of political pluralism in Russian society.
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Guest: Karl Qualls on Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51 published by the University of Toronto Press.
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Guests: Tracy McDonald and Marianna Szczygielska on zoos, non-humans, and Animal Studies in Eastern Europe and Russia
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Guest: David France on his film Welcome To Chechnya.
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Guests: Valerie Kivelson and Christine Worobec on witches, magic, spells in their new sourcebook Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 published by Cornell University Press.
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Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin.
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Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press.
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Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.
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Guest: Eric Lee on Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945 published by Greenhill Books.
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Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia--James Pickett.
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Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Turkish instructor Iknur Lider.
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Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen's University Press.
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Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.
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I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here's what some of the protesters told me.
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Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions.
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Guest: Alison Rowley on Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen's University Press.
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Guests: Ekaterina Babintseva and Slava Gerovitch on cybernetics in the United States and Soviet Union.
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Guest: Lee Farrow on Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke's Tour, 1871-72 published by Louisiana State University Press.
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Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.
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Guest: Andrew Jacobs on American tourism to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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Guests: Steven Zipperstein and Michael Pfeifer on anti-Jewish and anti-Black violence in Russia and the United States.
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Guests: Bathsheba Demuth and Ilya Vinkoveysky on Russian and American colonialism and the environment in Alaska.
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Guest: Douglas Smith on The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire.
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Guest: Niko Vorobyov on the adventures in dopeworld.
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Guests: Amanda Brickell Bellows and Alessandro Stanziani on Russian serfdom and American slavery.
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Presenting Geopolitics on the Move, a podcast series I recorded this summer with Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affairs.
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Elena Gapova on the protests in Belarus.
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The final two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “A Brief Conversation on Biculturalism” by Alexandra Diouk and “Remembering the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Mission: 45 years of US-Russian Space Cooperation” by Lisa Becker.
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Two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “The Great Russian Trash Crisis” by Seth Farkas and “An Empty Pedestal: Ukraine after Leninopad” by Sabrina Beaver.
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Guest: Erica Fraser on Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union published by the University of Toronto Press.
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Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Olga Klimova.
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Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Katie Manukyan.
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Guests: Marina Dmukhovskaya and Georg Wallner about their podcast project Mesto47.
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Guest: Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution.
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Guest: Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press.
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Joshua Yaffa on Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia published by Penguin Random House.
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Guest: Francine Hirsch on Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II published by Oxford University Press.
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Guest: Vladimir Alexandrov on The Black Russian published by Grove Press.
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Guest: Leah Goldman on censorship and collaboration in the production of Late Stalinist classical music.
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Guest: Elissa Bemporad on Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets published by Oxford University Press.
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Guest: Eliot Borenstein on Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism published by Cornell University Press.
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Guest: Aliide Naylor on The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front published by Bloomsbury.
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Guest: Joy Gleason Carew on Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise.
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Guest: Aminda Smith on Maoism, consciousness, and the everyday.
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Guest: Suzanne Ament on Sing to Victory! Song in Soviet Society during World War II published by Academic Studies Press.
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Part two of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Part one of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Guest: Sam Gindin on socialism for realists.
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Jude Blanchette on China’s New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong published by Oxford University Press.
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Guest: David Rainbow on Ideologies of Race: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
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Guest: James Heinzen on "underground entrepreneurs" and black markets in the Soviet 1950s to the 1980s.
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Guest: Paul Robinson on Russian Conservatism published by Northern Illinois University Press.
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John Davis on Russia in the Time of Cholera: Disease under Romanovs and Soviets published by Bloomsbury.
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Guest: Priya Lal on African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World published by Cambridge University Press.
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Guest: Anya Bernstein on The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia published by Princeton University Press.
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Guest: Martha Lampland on the commodification of labor in Socialist Hungary.
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Friends of the show Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev on the latest news from Russia.
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Guest: Johanna Bockman on neoliberalism, socialist globalization, and the Non-Aligned Movement.
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Bella Grigoryan on Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762-1861 published by Northern Illinois University Press.
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Guest: Vasili Rukhadze on post-colored revolution regimes.
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Guest: Kate Brown on Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future published by Norton.
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Guest: Marianna Yarovskaya on her film Women of the Gulag.
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Guest: Edward Geist on Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945-1991 published by University of North Carolina Press.
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Guest: Fyodor Lukyanov on Russia in the Middle East: Viewpoints, Policies, Strategies published by East View.
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Guest: Charles Halperin onIvan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish published by University of Pittsburgh Press.
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Guest: Brandon Schechter on The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects published by Cornell University Press.
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Guest: Ed Pulford on Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between published by Hurst.
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Guests: Aaron Hale-Dorrell, Kristy Ironside, and Samantha Lomb on the collective farm system in the USSR.
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Guest: Anindita Banerjee on the nuclear in Soviet and Post-Soviet Science Fiction.
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Guest: Johannes Due Enstad on Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II published by Cambridge University Press.
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Magdalena Stawkowski on the rural Kazakh communities in the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.
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Guest: Andrew Sloin on The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power published by Indiana University Press.
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Guest: Sonja Schmid on Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry published by MIT Press.
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Guest: Eleonor Gilburd on To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture published by Harvard University Press.
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Guest: Lana Parshina on The Death of Hitler: The Final Word published by Da Capo Press.
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Guest: Caress Schenk on Why Control Immigration? Strategic Uses of Migration Management in Russia published by University of Toronto Press.
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Guest: Jeff Sahadeo on Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow published by Cornell University Press.
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Alissa Klots on domestic service and aging in the USSR.
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Guest: Edyta Bojanowska onA World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada published by Harvard University Press.
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For the past few weeks, protests for fair elections in upcoming municipal polls have become weekly in Moscow and St. Petersburg as thousands have defied authorities to attend unsanctioned rallies. The police crackdown has been particularly harsh in Moscow. Protests on July 27 and August 3 resulted in over 2000 detentions. Images of police in riot gear wrestling citizens to the ground and beating peaceful protesters were reminiscent of the mass protests against election fraud in 2011-2012.
Members of the Russian Socialist Movement, a small Marxist, anti-Stalinist organization active in the Russian left, have been participants in local electoral campaigns and in the protests. Two RSM activists, Valeria Kovelishina and Ilya Budraitskis talk about the Russian Socialist Movement, their electoral work, the protests for democracy in Russia and what they might mean for the future.
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Roundtable discussion marking the 30th anniversary of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. Participants include Timothy Garton Ash, Bridget Kendall, and Jens Reich.
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Guest: Doug Smith on Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs.
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Around Moscow, there’s a whole industry of so-called “black creditors” — microfinance institutions (or MFOs) that swindle and seize debtors’ homes. Ivan Golunov’s investigation for Meduza has discovered that almost 500 apartments have been seized from their owners over the past five years without so much as a court order. In fact, this scheme involves more than simply “squeezing” people from their homes. It is possibly part of a wider, international money-laundering system. Here’s Meduza special correspondent Ivan Golunov on the ins and outs of this industry.
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Guest: Laurence Bogoslaw on Russians on Trump: Press Coverage and Commentary published by Eastview.
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Manduhai Buyandelger’s keynote address “Self-Polishing and Electoral Selves: Elections and the New Economies of Democratization in Postsocialist Mongolia” given at the 2019 Annual Soyuz Symposium.
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Guest: Tobie Mathew on Greetings From The Barricades: Revolutionary Postcards in Imperial Russia published by Four Corners Books.
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Guest: Joan Neuberger on This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia published by Cornell University Press.
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Guest: Rósa Magnúsdóttir on Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 published by Oxford University Press.
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Guest: David Brandenberger on Stalin's Master Narrative: A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course published by Yale University Press.
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Guest: Anna Krakus on the stories Polish police files tell us.
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Guest: Paul Hanebrink on A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism published by Harvard University Press.
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For the past several months, I've been researching the life of Lovett Fort-Whiteman. Here's a short film I made about his eventual arrest and death in Stalinist Russia.
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Guest: Tony Wood on Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War published by Verso.
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Guest: Jared McBride on the Holocaust, Soviet Secret Police Archives and Local Perpetrators in Western Ukraine.
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Guests: Mark Galeotti, Kevin Rothrock, and Maxim Trudolyubov on making sense of Russia.
The post Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Lara Douds on Inside Lenin’s Government: Power, Ideology and Practice in the Early Soviet State published by Bloomsbury.
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Guest: Natalia Telepneva on Soviet and Warsaw Pact intelligence services and African anti-colonial movements.
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Guest: Katherine Reischl on Photographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors published by Cornell University Press.
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Guest: Paula Michaels on Lamaze: An International History published by Oxford University Press.
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Guest: Marlene Laruelle on Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields,published by Routledge, and her edited collection Entangled Far Rights: A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the 20th Century, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
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Guest: Wilson Bell on Stalin’s Gulag at War: Forced Labor, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory in the Second World War published by the University of Toronto Press.
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Guest: Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press.
The post The Kazakh Famine appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Sergei Antonov on Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy published by Harvard University Press.
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Guest: Ilya Yablokov on Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World published by Polity.
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Guest: Iva Glisic on The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930 published by Northern Illinois University Press.
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Guest: Julia Mickenberg on American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream published by the University of Chicago Press.
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Guest: Vladimir Kozlov on punk rock, perestroika, his stories and films.
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Guest: Olena Nikolayenko on Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe published by Cambridge University Press.
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Guest: Alexey Kovalev on American and Russian journalism.
The post American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guests: Eurasianet's Peter Leonard and Josh Kucera on Central Asia and the South Caucausus
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Guest: Diana Georgescu on “Red Children’s Republics: Socialist Internationalism and Transnational Youth Exchanges During the Late Cold War.”
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Guest: Margaret Peacock on Soviet and American Children in the Cold War.
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Guest: Steven Seegel on Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe published by University of Chicago Press.
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Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on “Communist Neverland: New Research on a Russian International Children's Home, 1933-1991.”
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Guest: Artemy Kalinovsky on The Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan published by Cornell University Press.
The post Decolonization and Development in Soviet Tajikistan appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Matthias Neumann on communism, youth, and generation.
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Guest: Elisabeth Schimpfossl on Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie published by Oxford University Press.
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Guest: Alun Thomas onNomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia from Lenin to Stalin published by I.B. Tauris.
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Guest: Richard Wortman on the Russian monarchy, symbolism, and ritual.
The post The Russian Monarchy’s Scenarios of Power appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Brian Milakovsky on the social and economic situation in the Donbas.
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Guest: Lesley Chamberlain on The Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution published by Reaktion Books.
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Me, your host, on The Dig Podcast.
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Guest: Ronald Grigor Suny on nationality, nation, and empire in the Soviet Union.
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Guest: Norman Saul of US-Russian relations in the 19th Century
The post American-Russian Relations in the 19th Century appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Victoria Smolkin on A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism published by Princeton University Press.
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Guest: Mark Galeotti on The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia published by Yale University Press.
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Guest: Tomas Matza on Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia published by Duke University Press.
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Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution published by Oxford University Press.
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The post Chinese Romance with the Russian Revolution appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Lynne Viola on the Soviet collectivization of agriculture, resistance, and Stalinist perpetrators.
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Guest: Bryon MacWilliams on With Light Steam: A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths was published by Northern Illinois University Press.
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Guest: Keith Gessen on America's Russia Hands and his novel A Terrible Country published by Viking.
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Guest: Yasha Levine on Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet published by Public Affairs Books.
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Guest: Lynn Patyk on Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
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Guest: Maxim Suchkov, editor of Al-Monitor’s Russia-Mideast coverage, on Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria.
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Guest: Michael Idov on Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin’s Moscow published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.
The post A Memoir of Misadventures in Moscow appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Andy Willimott on Living the Revolution: Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1931 published Oxford University Press.
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Guest: Chris Miller on Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia published by the University of North Carolina Press.
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Guest: Samantha Lomb on Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution published by Routledge.
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Guest: Alexandar Mihailovic on The Mitki: The Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia published by University of Wisconsin Press.
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Guest: Alexander Etkind on Roads not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt published by Pittsburgh University Press.
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The post William C. Bullitt in the USSR appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Shaun Walker on The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past published by Oxford University Press.
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Guest: Irina Meier on Boris Savinkov and Russian revolutionary terrorism.
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The post Boris Savinkov and Russian Terrorism appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Eric Lee on The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution, 1918-1921 published by Zed Books.
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Guest: Susan Smith-Peter on Imagining Russian Regions: Civil Society and Subnational Identity in Nineteenth-Century Russia published by Brill.
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Guest: Maria Belodubrovskaya on Not According to Plan: Filmmaking under Stalin published by Cornell University Press.
The post The Stalinist Film Industry appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Richard Robbins on Overtaken by the Night: One Russian’s Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
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The post Life and Times of Vladimir Dzhunkovsky appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Jon Waterlow on Soviet jokes under Stalin.
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Evgenia Kovda on her film Podrugi (Girlfriends), a tale of old age and claustrophobia in Putin's Russia.
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Guest: Natalia Roudakova on Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia published by Cambridge University Press.
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Guest: Claire Shaw on Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991.
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Mark Steinberg on the symbolism of angels, wings, and flight in the Russian Revolution.
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The post The Russian Revolution as Utopian Leap in the Open Air of History appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: William Taubman on Gorbachev: His Life and Times.
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Guest: Yuri Slezkine on The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution.
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Guest: Michael Kofman on the Russian military.
The post Assessing the Russian Military appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Grace Kennan Warnecke on growing up in George F. Kennan's shadow.
The post Daughter of the Cold War appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Ivan Kurilla on American studies in Russia.
The post American History Through Russian Eyes appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Seth Bernstein on Raised Under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism.
The post Young Communists Under Stalin appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Jessica Mason on LGBTQ activism and the New Left in Russia.
The post Russian LGBTQ and New Left Activism appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Steve Sabol on “The Touch of Civilization” Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization.
The post Russian and American Internal Colonization appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Brendan McGeever on the Bolsheviks and antisemitism.
The post Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Maxim Trudolubov on Moscow's apartment demolition plans.
The post The Politics of Russia’s Apartment Demolition appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Emily Channell-Justice on feminist activism and the Maidan.
The post Feminists in the Maidan appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Nancy Kollmann onThe Russian Empire, 1450-1801.
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Guest: Sheila Rowbotham on a lifetime of socialist feminist activism. [spp-player]
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Guest: Sheila Fitzpatrick on Stalinism.
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A This is Hell! interview with your humble host.
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Guest: Joshua Rubenstein on The Last Days of Stalin.
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Guest: Gerard Toal on Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus.
The post Russia and Its Near Abroad appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Mischa Gabowitsch on Protest in Putin’s Russia.
The post Protest in Putin’s Russia appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Lisa Kirschenbaum on International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion.
The post International Communism and the Spanish Civil War appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Aaron Retish on peasants in the Russian Revolution.
The post Russian Peasants in Revolution appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Constantine Pleshakov on The Crimean Nexus: Putin’s War and the Clash of Civilizations.
The post The Crimean Nexus appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Botakoz Kassymbekova on Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan.
The post Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Judith Beyer on The Force of Custom: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan.
The post The Force of Custom in Kyrgyzstan appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Henry Hale on Patronal Politics: Eurasian Regime Dynamics in Comparative Perspective.
The post Patronalism in Eurasia appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Alexander Rabinowitch on the Bolsheviks coming to power.
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Guest: Ellen Rutten on Sincerity after Communism: A Cultural History.
The post Searching for Postcommunist Sincerity appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: John Burgess on Holy Rus’: The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia.
The post Reviving Holy Rus appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Daniel Beer on The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars.
The post The Tsarist Exile System appeared first on SRB Podcast.
My talk at the Kennan on the history of russophobia.
The post Russophobia in America: A Genealogy appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Erik Scott on Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire.
The post Georgian Diaspora and the Soviet Empire appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Alexey Kovalev on Russian propaganda.
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Guest: Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution.
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Guest: Olga Kuchinskaya on The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl published by MIT Press.
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Guest: Lars Lih on Lenin.
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Guest: Chris Miller on The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR.
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Guest: Rebecca Mitchell on Nietzsche’s Orphans: Music, Metaphysics and the Twilight of the Russian Empire.
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Guest: Steve Maddox on Saving Stalin’s Imperial City: Historic Preservation in Leningrad, 1930–1950.
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Guest: Kevin Rothrock on the politics and pleasures of RuNet.
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Guest: Jeremy Morris on Everyday Postsocialism: Working-class Communities in the Russian Margins.
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Guest: Peter Whitewood on The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Soviet Military.
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Guest: Marc Bennetts onI’m Going to Ruin Their Lives: Inside Putin’s War on Russia’s Opposition.
The post Russia’s Mass Protests Five Years On appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: James Heinzen on The Art of the Bribe: Corruption under Stalin, 1943-1953.
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Guest: Brian Milakovsky on the life in the Donbas.
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Guest: Sophie Pinkham on Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine.
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Guest: Steven Crowley on the Russian labor movement.
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Guest: Arch Getty on Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition.
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Guest: Johan Engvall on The State as Investment Market: Kyrgyzstan in Comparative Perspective.
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Guest: Christine Evans on Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television published by Yale University Press.
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Guest: Masha Lipman on the current state of Russian politics.
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Guest: Brigid O'Keeffe on New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union.
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Guest: Erika Monahan on The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Russia.
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Guest: Alexander Herbert on Russian punk rock.
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Guest: Jon Platt on Greetings, Pushkin!: Stalinist Cultural Politics and the Russian National Bard. нннб
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Guest: David Foglesong on the American mission to save Russia.
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Guest: Serhiy Kudelia on the local dimensions of the Donbas war.
The post The Origins of the Donbas War From Below appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Andy Bruno on The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History.
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Guest: Mark Galeotti on Putinism.
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Guest: Mark Bassin on The Gumilev Mystique: Biopolitics, Eurasiansism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia.
The post Lev Gumilev’s Eurasianism appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Tim Nunan on Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan.
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Guest: Maxim Edwards on historical memory in the south Caucasus.
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Guest: Gleb Bogush on Russia's anti-terror laws.
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Guest: Josh Shifrinson on the US pledge on no NATO expansion.
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Guest: James Harris on The Great Fear: Stalin’s Terror in the 1930s.
The post From Great Fear to the Great Terror appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Ben Peters on How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet.
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Guest: Anne Garrels on Putin’s Country: A Journey into the Real Russia.
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Guest: Tarik Cyril Amar onThe Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv. A Borderland City between Nazis, Stalinists, and Nationalists.
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Guest: James Casteel on Russia in the German Global Imaginary: Imperial Visions and Utopian Desires, 1905-1941.
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Guest: Russell Martin on the early modern Russian autocracy.
The post Autocracy, Marriage, and Power in Early Modern Russia appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Natalia Antonova on love, sex, and porn in Russia.
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Guest: Eileen Kane on Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca.
The post Managing the Russian Hajj appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Barbara Allen on Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik.
The post Alexander Shlyapnikov: An Old Working Class Bolshevik appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Andrei Tsygankov on Russia's Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity.
The post Russia’s Foreign Policy Trajectories appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Ryan McCarrel on the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Guest: Mark Schrad on Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State.
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Guest: Svetlana Stephenson on Gangs of Russia, From the Streets to the Corridors of Power published by Cornell University Press.
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Guest: Doug Rogers on The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture After Socialism.
The post Lukoil, Power, and Culture in Perm appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Kiril Tomoff on Virtuosi Abroad: Soviet Music and Imperial Competition During the Early Cold War, 1945-1958.
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Guest: Balazs Jarabik on the evolution of post-Maidan Ukraine.
The post What’s Going on in Ukraine? appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Peter Rutland on oil in Russia's economy.
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Guest: Joshua Yaffa on Ramzan Kadyrov.
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Guest: Vladimir Gel'man on Authoritarian Russia: Analyzing Post-Soviet Regime Changes.
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Guest: Volodymyr Ishchenko on the Maidan and the Ukrainian left.
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Guest: Roman Torgovitsky on treating Ukrainian war veterans.
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Guest: Carl Shreck on the poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Muza.
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Guest: Keith Gessen on western reporting on the Ukraine crisis.
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Guest: Julie Hemment on Youth Politics in Putin’s Russia: Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs.
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Guest: Ilya Matveev on neoliberalism in Russia.
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Guest: Alan Barenberg on Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and its Legacy in Vorkuta.
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Guest: Brian Whitmore on Putin's power vertical.
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Guest: Gordon Hahn on Russia's intervention in Syria.
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Guest: Talal Nezameddin on Russia, Syria, and the Middle East.
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Guest: Brian Milakovsky on the humanitarian crisis in the Donbas.
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Guest: Michael Kofman on the myths of hybrid war.
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Guest: Elizabeth Wood on Russia's WWII memory.
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Guests: Eliot Borenstein on Russian culture; John-Paul Himka on Ukraine's historical memory laws.
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Guests: Sophie Pinkham on Ukraine; Per Rudling on The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931.
The post Post-Maidan Ukraine and Belarusian Nationalism appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Paul Stronski on Islam Karimov's Uzbekistan.
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Stephen Kotkin and Slavoj Zizek discussed Kotkin’s Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 at the New York Public Library. Both the audio and video are available on the Library’s site but I thought I’d repost it here to increase exposure. [powerpress]
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Guest: Cathy Frierson on Silence was Salvation: Child Survivors of Stalin’s Terror and WWII in the Soviet Union.
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Guests: Pavel Baev on the fallout of the Nemtsov murder; Pietro Shakarian on Armenia.
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Guests: Karl Qualls on the history of Crimea; Josh Sanborn on the destruction of the Russian empire.
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Guest: Mark Galeotti on the murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Guests:
Faith Hillis on her article is "Intimacy and Antipathy: Ukrainian-Russian Relations in Historical Perspective" published in Kritika.
Andrew Weiss on"Putin the Improviser" in the Wall Street Journal.
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Guests:
Balazs Jarabik, on his article is "What Did Minsk II Actually Achieve?"
Valerie Sperling on Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia published by Oxford.
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Guests: Christopher Miller on the Donbas and Fiona Hill on Putin.
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Forget about "civil society" destroying Communism in Eastern Europe, says Stephen Kotkin in this interview about his new book, Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment on New Books in History. It's a myth. The Communist establishments in Eastern Europe were quite politically stable and were hardly challenged by widespread opposition (except in Poland). Instead, Kotkin attributes the collapse of Communism to "uncivil society", that is the elites who became disillusioned with their own system and by 1989 simply let it melt away. Lively and pointed, this interview will change your views on the collapse of Communism in the East.
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Richard Feynman, famous American physicist, atom bomb maker, father of nanotechnology, and Tuva lover. Feynman discovered the remote region and its nomadic people from stamp collecting during the dark days of the Cold War. Feynman began a long correspondence with one of its residents. Feynman wanted to visit Tuva, but never did. The Cold War […]
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I made reference to Susan Richards’ book Lost and Found in Russia: Encounters in a Deep Heartland in my last post. I have not read the book, nor can I buy it unless I want to pay extra shipping from England. Lost and Found has yet to be published in the US. Too bad. As […]
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Mikhail Gorbachev has had many roles in his seventy-eight years. He’s been a Party aktiv, a First Party Kraikom Secretary, Politburo member, General Secretary of the Communist Party, Louis Vuitton model, and global philanthropist. Gorbachev, of course, is best known for concocting perestroika and glasnost, two reforms which aided the collapse of the Soviet Union. […]
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[podcast]http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ta/ta_20090401-1708a.mp3[/podcast] Thinking Allowed‘s Laurie Taylor has an interesting discussion with Mikhail Ryklin about the historical memory of Stalinism. Ryklin’s most recent work looks at Communist ideology as a “substitute” or “political” religion which “gave millions of people all over the globe an ultimate meaning.” Indeed, Marxism, with its eschatological narrative based on the fall and […]
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Cynthia Hooper gave a fascinating talk titled “Terror from Within: Brotherhood and Betrayal in the NKVD” at UCLA in February. The Center for European and Eurasian Studies has kindly uploaded the podcast. I offer it here for readers’ intellectual enjoyment. [podcast]http://www.international.ucla.edu/media/podcasts/Hooper09.mp3[/podcast]
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[podcast]http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20090213-0830a.mp3[/podcast] The BBC World Service has an interesting documentary on Beatlemania in the Soviet Union. When the Fab Four hit the international scene in 1964, youth in the Soviet Union were no exception in succumbing to their tunes. But unlike fans in the West, the Beatles’ aficionados had to record songs off the Western radio, […]
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Laurie Taylor briefly interviews the authors of the controversial Lancet article on Post-Soviet privatization on his Thinking Allowed. His discussion with Megan Comfort that follows on women who have boyfriends and husbands in prison is worth a listen too. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/rams/thinkingallowed_20090128.ram
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For those interested in Nashi, I recommend listening to this interview with Dr. Regina Heller from the University of Hamburg Institute for Peace and Research (a recent article of hers on Nashi can be found here). I think Heller’s discussion serves as as good primer for understanding the many aspects to the pro-Kremlin group. I […]
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Who is leading the tandem dance? Is it Medvedev’s or Putin’s turn this week? The answer to who is at top in Kremlin Inc. is superfluous to those who live at Russia’s poverty line. Like in most places, the little guy is mostly a creature for cardboard cut out used for political rhetoric and posturing […]
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Bloomberg.com’s audio program On the Economy talks with Marshall Goldman about Gazprom, Putin, Medvedev, oil and gas, and the “Dutch disease.” Goldman’s new book Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia just came out on Oxford University Press. You can download the interview here.
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Russophile brought my attention to the following news from the Financial Times. Arch Putin enemy oligarch Boris Berezovsky admitted in an interview with FT reporter Jimmy Burns that he is indeed funding Other Russia. Don’t believe it? Listen to the audio file yourself. Russophile is right, Borya just doesn’t get it. He also is just […]
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