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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: Vassily Klimentov on A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communists, and Islam published by Cornell University Press.
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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: 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: 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: 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.
The post The Soviet Century appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.
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: Christopher Read on Vladimir Lenin's legacy 100 years since his death.
The post A Century Without Lenin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.
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.
The post Making the Soviet Jew appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.
Guest: Erik Scott on defection, the Cold War, and the regulation of borders and movement in a globalizing world.
The post Defection and the Cold War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.
Guests: Geneviève Zubrzycki and Jose Casanova on the place of the Catholic Church in Polish politics and national identity.
The post Catholicism in Poland appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.
Guests: Anca Sincan and Tatiana Vagramenko discuss the how secret police files document religious belief and worship in communist Romania and Ukraine.
The post Secret Police Archives as Depositories of Faith appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.
Guest: Catherine Wanner on lived religion in Ukraine, belief, belonging and community, and the impact of the war on religion.
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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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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.
The post A Gift for Stalin, Part Two: The Accursed Share appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.
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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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.
The post Between Memory and History in Ukraine appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Working Through Stalinism appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Mixed Marriages in the USSR appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Soviet WWII Mythologies appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Olga Petri on Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg published by Cornell University Press.
The post Queer Spaces in Imperial St. Petersburg appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Timothy Blauvelt on Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba published by Routledge.
The post Clientelism in Soviet Abkhazia appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Fabrizio Fenghi on It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia published by University of Wisconsin Press.
The post Limonov and the National Bolsheviks appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Sarah Riccardi-Swartz on Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia published by Fordham University Press.
The post Russian Orthodox Converts in Appalachia appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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: Alexei Yurchak on perestroika, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the experiences of the last Soviet generation.
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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.
The post Suffering and Survival in Leningrad appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Stalinism, Memorial, and Perestroika appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Isaac Scarborough on perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet system in Tajikistan.
The post Perestroika in the Periphery: Tajikistan appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Soviet Pronatalism appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Ditching Communism in Poland appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Catriona Kelly on Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev published by Oxford University Press.
The post The Lenfilm Art House appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Alexey Golubev on The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia published by Cornell University Press.
The post The Things of Late Soviet Life appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Juliane Furst on Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in the Soviet Hippieland and Beyond published by Oxford University Press.
The post Soviet Flower Power appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post The Return of the Romanovs appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Cold War from the Margins appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post The Vampires of A. K. Tolstoy appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Clare Ibarra on scientific exchange between Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
The post Cuban-Soviet Scientific Exchanges appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Unpacking Alexey Navalny appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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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Guest: Faith Hillis on Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Exiles and the Quest for Freedom, 1830–1930 published by Oxford University Press.
The post Russian Revolutionaries in Exile appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Weddings and Power in Early Modern Russia appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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!
The post Wine and Cheese: Komsomol Etiquette and Emily Post appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Tricia Starks on Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press.
The post Rebroadcast: Smoking Under the Tsars appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Kristy Ironside on A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Harvard University Press.
The post Money and Prosperity in the USSR appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Tolyatti’s Avtograd District appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Marko Dumančić on Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties published by the University of Toronto Press.
The post Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post The US-Russia-China Triangle appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Blind Activism in the Cold War appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press.
The post Gogol’s Town of N appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.
The post Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guests: Ilya Budraitskis, Svetlana Erpyleva, and Greg Yudin on Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition, and the prospects of political pluralism in Russian society.
The post Navalny and Next appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press.
The post From Soso to Stalin appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.
The post Watering the Soviet Lands appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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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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.
The post The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.
The post Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions.
The post Russian Other, American Other appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Black Radicalism and the USSR appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Pogroms and Race Riots appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Elena Gapova on the protests in Belarus.
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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 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.
The post Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Rebroadcast: Black Sojourners to the Soviet Union appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Aminda Smith on Maoism, consciousness, and the everyday.
The post Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Suzanne Ament on Sing to Victory! Song in Soviet Society during World War II published by Academic Studies Press.
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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: 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.
The post Witnessing the Collapse of Communism appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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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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: 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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Partial transcript of my interview with Tony Wood about his excellent new book, 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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Partial transcript of the event “Shaping National Memory: Ukrainian Secret Police Archives and WWII” at the University of Pittsburgh featuring Jared McBride.
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Guests: Mark Galeotti, Kevin Rothrock, and Maxim Trudolyubov on making sense of Russia.
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Partial transcript of the event "Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia" at the University of Pittsburgh featuring Mark Galeotti, Kevin Rothrock, and Maxim Trudolyubov.
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Guest: Lara Douds on Inside Lenin’s Government: Power, Ideology and Practice in the Early Soviet State published by Bloomsbury.
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Partial transcript of an interview with Lara Douds on the formation, functioning, and decline of the Lenin's Council of People's Commissars, or Sovnarkom.
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Guest: Natalia Telepneva on Soviet and Warsaw Pact intelligence services and African anti-colonial movements.
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Partial transcript of an interview with Natalia Telepneva on Soviet and Czechoslovak intelligence in African national liberation 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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Partial transcript of my interview with Katherine Reischl on the intersection of photography and Russian literature.
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Guest: Paula Michaels on Lamaze: An International History published by Oxford University Press.
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Partial transcript with my interview with Paula Michaels on the Soviet origins of Lamaze.
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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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Partial transcript of my interview with Marlene Laruelle on Russian nationalism.
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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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Partial transcript of my interview with Wilson Bell on his book Stalin's Gulag at War: Forced Labor, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory in the Second World War.
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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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Partial transcript of my interview with Sarah Cameron on the Kazakh famine.
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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.
The post Conspiracy Theories in Russia appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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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Soviet historian Elena Osokina comments on two myths of Stalinist society in an interview in Republic.ru.
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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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I wrote an article with Rafael Khachaturian on the American Left for the Russian journal Социология власти (Sociology of Power). You can download it here.
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Guest: Alexey Kovalev on American and Russian journalism.
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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.
The post Kazakh Nomads Under Lenin and Stalin appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Social-Economic Life in the Donbas appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Lesley Chamberlain on The Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution published by Reaktion Books.
The post The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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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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.
My thoughts on Keith Gessen's "The Quiet Americans Behind the U.S.-Russia Imbroglio" as an opening salvo in the need to deconstruct the discourses of the "Russia Hand."
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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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I wrote a review of Alexander Etkind's Roads Not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt and Michael McFaul's From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia for Bookforum. Unfortunately, the review is behind the dreaded paywall. So here's the pdf.
The post The Theater of Diplomacy 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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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.
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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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Guest: Jon Waterlow on Soviet jokes under Stalin.
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The following is the transcript of my interview with Claire Shaw for the podcast Deaf in the Soviet Union. The transcript has been edited for clarity. I thought we’d start by having you talk about the origins of your work on deafness in Russia. How did you come to this topic? Well, it was a […]
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Ilya Budraitskis breaks down the upcoming Russian Presidential Election. Originally posted on LeftEast.
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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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Mikhail Zygar's The Empire Must Die provides a narrative timeline for the Russian Revolution as an allegory for Russia’s present.
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I review Doug Rogers' deconstruction of oil—not to uncover its relations of production—to trace the dispersion of its value in shaping the post-Soviet province of Perm.
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Mark Steinberg on the symbolism of angels, wings, and flight in the Russian Revolution.
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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.
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Guest: Grace Kennan Warnecke on growing up in George F. Kennan's shadow.
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Guest: Ivan Kurilla on American studies in Russia.
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Guest: Seth Bernstein on Raised Under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism.
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Guest: Jessica Mason on LGBTQ activism and the New Left in Russia.
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Guest: Steve Sabol on “The Touch of Civilization” Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization.
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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.
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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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A response to the responses to the Navalny question and the Russian Left.
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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.
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Guest: Mischa Gabowitsch on Protest in Putin’s Russia.
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Guest: Lisa Kirschenbaum on International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion.
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Guest: Aaron Retish on peasants in the Russian Revolution.
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Guest: Constantine Pleshakov on The Crimean Nexus: Putin’s War and the Clash of Civilizations.
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Guest: Botakoz Kassymbekova on Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan.
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Guest: Judith Beyer on The Force of Custom: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan.
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Guest: Henry Hale on Patronal Politics: Eurasian Regime Dynamics in Comparative Perspective.
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Guest: Alexander Rabinowitch on the Bolsheviks coming to power.
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Guest: Ellen Rutten on Sincerity after Communism: A Cultural History.
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Guest: John Burgess on Holy Rus’: The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia.
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Guest: Daniel Beer on The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars.
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My talk at the Kennan on the history of russophobia.
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Guest: Erik Scott on Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire.
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Guest: Alexey Kovalev on Russian propaganda.
The post The Russian Propaganda Machine appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post The Invisibility of Chernobyl in Belarus appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
The post Perestroika and the Chinese Model appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Rebecca Mitchell on Nietzsche’s Orphans: Music, Metaphysics and the Twilight of the Russian Empire.
The post Searching for Orpheus at the Twilight of the Russian Empire appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Steve Maddox on Saving Stalin’s Imperial City: Historic Preservation in Leningrad, 1930–1950.
The post Preserving Leningrad During WWII appeared first on SRB Podcast.
Guest: Kevin Rothrock on the politics and pleasures of RuNet.
The post Wading Through RuNet appeared first on SRB Podcast.
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.
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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.
The post Reforging Roma into New Soviet Gypsies appeared first on SRB Podcast.
On the Center for Political and Economic Reform's report on labor protests for the third quarter of 2016.
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Guest: Erika Monahan on The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Russia.
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It’s been ten years since an assassin put four bullets in Anna Politkovskaya—three in her chest, one in her head, the hallmark of a contract hit. And what can be said on this macabre anniversary?
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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.
In July, the Center for Economic and Political Reform, a think tank that monitors and studies social and economic issues in Russia, released a report on labor conflict in the second quarter of 2016. In this period, TsEPR identified 263 incidents in 65 regions in Russia, 34 more than the first quarter. Fifty-six were specifically labor […]
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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.
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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.
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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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Since 2005, I’ve provided critical commentary on Russia’s past and present on this blog. These many years of blogging proved to me that there is general public interest beyond the academy and expert community for critical, nuanced, and thoughtful commentary on Russia. In 2015, I decided to take advantage of this hunger and start […]
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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.
Oleg Shein posted the following on his Facebook page: Today, the State Duma adopted a law raising the minimum wage from 6200 to 7500 rubles. This is definitely a good move. In fact, it’s not so small for workers who earn pennies. In 2011, 2.3 million people earned less than a subsistence wage in the formal sector of […]
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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.
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I don’t normally hype the translations I’ve been doing on side for Meduza’s English portal. I feel I don’t need to promote everything. But I wanted to draw readers to this recent translation I did of Katerina Gordeeva’s article “The business of breathing How Vladimir Putin tried and failed to help Russia’s sickest children” on […]
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Many people have asked me about the theme song to the SRB Podcast. So instead of answering the question over and over by individual request, I’ve finally decided to post it on the blog for all to enjoy. The song is Moya Marusechka (Моя Марусечка) by Petr Leshchenko, 1898-1954 (his Russian Wikipedia page has a […]
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Guest: Barbara Allen on Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik.
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I was on Brian Whitmore’s Power Vertical podcast this week. In thinking over some of my comments, I realized that I was basically giving the Russian elite advice on how to be a functioning bourgeoisie. The bourgeois class project in Russia has been a historical failure. Russia’s third bourgeois is currently too busy with its head buried […]
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Guest: Andrei Tsygankov on Russia's Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity.
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I wrote an article for OpenDemocracy on microloans and debt collector violence. I’ve been mulling the article since January when I read a gruesome story about a debt collector throwing a Molotov cocktail through the debtor’s window severely burning his two year old grandson. A Google news search revealed that though this incident was one of […]
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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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As the media world is fixated on Putin’s allegedly stashed $2 billion, the not-named-Putin Russians in the leaked documents comprise of siloviki, chinovniki, parliamentarians, governors and their families. They include: Dmitri Peskov, Putin’s Press Secretary Suleiman Geremeev, Senator from Chechnya and uncle of Ruslan Geremeev, the main suspect in ordering the assassination of Boris Nemtsov […]
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Over 19 million Russians live in poverty, according to a recent article in Dengi. But how is poverty determined in the Russian context? For Rosstat to categorize you as in poverty, you need to have an income lower than the subsistence minimum. For the majority of Dengi readers, this level is mockingly low: 9,452 rubles […]
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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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Back in 2013, I wrote a post examining at the numbers of people in the Stalinist gulag compared to the US prison industrial complex. The post was in response to the Adam Gopnik’s and Fareed Zakaria’s claim that the over 6 million people in the US are under “correctional supervision” was higher than in the Stalinist gulag. Following a […]
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Guest: Doug Rogers on The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture After Socialism.
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Guest: Kiril Tomoff on Virtuosi Abroad: Soviet Music and Imperial Competition During the Early Cold War, 1945-1958.
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Readers and listeners of this blog’s podcast might recall an interview I did last summer with Joy Gleason Carew about African Americans who traveled, worked and even immigrated to the Soviet Union. It’s a fascinating story that is thankfully getting more popular and scholarly attention. There’s Vladimir Alexandrov’s The Black Russian which chronicles the life […]
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Guest: Balazs Jarabik on the evolution of post-Maidan Ukraine.
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In January, Novaya gazeta held their annual online documentary film festival. Each film was available for online viewing for 24 hours. A Facebook friend posted a link to Elena Demidova’s Men’s Choice (Muzhskoi vybor). He had written the English subtitles for it. It looked interesting so I checked it out. What I saw was something […]
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Guest: Peter Rutland on oil in Russia's economy.
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Guest: Joshua Yaffa on Ramzan Kadyrov.
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It’s hard not to notice the plethora of articles once again warning about Russia invading the Baltics. The prospect has come up on a number of occasions over the last two years, and I have to say, I can’t help but have increasing sympathy for RT’s skepticism that the new volley just happens to coincide […]
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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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The poet, musician and activist Kirill Medvedev is few contemporary Russian leftist voices that has had some play in English. Several of his writings have been translated: his collection of poems and essays, It’s No Good, articles and poems in N+1, an article in the Guardian on disavowing his copyrights, an essay in the New […]
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Guest: Carl Shreck on the poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Muza.
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Several years ago when I was living in Moscow I would often see people in the metro holding signs selling doctoral degrees. I even had a friend of a friend who earned money writing them on order. Fake diplomas, theses on order, and plagiarism. Already in 2006, Mikhail Kirpichnikov, the then head of State Commission […]
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Guest: Keith Gessen on western reporting on the Ukraine crisis.
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One of the outcomes of the Maidan Revolution, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and the ensuing war in the Donbas has been a marked explosion in Russian propaganda. So much so that dissecting it has become a genre in and of itself. Indeed, over the last two years an entire discursive universe has emerged to analyze, […]
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Recent reports in Vedomosti and RBK dovetail nicely with the editorial I’ve translated below from the folks at OpenLeft.ru. Vedomosti predicts that in 2016 Russia’s economy will only worsen—the price of oil will be cheaper, inflation higher, incomes lower, and the ruble weaker. Along these lines, RBK evaluates the growth of social protests in 2015 […]
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For all intents and purposes, Russia’s official unemployment rate remains quite low for an economy in recession. The Russian Statistical Agency reports that the official unemployment rate in October-November went from 5.5 percent to 5.8 percent. This is still a far from the rate in February 2009 when official unemployment hit a high of 9.4 […]
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Guest: Julie Hemment on Youth Politics in Putin’s Russia: Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs.
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Three graphs speak to the plight of the Russian consumer in 2015: the ruble-dollar exchange rate, inflation, and real wage growth: http://cdn.tradingeconomics.com/embed/?s=usdrub&v=201512111855m&d1=20141001&d2=20151211&h=300&w=600 Source: tradingeconomics.com http://cdn.tradingeconomics.com/embed/?s=rucpiyoy&v=201512102303m&d1=20140101&d2=20151231&type=type=line&h=300&w=600 Source: tradingeconomics.com http://cdn.tradingeconomics.com/embed/?s=russiawaggro&v=201511231138m&d1=20140101&d2=20151231&h=300&w=600 Source: tradingeconomics.com Below is my translation of an article on Znak.com that puts all of this in everyday terms for shoppers in Yekaterinburg. You can read the original […]
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Guest: Ilya Matveev on neoliberalism in Russia.
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Since November 15, truckers have been staging protests in no less than twenty-four regions across Russia against a new freight tax. The law institutes a 1.52 rubles tax ($0.02) which will be raised in February 2016 to 3.73 rubles ($0.06) tax per kilometer on 12-ton trucks. It is estimated that the tax will increase the transportation […]
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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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