Podcasts by The Eurasian Knot
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 Eurasian Knot 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.
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Making the Soviet Jew from 2023-12-01T18:48:17
Defection and the Cold War from 2023-11-17T20:43:10
Ainu Fever from 2023-11-10T21:00:17
Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds from 2023-11-03T14:50:51
The Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh from 2023-10-27T16:24:04
Islam, Repression, and Memory from 2023-10-21T19:01:50
Useable Pasts? Shamans, Spirituality and Resistance from 2023-10-13T16:58:31
Theology after Gulag from 2023-10-06T18:52:02
Christianity in China from 2023-09-22T16:55:20
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Anna Kovalova from 2023-09-15T19:09:06
Catholicism in Poland from 2023-09-08T18:31:05
Secret Police Archives as Depositories of Faith from 2023-08-18T18:13:53
Lived Religion in Ukraine from 2023-08-04T21:45:05
The Nivkhi of Sakhalin from 2023-07-17T15:31:41
Queer Under Communism from 2023-06-29T17:23:08
Red Whaling from 2023-06-08T16:34:54
Harbin from 2023-05-05T20:37:48
Perestroika in the Periphery: Tajikistan from 2022-04-19T15:12:22
Esperanto in Revolutionary Russia from 2022-04-12T16:23:37
Soviet Pronatalism from 2022-03-22T18:23:23
Letters to Perestroika from 2022-03-15T16:11:48
Stalin and His Books from 2022-03-06T18:29:09
Russia, Ukraine, and the West from 2022-02-25T18:35:15
Russia’s Labor Dilemma from 2022-02-18T19:47:32
Ditching Communism in Poland from 2022-02-11T22:12:16
The Lenfilm Art House from 2021-11-19T18:42:46
The Things of Late Soviet Life from 2021-11-15T19:32:20
Soviet Flower Power from 2021-11-05T18:38:09
Russia Upside Down from 2021-10-29T21:56:35
The Return of the Romanovs from 2021-10-22T18:00:01
Cold War from the Margins from 2021-10-18T17:20:15
The Vampires of A. K. Tolstoy from 2021-10-08T16:42:54
Cuban-Soviet Scientific Exchanges from 2021-10-01T16:59:03
African Students in the USSR from 2021-09-24T17:55:56
Unpacking Alexey Navalny from 2021-09-17T17:22:19
Revisiting the Russian Military from 2021-09-12T15:35:06
Russian Conquest of Central Asia from 2021-09-03T17:41:21
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Ana Sekulic from 2021-08-18T18:58:14
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Attila Kenyeres from 2021-08-18T18:55:39
Russian Revolutionaries in Exile from 2021-08-06T17:42:49
The Weak Strongman from 2021-07-30T19:59:54
Weddings and Power in Early Modern Russia from 2021-07-23T21:12:28
Wine and Cheese: Komsomol Etiquette and Emily Post from 2021-07-16T17:34:46
Rebroadcast: Smoking Under the Tsars from 2021-07-12T13:16:06
Money and Prosperity in the USSR from 2021-07-02T17:56:15
Cold War Correspondents from 2021-06-25T19:05:39
Tolyatti’s Avtograd District from 2021-06-19T03:55:56
Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties from 2021-06-13T18:02:05
The US-Russia Rivalry from 2021-06-04T18:10:59
The US-Russia-China Triangle from 2021-05-28T20:53:31
Gulag Criminal Subculture from 2021-05-14T18:49:17
Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia from 2021-05-07T14:47:10
Blind Activism in the Cold War from 2021-04-30T18:10:34
Environmental Activism in Russia from 2021-04-23T17:38:40
Gogol’s Town of N from 2021-04-16T16:15:16
Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe from 2021-04-09T14:43:53
Navalny and Next from 2021-03-27T21:14:23
Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR from 2021-03-19T17:55:20
Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia from 2021-03-13T14:25:27
Welcome to Chechnya from 2021-03-05T19:58:26
Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine from 2021-02-26T22:33:19
Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic from 2021-02-19T19:18:13
From Soso to Stalin from 2021-02-12T14:54:38
Watering the Soviet Lands from 2021-02-05T19:34:41
The Texel Uprising from 2021-01-29T18:59:06
REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett from 2021-01-21T16:11:28
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Iknur Lider from 2021-01-21T16:06:34
The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus from 2021-01-15T19:52:28
Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism from 2021-01-08T16:29:30
Belarus Protests in Pittsburgh from 2021-01-04T15:06:44
Russian Other, American Other from 2020-12-18T21:46:53
Putin Kitsch in America from 2020-12-11T20:56:09
The Wired Cold War from 2020-12-04T19:56:03
Grand Duke Alexis Visits America from 2020-11-20T17:39:50
Black Radicalism and the USSR from 2020-11-13T21:53:16
American Tourism to the USSR from 2020-11-09T15:55:39
Pogroms and Race Riots from 2020-10-30T18:07:34
From Aliaska to Alaska from 2020-10-23T16:46:35
American Famine Relief to Soviet Russia from 2020-10-16T16:26:53
Russian and American Empire from 2020-10-09T15:04:07
Enter Dopeworld from 2020-10-02T15:38:16
Russian Serfdom and American Slavery from 2020-09-25T17:50:05
SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move from 2020-09-23T17:19:05
Protests in Belarus from 2020-09-11T18:45:59
Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission from 2020-09-02T17:03:28
Trash Protests and Leninopad from 2020-08-31T18:45:07
Soviet Military Masculinity from 2020-08-23T16:13:46
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova from 2020-08-21T13:43:15
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan from 2020-08-21T13:23:52
Stories Along the Trans-Siberian from 2020-08-17T03:06:06
Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution from 2020-08-08T14:07:44
Rebroadcast: The Kazakh Famine from 2020-08-01T13:49:13
Russia’s Wily Man from 2020-07-24T15:05:55
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg from 2020-07-17T18:55:38
The Black Russian from 2020-07-10T19:06:25
Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music from 2020-07-03T20:20
Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union from 2020-06-26T20:28:02
Plots Against Russia from 2020-06-19T20:27:14
The Baltics In-Between from 2020-06-15T17:28:50
Rebroadcast: Black Sojourners to the Soviet Union from 2020-06-05T07:53:48
Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China from 2020-05-29T19:00:49
Soviet WWII Songs from 2020-05-22T15:28:34
Hearing Communism: Part Two from 2020-05-21T18:26:09
Hearing Communism: Part One from 2020-05-19T15:57:36
Socialism for Realists from 2020-05-15T18:42:20
China’s New Red Guards from 2020-05-08T15:40:56
Ideologies of Race in Russia from 2020-05-01T17:01:02
Underground Entrepreneurs in the Soviet Union from 2020-04-26T14:42:53
Russian Conservatism from 2020-04-17T18:10:24
Cholera in Russia from 2020-04-10T19:36:42
Postcolonial Socialisms in Africa from 2020-04-03T14:14:34
Immortalism and Transhumanism in Russia from 2020-03-27T19:25:22
Objects and Values of Labor in Socialist Hungary from 2020-03-20T19:24:06
Political Diary from Russia from 2020-03-13T19:39:21
Structurally Adjusting Socialism from 2020-03-06T17:19:06
The Nobility and the Russian Novel from 2020-02-28T21:33:47
After the Colored Revolution from 2020-02-19T22:54:37
Exposing Chernobyl from 2020-02-07T19:48:55
Women of the Gulag from 2020-01-29T19:40:26
Nuclear Bombs and Bomb Shelters from 2020-01-18T03:26:24
Russia in Global Affairs from 2020-01-07T23:11:04
Ivan the Terrible from 2019-12-30T15:39:08
The Stuff of Red Army Soldiers from 2019-12-18T18:43:43
Russia, China and Inbetween from 2019-12-07T17:50:37
The Collective Farm from 2019-11-17T22:42:43
Atoms and Aliens in Eurasian Science Fiction from 2019-11-10T00:19:01
Russians Under Nazi Occupation from 2019-11-03T16:17:02
The Radioactive Mutants of Semipalatinsk from 2019-10-27T20:49:23
The Jewish Revolution in Belarus from 2019-10-21T10:45:45
The Soviet Nuclear Industry from 2019-10-13T17:50:48
The Soviet Lives of Western Culture from 2019-09-24T00:58:54
Investigating Hitler’s Remains from 2019-09-17T02:28:03
The Politics of Immigration in Russia from 2019-09-07T20:14:13
Central Asian Migrants in the USSR from 2019-09-03T03:41:40
Domestic Service in the USSR from 2019-08-24T14:59:41
A Russian Voyage of Empires from 2019-08-17T14:11:30
Russian Socialists in the Struggle for Democracy from 2019-08-10T13:21:57
Witnessing the Collapse of Communism from 2019-08-02T19:20:34
Rasputin, the Man and the Myth (Rebroadcast) from 2019-07-27T12:50:43
The Evictors from 2019-07-19T18:33:32
Russians on Trump (Rebroadcast) from 2019-07-13T11:19:59
Gender and Electoral Self-Polishing in Mongolia from 2019-07-05T18:20:01
Russian Revolutionary Postcards from 2019-06-30T02:49
Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible from 2019-06-21T16:41:07
Soviet Anti-Americanism from 2019-06-14T20:36:58
Stalin’s Short Course from 2019-06-07T12:43:56
The Stories Polish Secret Police Files Tell Us from 2019-05-31T15:01:03
The Judeo-Bolshevik Myth from 2019-05-24T13:00:31
“The Reddest of the Blacks” from 2019-05-21T13:45:37
Russia Without Putin from 2019-05-17T17:39:56
Guest: Tony Wood onRussia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold Warpublished by Verso.
Local Perpetrators and the Holocaust in Ukraine from 2019-05-08T15:09:16
Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia from 2019-04-25T18:55:37
Lenin’s Government from 2019-04-14T18:44:01
Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation from 2019-04-05T16:21:43
The Soviet Origins of Lamaze from 2019-03-20T19:02:14
Guest:Paula Michaelson Listen
Russian Nationalism from 2019-03-10T21:42:10
Guest:Marlene LaruelleonListen
The Gulag at War from 2019-03-01T19:28:56
Guest: Wilson Bell onStalin’s Gulag at War: Forced Labor, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory in the Second World War publi...
ListenThe Kazakh Famine from 2019-02-22T17:47:24
Guest:Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan Listen
Lenders and Debtors in Imperial Russia from 2019-02-16T21:03:39
Guest:Sergei Antonov on Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age ...
ListenConspiracy Theories in Russia from 2019-02-08T16:06:46
Guest:Ilya Yablokov on Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet...
ListenThe Politics of Russian Futurism from 2019-02-03T22:03:14
Guest:Iva Glisic onThe Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 190...
ListenPerestroika and Punk Rock from 2019-01-20T16:04:47
Guest: Vladimir Kozlovon punk rock, perestroika, his stories and films.
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Youth Movements in Eastern Europe from 2019-01-11T20:03:23
Guest: Olena Nikolayenkoon Listen
American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes from 2018-12-14T21:02:05
Guest:Alexey Kovalevon American and Russian journalism.
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Eurasianet on Eurasia from 2018-12-07T15:55:02
Guests:Eurasianet's Peter Leonardand Josh Kuce...
ListenRed Children’s Republics from 2018-11-19T15:36:44
Guest: Diana Georgescu on “Red Children’s Republics: Socialist Internationalism and Transnational Youth Exchange...
ListenSmoking Under the Tsars from 2018-11-12T16:16:06
Guest:
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Soviet and American Children in the Cold War from 2018-11-05T10:29:26
Guest:Margaret Peacock on Soviet and American Children in the Cold War.
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The Map Men of East Central Europe from 2018-10-29T18:38:28
Guest: Steven Seegel on Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Makin...
ListenCommunist Neverland at the Russian International Children’s Home from 2018-10-23T02:48:35
Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on “Communist Neverland: New Research on a Russian International Children's Home, 1933-1991.”
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Decolonization and Development in Soviet Tajikistan from 2018-10-13T22:10:46
Guest:Artemy Kalinovsky on The Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonizat...
ListenCommunism, Youth and Generation from 2018-10-07T02:52:09
Guest:Matthias Neumann on communism, youth, and generation.
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ListenRich Russians from 2018-10-01T03:50:40
Guest:Elisabeth Schimpfossl on Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie<...
ListenKazakh Nomads Under Lenin and Stalin from 2018-09-22T18:11:13
Guest:Alun Thomas on Listen
The Russian Monarchy’s Scenarios of Power from 2018-09-15T03:43:10
Guest:Richard Wortman on the Russian monarchy, symbolism, and ritual.
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Social-Economic Life in the Donbas from 2018-09-07T16:48:36
Guest:Brian Milakovsky on the social and economic situation in the Donbas.
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The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution from 2018-08-31T18:44:55
Guest:Lesley Chamberlain on The Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revol...
ListenSRB on the Dig Podcast from 2018-08-29T15:25:09
Me, your host, onThe Dig Podcast.
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ListenNation, Nationality, and Empire from 2018-08-24T18:16:13
Guest:Ronald Grigor Suny on nationality, nation, and empire in the Soviet Union.
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American-Russian Relations in the 19th Century from 2018-08-19T23:01:06
Guest:Norman Saul of US-Russian relations in the 19th Century
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ListenSoviet Atheism from 2018-08-10T19:19:22
Guest:Victoria Smolkin on Listen
The Russian Mafia from 2018-08-03T19:52:51
Guest:Mark Galeotti on The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafiapublished by Yale University Pre...
ListenPsychotherapy and Neoliberalism in Russia from 2018-07-28T21:13:27
Guest:Tomas Matza on Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russiapublished by Duke...
ListenChinese Romance with the Russian Revolution from 2018-07-20T19:22:42
Guest:Elizabeth McGuire on Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with...
ListenCollectivization and Stalinist Perpetrators from 2018-07-13T20:17:24
Guest:Lynne Viola on the Soviet collectivization of agriculture, resistance, and Stalinist perpetrators.
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The Banya is Everything from 2018-07-06T19:10:44
Guest:Bryon MacWilliams on With Light Steam: A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths...
ListenRussia’s A Terrible Country from 2018-06-29T21:25
Guest:Keith Gessen on America's Russia Hands and his novelA Terrible Countrypubli...
ListenSurveillance Valley from 2018-06-18T19:40:34
Guest:Yasha Levine on Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of...
ListenRussian Literature and Terrorism from 2018-06-09T19:42:15
Guest:Lynn Patykon Written in Blood: Revolution...
ListenRussia, Israel, Iran and Syria from 2018-06-01T18:48:15
Guest: Maxim Suchkov, editor ofAl-Monitor’s Listen
A Memoir of Misadventures in Moscow from 2018-05-18T15:39:53
Guest:Michael Idov on Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin’s Moscowpubl...
ListenEarly Soviet Urban Communes from 2018-04-30T15:09:57
Guest: Andy Willimott on Listen
The Stalin Constitution from 2018-04-16T14:40:37
Guest:Samantha Lomb on Stalin’s Constitut...
ListenThe Mitki Art Collective from 2018-04-09T02:27:27
Guest: Alexandar Mihailovic on The Mitki: The Art of Postmodern Protest in Russiapublished by University of Wiscon...
ListenWilliam C. Bullitt in the USSR from 2018-04-02T04:18:18
Guest: Alexander Etkind on Listen
Russia’s Long Hangover from 2018-03-23T20:48:26
Guest: Shaun Walker on The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past<...
ListenBoris Savinkov and Russian Terrorism from 2018-03-19T19:06:20
Guest:Irina Meier on Boris Savinkov and Russian revolutionary terrorism.
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The Georgian Democratic Republic from 2018-03-09T17:33
Guest:Eric Leeon The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolut...
ListenLocal Identity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Vladimir from 2018-02-27T20:27:59
Guest:Susan Smith-Peter on Imagining Russian Regions: Civil Society and Subnational Identity in Ninete...
ListenThe Stalinist Film Industry from 2018-02-17T04:52:16
Life and Times of Vladimir Dzhunkovsky from 2018-02-09T16:59:41
Guest:Richard Robbins on Overtaken by the Night: One Russian’s Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, an...
ListenSoviet Jokes Under Stalin from 2018-02-03T03:10:38
Guest: Jon Waterlow on Soviet jokes under Stalin.
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ListenOld Age and Claustrophobia in Putin’s Russia from 2018-01-26T20:13:37
Evgenia Kovda on her filmPodrugi(Girlfriends), a tale of old age and claustrophobia in Putin's Rus...
ListenThe Ethics of Soviet Journalism from 2018-01-19T22:35:36
Guest:Natalia Roudakova on Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Ru...
ListenDeaf in the Soviet Union from 2018-01-11T20:03:25
The Russian Revolution as Utopian Leap in the Open Air of History from 2017-12-24T20:12:22
Mark Steinberg on the symbolism of angels, wings, and flight in the Russian Revolution.
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The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev from 2017-12-06T19:08:37
Guest:William Taubman on Gorbachev: His Life and Times.
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The Epic of the House of Government from 2017-11-29T18:38:45
Guest:Yuri Slezkine onThe House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution.
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ListenAssessing the Russian Military from 2017-11-19T18:21:37
Guest:Michael Kofman on the Russian military.
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ListenDaughter of the Cold War from 2017-11-08T17:20:08
Guest:Grace Kennan Warnecke on growing up in George F. Kennan's shadow.
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ListenAmerican History Through Russian Eyes from 2017-10-30T20:22:47
Guest:Ivan Kurilla on American studies in Russia.
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ListenYoung Communists Under Stalin from 2017-10-21T20:39:54
Guest:Seth Bernstein onRaised Under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism. Listen
Russian LGBTQ and New Left Activism from 2017-10-16T13:44:30
Guest: Jessica Mason on LGBTQ activism and the New Left in Russia.
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ListenRussian and American Internal Colonization from 2017-10-07T16:14:39
Guest:Steve Sabol on “The Touch of Civilization” Comparing American and Rus...
ListenAntisemitism and the Russian Revolution from 2017-09-29T20:54:14
Guest: Brendan McGeever on the Bolsheviks and antisemitism.
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ListenThe Politics of Russia’s Apartment Demolition from 2017-09-24T15:37:15
Guest:Maxim Trudolubov on Moscow's apartment demolition plans.
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Feminists in the Maidan from 2017-09-17T01:56:36
Guest: Emily Channell-Justice on feminist activism and the Maidan.
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ListenThe Early Modern Russian Empire from 2017-09-08T22:08:31
Guest:Nancy Kollmann on The Russian Empire, 1450-1801. Listen
Women, Resistance, and Revolution from 2017-09-01T20:14:50
Guest: Sheila Rowbotham on a lifetime of socialist feminist activism. [spp-player]
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Retrospective on Stalinism from 2017-08-07T18:23:28
Guest:Sheila Fitzpatrick on Stalinism.
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ListenSRB on This is Hell! from 2017-08-03T15:35:20
A This is Hell! interview with your humble host.
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Stalin’s Last Days from 2017-07-31T17:46:38
Guest:Joshua Rubenstein on The Last Days of Stalin.
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Russia and Its Near Abroad from 2017-07-24T13:41:58
Guest:Gerard Toal on Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest Over Ukraine and...
ListenProtest in Putin’s Russia from 2017-07-14T19:44:23
Guest: Mischa Gabowitsch on Protest in Putin’s Russia.
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International Communism and the Spanish Civil War from 2017-07-07T17:34:32
Guest: Lisa Kirschenbaum on International C...
ListenRussian Peasants in Revolution from 2017-06-30T20:07:25
Guest:Aaron Retish on peasants in the Russian Revolution.
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ListenThe Crimean Nexus from 2017-06-21T18:36:45
Guest: Constantine Pleshakov on The Crimean Nexus: Putin’s War and the Clash of Civilizations.<...
ListenEarly Soviet Rule in Tajikistan from 2017-06-08T13:43:57
Guest:Botakoz Kassymbekova on Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan.
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ListenThe Force of Custom in Kyrgyzstan from 2017-05-31T21:44:07
Guest:Judith Beyer on The Force of Custom: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan.<...
ListenPatronalism in Eurasia from 2017-05-25T14:03:42
Guest:Henry Hale on Listen
A Life with the Russian Revolution from 2017-05-17T15:40:44
Guest: Alexander Rabinowitch on the Bolsheviks coming to power.
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Searching for Postcommunist Sincerity from 2017-05-10T17:18:16
Guest:Ellen Rutten on Sincerity after Communism: A Cultural History.
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Reviving Holy Rus from 2017-05-03T16:56:47
Guest:John Burgess on Holy Rus’: The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia.
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The Tsarist Exile System from 2017-04-27T19:32:39
Guest:Daniel Beer on The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under...
ListenRussophobia in America: A Genealogy from 2017-04-24T19:39:30
My talk at the Kennan on the history of russophobia.
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ListenGeorgian Diaspora and the Soviet Empire from 2017-04-19T15:07:33
Guest:Erik Scott on Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolu...
ListenThe Russian Propaganda Machine from 2017-04-12T20:50:26
Guest: Alexey Kovalev on Russian propaganda.
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ListenExperiencing the Russian Revolution from 2017-04-03T17:53:58
Guest:Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution.
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ListenThe Invisibility of Chernobyl in Belarus from 2017-03-27T19:34:48
Guest:Olga Kuchinskaya onThe Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after C...
ListenLenin and the Bolsheviks from 2017-03-20T16:10:15
Guest:Lars Lih on Lenin.
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Perestroika and the Chinese Model from 2017-03-07T14:41:03
Guest:Chris Miller on The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbach...
ListenSearching for Orpheus at the Twilight of the Russian Empire from 2017-02-28T04:34:54
Guest: Rebecca Mitchell on Nietzsche’s Orphans: Music, Metaphysics and the T...
ListenPreserving Leningrad During WWII from 2017-02-20T22:05:14
Guest:Steve Maddox on Saving Stalin’s Imperial City: Historic Preservation in Leningrad, 1930–19...
ListenWading Through RuNet from 2017-02-06T22:02
Guest:Kevin Rothrock on the politics and pleasures of RuNet.
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ListenWorking Class Life in Anytown Russia from 2017-01-30T21:03:50
Guest:Jeremy Morris on Everyday Postsocialism: Working-class Communities in the Russian Margins.
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Stalin’s Purge of the Red Army from 2017-01-23T16:23:09
Guest:Peter Whitewood on The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Soviet Military. Listen
Russia’s Mass Protests Five Years On from 2017-01-17T03:03:11
Guest:Marc Bennetts on I’m Going to Ruin Their Lives: Inside Putin’s War on Russia’s Opposi...
ListenThe Art of the Bribe Under Stalin from 2017-01-09T18:27:37
Guest: James Heinzen on The Art of the Bribe: Corruption under Stalin, 1943-1953.
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The Perils of Donbas Fatigue from 2016-12-19T19:43:17
Guest: Brian Milakovsky on the life in the Donbas.
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ListenAdventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine from 2016-12-12T20:27:13
Guest: Sophie Pinkham on Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine.
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Russian Labor, Class, and Conflict from 2016-11-21T16:48:46
Guest:Steven Crowley on the Russian labor movement.
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Stalin, Clans and Terror from 2016-11-14T19:53:37
Guest: Arch Getty on Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition.
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ListenCorruption in Kyrgyzstan from 2016-11-07T20:18:03
Guest:Johan Engvall onThe State as Investment Market: Kyrgyzstan in Comparative Perspective.
... ListenThe Soviet Era of Television from 2016-11-02T15:08:01
Guest:Christine EvansonBetween Truth a...
ListenThe State of Russia from 2016-10-24T21:58:21
Guest: Masha Lipman on the current state of Russian politics.
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ListenReforging Roma into New Soviet Gypsies from 2016-10-17T20:19:04
Guest:Brigid O'Keeffe on New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood...
ListenSiberian Merchants in Early Modern Russia from 2016-10-11T01:20:12
Guest:Erika Monahan on The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Russia.
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Russia Through German Eyes from 2016-05-26T21:00:53
Guest:James Casteel on Russia in the German Global Imaginary: Imperial Visions and Utopian Desires, 1905-...
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Love, Sex, and Porn in Russia from 2016-05-11T18:21:08
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Lukoil, Power, and Culture in Perm from 2016-03-21T20:00:02
Guest:Doug Rogers on The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture After Socialism.
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The Economics of Putinism from 2016-02-22T21:51:59
Guest:Peter Rutland on oil in Russia's economy.
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Guest:Joshua Yaffa on Ramzan Kadyrov.
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Treating War Trauma in Ukraine from 2016-01-23T15:45:58
Guest:Roman Torgovitsky on treating Ukrainian war veterans.
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ListenThe Mysterious Poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Murza from 2016-01-17T15:33:35
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Western Journalism and the Ukraine Crisis from 2016-01-08T23:03:17
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ListenNeoliberalism in Russia from 2015-12-03T22:00:11
Guest:Ilya Matveev on neoliberalism in Russia.
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ListenInterrogating the Power Vertical from 2015-11-12T20:46:02
Guest:Brian Whitmore on Putin's power vertical.
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ListenRussia, Syria, and the Jihadist Threat from 2015-10-18T20:08:41
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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ListenRussian Culture Under Putin and Ukraine’s Historical Memory Laws from 2015-04-23T19:57:31
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Islam Karimov’s Uzbekistan from 2015-04-03T17:42:36
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ListenKotkin and Zizek Discuss Stalin from 2015-04-01T13:29:01
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 bu...
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Nemtsov Murder Reverberations and Early 1930s Armenia from 2015-03-19T19:27:02
Guests:Pavel Baev on the fallout of the Nemtsov murder; Pietro Shakarian on Armenia.
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Annexation of Crimea and the Destruction of the Russian Empire from 2015-03-13T12:12:13
Guests:Karl Qualls on the history of Crimea; Josh Sanborn on the destruction of the Russian empire.
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The Murder of Boris Nemtsov from 2015-03-04T21:01:59
Guest:Mark Galeotti on the murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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ListenUkrainian-Russian Relations in Historical Perspective and Putin as Improviser from 2015-02-27T20:20:15
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Forget about"civil society"destroying Communism in Eastern Europe, says Stephen Kotkin in this interview about his new book,Listen
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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 t...
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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...
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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 Vuit...
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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 memo...
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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 th...
ListenBeatlemania Soviet Style from 2009-02-14T18:19:05
[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 Unio...
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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...
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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 c...
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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 lin...
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