Citizen Poet

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.

Citizen Poet

April 29, 2024

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.

Baku Oil and the Soviet State

April 22, 2024

Guest: Sara Brinegar on her book The Power and Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus: Periphery Unbound, 1920-29 published by Bloomsbury.

Gleaning for Communism

April 15, 2024

Guest: Xenia Cherkaev on her book Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice published by Cornell University Press.

The Tunguska Mystery

April 8, 2024

Guest: Andy Bruno on his new book Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and its Environmental Legacy published by Cambridge University Press.

Sesame Street in Russia

April 1, 2024

Guest: Natasha Lance Rogoff on making Sesame Street in Russia in the turbulent 1990s.

Soviet Investigation of Nazi War Crimes

March 25, 2024

Guest: Paula Chan on the Extraordinary State Commission and its investigations in the Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Century

March 18, 2024

Guest: Karl Schlogel on the lost world of Soviet civilization.

Black Skies Over Krasnoyarsk

March 11, 2024

Guest: Mariia Koskina on Siberian industrialization, the environment and the black skies over Krasnoyarsk.

Revisiting Nagorno-Karabakh

March 4, 2024

Guests: Tigran Grigoryan (The Regional Center for Democracy and Security) and Kelsey Rice (Berry College) revisiting the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh.