Baku Oil and the Soviet State

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.