Gogol’s Town of N

Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press.

Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe

April 9, 2021

Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.

Navalny and Next

March 27, 2021

Guests: Ilya Budraitskis, Svetlana Erpyleva, and Greg Yudin on Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition, and the prospects of political pluralism in Russian society.

Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR

March 19, 2021

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.

Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia

March 13, 2021

Guests: Tracy McDonald and Marianna Szczygielska on zoos, non-humans, and Animal Studies in Eastern Europe and Russia

Welcome to Chechnya

March 5, 2021

Guest: David France on his film Welcome To Chechnya.

Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine

February 26, 2021

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.