Grand Duke Alexis Visits America
Guest: Lee Farrow on Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871-72 published by Louisiana State University Press.
The Podcast theme song is by Petr Leshchenko, 1898-1954, the avowed “King of Russian Tango.”
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Previous Episodes
Black Radicalism and the USSR
November 13, 2020
Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.
American Tourism to the USSR
November 9, 2020
Guest: Andrew Jacobs on American tourism to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Pogroms and Race Riots
October 30, 2020
Guests: Steven Zipperstein and Michael Pfeifer on anti-Jewish and anti-Black violence in Russia and the United States.
From Aliaska to Alaska
October 23, 2020
Guests: Bathsheba Demuth and Ilya Vinkoveysky on Russian and American colonialism and the environment in Alaska.
American Famine Relief to Soviet Russia
October 16, 2020
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.
Russian and American Empire
October 9, 2020
Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire.
Russian Serfdom and American Slavery
September 25, 2020
Guests: Amanda Brickell Bellows and Alessandro Stanziani on Russian serfdom and American slavery.
SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move
September 23, 2020
Presenting Geopolitics on the Move, a podcast series I recorded this summer with Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affairs.
