Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China
Guest: Aminda Smith on Maoism, consciousness, and the everyday.
The Podcast theme song is by Petr Leshchenko, 1898-1954, the avowed “King of Russian Tango.”
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Previous Episodes
Soviet WWII Songs
May 22, 2020
Guest: Suzanne Ament on Sing to Victory! Song in Soviet Society during World War II published by Academic Studies Press.
Hearing Communism: Part Two
May 21, 2020
Part two of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of Pittsburgh.
Hearing Communism: Part One
May 19, 2020
Part one of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of Pittsburgh.
China’s New Red Guards
May 8, 2020
Jude Blanchette on China’s New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong published by Oxford University Press.
Ideologies of Race in Russia
May 1, 2020
Guest: David Rainbow on Ideologies of Race: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Underground Entrepreneurs in the Soviet Union
April 26, 2020
Guest: James Heinzen on “underground entrepreneurs” and black markets in the Soviet 1950s to the 1980s.
Russian Conservatism
April 17, 2020
Guest: Paul Robinson on Russian Conservatism published by Northern Illinois University Press.
Cholera in Russia
April 10, 2020
John Davis on Russia in the Time of Cholera: Disease under Romanovs and Soviets published by Bloomsbury.
Postcolonial Socialisms in Africa
April 3, 2020
Guest: Priya Lal on African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World published by Cambridge University Press.
