The Weak Strongman
Guest: Timothy Frye on Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia published by Princeton University Press.
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Weddings and Power in Early Modern Russia
July 23, 2021
Russell Martin on The Tsar’s Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia’s Rulers, 1495–1745 published by Cornell University Press.
Wine and Cheese: Komsomol Etiquette and Emily Post
July 16, 2021
SRB interns Amelia Parlier and Felix Helbing dive into the weird world of advice columns. Two unlikely parings on the block—Komsomol decorum and the diva of dish, Emily Post. It’s wine and cheese!
Rebroadcast: Smoking Under the Tsars
July 12, 2021
Guest: Tricia Starks on Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press.
Money and Prosperity in the USSR
July 2, 2021
Guest: Kristy Ironside on A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Harvard University Press.
Cold War Correspondents
June 25, 2021
Dina Fainberg on Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines published by John Hopkins University Press.
Tolyatti’s Avtograd District
June 18, 2021
Guest: Guido Sechi on Tolyatti: Exploring Post-Soviet Spaces, co-authored with Michele Cera is published by the Velvet Cell and VAC Foundation.
Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties
June 13, 2021
Guest: Marko Dumančić on Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties published by the University of Toronto Press.
The US-Russia-China Triangle
May 28, 2021
Guest: Thomas Graham on the new “Cold War,” the United States, Russia, and China.
Gulag Criminal Subculture
May 14, 2021
Guest: Mark Vincent on Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps published by Bloomsbury.
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US-Russia Relations
Socialism: Past, Present, and Future
Nuclear Fallout: Science and Society in Eurasia
Spying, Archiving, Reporting: Information in Eastern Europe
“We Shall Refashion Life on Earth!” Youth in Eurasia
Central Asia
Russian Revolution
Stalinism