Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine

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.

February 19, 2021

Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin.

February 12, 2021

Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press.

February 5, 2021

Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.

January 29, 2021

Guest: Eric Lee on Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945 published by Greenhill Books.

January 21, 2021

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.

January 21, 2021

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Turkish instructor Iknur Lider.

January 15, 2021

Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

January 8, 2021

Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.

January 4, 2021

I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here’s what some of the protesters told me.

December 18, 2020

Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions.

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