Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music
Guest: Leah Goldman on censorship and collaboration in the production of Late Stalinist classical music.
The Podcast theme song is by Petr Leshchenko, 1898-1954, the avowed “King of Russian Tango.”
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Previous Episodes
Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union
June 26, 2020
Guest: Elissa Bemporad on Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets published by Oxford University Press.
Plots Against Russia
June 19, 2020
Guest: Eliot Borenstein on Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism published by Cornell University Press.
The Baltics In-Between
June 15, 2020
Guest: Aliide Naylor on The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front published by Bloomsbury.
Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China
May 29, 2020
Guest: Aminda Smith on Maoism, consciousness, and the everyday.
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.
