Everything Was Forever Until
Guest: Alexei Yurchak on perestroika, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the experiences of the last Soviet generation.
Guest: Alexei Yurchak on perestroika, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the experiences of the last Soviet generation.
Coming May 30!
Teddy Goes to the USSR, a new six-part podcast series follows one such American, Teddy Roe, to shine light on Soviet tourism, police surveillance, consumerism, race, and everyday life through his extraordinary three-month trip to the Soviet Union in 1968.
Guest: Jeffrey Hass on The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944 published by Oxford University Press.
Coming May 30! Teddy Goes to the USSR, a new six-part podcast series follows one such American, Teddy Roe, to shine light on Soviet tourism, police surveillance, consumerism, race, and everyday life through his extraordinary three-month trip to the Soviet Union in 1968.
Guest: Vladislav Zubok on Collapse: The End of the Soviet Union published by Yale University Press.
Guest: Nanci Adler on Memorial, Stalinist repression, and Russia’s incomplete transitional justice.
Guest: Isaac Scarborough on perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet system in Tajikistan.
Guest: Brigid O’Keeffe on Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia published by Bloomsbury.
Guest: Mie Nakachi on Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Oxford University Press.
Guest: Courtney Doucette on letter writing, Nina Andreeva, and perestroika “from below.”
Guest: Geoffrey Roberts on Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books published by Yale University Press.