The Black Russian
Guest: Vladimir Alexandrov on The Black Russian published by Grove Press.
The Podcast theme song is by Petr Leshchenko, 1898-1954, the avowed “King of Russian Tango.”
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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
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Previous Episodes
Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music
July 3, 2020
Guest: Leah Goldman on censorship and collaboration in the production of Late Stalinist classical music.
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.
