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Grand Duke Alexis Visits America

Guest: Lee Farrow on Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871-72 published by Louisiana State University Press.

November 20, 2020

Black Radicalism and the USSR

Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.

November 13, 2020

American Tourism to the USSR

Guest: Andrew Jacobs on American tourism to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

November 9, 2020

Pogroms and Race Riots

Guests: Steven Zipperstein and Michael Pfeifer on anti-Jewish and anti-Black violence in Russia and the United States.

October 30, 2020

From Aliaska to Alaska

Guests: Bathsheba Demuth and Ilya Vinkoveysky on Russian and American colonialism and the environment in Alaska.

October 23, 2020

Gazprom-Ukraine

December 30, 2005
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Konstantin over at Russian Blog has taken exception to my thoughts on the Gazprom-Ukraine dispute and has provided some interesting counterpoints. I urge readers to check it out.