Recent Posts

Exposing Chernobyl

Guest: Kate Brown on Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future published by Norton.

February 7, 2020

Women of the Gulag

Guest: Marianna Yarovskaya on her film Women of the Gulag.

January 29, 2020

Nuclear Bombs and Bomb Shelters

Guest: Edward Geist on Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945-1991 published by University of North Carolina Press.

January 17, 2020

Russia in Global Affairs

Guest: Fyodor Lukyanov on Russia in the Middle East: Viewpoints, Policies, Strategies published by East View.

January 7, 2020

Ivan the Terrible

Guest: Charles Halperin on Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish published by University of Pittsburgh Press.

December 30, 2019

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I wish all readers of Sean’s Russia Blog a very happy New Year! I hope all of you keep reading in 2007 and beyond! Let the vodka flow . . .

The postcard, dated sometime in the 1940s, is taken from RIA Novosti’s New Year postcard gallery.

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