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Guests: Valerie Kivelson and Christine Worobec on witches, magic, spells in their new sourcebook Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 published by Cornell University Press.

February 26, 2021

Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin.

February 19, 2021

Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press.

February 12, 2021

Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.

February 5, 2021

Guest: Eric Lee on Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945 published by Greenhill Books.

January 29, 2021

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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.