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Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press.

May 7, 2021

Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War.

April 30, 2021

Guests: Konstantin Fokin and Angelina Davydova on environmental activism in Russia.

April 23, 2021

Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press.

April 16, 2021

Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.

April 9, 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.