Guest: Ed Pulford on Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between published by Hurst.
Guests: Aaron Hale-Dorrell, Kristy Ironside, and Samantha Lomb on the collective farm system in the USSR.
Guest: Anindita Banerjee on the nuclear in Soviet and Post-Soviet Science Fiction.
Guest: Johannes Due Enstad on Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II published by Cambridge University Press.
Magdalena Stawkowski on the rural Kazakh communities in the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.
The Kremlin has finally posted a full English translation of Putin’s February 1 press conference. It has also provided audio and video. The video also contains simultaneous English translation. I hope to have some commentary on it sometime this week. In the meantime, I would like to get people’s impressions in the comments section.
