Recent Posts

Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music

Guest: Leah Goldman on censorship and collaboration in the production of Late Stalinist classical music.

July 3, 2020

Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union

Guest: Elissa Bemporad on Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets published by Oxford University Press.

June 26, 2020

Plots Against Russia

Guest: Eliot Borenstein on Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism published by Cornell University Press.

June 19, 2020

The Baltics In-Between

Guest: Aliide Naylor on The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front published by Bloomsbury.

June 15, 2020

Rebroadcast: Black Sojourners to the Soviet Union

Guest: Joy Gleason Carew on Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise.

June 5, 2020

Hiatus

I’m going out of town for a few days. Posts will resume on Tuesday. A message to my merry cohort of frequent commentators: Play amongst yourselves. Just try to play nice.