Guest: Fyodor Lukyanov on Russia in the Middle East: Viewpoints, Policies, Strategies published by East View.
Guest: Charles Halperin on Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish published by University of Pittsburgh Press.
Guest: Brandon Schechter on The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects published by Cornell University Press.
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.
I’ve was recently hired as Pajamas Media’s Russia correspondent. My first article, “Fall ‘Cleaning’ in Russia” can be found there.
