Recent Posts

Russia, China and Inbetween

Guest: Ed Pulford on Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between published by Hurst.

December 7, 2019

The Collective Farm

Guests: Aaron Hale-Dorrell, Kristy Ironside, and Samantha Lomb on the collective farm system in the USSR.

November 17, 2019

Atoms and Aliens in Eurasian Science Fiction

Guest: Anindita Banerjee on the nuclear in Soviet and Post-Soviet Science Fiction.

November 9, 2019

Russians Under Nazi Occupation

Guest: Johannes Due Enstad on Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II published by Cambridge University Press.

November 3, 2019

The Radioactive Mutants of Semipalatinsk

Magdalena Stawkowski on the rural Kazakh communities in the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.

October 27, 2019

More on Nashi’s Brigades

Rubashov from Darkness at Noon has been hibernating for the past month or so after returning from research. He has returned with an great post titled “The Sound of Marching Boots . . .” about DMD and Nashi and their role in the upcoming Duma elections. He also links the informative Moscow Times article on the subject. I strongly urge readers to check out Rubashov’s discussion.