Recent Posts

The Black Russian

Guest: Vladimir Alexandrov on The Black Russian published by Grove Press.

July 10, 2020

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

On Political Vindication Radio

I’ll be appearing on Political Vindication Radio at 6:10 pm PST to talk about Putin and the state of Russia. Political Vindication Radio emphatically portends to be “doing the work blue blood Republicans just won’t do.” I’m not sure what that means but having a stanch lefty like myself as a guest should certainly prove to be interesting radio.