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Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia

Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press.

May 7, 2021

Blind Activism in the Cold War

Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War.

April 30, 2021

Environmental Activism in Russia

Guests: Konstantin Fokin and Angelina Davydova on environmental activism in Russia.

April 23, 2021

Gogol’s Town of N

Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press.

April 16, 2021

Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe

Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.

April 9, 2021

“Understandably, there are grey areas in war”

I think this video of a 12 year old girl and her aunt that were caught in Tskhinvali says it all. Apparently there are “grey areas in war” when your subjects to don’t play their perscribed roles.