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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

Putin on CNN

So far it’s just a short clip . Hopefully, CNN will make the whole interview available. But this clip contains what everyone is talking about. Namely, Putin’s suggestion that the Bush Administration provoked this war to help John McCain. I think Putin made a big PR blunder. His words will be sent through the American spin cycle so fast that I’m sure by tomorrow pundits will be calling for blood.

http://www.cnn.com/video/savp/evp/?loc=dom&vid=/video/world/2008/08/28/chance.russian.putin.unplugged.cnn