Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press.
Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War.
Guests: Konstantin Fokin and Angelina Davydova on environmental activism in Russia.
Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press.
Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.
A colleague sent me this cartoon from the 1 September issue of the New Yorker. It’s quite an appropriate addendum to “Loving Cold War II.”
