Recent Posts

Guest: Anya Bernstein on The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia published by Princeton University Press.

March 27, 2020

Guest: Martha Lampland on the commodification of labor in Socialist Hungary.

March 20, 2020

Friends of the show Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev on the latest news from Russia.

March 13, 2020

Guest: Johanna Bockman on neoliberalism, socialist globalization, and the Non-Aligned Movement.

March 6, 2020

Bella Grigoryan on Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762-1861 published by Northern Illinois University Press.

February 28, 2020

Putin’s Middle East Maneuver

Guest:

Talal Nezameddin, Dean of Student Affairs at the American University in Beirut and author of Russia and the Middle East: Towards a New Foreign Policy and most recently of Putin’s New Order in the Middle East.