Guest: Ed Pulford on Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between published by Hurst.
Guests: Aaron Hale-Dorrell, Kristy Ironside, and Samantha Lomb on the collective farm system in the USSR.
Guest: Anindita Banerjee on the nuclear in Soviet and Post-Soviet Science Fiction.
Guest: Johannes Due Enstad on Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II published by Cambridge University Press.
Magdalena Stawkowski on the rural Kazakh communities in the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.
Guest:
Balazs Jarabik is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research focuses on Ukraine and Eastern Europe. His most recent article is “Reform and Resistance: Ukraine’s Selective State.”
Music:
Michael Jackson, “Billie Jean,” Thriller, 1982.
