Guest: Anya Bernstein on The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia published by Princeton University Press.
Guest: Martha Lampland on the commodification of labor in Socialist Hungary.
Friends of the show Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev on the latest news from Russia.
Guest: Johanna Bockman on neoliberalism, socialist globalization, and the Non-Aligned Movement.
Bella Grigoryan on Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762-1861 published by Northern Illinois University Press.
Guest:
Mark Schrad is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Villanova University. He’s the author of Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State, which was just released in paperback.
Music:
Beastie Boys, “Brass Monkey,” Licensed to Ill, 1986.
