Guest: Marko Dumančić on Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties published by the University of Toronto Press.
Guest: Andrei Tsygankov on the ongoing US-Russia rivalry.
Guest: Thomas Graham on the new “Cold War,” the United States, Russia, and China.
Guest: Mark Vincent on Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps published by Bloomsbury.
Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press.
Guest: Anna Krakus on the stories Polish police files tell us.
Guest: Paul Hanebrink on A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism published by Harvard University Press.
Partial transcript of my interview with Tony Wood about his excellent new book, Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War published by Verso.
Partial transcript of the event “Shaping National Memory: Ukrainian Secret Police Archives and WWII” at the University of Pittsburgh featuring Jared McBride.
Partial transcript of the event “Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia” at the University of Pittsburgh featuring Mark Galeotti, Kevin Rothrock, and Maxim Trudolyubov.
Partial transcript of an interview with Lara Douds on the formation, functioning, and decline of the Lenin’s Council of People’s Commissars, or Sovnarkom.
Partial transcript of an interview with Natalia Telepneva on Soviet and Czechoslovak intelligence in African national liberation movements.
Partial transcript of my interview with Katherine Reischl on the intersection of photography and Russian literature.
Partial transcript with my interview with Paula Michaels on the Soviet origins of Lamaze.
Partial transcript of my interview with Marlene Laruelle on Russian nationalism.