Recent Posts

Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

January 15, 2021

Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.

January 8, 2021

I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here’s what some of the protesters told me.

January 4, 2021

Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions.

December 18, 2020

Guest: Alison Rowley on Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

December 11, 2020

The Soviet Lives of Western Culture

Guest:

Eleonor Gilburd is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Her new book is To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture published by Harvard University Press.

Music:

Dean Reed, “La Bamba.”