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.
Guests:
Ilya Budraitskis teaches political theory at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, or Shaninka. He’s the author of Мир, который построил Хантингтон и в котором живём все мы.
Ilya Matveev is a professor of political Science at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, or RANEPA, in St. Petersburg.
Together they co-host the podcast Politicheskii dnevnik.
Music:
REM, “It’s the End of the World as We Know It,” Document, 1987.
