Guest: Vladimir Alexandrov on The Black Russian published by Grove Press.
Guest: Leah Goldman on censorship and collaboration in the production of Late Stalinist classical music.
Guest: Elissa Bemporad on Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets published by Oxford University Press.
Guest: Eliot Borenstein on Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism published by Cornell University Press.
Guest: Aliide Naylor on The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front published by Bloomsbury.
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.
