Nuclear Bombs and Bomb Shelters
Guest: Edward Geist on Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945-1991 published by University of North Carolina Press.
January 17, 2020
Menu
Russia in Global Affairs
Guest: Fyodor Lukyanov on Russia in the Middle East: Viewpoints, Policies, Strategies published by East View.
January 7, 2020
Ivan the Terrible
Guest: Charles Halperin on Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish published by University of Pittsburgh Press.
December 30, 2019
The Stuff of Red Army Soldiers
Guest: Brandon Schechter on The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects published by Cornell University Press.
December 18, 2019
Russia, China and Inbetween
Guest: Ed Pulford on Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between published by Hurst.
December 7, 2019
1917 Centennial Series
Rasputin, the Man and the Myth (Rebroadcast)
Guest: Doug Smith on Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs.
July 27, 2019
The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution
Guest: Lesley Chamberlain on The Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution published by Reaktion Books.
August 31, 2018
The Georgian Democratic Republic
Guest: Eric Lee on The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution, 1918-1921 published by Zed Books.
[spp-player]
March 9, 2018
The Russian Revolution as Utopian Leap in the Open Air of History
Mark Steinberg on the symbolism of angels, wings, and flight in the Russian Revolution.
[spp-player]
December 24, 2017
The Epic of the House of Government
Guest: Yuri Slezkine on The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution.
[spp-player]
November 29, 2017
Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
Guest: Brendan McGeever on the Bolsheviks and antisemitism.
September 29, 2017
Women, Resistance, and Revolution
Guest: Sheila Rowbotham on a lifetime of socialist feminist activism. [spp-player]
September 1, 2017
Russian Peasants in Revolution
Guest: Aaron Retish on peasants in the Russian Revolution.
June 30, 2017
A Life with the Russian Revolution
Guest: Alexander Rabinowitch on the Bolsheviks coming to power.
[spp-player]
May 17, 2017
Experiencing the Russian Revolution
Guest: Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution.
April 3, 2017