Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic
Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin.
Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin.
Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press.
Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.
Guest: Eric Lee on Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945 published by Greenhill Books.
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.
Guest: Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution.
Guest: Doug Smith on Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs.
Guest: Lesley Chamberlain on The Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution published by Reaktion Books.
Guest: Eric Lee on The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution, 1918-1921 published by Zed Books.
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Mark Steinberg on the symbolism of angels, wings, and flight in the Russian Revolution.
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Guest: Yuri Slezkine on The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution.
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Guest: Brendan McGeever on the Bolsheviks and antisemitism.
Guest:Â Sheila Rowbotham on a lifetime of socialist feminist activism. [spp-player]
Guest: Aaron Retish on peasants in the Russian Revolution.
Guest:Â Alexander Rabinowitch on the Bolsheviks coming to power.
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