Investigating Hitler’s Remains
Guest: Lana Parshina on The Death of Hitler: The Final Word published by Da Capo Press.
September 16, 2019
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The Politics of Immigration in Russia
Guest: Caress Schenk on Why Control Immigration? Strategic Uses of Migration Management in Russia published by University of Toronto Press.
September 7, 2019
Central Asian Migrants in the USSR
Guest: Jeff Sahadeo on Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow published by Cornell University Press.
September 2, 2019
Domestic Service in the USSR
Alissa Klots on domestic service and aging in the USSR.
August 24, 2019
A Russian Voyage of Empires
Guest: Edyta Bojanowska on A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada published by Harvard University Press.
August 17, 2019
Academia
Investigating Hitler’s Remains
Guest: Lana Parshina on The Death of Hitler: The Final Word published by Da Capo Press.
September 16, 2019
The Theater of Diplomacy
I wrote a review of Alexander Etkind’s Roads Not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt and Michael McFaul’s From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia for Bookforum. Unfortunately, the review is behind the dreaded paywall. So here’s the pdf.
March 29, 2018
The Russian Revolution as Past Made Present
Mikhail Zygar’s The Empire Must Die provides a narrative timeline for the Russian Revolution as an allegory for Russia’s present.
December 24, 2017
The Materiality of Russian Oil
I review Doug Rogers’ deconstruction of oil—not to uncover its relations of production—to trace the dispersion of its value in shaping the post-Soviet province of Perm.
December 24, 2017
A Life with the Russian Revolution
Guest: Alexander Rabinowitch on the Bolsheviks coming to power.
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May 17, 2017
Stalin, Clans and Terror
Guest: Arch Getty on Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition.
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November 14, 2016
Autocracy, Marriage, and Power in Early Modern Russia
Guest: Russell Martin on the early modern Russian autocracy.
May 18, 2016
Pseudo-Doctorates in the Duma
Several years ago when I was living in Moscow I would often see people in the metro holding signs selling doctoral degrees. I even had
January 14, 2016
Kotkin and Zizek Discuss Stalin
Stephen Kotkin and Slavoj Zizek discussed Kotkin’s Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 at the New York Public Library. Both the audio and video are
April 1, 2015