The Black Russian
Guest: Vladimir Alexandrov on The Black Russian published by Grove Press.
July 10, 2020
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Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music
Guest: Leah Goldman on censorship and collaboration in the production of Late Stalinist classical music.
July 3, 2020
Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union
Guest: Elissa Bemporad on Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets published by Oxford University Press.
June 26, 2020
Plots Against Russia
Guest: Eliot Borenstein on Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism published by Cornell University Press.
June 19, 2020
The Baltics In-Between
Guest: Aliide Naylor on The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front published by Bloomsbury.
June 15, 2020
US Politics
Russians on Trump (Rebroadcast)
Guest: Laurence Bogoslaw on Russians on Trump: Press Coverage and Commentary published by Eastview.
July 13, 2019
Mapping the American Left
I wrote an article with Rafael Khachaturian on the American Left for the Russian journal Социология власти (Sociology of Power). You can download it here.
January 1, 2019
Russophobia in America: A Genealogy
My talk at the Kennan on the history of russophobia.
April 24, 2017
April 12, 2017
The American Mission to Save Russia
Guest: David Foglesong on the American mission to save Russia.
September 19, 2016
Title VIII and Ambassador McFaul
Carl Schreck, who is so far the only journalist to cover the defunding of Title VIII, has done a service by writing another article on
October 26, 2013
Defunding Title VIII
News that the State Department didn’t allocate funding for Title VIII, which provides funding for research and language programs related to the study of Eastern
October 23, 2013
Boston Conspiracy Theories Unite Americans and Russians
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “Tsarnaev Conspiracy Theory Simulacrum“: The bombings in Boston carried out by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev brought the United States and
April 25, 2013
The Tsarnaevs’ Traumatic Narratives
I don’t have much to add about the biographies of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. I certainly won’t presume the cause or intent of their bombings
April 21, 2013