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
Culture
Transcript: Photography in the Russian Literary Imagination
Partial transcript of my interview with Katherine Reischl on the intersection of photography and Russian literature.
March 25, 2019
Transcript: The Soviet Origins of Lamaze
Partial transcript with my interview with Paula Michaels on the Soviet origins of Lamaze.
March 18, 2019
Perestroika and Punk Rock
Guest: Vladimir Kozlov on punk rock, perestroika, his stories and films.
January 20, 2019
Smoking Under the Tsars
Guest: Tricia Starks on Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press.
November 12, 2018
Soviet and American Children in the Cold War
Guest: Margaret Peacock on Soviet and American Children in the Cold War.
November 5, 2018
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
Soviet Atheism
Guest: Victoria Smolkin on A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism published by Princeton University Press.
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August 10, 2018
The Banya is Everything
Guest: Bryon MacWilliams on With Light Steam: A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths was published by Northern Illinois University Press.
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July 6, 2018
Russia’s A Terrible Country
Guest: Keith Gessen on America’s Russia Hands and his novel A Terrible Country published by Viking.
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June 29, 2018
Old Age and Claustrophobia in Putin’s Russia
Evgenia Kovda on her film Podrugi (Girlfriends), a tale of old age and claustrophobia in Putin’s Russia.
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January 26, 2018