“The Reddest of the Blacks”
For the past several months, I’ve been researching the life of Lovett Fort-Whiteman. Here’s a short film I made about his eventual arrest and death in Stalinist Russia.
May 21, 2019
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Russia Without Putin
Guest: Tony Wood on Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War published by Verso.
May 17, 2019
Transcript: Russia Without Putin
Partial transcript of my interview with Tony Wood about his excellent new book, Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War published by Verso.
May 16, 2019
Local Perpetrators and the Holocaust in Ukraine
Guest: Jared McBride on the Holocaust, Soviet Secret Police Archives and Local Perpetrators in Western Ukraine.
May 8, 2019
Soviet Secret Police, Collaborator Trials, and the Holocaust
Partial transcript of the event “Shaping National Memory: Ukrainian Secret Police Archives and WWII” at the University of Pittsburgh featuring Jared McBride.
May 7, 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