Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe
Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.
April 9, 2021
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Navalny and Next
Guests: Ilya Budraitskis, Svetlana Erpyleva, and Greg Yudin on Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition, and the prospects of political pluralism in Russian society.
March 27, 2021
Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR
Guest: Karl Qualls on Stalinās NiƱos: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51 published by the University of Toronto Press.
March 19, 2021
Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia
Guests: Tracy McDonald and Marianna Szczygielska on zoos, non-humans, and Animal Studies in Eastern Europe and Russia
March 13, 2021
Welcome to Chechnya
Guest: David France on his film Welcome To Chechnya.
March 5, 2021
Culture
Putin Kitsch in America
Guest: Alison Rowley onĀ Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
December 11, 2020
Russia’s Wily Man
Joshua Yaffa on Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia published by Penguin Random House.
July 24, 2020
Soviet WWII Songs
Guest: Suzanne Ament on Sing to Victory! Song in Soviet Society during World War II published by Academic Studies Press.
May 22, 2020
Atoms and Aliens in Eurasian Science Fiction
Guest: Anindita Banerjee on the nuclear in Soviet and Post-Soviet Science Fiction.
November 9, 2019
The Soviet Lives of Western Culture
Guest: Eleonor Gilburd onĀ To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture published by Harvard University Press.
September 23, 2019
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:Ā Vladimir Kozlov on punk rock, perestroika, his stories and films.Ā Ā
January 20, 2019
Smoking Under the Tsars
Guest: Tricia Starks onĀ 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 onĀ Soviet and American Children in the Cold War.
November 5, 2018