The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus
Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.
I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here’s what some of the protesters told me.
Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions.
Guest: Alison Rowley on Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Guest: Alison Rowley on Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Joshua Yaffa on Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia published by Penguin Random House.
Guest: Suzanne Ament on Sing to Victory! Song in Soviet Society during World War II published by Academic Studies Press.
Guest: Anindita Banerjee on the nuclear in Soviet and Post-Soviet Science Fiction.
Guest: Eleonor Gilburd on To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture published by Harvard University Press.
Partial transcript of my interview with Katherine Reischl on the intersection of photography and Russian literature.
Partial transcript with my interview with Paula Michaels on the Soviet origins of Lamaze.
Guest: Vladimir Kozlov on punk rock, perestroika, his stories and films.
Guest: Tricia Starks on Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press.
Guest: Margaret Peacock on Soviet and American Children in the Cold War.