The Wired Cold War
Guests: Ekaterina Babintseva and Slava Gerovitch on cybernetics in the United States and Soviet Union.
December 4, 2020
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Grand Duke Alexis Visits America
Guest: Lee Farrow on Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871-72 published by Louisiana State University Press.
November 20, 2020
Black Radicalism and the USSR
Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.
November 13, 2020
American Tourism to the USSR
Guest: Andrew Jacobs on American tourism to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
November 9, 2020
Pogroms and Race Riots
Guests: Steven Zipperstein and Michael Pfeifer on anti-Jewish and anti-Black violence in Russia and the United States.
October 30, 2020
Culture
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
The Force of Custom in Kyrgyzstan
Guest: Judith Beyer on The Force of Custom: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan.
May 31, 2017
Searching for Postcommunist Sincerity
Guest: Ellen Rutten on Sincerity after Communism: A Cultural History.
May 10, 2017
Reviving Holy Rus
Guest: John Burgess on Holy Rus’: The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia.
May 3, 2017
Russophobia in America: A Genealogy
My talk at the Kennan on the history of russophobia.
April 24, 2017
Searching for Orpheus at the Twilight of the Russian Empire
Guest: Rebecca Mitchell on Nietzsche’s Orphans: Music, Metaphysics and the Twilight of the Russian Empire.
February 27, 2017