Soviet Military Masculinity
Guest: Erica Fraser on Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union published by the University of Toronto Press.
August 23, 2020
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REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Olga Klimova.
August 21, 2020
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Katie Manukyan.
August 21, 2020
Stories Along the Trans-Siberian
Guests: Marina Dmukhovskaya and Georg Wallner about their podcast project Mesto47.
August 16, 2020
Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution
Guest: Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution.
August 8, 2020
Culture
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
Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Guest: Sophie Pinkham on Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine.
December 12, 2016