The Black Russian
Guest: Vladimir Alexandrov on The Black Russian published by Grove Press.
July 10, 2020
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Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music
Guest: Leah Goldman on censorship and collaboration in the production of Late Stalinist classical music.
July 3, 2020
Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union
Guest: Elissa Bemporad on Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets published by Oxford University Press.
June 26, 2020
Plots Against Russia
Guest: Eliot Borenstein on Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism published by Cornell University Press.
June 19, 2020
The Baltics In-Between
Guest: Aliide Naylor on The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front published by Bloomsbury.
June 15, 2020
Foreign Policy
February 19, 2020
Russia in Global Affairs
Guest: Fyodor Lukyanov on Russia in the Middle East: Viewpoints, Policies, Strategies published by East View.
January 7, 2020
Soviet Anti-Americanism
Guest: Rósa Magnúsdóttir on Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 published by Oxford University Press.
June 14, 2019
Surveillance Valley
Guest: Yasha Levine on Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet published by Public Affairs Books.
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June 18, 2018
Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria
Guest: Maxim Suchkov, editor of Al-Monitor’s Russia-Mideast coverage, on Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria.
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June 1, 2018
Comment on Keith Gessen’s The Quiet Americans
My thoughts on Keith Gessen’s “The Quiet Americans Behind the U.S.-Russia Imbroglio” as an opening salvo in the need to deconstruct the discourses of the “Russia Hand.”
May 17, 2018
William C. Bullitt in the USSR
Guest: Alexander Etkind on Roads not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt published by Pittsburgh University Press.
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April 2, 2018
The Theater of Diplomacy
I wrote a review of Alexander Etkind’s Roads Not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt and Michael McFaul’s From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia for Bookforum. Unfortunately, the review is behind the dreaded paywall. So here’s the pdf.
March 29, 2018
November 19, 2017
Russia and Its Near Abroad
Guest: Gerard Toal on Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus.
July 24, 2017