Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties
Guest: Marko Dumančić on Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties published by the University of Toronto Press.
June 13, 2021
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The US-Russia Rivalry
Guest: Andrei Tsygankov on the ongoing US-Russia rivalry.
June 4, 2021
The US-Russia-China Triangle
Guest: Thomas Graham on the new “Cold War,” the United States, Russia, and China.
May 28, 2021
Gulag Criminal Subculture
Guest: Mark Vincent on Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps published by Bloomsbury.
May 14, 2021
Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia
Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press.
May 7, 2021
1990s
Russia Without Putin
Guest: Tony Wood on Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War published by Verso.
May 17, 2019
Transcript: Russia Without Putin
Partial transcript of my interview with Tony Wood about his excellent new book, Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War published by Verso.
May 16, 2019
Conspiracy Theories in Russia
Guest: Ilya Yablokov on Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World published by Polity.
February 8, 2019
Rich Russians
Guest: Elisabeth Schimpfossl on Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie published by Oxford University Press.
September 30, 2018
August 29, 2018
The Russian Mafia
Guest: Mark Galeotti on The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia published by Yale University Press.
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August 3, 2018
Psychotherapy and Neoliberalism in Russia
Guest: Tomas Matza on Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia published by Duke University Press.
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July 28, 2018
The Ethics of Soviet Journalism
Guest: Natalia Roudakova on Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia published by Cambridge University Press.
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January 19, 2018
The Materiality of Russian Oil
I review Doug Rogers’ deconstruction of oil—not to uncover its relations of production—to trace the dispersion of its value in shaping the post-Soviet province of Perm.
December 24, 2017
Working Class Life in Anytown Russia
Guest: Jeremy Morris on Everyday Postsocialism: Working-class Communities in the Russian Margins.
January 30, 2017