Stalinism, Memorial, and Perestroika
Guest: Nanci Adler on Memorial, Stalinist repression, and Russia’s incomplete transitional justice.
Guest: Nanci Adler on Memorial, Stalinist repression, and Russia’s incomplete transitional justice.
Two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “The Great Russian Trash Crisis” by Seth Farkas and “An Empty Pedestal: Ukraine after Leninopad” by Sabrina Beaver.
Guest: Elissa Bemporad on Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets​ published by Oxford University Press.
Guest: Lana Parshina on The Death of Hitler: The Final Word published by Da Capo Press.
Partial transcript of the event “Shaping National Memory: Ukrainian Secret Police Archives and WWII” at the University of Pittsburgh featuring Jared McBride.
Guest: Shaun Walker on The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past published by Oxford University Press.
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Guest: Judith Beyer on The Force of Custom: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan.
Guest: Ellen Rutten on Sincerity after Communism: A Cultural History.
Guest: Jeremy Morris on Everyday Postsocialism: Working-class Communities in the Russian Margins.