Remembering Anne Garrels
Rebroadcast of my 2016 interview with the recently departed Anne Garrels, author of Putin’s Country: A Journey into the Real Russia.
September 13, 2022
Memory
Stalinism, Memorial, and Perestroika
Guest: Nanci Adler on Memorial, Stalinist repression, and Russia’s incomplete transitional justice.
April 26, 2022
Trash Protests and Leninopad
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.
August 31, 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
Investigating Hitler’s Remains
Guest: Lana Parshina on The Death of Hitler: The Final Word published by Da Capo Press.
September 16, 2019
Soviet Secret Police, Collaborator Trials, and the Holocaust
Partial transcript of the event “Shaping National Memory: Ukrainian Secret Police Archives and WWII” at the University of Pittsburgh featuring Jared McBride.
May 7, 2019
Russia’s Long Hangover
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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March 23, 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
Working Class Life in Anytown Russia
Guest: Jeremy Morris on Everyday Postsocialism: Working-class Communities in the Russian Margins.
January 30, 2017
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