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REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.

January 21, 2021

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Iknur Lider

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Turkish instructor Iknur Lider.

January 21, 2021

The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus

Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

January 15, 2021

Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism

Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.

January 8, 2021

Belarus Protests in Pittsburgh

I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here’s what some of the protesters told me.

January 4, 2021

Memory

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