Nuclear Bombs and Bomb Shelters
Guest: Edward Geist on Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945-1991 published by University of North Carolina Press.
January 17, 2020
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Russia in Global Affairs
Guest: Fyodor Lukyanov on Russia in the Middle East: Viewpoints, Policies, Strategies published by East View.
January 7, 2020
Ivan the Terrible
Guest: Charles Halperin on Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish published by University of Pittsburgh Press.
December 30, 2019
The Stuff of Red Army Soldiers
Guest: Brandon Schechter on The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects published by Cornell University Press.
December 18, 2019
Russia, China and Inbetween
Guest: Ed Pulford on Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between published by Hurst.
December 7, 2019
Great Terror
“The Reddest of the Blacks”
For the past several months, I’ve been researching the life of Lovett Fort-Whiteman. Here’s a short film I made about his eventual arrest and death in Stalinist Russia.
May 21, 2019
Collectivization and Stalinist Perpetrators
Guest: Lynne Viola on the Soviet collectivization of agriculture, resistance, and Stalinist perpetrators.
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July 13, 2018
The Epic of the House of Government
Guest: Yuri Slezkine on The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution.
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November 29, 2017
Young Communists Under Stalin
Guest: Seth Bernstein on Raised Under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism.
October 21, 2017
Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan
Guest: Botakoz Kassymbekova on Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan.
June 8, 2017
Stalin’s Purge of the Red Army
Guest: Peter Whitewood on The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Soviet Military.
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January 23, 2017
Stalin, Clans and Terror
Guest: Arch Getty on Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition.
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November 14, 2016
The 1937 Pushkin Jubilee and Stalinist Culture
Guest: Jon Platt on Greetings, Pushkin!: Stalinist Cultural Politics and the Russian National Bard. нннб
September 26, 2016
US and Stalinist Prison Populations Revisited
Back in 2013, I wrote a post examining at the numbers of people in the Stalinist gulag compared to the US prison industrial complex. The
March 29, 2016