Working Through Stalinism
Guests: Polly Jones and Zuzanna Bogumil on memory, politics, and trauma of Stalinism.
October 26, 2022
Great Terror
Clientelism in Soviet Abkhazia
Guest: Timothy Blauvelt on Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba published by Routledge.
July 26, 2022
January 29, 2020
“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
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