The Nobility and the Russian Novel
Bella Grigoryan on Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762-1861 published by Northern Illinois University Press.
February 28, 2020
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After the Colored Revolution
Guest: Vasili Rukhadze on post-colored revolution regimes.
February 19, 2020
Exposing Chernobyl
Guest: Kate Brown on Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future published by Norton.
February 7, 2020
Women of the Gulag
Guest: Marianna Yarovskaya on her film Women of the Gulag.
January 29, 2020
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
Soviet Union
Transcript: Lenin’s Government
Partial transcript of an interview with Lara Douds on the formation, functioning, and decline of the Lenin’s Council of People’s Commissars, or Sovnarkom.
April 13, 2019
Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation
Guest: Natalia Telepneva on Soviet and Warsaw Pact intelligence services and African anti-colonial movements.
April 5, 2019
Transcript: Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation
Partial transcript of an interview with Natalia Telepneva on Soviet and Czechoslovak intelligence in African national liberation movements.
April 3, 2019
Photography and Russian Literature
Guest: Katherine Reischl on Photographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors published by Cornell University Press.
March 27, 2019
Transcript: Photography in the Russian Literary Imagination
Partial transcript of my interview with Katherine Reischl on the intersection of photography and Russian literature.
March 25, 2019
The Soviet Origins of Lamaze
Guest: Paula Michaels on Lamaze: An International History published by Oxford University Press.
March 20, 2019
Transcript: The Soviet Origins of Lamaze
Partial transcript with my interview with Paula Michaels on the Soviet origins of Lamaze.
March 18, 2019
The Gulag at War
Guest: Wilson Bell on Stalin’s Gulag at War: Forced Labor, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory in the Second World War published by the University of Toronto Press.
March 1, 2019
Transcript: The Gulag at War
Partial transcript of my interview with Wilson Bell on his book Stalin’s Gulag at War: Forced Labor, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory in the Second World War.
February 28, 2019
The Kazakh Famine
Guest: Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press.
February 22, 2019