American Famine Relief to Soviet Russia
Guest: Douglas Smith on The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
October 16, 2020
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Russian and American Empire
Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire.
October 9, 2020
Enter Dopeworld
Guest: Niko Vorobyov on the adventures in dopeworld.
October 2, 2020
Russian Serfdom and American Slavery
Guests: Amanda Brickell Bellows and Alessandro Stanziani on Russian serfdom and American slavery.
September 25, 2020
SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move
Presenting Geopolitics on the Move, a podcast series I recorded this summer with Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affairs.
September 23, 2020
Russian Revolution
Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution
Guest: Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution.
August 8, 2020
The Jewish Revolution in Belarus
Guest: Andrew Sloin on The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power published by Indiana University Press.
October 21, 2019
Rasputin, the Man and the Myth (Rebroadcast)
Guest: Doug Smith on Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs.
July 27, 2019
Lenin’s Government
Guest: Lara Douds on Inside Lenin’s Government: Power, Ideology and Practice in the Early Soviet State published by Bloomsbury.
April 14, 2019
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
The Politics of Russian Futurism
Guest: Iva Glisic on The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930 published by Northern Illinois University Press.
February 3, 2019
American Girls in Red Russia
Guest: Julia Mickenberg on American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream published by the University of Chicago Press.
January 25, 2019
Communism, Youth and Generation
Guest: Matthias Neumann on communism, youth, and generation.
October 6, 2018
Chinese Romance with the Russian Revolution
Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution published by Oxford University Press.
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July 20, 2018
Early Soviet Urban Communes
Guest: Andy Willimott on Living the Revolution: Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1931 published Oxford University Press.
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April 30, 2018