Atoms and Aliens in Eurasian Science Fiction
Guest: Anindita Banerjee on the nuclear in Soviet and Post-Soviet Science Fiction.
November 9, 2019
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Russians Under Nazi Occupation
Guest: Johannes Due Enstad on Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II published by Cambridge University Press.
November 3, 2019
The Radioactive Mutants of Semipalatinsk
Magdalena Stawkowski on the rural Kazakh communities in the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.
October 27, 2019
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
The Soviet Nuclear Industry
Guest: Sonja Schmid on Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry published by MIT Press.
October 13, 2019
Communism
August 24, 2019
Stalin’s Short Course
Guest: David Brandenberger on Stalin’s Master Narrative: A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course published by Yale University Press.
June 7, 2019
The Judeo-Bolshevik Myth
Guest: Paul Hanebrink on A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism published by Harvard University Press.
May 24, 2019
“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
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
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
Communist Neverland at the Russian International Children’s Home
Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on “Communist Neverland: New Research on a Russian International Children’s Home, 1933-1991.”
October 22, 2018
Communism, Youth and Generation
Guest: Matthias Neumann on communism, youth, and generation.
October 6, 2018
Nation, Nationality, and Empire
Guest: Ronald Grigor Suny on nationality, nation, and empire in the Soviet Union.
August 24, 2018