Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe
Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.
April 9, 2021
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Navalny and Next
Guests: Ilya Budraitskis, Svetlana Erpyleva, and Greg Yudin on Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition, and the prospects of political pluralism in Russian society.
March 27, 2021
Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR
Guest: Karl Qualls on Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51 published by the University of Toronto Press.
March 19, 2021
Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia
Guests: Tracy McDonald and Marianna Szczygielska on zoos, non-humans, and Animal Studies in Eastern Europe and Russia
March 13, 2021
Welcome to Chechnya
Guest: David France on his film Welcome To Chechnya.
March 5, 2021
Extremism
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
July 15, 2016
Putin: Extremism is a Geopolitical Tool
There’s question how much the revolution in Ukraine would inspire Russians. A successful Ukraine would become a shining example to Russians that a life without
November 21, 2014
Surkov and Neo-Nazis?
My latest for Russia Magazine, “Did Vladislav Surkov Help Fund Neo-Nazis?“: It’s long been rumored that Vladislav Surkov funded and directed football hooligans and Russian
February 28, 2014
Interview with Dmytro Yarosh, Leader of Right Sector
Ukrains’ka Pravda, 4 February 2014, 15:59 “Dmytro Yarosh, Leader of Right Sector: When 80% of the Country Does Not Support the Regime, There Can’t be
February 7, 2014
The Titushki Generation
by Lesia Mazanik, 1 February 2014 Original in Russian Translated by William Risch Titushki is a new word from Ukrainians’ lexicon that the whole world
February 2, 2014
Biryulyovo Riot Against the Multiethnic State
My article on the Biryulyovo riot, “How Russian Nationalism Fuels Race Riots,” is up on the Nation website: On the surface, the riot in Biryulyovo, a working
November 1, 2013
Normalizing Russian Nationalism
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “Mainstreaming Russian Nationalism,” was posted a day before the Levada Center released a poll on the popularity of the Russian
November 1, 2013
The Tsarnaevs’ Traumatic Narratives
I don’t have much to add about the biographies of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. I certainly won’t presume the cause or intent of their bombings
April 21, 2013
Nationalists Declare Themselves “Russians”
This Russia Today report is a perfect supplement to other trends regarding the appeal of neo-Nazism and ultra-nationalism in Russia. Just in time for Victory
May 7, 2011