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
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Russia in Global Affairs
Guest: Fyodor Lukyanov on Russia in the Middle East: Viewpoints, Policies, Strategies published by East View.
January 7, 2020
Ivan the Terrible
Guest: Charles Halperin on Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish published by University of Pittsburgh Press.
December 30, 2019
The Stuff of Red Army Soldiers
Guest: Brandon Schechter on The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects published by Cornell University Press.
December 18, 2019
Russia, China and Inbetween
Guest: Ed Pulford on Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between published by Hurst.
December 7, 2019
Terrorism
Russian Literature and Terrorism
Guest: Lynn Patyk on Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
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June 9, 2018
Boris Savinkov and Russian Terrorism
Guest: Irina Meier on Boris Savinkov and Russian revolutionary terrorism.
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March 19, 2018
July 15, 2016
Russia, Syria, and the Jihadist Threat
Guest: Gordon Hahn on Russia’s intervention in Syria.
October 18, 2015
Nemtsov Murder Reverberations and Early 1930s Armenia
Guests: Pavel Baev on the fallout of the Nemtsov murder; Pietro Shakarian on Armenia.
March 19, 2015
Battlefield Volgograd
My article for Next City, “Why the Terrorists Chose Volgograd,” Volgograd has a long history of violence. Originally Tsaritsyn, it was a key southern outpost
January 1, 2014
Volgograd Bomber’s Mysterious Passport
One of the more curious and controversial aspects of the Volgograd bombing was how quickly the Russian media released the passport of Naida Asiyalova, the
October 22, 2013
Volgograd Bombing
Russia suffered its first terrorist attack outside the North Caucasus since the Domodedovo airport bombing that killed 37 and injured 178 in January 2011. Though
October 21, 2013