Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia
Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press.
May 7, 2021
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Blind Activism in the Cold War
Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War.
April 30, 2021
Environmental Activism in Russia
Guests: Konstantin Fokin and Angelina Davydova on environmental activism in Russia.
April 23, 2021
Gogol’s Town of N
Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press.
April 16, 2021
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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Surveillance Valley
Guest: Yasha Levine on Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet published by Public Affairs Books.
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June 18, 2018
Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria
Guest: Maxim Suchkov, editor of Al-Monitor’s Russia-Mideast coverage, on Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria.
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June 1, 2018
Russia’s Long Hangover
Guest: Shaun Walker on The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past published by Oxford University Press.
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March 23, 2018
November 19, 2017
Russia and Its Near Abroad
Guest: Gerard Toal on Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus.
July 24, 2017
December 19, 2016
The Origins of the Donbas War From Below
Guest: Serhiy Kudelia on the local dimensions of the Donbas war.
September 12, 2016
The Use and Abuse of Nagorno-Karabakh
Guest: Ryan McCarrel on the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
April 12, 2016
What’s Going on in Ukraine?
Guest: Balazs Jarabik on the evolution of post-Maidan Ukraine.
February 29, 2016
The Ukrainian Left and the Maidan Protests
Guest: Volodymyr Ishchenko on the Maidan and the Ukrainian left.
February 1, 2016