Immortalism and Transhumanism in Russia
Guest: Anya Bernstein on The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia published by Princeton University Press.
March 27, 2020
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Objects and Values of Labor in Socialist Hungary
Guest: Martha Lampland on the commodification of labor in Socialist Hungary.
March 20, 2020
Political Diary from Russia
Friends of the show Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev on the latest news from Russia.
March 13, 2020
Structurally Adjusting Socialism
Guest: Johanna Bockman on neoliberalism, socialist globalization, and the Non-Aligned Movement.
March 6, 2020
The Nobility and the Russian Novel
Bella Grigoryan on Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762-1861 published by Northern Illinois University Press.
February 28, 2020
War
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