Grand Duke Alexis Visits America
Guest: Lee Farrow on Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871-72 published by Louisiana State University Press.
November 20, 2020
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Black Radicalism and the USSR
Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.
November 13, 2020
American Tourism to the USSR
Guest: Andrew Jacobs on American tourism to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
November 9, 2020
Pogroms and Race Riots
Guests: Steven Zipperstein and Michael Pfeifer on anti-Jewish and anti-Black violence in Russia and the United States.
October 30, 2020
From Aliaska to Alaska
Guests: Bathsheba Demuth and Ilya Vinkoveysky on Russian and American colonialism and the environment in Alaska.
October 23, 2020
Anticolonialism
Black Radicalism and the USSR
Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.
November 13, 2020
Postcolonial Socialisms in Africa
Guest: Priya Lal on African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World published by Cambridge University Press.
April 3, 2020
Structurally Adjusting Socialism
Guest: Johanna Bockman on neoliberalism, socialist globalization, and the Non-Aligned Movement.
March 6, 2020
Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation
Guest: Natalia Telepneva on Soviet and Warsaw Pact intelligence services and African anti-colonial movements.
April 5, 2019