Soviet Anti-Americanism
Guest: Rósa Magnúsdóttir on Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 published by Oxford University Press.
June 14, 2019
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Stalin’s Short Course
Guest: David Brandenberger on Stalin’s Master Narrative: A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course published by Yale University Press.
June 7, 2019
The Stories Polish Secret Police Files Tell Us
Guest: Anna Krakus on the stories Polish police files tell us.
May 31, 2019
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
“The Reddest of the Blacks”
For the past several months, I’ve been researching the life of Lovett Fort-Whiteman. Here’s a short film I made about his eventual arrest and death in Stalinist Russia.
May 21, 2019
Central Asia
Eurasianet on Eurasia
Guests: Eurasianet‘s Peter Leonard and Josh Kucera on Central Asia and the South Caucausus
December 7, 2018
Decolonization and Development in Soviet Tajikistan
Guest: Artemy Kalinovsky on The Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan published by Cornell University Press.
October 13, 2018
Kazakh Nomads Under Lenin and Stalin
Guest: Alun Thomas on Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia from Lenin to Stalin published by I.B. Tauris.
September 22, 2018
Russian and American Internal Colonization
Guest: Steve Sabol on “The Touch of Civilization” Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization.
October 7, 2017
Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan
Guest: Botakoz Kassymbekova on Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan.
June 8, 2017
The Force of Custom in Kyrgyzstan
Guest: Judith Beyer on The Force of Custom: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan.
May 31, 2017
Patronalism in Eurasia
Guest: Henry Hale on Patronal Politics: Eurasian Regime Dynamics in Comparative Perspective.
May 25, 2017
Corruption in Kyrgyzstan
Guest: Johan Engvall on The State as Investment Market: Kyrgyzstan in Comparative Perspective.
November 7, 2016
Siberian Merchants in Early Modern Russia
Guest: Erika Monahan on The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Russia.
October 10, 2016
Lev Gumilev’s Eurasianism
Guest: Mark Bassin on The Gumilev Mystique: Biopolitics, Eurasiansism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia.
August 7, 2016