Central Asia Archives

Guest: Lee Farrow on Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871-72 published by Louisiana State University Press.

November 20, 2020

Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.

November 13, 2020

Guest: Andrew Jacobs on American tourism to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

November 9, 2020

Guests: Steven Zipperstein and Michael Pfeifer on anti-Jewish and anti-Black violence in Russia and the United States.

October 30, 2020

Guests: Bathsheba Demuth and Ilya Vinkoveysky on Russian and American colonialism and the environment in Alaska.

October 23, 2020

Central Asia

Guest: Ed Pulford on Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between published by Hurst.

December 7, 2019

Guest: Anindita Banerjee on the nuclear in Soviet and Post-Soviet Science Fiction.

November 9, 2019

Guest: Caress Schenk on Why Control Immigration? Strategic Uses of Migration Management in Russia published by University of Toronto Press.

September 7, 2019

Guest: Jeff Sahadeo on Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow published by Cornell University Press.

September 2, 2019

Guests: Eurasianet‘s Peter Leonard and Josh Kucera on Central Asia and the South Caucausus

December 7, 2018

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

Guest: Alun Thomas on Nomads a nd Soviet Rule: Central Asia from Lenin to Stalin published by I.B. Tauris.

September 22, 2018

Guest: Steve Sabol on “The Touch of Civilization” Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization.

October 7, 2017

Guest: Botakoz Kassymbekova on Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan.

June 8, 2017

Guest: Judith Beyer on The Force of Custom: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan.

May 31, 2017