Central Asia Archives

Guest: Andrei Tsygankov on the ongoing US-Russia rivalry.

June 4, 2021

Guest: Thomas Graham on the new “Cold War,” the United States, Russia, and China.

May 28, 2021

Guest: Mark Vincent on Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps published by Bloomsbury.

May 14, 2021

Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press.

May 7, 2021

Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War.

April 30, 2021

Central Asia

Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.

February 5, 2021

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.

January 21, 2021

Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

January 15, 2021

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