Central Asia Archives

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: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.

January 8, 2021

I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here’s what some of the protesters told me.

January 4, 2021

Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions.

December 18, 2020

Guest: Alison Rowley on Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

December 11, 2020

Central Asia

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

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