Cold War from the Margins
Guest: Theodora Dragostinova on The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene, was published by Cornell University Press.
October 18, 2021
Culture
Wine and Cheese: Komsomol Etiquette and Emily Post
SRB interns Amelia Parlier and Felix Helbing dive into the weird world of advice columns. Two unlikely parings on the blockāKomsomol decorum and the diva of dish, Emily Post. Itās wine and cheese!
July 16, 2021
Gogol’s Town of N
Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800ā1917 published by Cornell University Press.
April 16, 2021
Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission
The final two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. āA Brief Conversation on Biculturalismā by Alexandra Diouk and āRemembering the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Mission: 45 years of US-Russian Space Cooperationā by Lisa Becker.
September 2, 2020
The Black Russian
Guest: Vladimir Alexandrov onĀ The Black Russian published by Grove Press.
July 10, 2020
Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music
Guest: Leah Goldman on censorship and collaboration in the production of Late Stalinist classical music.
July 3, 2020
Plots Against Russia
Guest: Eliot Borenstein on Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism published by Cornell University Press.
June 19, 2020
The Nobility and the Russian Novel
Bella Grigoryan on Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762-1861 published by Northern Illinois University Press.
February 28, 2020
The Stuff of Red Army Soldiers
Guest: Brandon Schechter on The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects published by Cornell University Press.
December 18, 2019
Russian Revolutionary Postcards
Guest: Tobie Mathew onĀ Greetings From The Barricades: Revolutionary Postcards in Imperial Russia published by Four Corners Books.
June 29, 2019
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