From Aliaska to Alaska
Guests: Bathsheba Demuth and Ilya Vinkoveysky on Russian and American colonialism and the environment in Alaska.
October 23, 2020
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American Famine Relief to Soviet Russia
Guest: Douglas Smith on The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
October 16, 2020
Russian and American Empire
Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire.
October 9, 2020
Enter Dopeworld
Guest: Niko Vorobyov on the adventures in dopeworld.
October 2, 2020
Russian Serfdom and American Slavery
Guests: Amanda Brickell Bellows and Alessandro Stanziani on Russian serfdom and American slavery.
September 25, 2020
Empire
Russian and American Empire
Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire.
October 9, 2020
A Russian Voyage of Empires
Guest: Edyta Bojanowska on A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada published by Harvard University Press.
August 17, 2019
Russian Nationalism
Guest: Marlene Laruelle on Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields, published by Routledge, and her edited collection Entangled Far Rights: A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the 20th Century, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
March 10, 2019
Smoking Under the Tsars
Guest: Tricia Starks on Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press.
November 12, 2018
The Map Men of East Central Europe
Guest: Steven Seegel on Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe published by University of Chicago Press.
October 29, 2018
The Russian Monarchy’s Scenarios of Power
Guest: Richard Wortman on the Russian monarchy, symbolism, and ritual.
September 14, 2018
Russian and American Internal Colonization
Guest: Steve Sabol on “The Touch of Civilization” Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization.
October 7, 2017