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Guests: Valerie Kivelson and Christine Worobec on witches, magic, spells in their new sourcebook Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 published by Cornell University Press.

February 26, 2021

Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin.

February 19, 2021

Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press.

February 12, 2021

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

February 5, 2021

Guest: Eric Lee on Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945 published by Greenhill Books.

January 29, 2021

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Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire.

October 9, 2020

Guest: Edyta Bojanowska on A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada published by Harvard University Press.

August 17, 2019

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

Guest: Tricia Starks on Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press.

November 12, 2018

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

Guest: Richard Wortman on the Russian monarchy, symbolism, and ritual.

September 14, 2018

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

October 7, 2017