Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic
Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin.
Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin.
Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press.
Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.
Guest: Eric Lee on Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945 published by Greenhill Books.
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.
Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin.
Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.
John Davis on Russia in the Time of Cholera: Disease under Romanovs and Soviets published by Bloomsbury.
Guest: Kate Brown on Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future published by Norton.
Guest: Anindita Banerjee on the nuclear in Soviet and Post-Soviet Science Fiction.
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.
Guest: Olga Kuchinskaya on The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl published by MIT Press.
Guest: Andy Bruno on The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History.