Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine
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
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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.
February 19, 2021
From Soso to Stalin
Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press.
February 12, 2021
Watering the Soviet Lands
Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.
February 5, 2021
The Texel Uprising
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
International Communism
Black Radicalism and the USSR
Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.
November 13, 2020
Hearing Communism: Part Two
Part two of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of Pittsburgh.
May 21, 2020
Hearing Communism: Part One
Part one of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of Pittsburgh.
May 19, 2020
China’s New Red Guards
Jude Blanchette on China’s New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong published by Oxford University Press.
May 8, 2020
Stalin’s Short Course
Guest: David Brandenberger on Stalin’s Master Narrative: A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course published by Yale University Press.
June 7, 2019
“The Reddest of the Blacks”
For the past several months, I’ve been researching the life of Lovett Fort-Whiteman. Here’s a short film I made about his eventual arrest and death in Stalinist Russia.
May 21, 2019
Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation
Guest: Natalia Telepneva on Soviet and Warsaw Pact intelligence services and African anti-colonial movements.
April 5, 2019
Communist Neverland at the Russian International Children’s Home
Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on “Communist Neverland: New Research on a Russian International Children’s Home, 1933-1991.”
October 22, 2018
Chinese Romance with the Russian Revolution
Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution published by Oxford University Press.
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July 20, 2018
International Communism and the Spanish Civil War
Guest: Lisa Kirschenbaum on International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion.
July 7, 2017