Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia
Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press.
May 7, 2021
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Blind Activism in the Cold War
Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War.
April 30, 2021
Environmental Activism in Russia
Guests: Konstantin Fokin and Angelina Davydova on environmental activism in Russia.
April 23, 2021
Gogol’s Town of N
Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press.
April 16, 2021
Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe
Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.
April 9, 2021
International Communism
Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR
Guest: Karl Qualls on Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51 published by the University of Toronto Press.
March 19, 2021
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