Atoms and Aliens in Eurasian Science Fiction
Guest: Anindita Banerjee on the nuclear in Soviet and Post-Soviet Science Fiction.
November 9, 2019
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Russians Under Nazi Occupation
Guest: Johannes Due Enstad on Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II published by Cambridge University Press.
November 3, 2019
The Radioactive Mutants of Semipalatinsk
Magdalena Stawkowski on the rural Kazakh communities in the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.
October 27, 2019
The Jewish Revolution in Belarus
Guest: Andrew Sloin on The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power published by Indiana University Press.
October 21, 2019
The Soviet Nuclear Industry
Guest: Sonja Schmid on Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry published by MIT Press.
October 13, 2019
Kazakhstan
The Radioactive Mutants of Semipalatinsk
Magdalena Stawkowski on the rural Kazakh communities in the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.
October 27, 2019
The Kazakh Famine
Guest: Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press.
February 22, 2019
Transcript: The Kazakh Famine
Partial transcript of my interview with Sarah Cameron on the Kazakh famine.
February 21, 2019
Eurasianet on Eurasia
Guests: Eurasianet‘s Peter Leonard and Josh Kucera on Central Asia and the South Caucausus
December 7, 2018
Kazakh Nomads Under Lenin and Stalin
Guest: Alun Thomas on Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia from Lenin to Stalin published by I.B. Tauris.
September 22, 2018