Kazakhstan Archives |

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

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.

January 21, 2021

Kazakhstan

Guest: Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press.

August 1, 2020

Magdalena Stawkowski on the rural Kazakh communities in the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.

October 27, 2019

Guest: Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press.

February 22, 2019

Partial transcript of my interview with Sarah Cameron on the Kazakh famine.

February 21, 2019

Guests: Eurasianet‘s Peter Leonard and Josh Kucera on Central Asia and the South Caucausus

December 7, 2018

Guest: Alun Thomas on Nomads a nd Soviet Rule: Central Asia from Lenin to Stalin published by I.B. Tauris.

September 22, 2018