Immortalism and Transhumanism in Russia
Guest: Anya Bernstein on The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia published by Princeton University Press.
March 27, 2020
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Objects and Values of Labor in Socialist Hungary
Guest: Martha Lampland on the commodification of labor in Socialist Hungary.
March 20, 2020
Political Diary from Russia
Friends of the show Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev on the latest news from Russia.
March 13, 2020
Structurally Adjusting Socialism
Guest: Johanna Bockman on neoliberalism, socialist globalization, and the Non-Aligned Movement.
March 6, 2020
The Nobility and the Russian Novel
Bella Grigoryan on Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762-1861 published by Northern Illinois University Press.
February 28, 2020
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