A Dissident Among Dissidents
Guest: Ilya Budraitskis on Russia’s war in Ukraine, fascism, and his essay collection, Dissidents among Dissidents. Ideology, politics and The Left in Post-Soviet Russia published by Verso.
June 21, 2022
Publishers
Russia in the Red Mirror
Guest: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova on The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure Identity published by Oxford University Press.
June 14, 2022
Central Asia Past and Present
Guest: Adeeb Khalid on Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present published by Princeton University Press.
May 24, 2022
Suffering and Survival in Leningrad
Guest: Jeffrey Hass on The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944 published by Oxford University Press.
May 10, 2022
The Collapse of the Soviet Union
Guest: Vladislav Zubok on Collapse: The End of the Soviet Union published by Yale University Press.
May 3, 2022
Stalinism, Memorial, and Perestroika
Guest: Nanci Adler on Memorial, Stalinist repression, and Russia’s incomplete transitional justice.
April 26, 2022
Esperanto in Revolutionary Russia
Guest: Brigid O’Keeffe on Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia published by Bloomsbury.
April 12, 2022
Soviet Pronatalism
Guest: Mie Nakachi on Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Oxford University Press.
March 22, 2022
Stalin and His Books
Guest: Geoffrey Roberts on Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books published by Yale University Press.
March 6, 2022
Russia’s Labor Dilemma
Stephen Crowley on Putin’s Labor Dilemma: Russian Politics between Stability and Stagnation published by Cornell University Press.
February 18, 2022
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