Protests in Belarus
Elena Gapova on the protests in Belarus.
September 11, 2020
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Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission
The final two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “A Brief Conversation on Biculturalism” by Alexandra Diouk and “Remembering the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Mission: 45 years of US-Russian Space Cooperation” by Lisa Becker.
September 2, 2020
Trash Protests and Leninopad
Two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “The Great Russian Trash Crisis” by Seth Farkas and “An Empty Pedestal: Ukraine after Leninopad” by Sabrina Beaver.
August 31, 2020
Soviet Military Masculinity
Guest: Erica Fraser on Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union published by the University of Toronto Press.
August 23, 2020
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Olga Klimova.
August 21, 2020
Cambridge University Press
Postcolonial Socialisms in Africa
Guest: Priya Lal on African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World published by Cambridge University Press.
April 3, 2020
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
Youth Movements in Eastern Europe
Guest: Olena Nikolayenko on Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe published by Cambridge University Press.
January 11, 2019
The Ethics of Soviet Journalism
Guest: Natalia Roudakova on Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia published by Cambridge University Press.
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January 19, 2018
Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
Guest: Brendan McGeever on the Bolsheviks and antisemitism.
September 29, 2017
International Communism and the Spanish Civil War
Guest: Lisa Kirschenbaum on International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion.
July 7, 2017
Russian Peasants in Revolution
Guest: Aaron Retish on peasants in the Russian Revolution.
June 30, 2017
Patronalism in Eurasia
Guest: Henry Hale on Patronal Politics: Eurasian Regime Dynamics in Comparative Perspective.
May 25, 2017
The American Mission to Save Russia
Guest: David Foglesong on the American mission to save Russia.
September 19, 2016
Soviet Power and the Destruction of Nature
Guest: Andy Bruno on The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History.
August 25, 2016