Blind Activism in the Cold War
Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War.
April 30, 2021
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Environmental Activism in Russia
Guests: Konstantin Fokin and Angelina Davydova on environmental activism in Russia.
April 23, 2021
Gogol’s Town of N
Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press.
April 16, 2021
Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe
Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.
April 9, 2021
Navalny and Next
Guests: Ilya Budraitskis, Svetlana Erpyleva, and Greg Yudin on Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition, and the prospects of political pluralism in Russian society.
March 27, 2021
Cornell University Press
Gogol’s Town of N
Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press.
April 16, 2021
Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine
Guests: Valerie Kivelson and Christine Worobec on witches, magic, spells in their new sourcebook Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 published by Cornell University Press.
February 26, 2021
REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.
January 21, 2021
Russian and American Empire
Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire.
October 9, 2020
Rebroadcast: The Kazakh Famine
Guest: Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press.
August 1, 2020
Plots Against Russia
Guest: Eliot Borenstein on Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism published by Cornell University Press.
June 19, 2020
The Stuff of Red Army Soldiers
Guest: Brandon Schechter on The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects published by Cornell University Press.
December 18, 2019
Central Asian Migrants in the USSR
Guest: Jeff Sahadeo on Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow published by Cornell University Press.
September 2, 2019
Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible
Guest: Joan Neuberger on This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia published by Cornell University Press.
June 21, 2019
Photography and Russian Literature
Guest: Katherine Reischl on Photographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors published by Cornell University Press.
March 27, 2019