Cornell University Press Archives

Guest: Anya Bernstein on The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia published by Princeton University Press.

March 27, 2020

Guest: Martha Lampland on the commodification of labor in Socialist Hungary.

March 20, 2020

Friends of the show Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev on the latest news from Russia.

March 13, 2020

Guest: Johanna Bockman on neoliberalism, socialist globalization, and the Non-Aligned Movement.

March 6, 2020

Bella Grigoryan on Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762-1861 published by Northern Illinois University Press.

February 28, 2020

Cornell University Press

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

Guest: Jeff Sahadeo on Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow published by Cornell University Press.

September 2, 2019

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

Guest: Katherine Reischl on Photographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors published by Cornell University Press.

March 27, 2019

Partial transcript of my interview with Katherine Reischl on the intersection of photography and Russian literature.

March 25, 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

Guest: Tricia Starks on Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press.

November 12, 2018

Guest: Artemy Kalinovsky on The Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan published by Cornell University Press.

October 13, 2018

Guest: Maria Belodubrovskaya on Not According to Plan: Filmmaking under Stalin published by Cornell University Press.

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February 16, 2018