REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Turkish instructor Iknur Lider.
Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.
I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here’s what some of the protesters told me.
Guest: Mark Bassin on The Gumilev Mystique: Biopolitics, Eurasiansism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia.
Guest: Svetlana Stephenson on Gangs of Russia, From the Streets to the Corridors of Power published by Cornell University Press.
Guest: Doug Rogers on The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture After Socialism.
Guest: Kiril Tomoff on Virtuosi Abroad: Soviet Music and Imperial Competition During the Early Cold War, 1945-1958.