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.
Guests: Bathsheba Demuth and Ilya Vinkoveysky on Russian and American colonialism and the environment in Alaska.
Guest: Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution.
Guest: Francine Hirsch on Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II published by Oxford University Press.
Guest: Elissa Bemporad on Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets published by Oxford University Press.
Jude Blanchette on China’s New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong published by Oxford University Press.
Guests: Aaron Hale-Dorrell, Kristy Ironside, and Samantha Lomb on the collective farm system in the USSR.
Guest: Rósa Magnúsdóttir on Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 published by Oxford University Press.
Guest: Paula Michaels on Lamaze: An International History published by Oxford University Press.
Partial transcript with my interview with Paula Michaels on the Soviet origins of Lamaze.
Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on “Communist Neverland: New Research on a Russian International Children’s Home, 1933-1991.”