University of Pittsburgh Press Archives

Guest: Edward Geist on Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945-1991 published by University of North Carolina Press.

January 17, 2020

Guest: Fyodor Lukyanov on Russia in the Middle East: Viewpoints, Policies, Strategies published by East View.

January 7, 2020

Guest: Charles Halperin on Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish published by University of Pittsburgh Press.

December 30, 2019

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: Ed Pulford on Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between published by Hurst.

December 7, 2019

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Guest: Charles Halperin on Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish published by University of Pittsburgh Press.

December 30, 2019

Guest: Anna Krakus on the stories Polish police files tell us.

May 31, 2019

Guest: Marlene Laruelle on Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields, published by Routledge, and her edited collection Entangled Far Rights: A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the 20th Century, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

March 10, 2019

Partial transcript of my interview with Marlene Laruelle on Russian nationalism.

March 8, 2019

Guest: Alexander Etkind on Roads not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt published by Pittsburgh University Press.

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April 2, 2018

Guest: Richard Robbins on Overtaken by the Night: One Russian’s Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

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February 9, 2018

Guest: Grace Kennan Warnecke on growing up in George F. Kennan’s shadow.

November 8, 2017

Guest: Botakoz Kassymbekova on Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan.

June 8, 2017

Guest: Judith Beyer on The Force of Custom: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan.

May 31, 2017

Guest: Johan Engvall on The State as Investment Market: Kyrgyzstan in Comparative Perspective.

November 7, 2016