Soviet Anti-Americanism
Guest: Rósa Magnúsdóttir on Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 published by Oxford University Press.
June 14, 2019
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Stalin’s Short Course
Guest: David Brandenberger on Stalin’s Master Narrative: A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course published by Yale University Press.
June 7, 2019
The Stories Polish Secret Police Files Tell Us
Guest: Anna Krakus on the stories Polish police files tell us.
May 31, 2019
The Judeo-Bolshevik Myth
Guest: Paul Hanebrink on A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism published by Harvard University Press.
May 24, 2019
“The Reddest of the Blacks”
For the past several months, I’ve been researching the life of Lovett Fort-Whiteman. Here’s a short film I made about his eventual arrest and death in Stalinist Russia.
May 21, 2019
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The Stories Polish Secret Police Files Tell Us
Guest: Anna Krakus on the stories Polish police files tell us.
May 31, 2019
Russian Nationalism
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
Transcript: Russian Nationalism
Partial transcript of my interview with Marlene Laruelle on Russian nationalism.
March 8, 2019
William C. Bullitt in the USSR
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
Life and Times of Vladimir Dzhunkovsky
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
Daughter of the Cold War
Guest: Grace Kennan Warnecke on growing up in George F. Kennan’s shadow.
November 8, 2017
Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan
Guest: Botakoz Kassymbekova on Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan.
June 8, 2017
The Force of Custom in Kyrgyzstan
Guest: Judith Beyer on The Force of Custom: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan.
May 31, 2017
Corruption in Kyrgyzstan
Guest: Johan Engvall on The State as Investment Market: Kyrgyzstan in Comparative Perspective.
November 7, 2016
The 1937 Pushkin Jubilee and Stalinist Culture
Guest: Jon Platt on Greetings, Pushkin!: Stalinist Cultural Politics and the Russian National Bard. нннб
September 26, 2016