Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties
Guest: Marko Dumančić on Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties published by the University of Toronto Press.
June 13, 2021
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The US-Russia Rivalry
Guest: Andrei Tsygankov on the ongoing US-Russia rivalry.
June 4, 2021
The US-Russia-China Triangle
Guest: Thomas Graham on the new “Cold War,” the United States, Russia, and China.
May 28, 2021
Gulag Criminal Subculture
Guest: Mark Vincent on Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps published by Bloomsbury.
May 14, 2021
Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia
Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press.
May 7, 2021
University of Pittsburgh Press
Watering the Soviet Lands
Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.
February 5, 2021
Ivan the Terrible
Guest: Charles Halperin on Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish published by University of Pittsburgh Press.
December 30, 2019
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