Immortalism and Transhumanism in Russia
Guest: Anya Bernstein on The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia published by Princeton University Press.
March 27, 2020
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Objects and Values of Labor in Socialist Hungary
Guest: Martha Lampland on the commodification of labor in Socialist Hungary.
March 20, 2020
Political Diary from Russia
Friends of the show Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev on the latest news from Russia.
March 13, 2020
Structurally Adjusting Socialism
Guest: Johanna Bockman on neoliberalism, socialist globalization, and the Non-Aligned Movement.
March 6, 2020
The Nobility and the Russian Novel
Bella Grigoryan on Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762-1861 published by Northern Illinois University Press.
February 28, 2020
Routledge
The Collective Farm
Guests: Aaron Hale-Dorrell, Kristy Ironside, and Samantha Lomb on the collective farm system in the USSR.
November 17, 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
Communism, Youth and Generation
Guest: Matthias Neumann on communism, youth, and generation.
October 6, 2018
The Stalin Constitution
Guest: Samantha Lomb on Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution published by Routledge.
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April 16, 2018