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
Reporting Series
The Stories Polish Secret Police Files Tell Us
Guest: Anna Krakus on the stories Polish police files tell us.
May 31, 2019
Local Perpetrators and the Holocaust in Ukraine
Guest: Jared McBride on the Holocaust, Soviet Secret Police Archives and Local Perpetrators in Western Ukraine.
May 8, 2019
Soviet Secret Police, Collaborator Trials, and the Holocaust
Partial transcript of the event “Shaping National Memory: Ukrainian Secret Police Archives and WWII” at the University of Pittsburgh featuring Jared McBride.
May 7, 2019
Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia
Guests: Mark Galeotti, Kevin Rothrock, and Maxim Trudolyubov on making sense of Russia.
April 25, 2019
Transcript: Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia
Partial transcript of the event “Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia” at the University of Pittsburgh featuring Mark Galeotti, Kevin Rothrock, and Maxim Trudolyubov.
April 22, 2019
Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation
Guest: Natalia Telepneva on Soviet and Warsaw Pact intelligence services and African anti-colonial movements.
April 5, 2019
Transcript: Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation
Partial transcript of an interview with Natalia Telepneva on Soviet and Czechoslovak intelligence in African national liberation movements.
April 3, 2019