Welcome to Chechnya
Guest: David France on his film Welcome To Chechnya.
March 5, 2021
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Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine
Guests: Valerie Kivelson and Christine Worobec on witches, magic, spells in their new sourcebook Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 published by Cornell University Press.
February 26, 2021
Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic
Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin.
February 19, 2021
From Soso to Stalin
Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press.
February 12, 2021
Watering the Soviet Lands
Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.
February 5, 2021
Russia! Magazine
Russia’s Scandalocracy
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “Russia’s Descent into Absurdity,” A rather hilarious petition, “Check E. B. Mizulina’s mental health” is circulating around RuNet. If you
August 8, 2013
Jailing Russia’s Mayors
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “The Summer of Mayors“: It’s the summer of mayors in Russia. That’s right: mayors. Those unalluring, often block shaped, overwhelmingly
July 25, 2013
Russia’s Negative Family Values
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “Family Values and Putin’s Fourth Pillar,” Last month, the Russian journalist Oleg Kashin called the 23 year old man brutally murdered
June 13, 2013
Migrants and the Russian Nation
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “Migrants and Russia’s Split National Identity,” When asked about migrant workers in a recent interview with Moskovskii novosti, Sergey Sobyanin
June 6, 2013
On Putin’s Bulldogs
This week’s Russia Magazine! column, “Putin’s Bulldogs and Their Bones,” In reference to the succession struggle after Stalin’s death, Winston Churchill famously compared the opaqueness
May 23, 2013
Putin’s Unmoored Youth
This week’s Russia Magazine! column, “The Kids Aren’t Alright,” “Who has the youth has the future!” Martin Luther declared. As object-subjects of modern states, youth
May 16, 2013
Fragmenting Putinism
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “Surveying Putin 2.0“: In his seminal essay on hegemony, State and Civil Society, the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci summed up
May 2, 2013
The Let’s Pretend Game
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “The Magnitsky Minstrelsy“: The passage of the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 last December sent US-Russia
April 18, 2013