Science and Technology Archives

Guest: Anya Bernstein on The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia published by Princeton University Press.

March 27, 2020

Guest: Martha Lampland on the commodification of labor in Socialist Hungary.

March 20, 2020

Friends of the show Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev on the latest news from Russia.

March 13, 2020

Guest: Johanna Bockman on neoliberalism, socialist globalization, and the Non-Aligned Movement.

March 6, 2020

Bella Grigoryan on Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762-1861 published by Northern Illinois University Press.

February 28, 2020

Science and Technology

Guest: Anya Bernstein on The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia published by Princeton University Press.

March 27, 2020

Magdalena Stawkowski on the rural Kazakh communities in the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.

October 27, 2019

Guest: Sonja Schmid on Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry published by MIT Press.

October 13, 2019

Guest: Paula Michaels on Lamaze: An International History published by Oxford University Press.

March 20, 2019

Partial transcript with my interview with Paula Michaels on the Soviet origins of Lamaze.

March 18, 2019

Guest: Yasha Levine on Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet published by Public Affairs Books.

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June 18, 2018

Guest: Olga Kuchinskaya on The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl published by MIT Press.

March 27, 2017

Guest: Ben Peters on How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet.

June 15, 2016