“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
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Russia Without Putin
Guest: Tony Wood on Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War published by Verso.
May 17, 2019
Transcript: Russia Without Putin
Partial transcript of my interview with Tony Wood about his excellent new book, Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War published by Verso.
May 16, 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
Transcripts
Transcript: Russia Without Putin
Partial transcript of my interview with Tony Wood about his excellent new book, Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War published by Verso.
May 16, 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
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
Transcript: Lenin’s Government
Partial transcript of an interview with Lara Douds on the formation, functioning, and decline of the Lenin’s Council of People’s Commissars, or Sovnarkom.
April 13, 2019
Transcript: Photography in the Russian Literary Imagination
Partial transcript of my interview with Katherine Reischl on the intersection of photography and Russian literature.
March 25, 2019
Transcript: The Soviet Origins of Lamaze
Partial transcript with my interview with Paula Michaels on the Soviet origins of Lamaze.
March 18, 2019
Transcript: Russian Nationalism
Partial transcript of my interview with Marlene Laruelle on Russian nationalism.
March 8, 2019