REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.
January 21, 2021
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REEES Faculty Spotlight: Iknur Lider
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Turkish instructor Iknur Lider.
January 21, 2021
The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus
Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
January 15, 2021
Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism
Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.
January 8, 2021
Belarus Protests in Pittsburgh
I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here’s what some of the protesters told me.
January 4, 2021
Travel
Grand Duke Alexis Visits America
Guest: Lee Farrow on Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871-72 published by Louisiana State University Press.
November 20, 2020
American Tourism to the USSR
Guest: Andrew Jacobs on American tourism to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
November 9, 2020
Stories Along the Trans-Siberian
Guests: Marina Dmukhovskaya and Georg Wallner about their podcast project Mesto47.
August 16, 2020