American Famine Relief to Soviet Russia
Guest: Douglas Smith on The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
October 16, 2020
Menu
Russian and American Empire
Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire.
October 9, 2020
Enter Dopeworld
Guest: Niko Vorobyov on the adventures in dopeworld.
October 2, 2020
Russian Serfdom and American Slavery
Guests: Amanda Brickell Bellows and Alessandro Stanziani on Russian serfdom and American slavery.
September 25, 2020
SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move
Presenting Geopolitics on the Move, a podcast series I recorded this summer with Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affairs.
September 23, 2020
Ukraine
Trash Protests and Leninopad
Two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “The Great Russian Trash Crisis” by Seth Farkas and “An Empty Pedestal: Ukraine after Leninopad” by Sabrina Beaver.
August 31, 2020
February 19, 2020
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
Youth Movements in Eastern Europe
Guest: Olena Nikolayenko on Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe published by Cambridge University Press.
January 11, 2019
The Map Men of East Central Europe
Guest: Steven Seegel on Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe published by University of Chicago Press.
October 29, 2018
Social-Economic Life in the Donbas
Guest: Brian Milakovsky on the social and economic situation in the Donbas.
September 7, 2018
Russia’s Long Hangover
Guest: Shaun Walker on The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past published by Oxford University Press.
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March 23, 2018
Feminists in the Maidan
Guest: Emily Channell-Justice on feminist activism and the Maidan.
September 16, 2017
Russia and Its Near Abroad
Guest: Gerard Toal on Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus.
July 24, 2017