Russian Other, American Other
Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions.
December 18, 2020
Menu
Putin Kitsch in America
Guest: Alison Rowley on Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
December 11, 2020
The Wired Cold War
Guests: Ekaterina Babintseva and Slava Gerovitch on cybernetics in the United States and Soviet Union.
December 4, 2020
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
Black Radicalism and the USSR
Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.
November 13, 2020
Ukraine
Raising Zombie Economics in Ukraine
After a long hiatus, I’ve started writing for Russia! Magazine again. Here’s my re-debut article, “Ukraine’s New Neoliberal Necromancer,” on the Ukrainian Finance Ministry’s hiring
October 12, 2015
Ukraine’s Refugee Crisis
Guest: Brian Milakovsky on the humanitarian crisis in the Donbas.
June 5, 2015
Questioning Russia’s Hybrid War in Ukraine
Guest: Michael Kofman on the myths of hybrid war.
May 14, 2015
Russian Culture Under Putin and Ukraine’s Historical Memory Laws
Guests: Eliot Borenstein on Russian culture; John-Paul Himka on Ukraine’s historical memory laws.
April 23, 2015
Post-Maidan Ukraine and Belarusian Nationalism
Guests: Sophie Pinkham on Ukraine; Per Rudling on The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931.
April 9, 2015
Annexation of Crimea and the Destruction of the Russian Empire
Guests: Karl Qualls on the history of Crimea; Josh Sanborn on the destruction of the Russian empire.
March 13, 2015
Ukrainian-Russian Relations in Historical Perspective and Putin as Improviser
Guests:
Faith Hillis on her article is “Intimacy and Antipathy: Ukrainian-Russian Relations in Historical Perspective” published in Kritika.
Andrew Weiss on”Putin the Improviser” in the Wall Street Journal.
February 27, 2015
Podcast: The Fate of Minsk II and Gender, Sex, and Putin
Guests:
Balazs Jarabik, on his article is “What Did Minsk II Actually Achieve?”
Valerie Sperling on Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia published by Oxford.
February 19, 2015