United States and Russia Series Archives

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.

January 21, 2021

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Turkish instructor Iknur Lider.

January 21, 2021

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

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

I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here’s what some of the protesters told me.

January 4, 2021

United States and Russia Series

Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions.

December 18, 2020

Guest: Alison Rowley on Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

December 11, 2020

Guests: Ekaterina Babintseva and Slava Gerovitch on cybernetics in the United States and Soviet Union.

December 4, 2020

Guest: Lee Farrow on Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871-72 published by Louisiana State University Press.

November 20, 2020

Guests: Steven Zipperstein and Michael Pfeifer on anti-Jewish and anti-Black violence in Russia and the United States.

October 30, 2020

October 16, 2020

Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire.

October 9, 2020

Guest: Edward Geist on Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945-1991 published by University of North Carolina Press.

January 17, 2020

Guest: Rósa Magnúsdóttir on Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 published by Oxford University Press.

June 14, 2019

Guest: Julia Mickenberg on American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream published by the University of Chicago Press.

January 25, 2019