The Lenfilm Art House
November 19, 2021
Guest: Catriona Kelly on Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev published by Oxford University Press.
Past Interviews
The Things of Late Soviet Life
November 15, 2021
Guest: Alexey Golubev on The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia published by Cornell University Press.
Soviet Flower Power
November 5, 2021
Juliane Furst on Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in the Soviet Hippieland and Beyond published by Oxford University Press.
Russia Upside Down
October 29, 2021
Guest: The Americans creator Joe Weisberg on Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy from the Second Cold War published by Public Affairs.
The Return of the Romanovs
October 22, 2021
Guest: Russell Martin on the recent wedding of George Romanov and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini.
Cold War from the Margins
October 18, 2021
Guest: Theodora Dragostinova on The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene, was published by Cornell University Press.
The Vampires of A. K. Tolstoy
October 8, 2021
Guest: Irina Erman on her article “Nation and Vampiric Narration in Aleksey Tolstoy’s “The Family of the Vourdalak” published in the January 2020 issue of The Russian Review.
Cuban-Soviet Scientific Exchanges
October 1, 2021
Guest: Clare Ibarra on scientific exchange between Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
African Students in the USSR
September 24, 2021
Guest: Constantin Katsakioris on the experience of African students in the USSR during the Cold War.
Unpacking Alexey Navalny
September 17, 2021
Guests: Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, and Ben Noble on Navalny: Putin’s Nemesis, Russia’s Future? published by Hurst Publishers.
