Rebroadcast: Smoking Under the Tsars
July 12, 2021
Guest: Tricia Starks on Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press.
Past Interviews
Money and Prosperity in the USSR
July 2, 2021
Guest: Kristy Ironside on A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Harvard University Press.
Cold War Correspondents
June 25, 2021
Dina Fainberg on Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines published by John Hopkins University Press.
Tolyatti’s Avtograd District
June 18, 2021
Guest: Guido Sechi on Tolyatti: Exploring Post-Soviet Spaces, co-authored with Michele Cera is published by the Velvet Cell and VAC Foundation.
Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties
June 13, 2021
Guest: Marko Dumančić on Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties published by the University of Toronto Press.
The US-Russia-China Triangle
May 28, 2021
Guest: Thomas Graham on the new “Cold War,” the United States, Russia, and China.
Gulag Criminal Subculture
May 14, 2021
Guest: Mark Vincent on Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps published by Bloomsbury.
Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia
May 7, 2021
Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press.
Blind Activism in the Cold War
April 30, 2021
Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War.
