The Collapse of the Soviet Union
May 3, 2022
Guest: Vladislav Zubok on Collapse: The End of the Soviet Union published by Yale University Press.
Past Interviews
Stalinism, Memorial, and Perestroika
April 26, 2022
Guest: Nanci Adler on Memorial, Stalinist repression, and Russia’s incomplete transitional justice.
Perestroika in the Periphery: Tajikistan
April 19, 2022
Guest: Isaac Scarborough on perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet system in Tajikistan.
Esperanto in Revolutionary Russia
April 12, 2022
Guest: Brigid O’Keeffe on Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia published by Bloomsbury.
Soviet Pronatalism
March 22, 2022
Guest: Mie Nakachi on Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Oxford University Press.
Letters to Perestroika
March 15, 2022
Guest: Courtney Doucette on letter writing, Nina Andreeva, and perestroika “from below.”
Stalin and His Books
March 6, 2022
Guest: Geoffrey Roberts on Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books published by Yale University Press.
Russia, Ukraine, and the West
February 25, 2022
This discussion was recorded on Wednesday, February 23, 2022, the morning before Russia invaded Ukraine.
Guests: Michael Kimmage, Marlene Laruelle, and Fyodor Lukyanov on the ongoing geopolitical crisis between Russia, Ukraine and the West.
Russia’s Labor Dilemma
February 18, 2022
Stephen Crowley on Putin’s Labor Dilemma: Russian Politics between Stability and Stagnation published by Cornell University Press.
Ditching Communism in Poland
February 11, 2022
Guest: Tom Junes on Poland in the 1980s and its legacies.
