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

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

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.

Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.

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

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

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

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

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

Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.

Guest: Andrew Jacobs on American tourism to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

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