Central Asia Past and Present
Guest: Adeeb Khalid on Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present published by Princeton University Press.
Guest: Adeeb Khalid on Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present published by Princeton University Press.
Guest: Geoffrey Roberts on Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books published by Yale University Press.
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.
Stephen Crowley on Putin’s Labor Dilemma: Russian Politics between Stability and Stagnation published by Cornell University Press.
Guest: Tom Junes on Poland in the 1980s and its legacies.
Guest: Catriona Kelly on Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev published by Oxford University Press.
Guest: Alexey Golubev on The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia published by Cornell University Press.
Juliane Furst on Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in the Soviet Hippieland and Beyond published by Oxford University Press.
Guest: The Americans creator Joe Weisberg on Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy from the Second Cold War published by Public Affairs.
Guest: Russell Martin on the recent wedding of George Romanov and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini.
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.