Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe

Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.

January 21, 2021

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

January 15, 2021

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.

January 8, 2021

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

January 4, 2021

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

December 18, 2020

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

December 11, 2020

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

December 4, 2020

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

November 20, 2020

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

November 13, 2020

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

November 9, 2020

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

US-Russia Relations

Socialism: Past, Present, and Future

Nuclear Fallout: Science and Society in Eurasia

Spying, Archiving, Reporting: Information in Eastern Europe

“We Shall Refashion Life on Earth!” Youth in Eurasia

Central Asia

Russian Revolution

Stalinism