Soviet WWII Mythologies
Guest: Jonathan Brunstedt on The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR published by Cambridge University Press.
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Everything Was Forever Until
May 17, 2022
Guest: Alexei Yurchak on perestroika, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the experiences of the last Soviet generation.
Trailer 2: Teddy Goes to the USSR
May 16, 2022
Coming May 30!
Teddy Goes to the USSR, a new six-part podcast series follows one such American, Teddy Roe, to shine light on Soviet tourism, police surveillance, consumerism, race, and everyday life through his extraordinary three-month trip to the Soviet Union in 1968.
Suffering and Survival in Leningrad
May 10, 2022
Guest: Jeffrey Hass on The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944 published by Oxford University Press.
Trailer: Teddy Goes to the USSR
May 9, 2022
Coming May 30! Teddy Goes to the USSR, a new six-part podcast series follows one such American, Teddy Roe, to shine light on Soviet tourism, police surveillance, consumerism, race, and everyday life through his extraordinary three-month trip to the Soviet Union in 1968.
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.
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.”
Series
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
