The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus
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.
The Podcast theme song is by Petr Leshchenko, 1898-1954, the avowed “King of Russian Tango.”
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US-Russia Relations
Socialism: Past, Present, and Future
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Spying, Archiving, Reporting: Information in Eastern Europe
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Central Asia
Russian Revolution
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Previous Episodes
American Famine Relief to Soviet Russia
October 16, 2020
Guest: Douglas Smith on The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Russian and American Empire
October 9, 2020
Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire.
Russian Serfdom and American Slavery
September 25, 2020
Guests: Amanda Brickell Bellows and Alessandro Stanziani on Russian serfdom and American slavery.
SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move
September 23, 2020
Presenting Geopolitics on the Move, a podcast series I recorded this summer with Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affairs.
Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission
September 2, 2020
The final two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “A Brief Conversation on Biculturalism” by Alexandra Diouk and “Remembering the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Mission: 45 years of US-Russian Space Cooperation” by Lisa Becker.
Trash Protests and Leninopad
August 31, 2020
Two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “The Great Russian Trash Crisis” by Seth Farkas and “An Empty Pedestal: Ukraine after Leninopad” by Sabrina Beaver.
Soviet Military Masculinity
August 23, 2020
Guest: Erica Fraser on Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union published by the University of Toronto Press.
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova
August 21, 2020
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Olga Klimova.
