Grand Duke Alexis Visits America
Guest: Lee Farrow on Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871-72 published by Louisiana State University Press.
The Podcast theme song is by Petr Leshchenko, 1898-1954, the avowed “King of Russian Tango.”
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Socialism: Past, Present, and Future
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“We Shall Refashion Life on Earth!” Youth in Eurasia
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Previous Episodes
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.
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan
August 21, 2020
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Katie Manukyan.
Stories Along the Trans-Siberian
August 16, 2020
Guests: Marina Dmukhovskaya and Georg Wallner about their podcast project Mesto47.
Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution
August 8, 2020
Guest: Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution.
Rebroadcast: The Kazakh Famine
August 1, 2020
Guest: Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press.
Russia’s Wily Man
July 24, 2020
Joshua Yaffa on Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia published by Penguin Random House.
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg
July 17, 2020
Guest: Francine Hirsch on Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II published by Oxford University Press.
