Mixed Marriages in the USSR

Guest: Adrienne Edgar on Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia published by Cornell University Press.

Russia in the Red Mirror

June 14, 2022

Guest: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova on The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure Identity published by Oxford University Press.

Life and Death in the Donbas

June 7, 2022

Guest: Brian Milakovsky on everyday life in the Donbas and the effort to evacuate civilians.

Ep 1: Teddy Greets the USSR

May 30, 2022

Episode One of the six-part audio series, Teddy Goes to the USSR.

Central Asia Past and Present

May 24, 2022

Guest: Adeeb Khalid on Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present published by Princeton University Press.

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.