Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine
Guests: Valerie Kivelson and Christine Worobec on witches, magic, spells in their new sourcebook Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 published by Cornell University Press.
The Podcast theme song is by Petr Leshchenko, 1898-1954, the avowed “King of Russian Tango.”
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Putin Kitsch in America
December 11, 2020
Guest: Alison Rowley on Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
The Wired Cold War
December 4, 2020
Guests: Ekaterina Babintseva and Slava Gerovitch on cybernetics in the United States and Soviet Union.
Grand Duke Alexis Visits America
November 20, 2020
Guest: Lee Farrow on Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871-72 published by Louisiana State University Press.
Black Radicalism and the USSR
November 13, 2020
Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.
American Tourism to the USSR
November 9, 2020
Guest: Andrew Jacobs on American tourism to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Pogroms and Race Riots
October 30, 2020
Guests: Steven Zipperstein and Michael Pfeifer on anti-Jewish and anti-Black violence in Russia and the United States.
From Aliaska to Alaska
October 23, 2020
Guests: Bathsheba Demuth and Ilya Vinkoveysky on Russian and American colonialism and the environment in Alaska.
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.
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
