Central Asia Past and Present

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

March 6, 2022

Guest: Geoffrey Roberts on Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books published by Yale University Press.

February 25, 2022

This discussion was recorded on Wednesday, February 23, 2022, the morning before Russia invaded Ukraine.

Guests: Michael Kimmage, Marlene Laruelle, and Fyodor Lukyanov on the ongoing geopolitical crisis between Russia, Ukraine and the West.

February 18, 2022

February 11, 2022

Guest: Tom Junes on Poland in the 1980s and its legacies.

November 19, 2021

Guest: Catriona Kelly on Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev published by Oxford University Press.

November 15, 2021

Guest: Alexey Golubev on The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia published by Cornell University Press.

November 5, 2021

October 29, 2021

Guest: The Americans creator Joe Weisberg on Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy from the Second Cold War published by Public Affairs.

October 22, 2021

Guest: Russell Martin on the recent wedding of George Romanov and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini.

October 18, 2021

Guest: Theodora Dragostinova on The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene, was published by Cornell University Press.

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