Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe

Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.

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.

Enter Dopeworld

October 2, 2020

Guest: Niko Vorobyov on the adventures in dopeworld.

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.

Protests in Belarus

September 11, 2020

Elena Gapova on the protests in Belarus.

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.