Weddings and Power in Early Modern Russia
Russell Martin on The Tsar’s Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia’s Rulers, 1495–1745 published by Cornell University Press.
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From Soso to Stalin
February 12, 2021
Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press.
Watering the Soviet Lands
February 5, 2021
Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.
The Texel Uprising
January 29, 2021
Guest: Eric Lee on Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945 published by Greenhill Books.
REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett
January 21, 2021
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Iknur Lider
January 21, 2021
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Turkish instructor Iknur Lider.
The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus
January 15, 2021
Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism
January 8, 2021
Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.
Belarus Protests in Pittsburgh
January 4, 2021
I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here’s what some of the protesters told me.
Russian Other, American Other
December 18, 2020
Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions.
Putin Kitsch in America
December 11, 2020
Guest: Alison Rowley on Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
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