REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.
The Podcast theme song is by Petr Leshchenko, 1898-1954, the avowed “King of Russian Tango.”
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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
Previous Episodes
Soviet Military Masculinity
August 23, 2020
Guest: Erica Fraser on Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union published by the University of Toronto Press.
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova
August 21, 2020
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Olga Klimova.
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan
August 21, 2020
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Katie Manukyan.
Stories Along the Trans-Siberian
August 16, 2020
Guests: Marina Dmukhovskaya and Georg Wallner about their podcast project Mesto47.
Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution
August 8, 2020
Guest: Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution.
Rebroadcast: The Kazakh Famine
August 1, 2020
Guest: Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press.
Russia’s Wily Man
July 24, 2020
Joshua Yaffa on Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia published by Penguin Random House.
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg
July 17, 2020
Guest: Francine Hirsch on Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II published by Oxford University Press.
The Black Russian
July 10, 2020
Guest: Vladimir Alexandrov on The Black Russian published by Grove Press.
Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music
July 3, 2020
Guest: Leah Goldman on censorship and collaboration in the production of Late Stalinist classical music.
