The Return of the Romanovs
Guest: Russell Martin on the recent wedding of George Romanov and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini.
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Gulag Criminal Subculture
May 14, 2021
Guest: Mark Vincent on Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps published by Bloomsbury.
Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia
May 7, 2021
Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press.
Blind Activism in the Cold War
April 30, 2021
Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War.
Environmental Activism in Russia
April 23, 2021
Guests: Konstantin Fokin and Angelina Davydova on environmental activism in Russia.
Gogol’s Town of N
April 16, 2021
Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press.
Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe
April 9, 2021
Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.
Navalny and Next
March 27, 2021
Guests: Ilya Budraitskis, Svetlana Erpyleva, and Greg Yudin on Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition, and the prospects of political pluralism in Russian society.
Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR
March 19, 2021
Guest: Karl Qualls on Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51 published by the University of Toronto Press.
Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia
March 13, 2021
Guests: Tracy McDonald and Marianna Szczygielska on zoos, non-humans, and Animal Studies in Eastern Europe and Russia
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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
