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.
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The Vampires of A. K. Tolstoy
October 8, 2021
Guest: Irina Erman on her article “Nation and Vampiric Narration in Aleksey Tolstoy’s “The Family of the Vourdalak” published in the January 2020 issue of The Russian Review.Â
Cuban-Soviet Scientific Exchanges
October 1, 2021
Guest: Clare Ibarra on scientific exchange between Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
African Students in the USSR
September 24, 2021
Guest: Constantin Katsakioris on the experience of African students in the USSR during the Cold War.
Unpacking Alexey Navalny
September 17, 2021
Guests: Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, and Ben Noble on Navalny: Putin’s Nemesis, Russia’s Future? published by Hurst Publishers.
Revisiting the Russian Military
September 12, 2021
Guests: Michael Kofman and Dmitry Gorenburg give an update on the Russian military.
Russian Conquest of Central Asia
September 3, 2021
Guest: Alexander Morrison on The Russian Conquest of Central Asia published by Cambridge University Press.
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Ana Sekulic
August 18, 2021
REEES faculty profile on Ana Sekulic and her work on Catholic-Muslim relations in Bosnia under the Ottoman empire.
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Attila Kenyeres
August 18, 2021
REEES faculty profile of Attila Kenyeres on his research into media manipulation and “fake news.”
Russian Revolutionaries in Exile
August 6, 2021
Guest: Faith Hillis on Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Exiles and the Quest for Freedom, 1830–1930 published by Oxford University Press.
The Weak Strongman
July 30, 2021
Guest: Timothy Frye on Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia published by Princeton University Press.
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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
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