Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe
Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.
The Podcast theme song is by Petr Leshchenko, 1898-1954, the avowed “King of Russian Tango.”
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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
Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine
February 26, 2021
Guests: Valerie Kivelson and Christine Worobec on witches, magic, spells in their new sourcebook Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 published by Cornell University Press.
Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic
February 19, 2021
Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin.
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.
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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
