Joshua Yaffa on Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia published by Penguin Random House.
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.
Guest: Leah Goldman on censorship and collaboration in the production of Late Stalinist classical music.
Guest: Elissa Bemporad on Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets published by Oxford University Press.
Guest: Eliot Borenstein on Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism published by Cornell University Press.
Guest: Aliide Naylor on The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front published by Bloomsbury.
Guest: Joy Gleason Carew on Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise.
Guest: Aminda Smith on Maoism, consciousness, and the everyday.
Guest: Suzanne Ament on Sing to Victory! Song in Soviet Society during World War II published by Academic Studies Press.
Part two of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of Pittsburgh.
Part one of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of Pittsburgh.
Guest: Sam Gindin on socialism for realists.
Jude Blanchette on China’s New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong published by Oxford University Press.
Guest: David Rainbow on Ideologies of Race: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Guest: James Heinzen on "underground entrepreneurs" and black markets in the Soviet 1950s to the 1980s.
Guest: Paul Robinson on Russian Conservatism published by Northern Illinois University Press.
John Davis on Russia in the Time of Cholera: Disease under Romanovs and Soviets published by Bloomsbury.
Guest: Priya Lal on African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World published by Cambridge University Press.
Guest: Anya Bernstein on The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia published by Princeton University Press.
Guest: Martha Lampland on the commodification of labor in Socialist Hungary.
Friends of the show Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev on the latest news from Russia.
Guest: Johanna Bockman on neoliberalism, socialist globalization, and the Non-Aligned Movement.
Bella Grigoryan on Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762-1861 published by Northern Illinois University Press.
Guest: Vasili Rukhadze on post-colored revolution regimes.