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July 24, 2020

Russia’s Wily Man

Joshua Yaffa on Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia published by Penguin Random House.

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July 17, 2020

Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg

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.

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July 3, 2020

Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music

Guest: Leah Goldman on censorship and collaboration in the production of Late Stalinist classical music.

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June 26, 2020

Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union

Guest: Elissa Bemporad on Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets​ published by Oxford University Press.

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June 19, 2020

Plots Against Russia

Guest: Eliot Borenstein on Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism published by Cornell University Press.

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June 15, 2020

The Baltics In-Between

Guest: Aliide Naylor on The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front published by Bloomsbury.

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June 5, 2020

Rebroadcast: Black Sojourners to the Soviet Union

Guest: Joy Gleason Carew on Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise.

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May 29, 2020

Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China

Guest: Aminda Smith on Maoism, consciousness, and the everyday.

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May 22, 2020

Soviet WWII Songs

Guest: Suzanne Ament on Sing to Victory! Song in Soviet Society during World War II published by Academic Studies Press.

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May 21, 2020

Hearing Communism: Part Two

Part two of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of Pittsburgh.

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May 19, 2020

Hearing Communism: Part One

Part one of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of Pittsburgh.

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May 15, 2020

Socialism for Realists

Guest: Sam Gindin on socialism for realists.

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May 8, 2020

China’s New Red Guards

Jude Blanchette on China’s New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong published by Oxford University Press.

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May 1, 2020

Ideologies of Race in Russia

Guest: David Rainbow on Ideologies of Race: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

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April 26, 2020

Underground Entrepreneurs in the Soviet Union

Guest: James Heinzen on "underground entrepreneurs" and black markets in the Soviet 1950s to the 1980s.

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April 17, 2020

Russian Conservatism

Guest: Paul Robinson on Russian Conservatism published by Northern Illinois University Press.

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April 10, 2020

Cholera in Russia

John Davis on Russia in the Time of Cholera: Disease under Romanovs and Soviets published by Bloomsbury.

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April 3, 2020

Postcolonial Socialisms in Africa

Guest: Priya Lal on African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World published by Cambridge University Press.

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March 27, 2020

Immortalism and Transhumanism in Russia

Guest: Anya Bernstein on The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia published by Princeton University Press.

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March 20, 2020

Objects and Values of Labor in Socialist Hungary

Guest: Martha Lampland on the commodification of labor in Socialist Hungary.

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March 13, 2020

Political Diary from Russia

Friends of the show Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev on the latest news from Russia.

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March 6, 2020

Structurally Adjusting Socialism

Guest: Johanna Bockman on neoliberalism, socialist globalization, and the Non-Aligned Movement.

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Feb. 28, 2020

The Nobility and the Russian Novel

Bella Grigoryan on Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762-1861 published by Northern Illinois University Press.

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Feb. 19, 2020

After the Colored Revolution

Guest: Vasili Rukhadze on post-colored revolution regimes.

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