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Russian and American Empire
Oct. 9, 2020

Russian and American Empire

Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire.

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Enter Dopeworld
Oct. 2, 2020

Enter Dopeworld

Guest: Niko Vorobyov on the adventures in dopeworld.

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Russian Serfdom and American Slavery
Sept. 25, 2020

Russian Serfdom and American Slavery

Guests: Amanda Brickell Bellows and Alessandro Stanziani on Russian serfdom and American slavery.

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SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move
Sept. 23, 2020

SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move

Presenting Geopolitics on the Move, a podcast series I recorded this summer with Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affairs.

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Protests in Belarus
Sept. 11, 2020

Protests in Belarus

Elena Gapova on the protests in Belarus.

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Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission
Sept. 2, 2020

Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission

The final two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “A Brief Conversation on Biculturalism” by Alexandra Diouk and “Remembering the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Mission: 45 years of US-Russian Space Cooperation” by Lisa Becker.

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Trash Protests and Leninopad
Aug. 31, 2020

Trash Protests and Leninopad

Two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “The Great Russian Trash Crisis” by Seth Farkas and  “An Empty Pedestal: Ukraine after Leninopad” by Sabrina Beaver.

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Soviet Military Masculinity
Aug. 23, 2020

Soviet Military Masculinity

Guest: Erica Fraser on Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union published by the University of Toronto Press.

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REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova
Aug. 21, 2020

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Olga Klimova.

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REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan
Aug. 21, 2020

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Katie Manukyan.

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Stories Along the Trans-Siberian
Aug. 17, 2020

Stories Along the Trans-Siberian

Guests: Marina Dmukhovskaya and Georg Wallner about their podcast project Mesto47. -

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Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution
Aug. 8, 2020

Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution

Guest: Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution.

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Rebroadcast: The Kazakh Famine
Aug. 1, 2020

Rebroadcast: The Kazakh Famine

Guest: Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press.

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Russia’s Wily Man
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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Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg
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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Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music
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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Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union
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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Plots Against Russia
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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The Baltics In-Between
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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Rebroadcast: Black Sojourners to the Soviet Union
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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Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China
May 29, 2020

Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China

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

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Soviet WWII Songs
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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Hearing Communism: Part Two
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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Hearing Communism: Part One
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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