Episodes

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.

Guest: Kate Brown on Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future published by Norton.

Guest: Marianna Yarovskaya on her film Women of the Gulag.

Guest: Edward Geist on Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945-1991 published by University of North Carolina Press.

Guest: Fyodor Lukyanov on Russia in the Middle East: Viewpoints, Policies, Strategies published by East View.

Guest: Charles Halperin on Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish published by University of Pittsburgh Press.

Guest: Brandon Schechter on The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects published by Cornell University Press.

Guest: Ed Pulford on Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between published by Hurst.

Guests: Aaron Hale-Dorrell, Kristy Ironside, and Samantha Lomb on the collective farm system in the USSR.

Guest: Anindita Banerjee on the nuclear in Soviet and Post-Soviet Science Fiction.

Guest: Johannes Due Enstad on Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II published by Cambridge University Press.

Magdalena Stawkowski on the rural Kazakh communities in the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.

Guest: Andrew Sloin on The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power published by Indiana University Press.

Guest: Sonja Schmid on Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry published by MIT Press.

Guest: Eleonor Gilburd on To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture published by Harvard University Press. -

Guest: Lana Parshina on The Death of Hitler: The Final Word published by Da Capo Press.

Guest: Caress Schenk on Why Control Immigration? Strategic Uses of Migration Management in Russia published by University of Toronto Press.

Guest: Jeff Sahadeo on Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow published by Cornell University Press.