Episodes
July 5, 2019
Gender and Electoral Self-Polishing in Mongolia
Manduhai Buyandelger’s keynote address “Self-Polishing and Electoral Selves: Elections and the New Economies of Democratization in Postsocialist Mongolia” given at the 2019 Annual Soyuz Symposium.
June 30, 2019
Russian Revolutionary Postcards
Guest: Tobie Mathew on Greetings From The Barricades: Revolutionary Postcards in Imperial Russia published by Four Corners Books.
June 21, 2019
Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible
Guest: Joan Neuberger on This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia published by Cornell University Press.
June 14, 2019
Soviet Anti-Americanism
Guest: Rósa Magnúsdóttir on Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 published by Oxford University Press.
June 7, 2019
Stalin’s Short Course
Guest: David Brandenberger on Stalin's Master Narrative: A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course published by Yale University Press.
May 31, 2019
The Stories Polish Secret Police Files Tell Us
Guest: Anna Krakus on the stories Polish police files tell us.
May 24, 2019
The Judeo-Bolshevik Myth
Guest: Paul Hanebrink on A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism published by Harvard University Press.
May 21, 2019
“The Reddest of the Blacks”
For the past several months, I've been researching the life of Lovett Fort-Whiteman. Here's a short film I made about his eventual arrest and death in Stalinist Russia.
May 17, 2019
Russia Without Putin
Guest: Tony Wood on Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War published by Verso.
May 8, 2019
Local Perpetrators and the Holocaust in Ukraine
Guest: Jared McBride on the Holocaust, Soviet Secret Police Archives and Local Perpetrators in Western Ukraine.
April 25, 2019
Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia
Guests: Mark Galeotti, Kevin Rothrock, and Maxim Trudolyubov on making sense of Russia.
April 14, 2019
Lenin’s Government
Guest: Lara Douds on Inside Lenin’s Government: Power, Ideology and Practice in the Early Soviet State published by Bloomsbury.
April 5, 2019
Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation
Guest: Natalia Telepneva on Soviet and Warsaw Pact intelligence services and African anti-colonial movements. -
March 27, 2019
Photography and Russian Literature
Guest: Katherine Reischl on Photographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors published by Cornell University Press.
March 20, 2019
The Soviet Origins of Lamaze
Guest: Paula Michaels on Lamaze: An International History published by Oxford University Press.
March 10, 2019
Russian Nationalism
Guest: Marlene Laruelle on Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields, published by Routledge, and her edited collection Entangled Far Rights: A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the 20th Century,
March 1, 2019
The Gulag at War
Guest: Wilson Bell on Stalin’s Gulag at War: Forced Labor, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory in the Second World War published by the University of Toronto Press.
Feb. 22, 2019
The Kazakh Famine
Guest: Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press.
Feb. 16, 2019
Lenders and Debtors in Imperial Russia
Guest: Sergei Antonov on Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy published by Harvard University Press.
Feb. 8, 2019
Conspiracy Theories in Russia
Guest: Ilya Yablokov on Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World published by Polity.
Feb. 3, 2019
The Politics of Russian Futurism
Guest: Iva Glisic on The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930 published by Northern Illinois University Press.
Jan. 25, 2019
American Girls in Red Russia
Guest: Julia Mickenberg on American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream published by the University of Chicago Press.
Jan. 20, 2019
Perestroika and Punk Rock
Guest: Vladimir Kozlov on punk rock, perestroika, his stories and films.
Jan. 11, 2019
Youth Movements in Eastern Europe
Guest: Olena Nikolayenko on Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe published by Cambridge University Press.