Episodes

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.

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.