Episodes

Guest: Alexey Kovalev on American and Russian journalism.

Guests: Eurasianet's Peter Leonard and Josh Kucera on Central Asia and the South Caucausus

Guest: Margaret Peacock on Soviet and American Children in the Cold War.

Guest: Steven Seegel on Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe published by University of Chicago Press.

Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on “Communist Neverland: New Research on a Russian International Children's Home, 1933-1991.”

Guest: Artemy Kalinovsky on The Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan published by Cornell University Press.

Guest: Matthias Neumann on communism, youth, and generation.

Guest: Elisabeth Schimpfossl on Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie published by Oxford University Press.

Guest: Alun Thomas on Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia from Lenin to Stalin published by I.B. Tauris.

Guest: Richard Wortman on the Russian monarchy, symbolism, and ritual.

Guest: Brian Milakovsky on the social and economic situation in the Donbas.

Guest: Lesley Chamberlain on The Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution published by Reaktion Books.

Me, your host, on The Dig Podcast.

Guest: Ronald Grigor Suny on nationality, nation, and empire in the Soviet Union.

Guest: Norman Saul of US-Russian relations in the 19th Century

Guest: Victoria Smolkin on A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism published by Princeton University Press. - [spp-player]

Guest: Mark Galeotti on The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia published by Yale University Press. - [spp-player]

Guest: Tomas Matza on Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia published by Duke University Press. - [spp-player]

Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution published by Oxford University Press. - [spp-player]

Guest: Lynne Viola on the Soviet collectivization of agriculture, resistance, and Stalinist perpetrators. - [spp-player]

Guest: Bryon MacWilliams on With Light Steam: A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths was published by Northern Illinois University Press. [spp-player]

Guest: Keith Gessen on America's Russia Hands and his novel A Terrible Country published by Viking. [spp-player]

Guest: Yasha Levine on Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet published by Public Affairs Books. [spp-player]

Guest: Lynn Patyk on Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture published by the University of Wisconsin Press. [spp-player]