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The Kazakh Famine
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.

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Lenders and Debtors in Imperial Russia
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.

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Conspiracy Theories in Russia
Feb. 8, 2019

Conspiracy Theories in Russia

Guest: Ilya Yablokov on Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World published by Polity.

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The Politics of Russian Futurism
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.

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American Girls in Red Russia
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.

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Perestroika and Punk Rock
Jan. 20, 2019

Perestroika and Punk Rock

Guest: Vladimir Kozlov on punk rock, perestroika, his stories and films.

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Youth Movements in Eastern Europe
Jan. 11, 2019

Youth Movements in Eastern Europe

Guest: Olena Nikolayenko on Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe published by Cambridge University Press.

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American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes
Dec. 14, 2018

American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes

Guest: Alexey Kovalev on American and Russian journalism.

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Eurasianet on Eurasia
Dec. 7, 2018

Eurasianet on Eurasia

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

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Soviet and American Children in the Cold War
Nov. 5, 2018

Soviet and American Children in the Cold War

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

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The Map Men of East Central Europe
Oct. 29, 2018

The Map Men of East Central Europe

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.

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Communist Neverland at the Russian International Children’s Home
Oct. 23, 2018

Communist Neverland at the Russian International Children’s Home

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

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Decolonization and Development in Soviet Tajikistan
Oct. 13, 2018

Decolonization and Development in Soviet Tajikistan

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

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Communism, Youth and Generation
Oct. 7, 2018

Communism, Youth and Generation

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

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Rich Russians
Oct. 1, 2018

Rich Russians

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

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Kazakh Nomads Under Lenin and Stalin
Sept. 22, 2018

Kazakh Nomads Under Lenin and Stalin

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

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The Russian Monarchy’s Scenarios of Power
Sept. 15, 2018

The Russian Monarchy’s Scenarios of Power

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

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Social-Economic Life in the Donbas
Sept. 7, 2018

Social-Economic Life in the Donbas

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

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The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution
Aug. 31, 2018

The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution

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

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SRB on the Dig Podcast
Aug. 29, 2018

SRB on the Dig Podcast

Me, your host, on The Dig Podcast.

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Nation, Nationality, and Empire
Aug. 24, 2018

Nation, Nationality, and Empire

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

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American-Russian Relations in the 19th Century
Aug. 20, 2018

American-Russian Relations in the 19th Century

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

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Soviet Atheism
Aug. 10, 2018

Soviet Atheism

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

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The Russian Mafia
Aug. 3, 2018

The Russian Mafia

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

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