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June 1, 2018

Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria

Guest: Maxim Suchkov, editor of Al-Monitor’s Russia-Mideast coverage, on Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria. [spp-player]

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May 18, 2018

A Memoir of Misadventures in Moscow

Guest: Michael Idov on Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin’s Moscow published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. [spp-player]

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April 30, 2018

Early Soviet Urban Communes

Guest: Andy Willimott on  Living the Revolution: Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1931 published Oxford University Press. [spp-player]

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April 24, 2018

Putinomics

Guest: Chris Miller on Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia published by the University of North Carolina Press. - [spp-player]

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April 16, 2018

The Stalin Constitution

Guest: Samantha Lomb on  Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution published by Routledge. [spp-player]

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April 9, 2018

The Mitki Art Collective

Guest: Alexandar Mihailovic on The Mitki: The Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia published by University of Wisconsin Press. [spp-player]

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April 2, 2018

William C. Bullitt in the USSR

Guest: Alexander Etkind on Roads not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt published by Pittsburgh University Press. [spp-player]

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March 23, 2018

Russia’s Long Hangover

Guest: Shaun Walker on The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past published by Oxford University Press.

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March 19, 2018

Boris Savinkov and Russian Terrorism

Guest: Irina Meier on Boris Savinkov and Russian revolutionary terrorism.

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March 9, 2018

The Georgian Democratic Republic

Guest: Eric Lee on The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution, 1918-1921 published by Zed Books. [spp-player]

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Feb. 27, 2018

Local Identity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Vladimir

Guest: Susan Smith-Peter on Imagining Russian Regions: Civil Society and Subnational Identity in Nineteenth-Century Russia published by Brill. [spp-player]

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Feb. 17, 2018

The Stalinist Film Industry

Guest: Guest: Maria Belodubrovskaya on Not According to Plan: Filmmaking under Stalin published by Cornell University Press. -

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Feb. 9, 2018

Life and Times of Vladimir Dzhunkovsky

Guest: Richard Robbins on Overtaken by the Night: One Russian’s Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. [spp-player]

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Jan. 26, 2018

Old Age and Claustrophobia in Putin’s Russia

Evgenia Kovda on her film Podrugi (Girlfriends), a tale of old age and claustrophobia in Putin's Russia. [spp-player]

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Jan. 19, 2018

The Ethics of Soviet Journalism

Guest: Natalia Roudakova on Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia published by Cambridge University Press. [spp-player]

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Jan. 11, 2018

Deaf in the Soviet Union

Guest: Claire Shaw on Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991. -

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Dec. 24, 2017

The Russian Revolution as Utopian Leap in the Open Air of History

Mark Steinberg on the symbolism of angels, wings, and flight in the Russian Revolution. [spp-player]

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Nov. 29, 2017

The Epic of the House of Government

Guest: Yuri Slezkine on The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution. [spp-player]

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Nov. 19, 2017

Assessing the Russian Military

Guest: Michael Kofman on the Russian military.

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Nov. 8, 2017

Daughter of the Cold War

Guest: Grace Kennan Warnecke on growing up in George F. Kennan's shadow.

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Oct. 30, 2017

American History Through Russian Eyes

Guest: Ivan Kurilla on American studies in Russia.

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Oct. 21, 2017

Young Communists Under Stalin

Guest: Seth Bernstein on Raised Under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism.

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Oct. 16, 2017

Russian LGBTQ and New Left Activism

Guest: Jessica Mason on LGBTQ activism and the New Left in Russia.

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Oct. 7, 2017

Russian and American Internal Colonization

Guest: Steve Sabol on “The Touch of Civilization” Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization. -

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