Episodes

Guest: Lisa Kirschenbaum on Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip published by Cambridge University Press.

Guest: Vassily Klimentov on A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communists, and Islam published by Cornell University Press.

Guest: Alexandar Mikhailovic on the unlikely convergence of the American and Russian far-right.

Guest: Elena Kochetkova on wood, forests and industrial ecology in the Soviet Union.

Guest: Greta Uehling on the ethics of care in Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine published by Cornell University Press.

Guest: Artan Hoxha on his new book, Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania published by Central European University Press.

Guest: Russian poet Dmitrii Bykov on the War in Ukraine, the role of art in politics, satire, his poisoning in 2019, protest, love and family.

Guest: Sara Brinegar on her book The Power and Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus: Periphery Unbound, 1920-29 published by Bloomsbury.

Guest: Xenia Cherkaev on her book Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice published by Cornell University Press.

Guest: Andy Bruno on his new book Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and its Environmental Legacy published by Cambridge University Press.

Guest: Natasha Lance Rogoff on making Sesame Street in Russia in the turbulent 1990s.

Guest: Paula Chan on the Extraordinary State Commission and its investigations in the Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union.

Guest: Karl Schlogel on the lost world of Soviet civilization.

Guest: Mariia Koskina on Siberian industrialization, the environment and the black skies over Krasnoyarsk.

Guests: Tigran Grigoryan (The Regional Center for Democracy and Security) and Kelsey Rice (Berry College) revisiting the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh.

Guest: Natalia Krylova on life, love, language, and the Soviet Avant Garde.

Guest: Nicholas Bujalski on his prize-winning Russian Review article, “Tuk, tuk, tuk!” A History of Russia’s Prison Knocking Language.”

Guest: Brian Milakovsky with a grim update on Ukraine, the war, and the shrinking prospects of even a lousy peace.

Guest: Christopher Read on Vladimir Lenin's legacy 100 years since his death.

Guest: Maria Lotsmanova on her genealogical journey to find information about her repressed great-grandfather, Jacob Jansen.

Guest: Vladimir Alexandrov on The Black Russian published by Grove Press.

Guest: Gabriella Safran on Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century published by Cornell University Press.

Guest: Sasha Senderovich on How the Soviet Jew Was Made published by Harvard University Press.

Guest: Erik Scott on defection, the Cold War, and the regulation of borders and movement in a globalizing world.