Episodes
Jan. 15, 2021
The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus
Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen's University Press.
Jan. 8, 2021
Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism
Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.
Jan. 4, 2021
Belarus Protests in Pittsburgh
I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here's what some of the protesters told me.
Dec. 18, 2020
Russian Other, American Other
Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions.
Dec. 11, 2020
Putin Kitsch in America
Guest: Alison Rowley on Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen's University Press.
Dec. 4, 2020
The Wired Cold War
Guests: Ekaterina Babintseva and Slava Gerovitch on cybernetics in the United States and Soviet Union.
Nov. 20, 2020
Grand Duke Alexis Visits America
Guest: Lee Farrow on Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke's Tour, 1871-72 published by Louisiana State University Press.
Nov. 13, 2020
Black Radicalism and the USSR
Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.
Nov. 9, 2020
American Tourism to the USSR
Guest: Andrew Jacobs on American tourism to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Oct. 30, 2020
Pogroms and Race Riots
Guests: Steven Zipperstein and Michael Pfeifer on anti-Jewish and anti-Black violence in Russia and the United States.
Oct. 23, 2020
From Aliaska to Alaska
Guests: Bathsheba Demuth and Ilya Vinkoveysky on Russian and American colonialism and the environment in Alaska.
Oct. 16, 2020
American Famine Relief to Soviet Russia
Guest: Douglas Smith on The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Oct. 9, 2020
Russian and American Empire
Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire.
Sept. 25, 2020
Russian Serfdom and American Slavery
Guests: Amanda Brickell Bellows and Alessandro Stanziani on Russian serfdom and American slavery.
Sept. 23, 2020
SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move
Presenting Geopolitics on the Move, a podcast series I recorded this summer with Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affairs.
Sept. 2, 2020
Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission
The final two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “A Brief Conversation on Biculturalism” by Alexandra Diouk and “Remembering the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Mission: 45 years of US-Russian Space Cooperation” by Lisa Becker.
Aug. 31, 2020
Trash Protests and Leninopad
Two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “The Great Russian Trash Crisis” by Seth Farkas and “An Empty Pedestal: Ukraine after Leninopad” by Sabrina Beaver.
Aug. 23, 2020
Soviet Military Masculinity
Guest: Erica Fraser on Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union published by the University of Toronto Press.
Aug. 21, 2020
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Olga Klimova.
Aug. 21, 2020
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Katie Manukyan.
Aug. 17, 2020
Stories Along the Trans-Siberian
Guests: Marina Dmukhovskaya and Georg Wallner about their podcast project Mesto47. -
Aug. 8, 2020
Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution
Guest: Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution.