Episodes

Guests: Valerie Kivelson and Christine Worobec on witches, magic, spells in their new sourcebook Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 published by Cornell University Press.

Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press.

Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.

Guest: Eric Lee on Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945 published by Greenhill Books.

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia--James Pickett.

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Turkish instructor Iknur Lider.

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.

Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.

I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here's what some of the protesters told me.

Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions.

Guest: Alison Rowley on Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen's University Press.

Guests: Ekaterina Babintseva and Slava Gerovitch on cybernetics in the United States and Soviet Union.

Guest: Lee Farrow on Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke's Tour, 1871-72 published by Louisiana State University Press.

Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.

Guest: Andrew Jacobs on American tourism to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Guests: Steven Zipperstein and Michael Pfeifer on anti-Jewish and anti-Black violence in Russia and the United States.

Guests: Bathsheba Demuth and Ilya Vinkoveysky on Russian and American colonialism and the environment in Alaska.

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.

Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire.

Guest: Niko Vorobyov on the adventures in dopeworld.

Guests: Amanda Brickell Bellows and Alessandro Stanziani on Russian serfdom and American slavery.

Presenting Geopolitics on the Move, a podcast series I recorded this summer with Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affairs.

Elena Gapova on the protests in Belarus.

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.