Episodes

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.

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.

Guest: Erica Fraser on Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union published by the University of Toronto Press.

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Olga Klimova.

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Katie Manukyan.

Guests: Marina Dmukhovskaya and Georg Wallner about their podcast project Mesto47. -

Guest: Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution.

Guest: Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press.