Around Moscow, there’s a whole industry of so-called “black creditors” — microfinance institutions (or MFOs) that swindle and seize debtors’ homes. Ivan Golunov’s investigation for Meduza has discovered that almost 500 apartments have been seized from their owners over the past five years without so much as a court order. In fact, this scheme involves more than simply “squeezing” people from their homes. It is possibly part of a wider, international money-laundering system. Here’s Meduza special...
Jul 19, 2019•32 min
Guest: Laurence Bogoslaw on Russians on Trump: Press Coverage and Commentary published by Eastview. The post Russians on Trump (Rebroadcast) appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 13, 2019•57 min
Manduhai Buyandelger’s keynote address “Self-Polishing and Electoral Selves: Elections and the New Economies of Democratization in Postsocialist Mongolia” given at the 2019 Annual Soyuz Symposium . The post Gender and Electoral Self-Polishing in Mongolia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 05, 2019•53 min
Guest: Tobie Mathew on Greetings From The Barricades: Revolutionary Postcards in Imperial Russia published by Four Corners Books. The post Russian Revolutionary Postcards appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 30, 2019•51 min
Guest : Joan Neuberger on This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia published by Cornell University Press. The post Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 21, 2019•52 min
Guest: Rósa Magnúsdóttir on Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 published by Oxford University Press. The post Soviet Anti-Americanism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 14, 2019•51 min
Guest: David Brandenberger on Stalin's Master Narrative: A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course published by Yale University Press. The post Stalin’s Short Course appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 07, 2019•59 min
Guest: Anna Krakus on the stories Polish police files tell us. The post The Stories Polish Secret Police Files Tell Us appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 31, 2019•47 min
Guest: Paul Hanebrink on A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism published by Harvard University Press. The post The Judeo-Bolshevik Myth appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 24, 2019•54 min
For the past several months, I've been researching the life of Lovett Fort-Whiteman. Here's a short film I made about his eventual arrest and death in Stalinist Russia. The post “The Reddest of the Blacks” appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 21, 2019•14 min
Guest: Tony Wood on Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War published by Verso. The post Russia Without Putin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 17, 2019•1 hr 7 min
Guest: Jared McBride on the Holocaust, Soviet Secret Police Archives and Local Perpetrators in Western Ukraine. The post Local Perpetrators and the Holocaust in Ukraine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 08, 2019•1 hr 1 min
Guests: Mark Galeotti, Kevin Rothrock, and Maxim Trudolyubov on making sense of Russia. The post Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 25, 2019•1 hr 35 min
Guest: Lara Douds on Inside Lenin’s Government: Power, Ideology and Practice in the Early Soviet State published by Bloomsbury. The post Lenin’s Government appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 14, 2019•1 hr
Guest: Natalia Telepneva on Soviet and Warsaw Pact intelligence services and African anti-colonial movements. The post Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 05, 2019•50 min
Guest: Katherine Reischl on Photographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors published by Cornell University Press. The post Photography and Russian Literature appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 27, 2019•47 min
Guest: Paula Michaels on Lamaze: An International History published by Oxford University Press. The post The Soviet Origins of Lamaze appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 20, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Guest: Marlene Laruelle on Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields, published by Routledge, and her edited collection Entangled Far Rights: A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the 20th Century, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The post Russian Nationalism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 10, 2019•53 min
Guest: Wilson Bell on Stalin’s Gulag at War: Forced Labor, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory in the Second World War published by the University of Toronto Press. The post The Gulag at War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 01, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Guest: Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press. The post The Kazakh Famine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 22, 2019•56 min
Guest: Sergei Antonov on Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy published by Harvard University Press. The post Lenders and Debtors in Imperial Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 16, 2019•1 hr 4 min
Guest: Ilya Yablokov on Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World published by Polity. The post Conspiracy Theories in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 08, 2019•59 min
Guest: Iva Glisic on The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930 published by Northern Illinois University Press. The post The Politics of Russian Futurism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 03, 2019•59 min
Guest: Julia Mickenberg on American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream published by the University of Chicago Press. The post American Girls in Red Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 25, 2019•57 min
Guest: Vladimir Kozlov on punk rock, perestroika, his stories and films. The post Perestroika and Punk Rock appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 20, 2019•58 min
Guest: Olena Nikolayenko on Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe published by Cambridge University Press. The post Youth Movements in Eastern Europe appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 11, 2019•59 min
Guest: Alexey Kovalev on American and Russian journalism. The post American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 14, 2018•56 min
Guests: Eurasianet 's Peter Leonard and Josh Kucera on Central Asia and the South Caucausus The post Eurasianet on Eurasia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 07, 2018•1 hr 22 min
Guest: Margaret Peacock on Soviet and American Children in the Cold War. The post Soviet and American Children in the Cold War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 05, 2018•1 hr 1 min
Guest : Steven Seegel on Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe published by University of Chicago Press. The post The Map Men of East Central Europe appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 29, 2018•1 hr 5 min
