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The Eurasian Knot

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To many, Russia, and the wider Eurasia, is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. But it doesn’t have to be. The Eurasian Knot dispels the stereotypes and myths about the region with lively and informative interviews on Eurasia’s complex past, present, and future. New episodes drop weekly with an eclectic mix of topics from punk rock to Putin, and everything in-between. Subscribe on your favorite podcasts app, grab your headphones, hit play, and tune in. Eurasia will never appear the same.

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Episodes

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. The post American Famine Relief to Soviet Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Oct 16, 202056 min

Russian and American Empire

Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire. The post Russian and American Empire appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 09, 20201 hr 24 min

Enter Dopeworld

Guest: Niko Vorobyov on the adventures in dopeworld. The post Enter Dopeworld appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 02, 202053 min

Russian Serfdom and American Slavery

Guests: Amanda Brickell Bellows and Alessandro Stanziani on Russian serfdom and American slavery. The post Russian Serfdom and American Slavery appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 25, 20201 hr 8 min

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 Affair s. The post SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Sep 23, 20201 hr 1 min

Protests in Belarus

Elena Gapova on the protests in Belarus. The post Protests in Belarus appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 11, 202047 min

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. The post Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Sep 02, 202029 min

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. The post Trash Protests and Leninopad appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 31, 202024 min

Soviet Military Masculinity

Guest: Erica Fraser on Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union published by the University of Toronto Press. The post Soviet Military Masculinity appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Aug 23, 202049 min

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Olga Klimova. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 21, 202016 min

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Katie Manukyan. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 21, 202014 min

Stories Along the Trans-Siberian

Guests : Marina Dmukhovskaya and Georg Wallner about their podcast project Mesto47 . The post Stories Along the Trans-Siberian appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 17, 202056 min

Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution

Guest: Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution. The post Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 08, 202049 min

Rebroadcast: The Kazakh Famine

Guest: Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press. The post Rebroadcast: The Kazakh Famine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Aug 01, 202056 min

Russia’s Wily Man

Joshua Yaffa on Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia published by Penguin Random House. The post Russia’s Wily Man appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jul 24, 202057 min

Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg

Guest: Francine Hirsch on Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II published by Oxford University Press. The post Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jul 17, 20201 hr 4 min

Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music

Guest: Leah Goldman on censorship and collaboration in the production of Late Stalinist classical music. The post Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 03, 20201 hr 7 min

Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union

Guest: Elissa Bemporad on Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets ​ published by Oxford University Press. The post Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 26, 202049 minEp. 194

Plots Against Russia

Guest: Eliot Borenstein on Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism published by Cornell University Press. The post Plots Against Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 19, 202057 min

The Baltics In-Between

Guest: Aliide Naylor on The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front published by Bloomsbury. The post The Baltics In-Between appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 15, 202057 min

Rebroadcast: Black Sojourners to the Soviet Union

Guest: Joy Gleason Carew on Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise . The post Rebroadcast: Black Sojourners to the Soviet Union appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 05, 202044 min

Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China

Guest: Aminda Smith on Maoism, consciousness, and the everyday. The post Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 29, 20201 hr

Soviet WWII Songs

Guest: Suzanne Ament on Sing to Victory! Song in Soviet Society during World War II published by Academic Studies Press. The post Soviet WWII Songs appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

May 22, 20201 hr 1 min

Hearing Communism: Part Two

Part two of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of Pittsburgh. The post Hearing Communism: Part Two appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 21, 202034 min

Hearing Communism: Part One

Part one of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of Pittsburgh. The post Hearing Communism: Part One appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 19, 202032 min

Socialism for Realists

Guest: Sam Gindin on socialism for realists. The post Socialism for Realists appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 15, 20201 hr 11 min

China’s New Red Guards

Jude Blanchette on China’s New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong published by Oxford University Press. The post China’s New Red Guards appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

May 08, 20201 hr 13 min

Ideologies of Race in Russia

Guest: David Rainbow on Ideologies of Race: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. The post Ideologies of Race in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

May 01, 20201 hr 4 min

Underground Entrepreneurs in the Soviet Union

Guest: James Heinzen on "underground entrepreneurs" and black markets in the Soviet 1950s to the 1980s. The post Underground Entrepreneurs in the Soviet Union appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 26, 20201 hr 8 min

Russian Conservatism

Guest: Paul Robinson on Russian Conservatism published by Northern Illinois University Press. The post Russian Conservatism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 17, 202059 min
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