Guest: Marko Dumančić on Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties published by the University of Toronto Press. The post Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 13, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Guest: Andrei Tsygankov on the ongoing US-Russia rivalry. The post The US-Russia Rivalry appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 04, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Guest: Thomas Graham on the new "Cold War," the United States, Russia, and China. The post The US-Russia-China Triangle appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 28, 2021•1 hr 17 min
Guest: Mark Vincent on Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps published by Bloomsbury. The post Gulag Criminal Subculture appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 14, 2021•54 min
Guest : Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press. The post Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 07, 2021•52 min
Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War. The post Blind Activism in the Cold War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 30, 2021•58 min
Guests: Konstantin Fokin and Angelina Davydova on environmental activism in Russia. The post Environmental Activism in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 23, 2021•59 min
Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press. The post Gogol’s Town of N appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 16, 2021•50 min
Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe. The post Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Guests: Ilya Budraitskis, Svetlana Erpyleva, and Greg Yudin on Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition, and the prospects of political pluralism in Russian society. The post Navalny and Next appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 27, 2021•1 hr 17 min
Guest: Karl Qualls on Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51 published by the University of Toronto Press. The post Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Guests: Tracy McDonald and Marianna Szczygielska on zoos, non-humans, and Animal Studies in Eastern Europe and Russia The post Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 13, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Guest: David France on his film Welcome To Chechnya . The post Welcome to Chechnya appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 05, 2021•57 min
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. The post Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 26, 2021•1 hr 15 min
Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press. The post From Soso to Stalin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 12, 2021•1 hr
Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union. The post Watering the Soviet Lands appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 05, 2021•1 hr 22 min
Guest: Eric Lee on Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945 published by Greenhill Books. The post The Texel Uprising appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 29, 2021•53 min
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia--James Pickett. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 21, 2021•12 min
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Turkish instructor Iknur Lider. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Iknur Lider appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 21, 2021•13 min
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. The post The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 15, 2021•49 min
Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press. The post Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 08, 2021•54 min
I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here's what some of the protesters told me. The post Belarus Protests in Pittsburgh appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 04, 2021•10 min
Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions. The post Russian Other, American Other appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 32 min
Guest : Alison Rowley on Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen's University Press. The post Putin Kitsch in America appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 11, 2020•58 min
Guests: Ekaterina Babintseva and Slava Gerovitch on cybernetics in the United States and Soviet Union. The post The Wired Cold War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Guest: Lee Farrow on Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke's Tour, 1871-72 published by Louisiana State University Press. The post Grand Duke Alexis Visits America appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 20, 2020•51 min
Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism. The post Black Radicalism and the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 13, 2020•1 hr 21 min
Guest: Andrew Jacobs on American tourism to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The post American Tourism to the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 09, 2020•56 min
Guests: Steven Zipperstein and Michael Pfeifer on anti-Jewish and anti-Black violence in Russia and the United States. The post Pogroms and Race Riots appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 30, 2020•1 hr 28 min
Guests: Bathsheba Demuth and Ilya Vinkoveysky on Russian and American colonialism and the environment in Alaska. The post From Aliaska to Alaska appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 23, 2020•1 hr 17 min