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Guest: Isaac Scarborough on perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet system in Tajikistan. The post Perestroika in the Periphery: Tajikistan appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Guest: Brigid O'Keeffe on Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia published by Bloomsbury. The post Esperanto in Revolutionary Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Guest: Mie Nakachi on Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Oxford University Press. The post Soviet Pronatalism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Guest: Courtney Doucette on letter writing, Nina Andreeva, and perestroika "from below." The post Letters to Perestroika appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Guest: Geoffrey Roberts on Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books published by Yale University Press. The post Stalin and His Books appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
This discussion was recorded on Wednesday, February 23, 2022, the morning before Russia invaded Ukraine. Guests: Michael Kimmage, Marlene Laruelle, and Fyodor Lukyanov on the ongoing geopolitical crisis between Russia, Ukraine and the West. The post Russia, Ukraine, and the West appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Stephen Crowley on Putin’s Labor Dilemma: Russian Politics between Stability and Stagnation published by Cornell University Press. The post Russia’s Labor Dilemma appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Guest: Tom Junes on Poland in the 1980s and its legacies. The post Ditching Communism in Poland appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Guest: Catriona Kelly on Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev published by Oxford University Press. The post The Lenfilm Art House appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Guest: Alexey Golubev on The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia published by Cornell University Press. The post The Things of Late Soviet Life appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Juliane Furst on Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in the Soviet Hippieland and Beyond published by Oxford University Press. The post Soviet Flower Power appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Guest: The Americans creator Joe Weisberg on Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy from the Second Cold War published by Public Affairs. The post Russia Upside Down appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Guest: Russell Martin on the recent wedding of George Romanov and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini. The post The Return of the Romanovs appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Guest: Theodora Dragostinova on The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene , was published by Cornell University Press. The post Cold War from the Margins appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Guest: Irina Erman on her article “ Nation and Vampiric Narration in Aleksey Tolstoy’s “The Family of the Vourdalak ” published in the January 2020 issue of The Russian Review . The post The Vampires of A. K. Tolstoy appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Guest: Clare Ibarra on scientific exchange between Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The post Cuban-Soviet Scientific Exchanges appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Guest: Constantin Katsakioris on the experience of African students in the USSR during the Cold War. The post African Students in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Guests: Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, and Ben Noble on Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? published by Hurst Publishers. The post Unpacking Alexey Navalny appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Guests: Michael Kofman and Dmitry Gorenburg give an update on the Russian military. The post Revisiting the Russian Military appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Guest: Alexander Morrison on The Russian Conquest of Central Asia published by Cambridge University Press. The post Russian Conquest of Central Asia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
REEES faculty profile on Ana Sekulic and her work on Catholic-Muslim relations in Bosnia under the Ottoman empire. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Ana Sekulic appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
REEES faculty profile of Attila Kenyeres on his research into media manipulation and "fake news." The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Attila Kenyeres appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Guest: Faith Hillis on Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Exiles and the Quest for Freedom, 1830–1930 published by Oxford University Press. The post Russian Revolutionaries in Exile appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Guest: Timothy Frye on Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia published by Princeton University Press. The post The Weak Strongman appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Russell Martin on The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495–1745 published by Cornell University Press. The post Weddings and Power in Early Modern Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
SRB interns Amelia Parlier and Felix Helbing dive into the weird world of advice columns. Two unlikely parings on the block—Komsomol decorum and the diva of dish, Emily Post. It’s wine and cheese! The post Wine and Cheese: Komsomol Etiquette and Emily Post appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Guest: Tricia Starks on Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press. The post Rebroadcast: Smoking Under the Tsars appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Guest: Kristy Ironside on A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Harvard University Press. The post Money and Prosperity in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dina Fainberg on Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines published by John Hopkins University Press. The post Cold War Correspondents appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Guest: Guido Sechi on Tolyatti: Exploring Post-Soviet Spaces , co-authored with Michele Cera is published by the Velvet Cell and VAC Foundation. The post Tolyatti’s Avtograd District appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
