The Eurasian Knot

Belarus Protests in Pittsburgh

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Russian Other, American Other

18 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions.The post Russian Other, American Other appeare...

Putin Kitsch in America

11 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 E...

The Wired Cold War

04 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guests: Ekaterina Babintseva and Slava Gerovitch on cybernetics in the United States and Soviet Union.The post The Wired Cold War appeared first on Th...

Grand Duke Alexis Visits America

20 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Black Radicalism and the USSR

13 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.The post Black Radicalism and the USSR appeared f...

American Tourism to the USSR

09 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Pogroms and Race Riots

30 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

From Aliaska to Alaska

23 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guests: Bathsheba Demuth and Ilya Vinkoveysky on Russian and American colonialism and the environment in Alaska.The post From Aliaska to Alaska appear...

American Famine Relief to Soviet Russia

16 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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.Th...

Russian and American Empire

09 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire.The post Russian and American Empire appeared first on The Eurasian Kno...

Enter Dopeworld

02 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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

Russian Serfdom and American Slavery

25 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guests: Amanda Brickell Bellows and Alessandro Stanziani on Russian serfdom and American slavery.The post Russian Serfdom and American Slavery appeare...

SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move

23 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Presenting Geopolitics on the Move, a podcast series I recorded this summer with Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affairs.The post SRB ...

Protests in Belarus

11 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 m...

Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission

02 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The final two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “A Brief Conversation on Biculturalism” by Alexandra Diouk and “R...

Trash Protests and Leninopad

31 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “The Great Russian Trash Crisis” by Seth Farkas and  “An Empty Pedestal: U...

Soviet Military Masculinity

23 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova

21 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Olga Klimova.The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. H...

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan

21 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Katie Manukyan.The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan appeared first on The Eurasian Kno...

Stories Along the Trans-Siberian

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guests: Marina Dmukhovskaya and Georg Wallner about their podcast project Mesto47. The post Stories Along the Trans-Siberian appeared first on The Eu...

Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution

08 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution.The post Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution appeared first on The Eura...

Rebroadcast: The Kazakh Famine

01 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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

Russia’s Wily Man

24 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ap...

Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg

17 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Francine Hirsch on Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II published by Oxford Un...

Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music

03 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Leah Goldman on censorship and collaboration in the production of Late Stalinist classical music.The post Censorship in Late Stalinist Classica...

Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union

26 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Elissa Bemporad on Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets​ published by Oxford University Press.The po...

Plots Against Russia

19 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Eliot Borenstein on Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism published by Cornell University Press.The post Plots Against R...

The Baltics In-Between

15 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 appear...

Rebroadcast: Black Sojourners to the Soviet Union

05 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Joy Gleason Carew on Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise.The post Rebroadcast: Black Sojourners to the Sovie...

Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China

29 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Aminda Smith on Maoism, consciousness, and the everyday.The post Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Ho...

Soviet WWII Songs

22 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 app...

Hearing Communism: Part Two

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Part two of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of ...

Hearing Communism: Part One

19 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Part one of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of ...

Socialism for Realists

15 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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

China’s New Red Guards

08 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 Chin...

Ideologies of Race in Russia

01 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: David Rainbow on Ideologies of Race: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.The ...

Underground Entrepreneurs in the Soviet Union

26 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: James Heinzen on "underground entrepreneurs" and black markets in the Soviet 1950s to the 1980s.The post Underground Entrepreneurs in the Sovie...

Russian Conservatism

17 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Paul Robinson on Russian Conservatism published by Northern Illinois University Press.The post Russian Conservatism appeared first on The Euras...

Cholera in Russia

10 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

John Davis on Russia in the Time of Cholera: Disease under Romanovs and Soviets published by Bloomsbury.The post Cholera in Russia appeared first on T...

Postcolonial Socialisms in Africa

03 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Priya Lal on African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World published by Cambridge University Press.The post Pos...

Immortalism and Transhumanism in Russia

27 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Anya Bernstein on The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia published by Princeton University Press.The post ...

Objects and Values of Labor in Socialist Hungary

20 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Martha Lampland on the commodification of labor in Socialist Hungary.The post Objects and Values of Labor in Socialist Hungary appeared first o...

Political Diary from Russia

13 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Friends of the show Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev on the latest news from Russia.The post Political Diary from Russia appeared first on The Eurasi...

Structurally Adjusting Socialism

06 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Johanna Bockman on neoliberalism, socialist globalization, and the Non-Aligned Movement.The post Structurally Adjusting Socialism appeared firs...

The Nobility and the Russian Novel

28 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Bella Grigoryan on Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762-1861 published by Northern Illinois University Press.The post The Nobility a...

After the Colored Revolution

19 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Vasili Rukhadze on post-colored revolution regimes.The post After the Colored Revolution appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. ...

Exposing Chernobyl

07 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Kate Brown on Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future published by Norton.The post Exposing Chernobyl appeared first on The Eurasi...

Women of the Gulag

29 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Marianna Yarovskaya on her film Women of the Gulag.The post Women of the Gulag appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast....

Nuclear Bombs and Bomb Shelters

18 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Edward Geist on Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945-1991 published by University of North Carolina ...

Russia in Global Affairs

07 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Fyodor Lukyanov on Russia in the Middle East: Viewpoints, Policies, Strategies published by East View.The post Russia in Global Affairs appeare...

Ivan the Terrible

30 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Charles Halperin on Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish published by University of Pittsburgh Press.The post Ivan the Terribl...

The Stuff of Red Army Soldiers

18 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Brandon Schechter on The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects published by Cornell University Press.The...

Russia, China and Inbetween

07 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Ed Pulford on Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between published by Hurst.The post Russia, China and Inbetween appeared first on The...

The Collective Farm

17 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guests: Aaron Hale-Dorrell, Kristy Ironside, and Samantha Lomb on the collective farm system in the USSR.The post The Collective Farm appeared first o...

Atoms and Aliens in Eurasian Science Fiction

10 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Anindita Banerjee on the nuclear in Soviet and Post-Soviet Science Fiction.The post Atoms and Aliens in Eurasian Science Fiction appeared first...

Russians Under Nazi Occupation

03 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Johannes Due Enstad on Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II published by Cambridge University Press.The pos...

The Radioactive Mutants of Semipalatinsk

27 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Magdalena Stawkowski on the rural Kazakh communities in the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.The post The Radioactive Mutants of Semipalatinsk appeared...

The Jewish Revolution in Belarus

21 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Andrew Sloin on The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power published by Indiana University Press.The post The Jewi...

The Soviet Nuclear Industry

13 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Sonja Schmid on Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry published by MIT Press.The post The Soviet Nuclear In...

The Soviet Lives of Western Culture

24 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Eleonor Gilburd on To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture published by Harvard University Press. The post The Soviet Lives...

Investigating Hitler’s Remains

17 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Lana Parshina on The Death of Hitler: The Final Word published by Da Capo Press.The post Investigating Hitler’s Remains appeared first on Th...

The Politics of Immigration in Russia

07 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Caress Schenk on Why Control Immigration? Strategic Uses of Migration Management in Russia published by University of Toronto Press.The post Th...

Central Asian Migrants in the USSR

03 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Jeff Sahadeo on Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow published by Cornell University Press.The post Central ...

Domestic Service in the USSR

24 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Alissa Klots on domestic service and aging in the USSR.The post Domestic Service in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See...

A Russian Voyage of Empires

17 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Edyta Bojanowska on A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada published by Harvard University Press.The post A Russian Voy...

Russian Socialists in the Struggle for Democracy

10 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For the past few weeks, protests for fair elections in upcoming municipal polls have become weekly in Moscow and St. Petersburg as thousands have defi...

Witnessing the Collapse of Communism

02 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Roundtable discussion marking the 30th anniversary of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. Participants include Timothy Garton Ash, Bridget Ke...

Rasputin, the Man and the Myth (Rebroadcast)

27 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Doug Smith on Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs.The post Rasputin, the Man and the Myth (Rebroadcast) appeared first...

The Evictors

19 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Around Moscow, there’s a whole industry of so-called “black creditors” — microfinance institutions (or MFOs) that swindle and seize debtors’...

Russians on Trump (Rebroadcast)

13 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Laurence Bogoslaw on Russians on Trump: Press Coverage and Commentary published by Eastview. The post Russians on Trump (Rebroadcast) appeare...

Gender and Electoral Self-Polishing in Mongolia

05 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Manduhai Buyandelger’s keynote address “Self-Polishing and Electoral Selves: Elections and the New Economies of Democratization in Postsocialist M...

Russian Revolutionary Postcards

30 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Tobie Mathew on Greetings From The Barricades: Revolutionary Postcards in Imperial Russia published by Four Corners Books.The post Russian Rev...

Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible

21 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Joan Neuberger on This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia published by Cornell University Press.The post Eis...

Soviet Anti-Americanism

14 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Rósa Magnúsdóttir on Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 published by Oxford Univers...

Stalin’s Short Course

07 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: David Brandenberger on Stalin's Master Narrative: A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Sh...

The Stories Polish Secret Police Files Tell Us

31 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 K...

“The Reddest of the Blacks”

21 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Russia Without Putin

17 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 fir...

Local Perpetrators and the Holocaust in Ukraine

08 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Jared McBride on the Holocaust, Soviet Secret Police Archives and Local Perpetrators in Western Ukraine.The post Local Perpetrators and the Hol...

Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia

25 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guests: Mark Galeotti, Kevin Rothrock, and Maxim Trudolyubov on making sense of Russia.The post Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Ru...

Lenin’s Government

14 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Lara Douds on Inside Lenin’s Government: Power, Ideology and Practice in the Early Soviet State published by Bloomsbury.The post Lenin’s G...

Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation

05 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Natalia Telepneva on Soviet and Warsaw Pact intelligence services and African anti-colonial movements. The post Soviet Intelligence and Africa...

Photography and Russian Literature

27 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Katherine Reischl on Photographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors published by Cornell University Press.The post Photography...

The Soviet Origins of Lamaze

20 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Paula Michaels on Lamaze: An International History published by Oxford University Press.The post The Soviet Origins of Lamaze appeared first o...

Russian Nationalism

10 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Marlene Laruelle on Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields, published by Routledge, and her edited collection...

The Gulag at War

01 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 To...

The Kazakh Famine

22 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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

Lenders and Debtors in Imperial Russia

16 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Sergei Antonov on Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy published by Harv...

Conspiracy Theories in Russia

08 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Ilya Yablokov on Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World published by Polity.The post Conspiracy Theories in Russia appe...

The Politics of Russian Futurism

03 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Iva Glisic on The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930 published by Northern Illinois University Press.Th...

American Girls in Red Russia

25 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Julia Mickenberg on American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream published by the University of Chicago Press.The post American Girls...

Perestroika and Punk Rock

20 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Vladimir Kozlov on punk rock, perestroika, his stories and films.  The post Perestroika and Punk Rock appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. H...

Youth Movements in Eastern Europe

11 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Olena Nikolayenko on Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe published by Cambridge University Press.The post Youth Movements in East...

American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes

14 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Alexey Kovalev on American and Russian journalism.The post American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted ...

Eurasianet on Eurasia

07 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Guests: Eurasianet's Peter Leonard and Josh Kucera on Central Asia and the South CaucaususThe post Eurasianet on Eurasia appeared first on The Euras...

Soviet and American Children in the Cold War

05 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 E...

The Map Men of East Central Europe

29 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Steven Seegel on Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe published by University of Chica...

Communist Neverland at the Russian International Children’s Home

23 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on “Communist Neverland: New Research on a Russian International Children's Home, 1933-1991.”The post Communist Neverlan...

Decolonization and Development in Soviet Tajikistan

13 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Guest: Artemy Kalinovsky on The Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan published by Cornell U...