The Eurasian Knot
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Communism, Youth and Generation
07 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Matthias Neumann on communism, youth, and generation.The post Communism, Youth and Generation appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Ac...
Rich Russians
01 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Elisabeth Schimpfossl on Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie published by Oxford University Press.The post Rich Russians appeared fir...
Kazakh Nomads Under Lenin and Stalin
22 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Alun Thomas on Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia from Lenin to Stalin published by I.B. Tauris.The post Kazakh Nomads Under Lenin and Stali...
The Russian Monarchy’s Scenarios of Power
15 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Richard Wortman on the Russian monarchy, symbolism, and ritual.The post The Russian Monarchy’s Scenarios of Power appeared first on The Euras...
Social-Economic Life in the Donbas
07 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Brian Milakovsky on the social and economic situation in the Donbas.The post Social-Economic Life in the Donbas appeared first on The Eurasian ...
The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution
31 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Lesley Chamberlain on The Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution published by Reaktion Books.The post The Beautiful Sto...
SRB on the Dig Podcast
29 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Me, your host, on The Dig Podcast.The post SRB on the Dig Podcast appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
Nation, Nationality, and Empire
24 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Ronald Grigor Suny on nationality, nation, and empire in the Soviet Union.The post Nation, Nationality, and Empire appeared first on The Eurasi...
American-Russian Relations in the 19th Century
19 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Norman Saul of US-Russian relations in the 19th CenturyThe post American-Russian Relations in the 19th Century appeared first on The Eurasian K...
Soviet Atheism
10 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Victoria Smolkin on A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism published by Princeton University Press.[spp-player]The post So...
The Russian Mafia
03 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Mark Galeotti on The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia published by Yale University Press.[spp-player]The post The Russian Mafia appeared first on ...
Psychotherapy and Neoliberalism in Russia
28 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Tomas Matza on Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia published by Duke University Press.[spp-player]The ...
Chinese Romance with the Russian Revolution
20 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution published by Oxford University Press.[spp-p...
Collectivization and Stalinist Perpetrators
13 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Lynne Viola on the Soviet collectivization of agriculture, resistance, and Stalinist perpetrators.[spp-player]The post Collectivization and Sta...
The Banya is Everything
06 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Bryon MacWilliams on With Light Steam: A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths was published by Northern Illinois University Press.[spp-p...
Russia’s A Terrible Country
29 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Keith Gessen on America's Russia Hands and his novel A Terrible Country published by Viking.[spp-player]The post Russia’s A Terrible Country ...
Surveillance Valley
18 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Yasha Levine on Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet published by Public Affairs Books.[spp-player]The post Survei...
Russian Literature and Terrorism
09 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Lynn Patyk on Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture published by the University of Wisconsin Press.[spp-playe...
Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria
01 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Maxim Suchkov, editor of Al-Monitor’s Russia-Mideast coverage, on Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria.[spp-player]The post Russia, Israel, Iran a...
A Memoir of Misadventures in Moscow
18 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Michael Idov on Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin’s Moscow published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.[spp-player]The post A Memoir...
Early Soviet Urban Communes
30 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Andy Willimott on Living the Revolution: Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1931 published Oxford University Press.[spp-player]The pos...
Putinomics
24 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Chris Miller on Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia published by the University of North Carolina Press.[spp-player]The post Putin...
The Stalin Constitution
16 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Samantha Lomb on Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution published by Routle...
The Mitki Art Collective
09 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Alexandar Mihailovic on The Mitki: The Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia published by University of Wisconsin Press.[spp-player]The post Th...
William C. Bullitt in the USSR
02 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Alexander Etkind on Roads not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt published by Pittsburgh University Press.[spp-player]Th...
Russia’s Long Hangover
23 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Shaun Walker on The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past published by Oxford University Press.The post Russia’s Lo...
Boris Savinkov and Russian Terrorism
19 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Irina Meier on Boris Savinkov and Russian revolutionary terrorism.The post Boris Savinkov and Russian Terrorism appeared first on The Eurasian ...
The Georgian Democratic Republic
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Eric Lee on The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution, 1918-1921 published by Zed Books.[spp-player]The post The Georgian Democratic Re...
Local Identity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Vladimir
27 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Susan Smith-Peter on Imagining Russian Regions: Civil Society and Subnational Identity in Nineteenth-Century Russia published by Brill.[spp-pl...
The Stalinist Film Industry
17 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest:Guest: Maria Belodubrovskaya on Not According to Plan: Filmmaking under Stalin published by Cornell University Press. The post The Stalinist F...
Life and Times of Vladimir Dzhunkovsky
09 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Richard Robbins on Overtaken by the Night: One Russian’s Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror published by the University of P...
Old Age and Claustrophobia in Putin’s Russia
26 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Evgenia Kovda on her film Podrugi (Girlfriends), a tale of old age and claustrophobia in Putin's Russia.[spp-player]The post Old Age and Claustropho...
The Ethics of Soviet Journalism
19 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Natalia Roudakova on Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia published by Cambridge University Press.[spp-player]The post The...
Deaf in the Soviet Union
11 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Claire Shaw on Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991. The post Deaf in the Soviet Union appeared first on ...
The Russian Revolution as Utopian Leap in the Open Air of History
24 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Steinberg on the symbolism of angels, wings, and flight in the Russian Revolution.[spp-player]The post The Russian Revolution as Utopian Leap in ...
The Epic of the House of Government
29 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Yuri Slezkine on The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution.[spp-player]The post The Epic of the House of Government appeared fi...
Assessing the Russian Military
19 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Michael Kofman on the Russian military.The post Assessing the Russian Military appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast....
Daughter of the Cold War
08 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Grace Kennan Warnecke on growing up in George F. Kennan's shadow.The post Daughter of the Cold War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted ...
American History Through Russian Eyes
30 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Ivan Kurilla on American studies in Russia.The post American History Through Russian Eyes appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast....
Young Communists Under Stalin
21 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Seth Bernstein on Raised Under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism.The post Young Communists Under Stalin appeared first on T...
Russian LGBTQ and New Left Activism
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Jessica Mason on LGBTQ activism and the New Left in Russia.The post Russian LGBTQ and New Left Activism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. H...
Russian and American Internal Colonization
07 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Steve Sabol on “The Touch of Civilization” Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization. The post Russian and American Internal C...
Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
29 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Brendan McGeever on the Bolsheviks and antisemitism.The post Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hos...
The Politics of Russia’s Apartment Demolition
24 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Maxim Trudolubov on Moscow's apartment demolition plans.The post The Politics of Russia’s Apartment Demolition appeared first on The Eurasian...
Feminists in the Maidan
17 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Emily Channell-Justice on feminist activism and the Maidan.The post Feminists in the Maidan appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Aca...
The Early Modern Russian Empire
08 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Nancy Kollmann on The Russian Empire, 1450-1801.The post The Early Modern Russian Empire appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast....
Women, Resistance, and Revolution
01 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Sheila Rowbotham on a lifetime of socialist feminist activism. [spp-player]The post Women, Resistance, and Revolution appeared first on The Eu...
Retrospective on Stalinism
07 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Sheila Fitzpatrick on Stalinism.The post Retrospective on Stalinism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
SRB on This is Hell!
03 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A This is Hell! interview with your humble host.The post SRB on This is Hell! appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...
Stalin’s Last Days
31 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Joshua Rubenstein on The Last Days of Stalin.The post Stalin’s Last Days appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
Russia and Its Near Abroad
24 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Gerard Toal on Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus.The post Russia and Its Near Abroad appeared first o...
Protest in Putin’s Russia
14 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Mischa Gabowitsch on Protest in Putin’s Russia.The post Protest in Putin’s Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. ...