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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

Interviews with Scholars of Russia and Eurasia about their New Books

New Books Network

1,050 episodesEN

Show overview

New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies has been publishing since 2008, and across the 18 years since has built a catalogue of 1,050 episodes. That works out to over 1000 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 50 min and 1h 7m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Society & Culture show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 69 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 144 episodes published. Published by New Books Network.

Episodes
1,050
Running
2008–2026 · 18y
Median length
58 min
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/russian-studies

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's March 1917 with Marian Schwartz and Dan Mahoney (U Notre Dame Press, 2017)

Oct 12, 202653 min

Painting Paranoia: Cold War Art and Anti-Communism with Julia Bailey (U Illinois Press, 2026)

Oct 10, 202640 min

A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet with Daria S. Smirnova (Academic Studies Press, 2025)

Oct 9, 202657 min

The Steppe and Its Empires: The Russian Empire and Its Eurasian Counterparts

Oct 8, 202641 min

The Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy with Nataliya Kibita (Oxford UP, 2024)

Oct 6, 202639 min

Soviet Blocks: The Bizarre Puzzle of How Tetris Embraced Western Values with Julien Mailland (MIT Press, 2026)

Oct 5, 202636 min

The Steppe and Its Empires: The Russian Empire and Its Eurasian Counterparts with Michael Khodarkovsky (Yale UP, 2026)

Oct 5, 20261h 12m

Into the Reich: The Red Army’s Advance to the Oder in 1945 with Prit Buttar (Osprey, 2025)

Oct 2, 20261h 26m

Tamara Hundorova, "Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma" (Academic Studies Press, 2026)

Sep 19, 202646 min

David L Hoffmann, "Women, Gender, and Socialist Ideology in Soviet Russia" (Routledge, 2026)

Sep 16, 202658 min

Nikhil Kalyanpur, "Legal Weapons of the Wealthy: The Offshoring of Elite Conflict in Emerging Markets" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Sep 4, 202632 min

Tom Trier, "Blue Sea, Black Gold, Red Banner: The South Caucasus and Scandinavia, 1880s–1920s" (Northern Illinois UP, 2026)

Aug 30, 20261h 3m

Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell, "'PS: Burn after Reading': The Kellock-Taschereau Commission and Soviet Espionage" (U Toronto Press, 2026)

Aug 29, 202656 min

Ukrainian Men Fleeing Conscription: A Discussion with Writer Dan Storyev

Aug 27, 202650 min

After Putin: A Discussion with Political Scientist Julian G. Waller

Aug 25, 202653 min

Yulia Gradskova et al., "Good Mothers, Nations and Nationalisms: Cases from Lithuania, Russia and Sweden" (CEU Press, 2026)

Aug 13, 202656 min

Marisa Karyl Franz, "Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Aug 9, 202656 min

Russia’s Jews in World War I

Aug 8, 2026

Yana Skorobogatov, "Fate in My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Union" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Aug 8, 20261h 0m

Luca Anceschi, "Pandemic Politics in Central Asia: Authoritarian Contagion" (Routledge, 2026)

Aug 2, 20261h 0m
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