The Eurasian Knot

Teddy Roe took an extraordinary trip to the USSR in 1968. For three months, he travelled from one end of the USSR to the other. Most Americans at the time believed the USSR was their greatest enemy. Teddy was among tens of thousands who toured the Soviet Union. Why did Americans want to travel there? Why did the Soviets want them to come? What just what was the tourist experience like?The post Ep 1: Teddy Greets the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Drs. Carmen Andreescu and Alex Dombrovski on their work on mental health in Ukraine though the Global Initiative on Psychiatry - USA.The post Mental Health in Wartime Ukraine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Christian Raffensperger on the place of Kyivan Rus' in the wider European medieval world.The post Kyivan Rus’ appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Sean Griffin on his prize winning article “Revolution, Raskol, and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The 1,020th Anniversary of the Day of the Baptism of Rus” published in the Russian Review.The post The Day of the Baptism of Rus appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Victoria Smolkina and Georgyi Kasianov on the complexities of memory, history, and politics in narrating Ukrainian history.The post Between Memory and History in Ukraine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Artemy Troitsky reflecting on his life in the Soviet and Russian rock scenes.The post The Soviet Rock Scene appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Polly Jones and Zuzanna Bogumil on memory, politics, and trauma of Stalinism.The post Working Through Stalinism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

REEES faculty profile on Zoltan Zelemen about his research on neo-medievalism in international relations, law, and democracy.The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Zoltan Kelemen appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Ben Aris and Ilya Matveev on the Russian economy during wartime.The post The Economic War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Adrienne Edgar on Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia published by Cornell University Press.The post Mixed Marriages in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rebroadcast of my 2016 interview with the recently departed Anne Garrels, author of Putin’s Country: A Journey into the Real Russia.The post Remembering Anne Garrels appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Alessandro Iandolo and Natalia Telepneva on Soviet engagement with West Africa during the Cold War.The post Soviet Aid to West Africa appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: William Taubman on Gorbachev: His Life and Times.The post Rebroadcast: The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Jonathan Brunstedt on The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR published by Cambridge University Press.The post Soviet WWII Mythologies appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Olga Petri on Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg published by Cornell University Press.The post Queer Spaces in Imperial St. Petersburg appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Timothy Blauvelt on Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba published by Routledge.The post Clientelism in Soviet Abkhazia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Fabrizio Fenghi on It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia published by University of Wisconsin Press.The post Limonov and the National Bolsheviks appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Sarah Riccardi-Swartz on Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia published by Fordham University Press.The post Russian Orthodox Converts in Appalachia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Ilya Budraitskis on Russia's war in Ukraine, fascism, and his essay collection, Dissidents among Dissidents. Ideology, politics and The Left in Post-Soviet Russia published by Verso.The post A Dissident Among Dissidents appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova on The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure Identity published by Oxford University Press.The post Russia in the Red Mirror appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Brian Milakovsky on everyday life in the Donbas and the effort to evacuate civilians.The post Life and Death in the Donbas appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Adeeb Khalid on Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present published by Princeton University Press.The post Central Asia Past and Present appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Alexei Yurchak on perestroika, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the experiences of the last Soviet generation.The post Everything Was Forever Until appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming May 30!Teddy Goes to the USSR, a new six-part podcast series follows one such American, Teddy Roe, to shine light on Soviet tourism, police surveillance, consumerism, race, and everyday life through his extraordinary three-month trip to the Soviet Union in 1968.The post Trailer 2: Teddy Goes to the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Jeffrey Hass on The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944 published by Oxford University Press.The post Suffering and Survival in Leningrad appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming May 30! Teddy Goes to the USSR, a new six-part podcast series follows one such American, Teddy Roe, to shine light on Soviet tourism, police surveillance, consumerism, race, and everyday life through his extraordinary three-month trip to the Soviet Union in 1968.The post Trailer: Teddy Goes to the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Vladislav Zubok on Collapse: The End of the Soviet Union published by Yale University Press.The post The Collapse of the Soviet Union appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Nanci Adler on Memorial, Stalinist repression, and Russia's incomplete transitional justice.The post Stalinism, Memorial, and Perestroika appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.