The Eurasian Knot

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.

Guest: Marko Dumančić on Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties published by the University of Toronto Press.The post Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Andrei Tsygankov on the ongoing US-Russia rivalry.The post The US-Russia Rivalry appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Thomas Graham on the new "Cold War," the United States, Russia, and China.The post The US-Russia-China Triangle appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Mark Vincent on Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps published by Bloomsbury.The post Gulag Criminal Subculture appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press.The post Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War.The post Blind Activism in the Cold War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Konstantin Fokin and Angelina Davydova on environmental activism in Russia.The post Environmental Activism in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press.The post Gogol’s Town of N appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.The post Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Ilya Budraitskis, Svetlana Erpyleva, and Greg Yudin on Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition, and the prospects of political pluralism in Russian society.The post Navalny and Next appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Karl Qualls on Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51 published by the University of Toronto Press.The post Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Tracy McDonald and Marianna Szczygielska on zoos, non-humans, and Animal Studies in Eastern Europe and RussiaThe post Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: David France on his film Welcome To Chechnya.The post Welcome to Chechnya appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Valerie Kivelson and Christine Worobec on witches, magic, spells in their new sourcebook Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 published by Cornell University Press.The post Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press.The post From Soso to Stalin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.The post Watering the Soviet Lands appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Eric Lee on Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945 published by Greenhill Books.The post The Texel Uprising appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia--James Pickett.The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Turkish instructor Iknur Lider.The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Iknur Lider appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen's University Press.The post The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.The post Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions.The post Russian Other, American Other appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Ekaterina Babintseva and Slava Gerovitch on cybernetics in the United States and Soviet Union.The post The Wired Cold War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Visits America appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.The post Black Radicalism and the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Bathsheba Demuth and Ilya Vinkoveysky on Russian and American colonialism and the environment in Alaska.The post From Aliaska to Alaska appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.The post American Famine Relief to Soviet Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire.The post Russian and American Empire appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

Guests: Amanda Brickell Bellows and Alessandro Stanziani on Russian serfdom and American slavery.The post Russian Serfdom and American Slavery appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Presents: Geopolitics on the Move appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 more information.

The final two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “A Brief Conversation on Biculturalism” by Alexandra Diouk and “Remembering the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Mission: 45 years of US-Russian Space Cooperation” by Lisa Becker.The post Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “The Great Russian Trash Crisis” by Seth Farkas and “An Empty Pedestal: Ukraine after Leninopad” by Sabrina Beaver.The post Trash Protests and Leninopad appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Erica Fraser on Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union published by the University of Toronto Press.The post Soviet Military Masculinity appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Olga Klimova.The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Katie Manukyan.The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Marina Dmukhovskaya and Georg Wallner about their podcast project Mesto47. The post Stories Along the Trans-Siberian appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.