The Eurasian Knot

Bella Grigoryan on Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762-1861 published by Northern Illinois University Press.The post The Nobility and the Russian Novel appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Vasili Rukhadze on post-colored revolution regimes.The post After the Colored Revolution appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Kate Brown on Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future published by Norton.The post Exposing Chernobyl appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Edward Geist on Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945-1991 published by University of North Carolina Press.The post Nuclear Bombs and Bomb Shelters appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Fyodor Lukyanov on Russia in the Middle East: Viewpoints, Policies, Strategies published by East View.The post Russia in Global Affairs appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Charles Halperin on Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish published by University of Pittsburgh Press.The post Ivan the Terrible appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 post The Stuff of Red Army Soldiers appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Ed Pulford on Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between published by Hurst.The post Russia, China and Inbetween appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Aaron Hale-Dorrell, Kristy Ironside, and Samantha Lomb on the collective farm system in the USSR.The post The Collective Farm appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Anindita Banerjee on the nuclear in Soviet and Post-Soviet Science Fiction.The post Atoms and Aliens in Eurasian Science Fiction appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Johannes Due Enstad on Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II published by Cambridge University Press.The post Russians Under Nazi Occupation appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Magdalena Stawkowski on the rural Kazakh communities in the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.The post The Radioactive Mutants of Semipalatinsk appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Andrew Sloin on The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power published by Indiana University Press.The post The Jewish Revolution in Belarus appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Sonja Schmid on Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry published by MIT Press.The post The Soviet Nuclear Industry appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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

Guest: Caress Schenk on Why Control Immigration? Strategic Uses of Migration Management in Russia published by University of Toronto Press.The post The Politics of Immigration in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Jeff Sahadeo on Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow published by Cornell University Press.The post Central Asian Migrants in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Edyta Bojanowska on A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada published by Harvard University Press.The post A Russian Voyage of Empires appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the past few weeks, protests for fair elections in upcoming municipal polls have become weekly in Moscow and St. Petersburg as thousands have defied authorities to attend unsanctioned rallies. The police crackdown has been particularly harsh in Moscow. Protests on July 27 and August 3 resulted in over 2000 detentions. Images of police in riot gear wrestling citizens to the ground and beating peaceful protesters were reminiscent of the mass protests against election fraud in 2011-2012.Members of the Russian Socialist Movement, a small Marxist, anti-Stalinist organization active in the Russian left, have been participants in local electoral campaigns and in the protests. Two RSM activists, Valeria Kovelishina and Ilya Budraitskis talk about the Russian Socialist Movement, their electoral work, the protests for democracy in Russia and what they might mean for the future.The post Russian Socialists in the Struggle for Democracy appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Roundtable discussion marking the 30th anniversary of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. Participants include Timothy Garton Ash, Bridget Kendall, and Jens Reich.The post Witnessing the Collapse of Communism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Doug Smith on Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs.The post Rasputin, the Man and the Myth (Rebroadcast) appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Around Moscow, there’s a whole industry of so-called “black creditors” — microfinance institutions (or MFOs) that swindle and seize debtors’ homes. Ivan Golunov’s investigation for Meduza has discovered that almost 500 apartments have been seized from their owners over the past five years without so much as a court order. In fact, this scheme involves more than simply “squeezing” people from their homes. It is possibly part of a wider, international money-laundering system. Here’s Meduza special correspondent Ivan Golunov on the ins and outs of this industry.The post The Evictors appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Laurence Bogoslaw on Russians on Trump: Press Coverage and Commentary published by Eastview. The post Russians on Trump (Rebroadcast) appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Manduhai Buyandelger’s keynote address “Self-Polishing and Electoral Selves: Elections and the New Economies of Democratization in Postsocialist Mongolia” given at the 2019 Annual Soyuz Symposium.The post Gender and Electoral Self-Polishing in Mongolia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Tobie Mathew on Greetings From The Barricades: Revolutionary Postcards in Imperial Russia published by Four Corners Books.The post Russian Revolutionary Postcards appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Joan Neuberger on This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia published by Cornell University Press.The post Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Rósa Magnúsdóttir on Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 published by Oxford University Press.The post Soviet Anti-Americanism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: David Brandenberger on Stalin's Master Narrative: A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course published by Yale University Press.The post Stalin’s Short Course appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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 Stalinist Russia.The post “The Reddest of the Blacks” appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

Guest: Jared McBride on the Holocaust, Soviet Secret Police Archives and Local Perpetrators in Western Ukraine.The post Local Perpetrators and the Holocaust in Ukraine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Mark Galeotti, Kevin Rothrock, and Maxim Trudolyubov on making sense of Russia.The post Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Lara Douds on Inside Lenin’s Government: Power, Ideology and Practice in the Early Soviet State published by Bloomsbury.The post Lenin’s Government appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Natalia Telepneva on Soviet and Warsaw Pact intelligence services and African anti-colonial movements. The post Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Katherine Reischl on Photographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors published by Cornell University Press.The post Photography and Russian Literature appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Paula Michaels on Lamaze: An International History published by Oxford University Press.The post The Soviet Origins of Lamaze appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Marlene Laruelle on Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields, published by Routledge, and her edited collection Entangled Far Rights: A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the 20th Century, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.The post Russian Nationalism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Toronto Press.The post The Gulag at War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press.The post The Kazakh Famine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Sergei Antonov on Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy published by Harvard University Press.The post Lenders and Debtors in Imperial Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Ilya Yablokov on Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World published by Polity.The post Conspiracy Theories in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Iva Glisic on The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930 published by Northern Illinois University Press.The post The Politics of Russian Futurism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Julia Mickenberg on American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream published by the University of Chicago Press.The post American Girls in Red Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Vladimir Kozlov on punk rock, perestroika, his stories and films. The post Perestroika and Punk Rock appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Olena Nikolayenko on Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe published by Cambridge University Press.The post Youth Movements in Eastern Europe appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Alexey Kovalev on American and Russian journalism.The post American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.