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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.

Guests: Eurasianet's Peter Leonard and Josh Kucera on Central Asia and the South CaucaususThe post Eurasianet on Eurasia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Margaret Peacock on Soviet and American Children in the Cold War.The post Soviet and American Children in the Cold War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Steven Seegel on Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe published by University of Chicago Press.The post The Map Men of East Central Europe appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on “Communist Neverland: New Research on a Russian International Children's Home, 1933-1991.”The post Communist Neverland at the Russian International Children’s Home appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Artemy Kalinovsky on The Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan published by Cornell University Press.The post Decolonization and Development in Soviet Tajikistan appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Matthias Neumann on communism, youth, and generation.The post Communism, Youth and Generation appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Elisabeth Schimpfossl on Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie published by Oxford University Press.The post Rich Russians appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

Guest: Richard Wortman on the Russian monarchy, symbolism, and ritual.The post The Russian Monarchy’s Scenarios of Power appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

Guest: Lesley Chamberlain on The Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution published by Reaktion Books.The post The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 information.

Guest: Ronald Grigor Suny on nationality, nation, and empire in the Soviet Union.The post Nation, Nationality, and Empire appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Norman Saul of US-Russian relations in the 19th CenturyThe post American-Russian Relations in the 19th Century appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Victoria Smolkin on A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism published by Princeton University Press.[spp-player]The post Soviet Atheism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

Guest: Tomas Matza on Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia published by Duke University Press.[spp-player]The post Psychotherapy and Neoliberalism in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution published by Oxford University Press.[spp-player]The post Chinese Romance with the Russian Revolution appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Lynne Viola on the Soviet collectivization of agriculture, resistance, and Stalinist perpetrators.[spp-player]The post Collectivization and Stalinist Perpetrators appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Bryon MacWilliams on With Light Steam: A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths was published by Northern Illinois University Press.[spp-player]The post The Banya is Everything appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

Guest: Yasha Levine on Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet published by Public Affairs Books.[spp-player]The post Surveillance Valley appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Lynn Patyk on Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture published by the University of Wisconsin Press.[spp-player]The post Russian Literature and Terrorism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Maxim Suchkov, editor of Al-Monitor’s Russia-Mideast coverage, on Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria.[spp-player]The post Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

Guest: Andy Willimott on Living the Revolution: Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1931 published Oxford University Press.[spp-player]The post Early Soviet Urban Communes appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.