Remembering Anne Garrels
Rebroadcast of my 2016 interview with the recently departed Anne Garrels, author of Putin’s Country: A Journey into the Real Russia.
September 13, 2022
-isms
Rebroadcast: The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev
Guest: William Taubman on Gorbachev: His Life and Times.
September 1, 2022
A Dissident Among Dissidents
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.
June 21, 2022
Russia in the Red Mirror
Guest: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova on The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure Identity published by Oxford University Press.
June 14, 2022
The Collapse of the Soviet Union
Guest: Vladislav Zubok on Collapse: The End of the Soviet Union published by Yale University Press.
May 3, 2022
Russia’s Labor Dilemma
Stephen Crowley on Putin’s Labor Dilemma: Russian Politics between Stability and Stagnation published by Cornell University Press.
February 18, 2022
February 11, 2022
Cold War from the Margins
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.
October 18, 2021
Unpacking Alexey Navalny
Guests: Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, and Ben Noble on Navalny: Putin’s Nemesis, Russia’s Future? published by Hurst Publishers.
September 17, 2021
The Weak Strongman
Guest: Timothy Frye on Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia published by Princeton University Press.
July 30, 2021
