Rebroadcast: The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev
Guest: William Taubman on Gorbachev: His Life and Times.
September 1, 2022
Communism
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
Money and Prosperity in the USSR
Guest: Kristy Ironside on A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Harvard University Press.
July 2, 2021
Tolyatti’s Avtograd District
Guest: Guido Sechi on Tolyatti: Exploring Post-Soviet Spaces, co-authored with Michele Cera is published by the Velvet Cell and VAC Foundation.
June 18, 2021
Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe
Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.
April 9, 2021
Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China
Guest: Aminda Smith on Maoism, consciousness, and the everyday.
May 29, 2020
