Remembering Anne Garrels
Rebroadcast of my 2016 interview with the recently departed Anne Garrels, author of Putinās Country: A Journey into the Real Russia.
September 13, 2022
Politics
Limonov and the National Bolsheviks
Guest: Fabrizio Fenghi on It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia published by University of Wisconsin Press.
July 14, 2022
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 Putinās Russia published by Princeton University Press.
July 30, 2021
Navalny and Next
Guests: Ilya Budraitskis, Svetlana Erpyleva, and Greg Yudin on Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition, and the prospects of political pluralism in Russian society.
March 27, 2021
Putin Kitsch in America
Guest: Alison Rowley onĀ Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
December 11, 2020
Trash Protests and Leninopad
Two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. āThe Great Russian Trash Crisisā by Seth Farkas andĀ āAn Empty Pedestal: Ukraine after Leninopadā by Sabrina Beaver.
August 31, 2020
Russia’s Wily Man
Joshua Yaffa on Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia published by Penguin Random House.
July 24, 2020
Russian Conservatism
Guest: Paul Robinson on Russian Conservatism published by Northern Illinois University Press.
April 17, 2020
Russian Nationalism
Guest: Marlene Laruelle on Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields,Ā 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.
March 10, 2019
