Useable Pasts? Shamans, Spirituality and Resistance
Guest: Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer on the evolution of indigeneity and religion across the Soviet and post-Soviet divide.
October 13, 2023
Cornell University Press
Lived Religion in Ukraine
Guest: Catherine Wanner on lived religion in Ukraine, belief, belonging and community, and the impact of the war on religion.
August 4, 2023
The Nivkhi of Sakhalin
Guest: Bruce Grant revisits his book, In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas, on the Nivkhi of Sakhalin, their Soviet experience, and the complexities of indigeneity.
July 17, 2023
Mixed Marriages in the USSR
Guest: Adrienne Edgar on Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia published by Cornell University Press.
September 20, 2022
Soviet Aid to West Africa
Guests: Alessandro Iandolo and Natalia Telepneva on Soviet engagement with West Africa during the Cold War.
September 6, 2022
Queer Spaces in Imperial St. Petersburg
Guest: Olga Petri on Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg published by Cornell University Press.
August 2, 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
The Things of Late Soviet Life
Guest: Alexey Golubev on The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia published by Cornell University Press.
November 15, 2021
The Return of the Romanovs
Guest: Russell Martin on the recent wedding of George Romanov and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini.
October 22, 2021
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
