Between Memory and History in Ukraine
November 11, 2022
Guests: Victoria Smolkina and Georgyi Kasianov on the complexities of memory, history, and politics in narrating Ukrainian history.
Past Interviews
The Soviet Rock Scene
November 4, 2022
Guest: Artemy Troitsky reflecting on his life in the Soviet and Russian rock scenes.
Working Through Stalinism
October 26, 2022
Guests: Polly Jones and Zuzanna Bogumil on memory, politics, and trauma of Stalinism.
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Zoltan Kelemen
October 7, 2022
REEES faculty profile on Zoltan Zelemen about his research on neo-medievalism in international relations, law, and democracy.
The Economic War
September 27, 2022
Guests: Ben Aris and Ilya Matveev on the Russian economy during wartime.
Mixed Marriages in the USSR
September 20, 2022
Guest: Adrienne Edgar on Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia published by Cornell University Press.
Remembering Anne Garrels
September 13, 2022
Rebroadcast of my 2016 interview with the recently departed Anne Garrels, author of Putin’s Country: A Journey into the Real Russia.
Soviet Aid to West Africa
September 6, 2022
Guests: Alessandro Iandolo and Natalia Telepneva on Soviet engagement with West Africa during the Cold War.
Rebroadcast: The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev
September 1, 2022
Guest: William Taubman on Gorbachev: His Life and Times.
Soviet WWII Mythologies
August 9, 2022
Guest: Jonathan Brunstedt on The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR published by Cambridge University Press.
