Episodes - Page 11 | The Eurasian Knot

March 27, 2019

Photography and Russian Literature

Guest: Katherine Reischl on Photographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors published by Cornell University Press.

March 20, 2019

The Soviet Origins of Lamaze

Guest: Paula Michaels on Lamaze: An International History published by Oxford University Press.

March 10, 2019

Guest: Marlene Laruelle on Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields, published by Routledge, and her edited collection Entangled Far Rights: A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the 20th …

March 1, 2019

The Gulag at War

Guest: Wilson Bell on Stalin’s Gulag at War: Forced Labor, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory in the Second World War published by the University of Toronto Press.

Feb. 22, 2019

The Kazakh Famine

Guest: Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press.

Feb. 16, 2019

Lenders and Debtors in Imperial Russia

Guest: Sergei Antonov on Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy published by Harvard University Press.

Feb. 8, 2019

Conspiracy Theories in Russia

Guest: Ilya Yablokov on Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World published by Polity.

Feb. 3, 2019

The Politics of Russian Futurism

Guest: Iva Glisic on The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930 published by Northern Illinois University Press.

Jan. 25, 2019

American Girls in Red Russia

Guest: Julia Mickenberg on American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream published by the University of Chicago Press.

Jan. 20, 2019

Perestroika and Punk Rock

Guest: Vladimir Kozlov on punk rock, perestroika, his stories and films.

Jan. 11, 2019

Youth Movements in Eastern Europe

Guest: Olena Nikolayenko on Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe published by Cambridge University Press.

Dec. 14, 2018

American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes

Guest: Alexey Kovalev on American and Russian journalism.

Dec. 7, 2018

Eurasianet on Eurasia

Guests: Eurasianet's Peter Leonard and Josh Kucera on Central Asia and the South Caucausus

Nov. 5, 2018

Soviet and American Children in the Cold War

Guest: Margaret Peacock on Soviet and American Children in the Cold War.

Oct. 29, 2018

The Map Men of East Central Europe

Guest: Steven Seegel on Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe published by University of Chicago Press.

Oct. 23, 2018

Communist Neverland at the Russian International Children’s Home

Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on “Communist Neverland: New Research on a Russian International Children's Home, 1933-1991.”

Oct. 13, 2018

Decolonization and Development in Soviet Tajikistan

Guest: Artemy Kalinovsky on The Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan published by Cornell University Press.

Oct. 7, 2018