Episodes
Aug. 24, 2018
Nation, Nationality, and Empire
Guest: Ronald Grigor Suny on nationality, nation, and empire in the Soviet Union.
Aug. 20, 2018
American-Russian Relations in the 19th Century
Guest: Norman Saul of US-Russian relations in the 19th Century
Aug. 10, 2018
Soviet Atheism
Guest: Victoria Smolkin on A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism published by Princeton University Press. - [spp-player]
Aug. 3, 2018
The Russian Mafia
Guest: Mark Galeotti on The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia published by Yale University Press. - [spp-player]
July 28, 2018
Psychotherapy and Neoliberalism in Russia
Guest: Tomas Matza on Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia published by Duke University Press. - [spp-player]
July 20, 2018
Chinese Romance with the Russian Revolution
Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution published by Oxford University Press. - [spp-player]
July 13, 2018
Collectivization and Stalinist Perpetrators
Guest: Lynne Viola on the Soviet collectivization of agriculture, resistance, and Stalinist perpetrators. - [spp-player]
July 6, 2018
The Banya is Everything
Guest: Bryon MacWilliams on With Light Steam: A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths was published by Northern Illinois University Press. [spp-player]
June 29, 2018
Russia’s A Terrible Country
Guest: Keith Gessen on America's Russia Hands and his novel A Terrible Country published by Viking. [spp-player]
June 18, 2018
Surveillance Valley
Guest: Yasha Levine on Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet published by Public Affairs Books. [spp-player]
June 9, 2018
Russian Literature and Terrorism
Guest: Lynn Patyk on Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture published by the University of Wisconsin Press. [spp-player]
June 1, 2018
Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria
Guest: Maxim Suchkov, editor of Al-Monitor’s Russia-Mideast coverage, on Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria. [spp-player]
May 18, 2018
A Memoir of Misadventures in Moscow
Guest: Michael Idov on Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin’s Moscow published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. [spp-player]
April 30, 2018
Early Soviet Urban Communes
Guest: Andy Willimott on Living the Revolution: Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1931 published Oxford University Press. [spp-player]
April 24, 2018
Putinomics
Guest: Chris Miller on Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia published by the University of North Carolina Press. - [spp-player]
April 16, 2018
The Stalin Constitution
Guest: Samantha Lomb on Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution published by Routledge. [spp-player]
April 9, 2018
The Mitki Art Collective
Guest: Alexandar Mihailovic on The Mitki: The Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia published by University of Wisconsin Press. [spp-player]
April 2, 2018
William C. Bullitt in the USSR
Guest: Alexander Etkind on Roads not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt published by Pittsburgh University Press. [spp-player]
March 23, 2018
Russia’s Long Hangover
Guest: Shaun Walker on The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past published by Oxford University Press.
March 19, 2018
Boris Savinkov and Russian Terrorism
Guest: Irina Meier on Boris Savinkov and Russian revolutionary terrorism.
March 9, 2018
The Georgian Democratic Republic
Guest: Eric Lee on The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution, 1918-1921 published by Zed Books. [spp-player]
Feb. 27, 2018
Local Identity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Vladimir
Guest: Susan Smith-Peter on Imagining Russian Regions: Civil Society and Subnational Identity in Nineteenth-Century Russia published by Brill. [spp-player]
Feb. 17, 2018
The Stalinist Film Industry
Guest: Guest: Maria Belodubrovskaya on Not According to Plan: Filmmaking under Stalin published by Cornell University Press. -
Feb. 9, 2018
Life and Times of Vladimir Dzhunkovsky
Guest: Richard Robbins on Overtaken by the Night: One Russian’s Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. [spp-player]