Episodes

Guest: Courtney Doucette on letter writing, Nina Andreeva, and perestroika "from below."

Guest: Geoffrey Roberts on Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books published by Yale University Press.

This discussion was recorded on Wednesday, February 23, 2022, the morning before Russia invaded Ukraine. -   - Guests: Michael Kimmage, Marlene Laruelle, and Fyodor Lukyanov on the ongoing geopolitical crisis between Russia, Ukraine and the West.

Stephen Crowley on Putin’s Labor Dilemma: Russian Politics between Stability and Stagnation published by Cornell University Press.

Guest: Tom Junes on Poland in the 1980s and its legacies.

Guest: Catriona Kelly on Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev published by Oxford University Press.

Guest: Alexey Golubev on The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia published by Cornell University Press.

Juliane Furst on Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in the Soviet Hippieland and Beyond published by Oxford University Press.

Guest: The Americans creator Joe Weisberg on Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy from the Second Cold War published by Public Affairs.

Guest: Russell Martin on the recent wedding of George Romanov and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini.

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.

Guest: Irina Erman on her article “Nation and Vampiric Narration in Aleksey Tolstoy’s “The Family of the Vourdalak” published in the January 2020 issue of The Russian Review.

Guest: Clare Ibarra on scientific exchange between Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Guest: Constantin Katsakioris on the experience of African students in the USSR during the Cold War.

Guests: Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, and Ben Noble on Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? published by Hurst Publishers.

Guests: Michael Kofman and Dmitry Gorenburg give an update on the Russian military.

Guest: Alexander Morrison on The Russian Conquest of Central Asia published by Cambridge University Press.

REEES faculty profile on Ana Sekulic and her work on Catholic-Muslim relations in Bosnia under the Ottoman empire.

REEES faculty profile of Attila Kenyeres on his research into media manipulation and "fake news."

Guest: Faith Hillis on Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Exiles and the Quest for Freedom, 1830–1930 published by Oxford University Press.

Guest: Timothy Frye on Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia published by Princeton University Press.

Russell Martin on The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495–1745 published by Cornell University Press.

SRB interns Amelia Parlier and Felix Helbing dive into the weird world of advice columns. Two unlikely parings on the block—Komsomol decorum and the diva of dish, Emily Post. It’s wine and cheese!

Guest: Tricia Starks on Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press.