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Christianity in China

Guests: Fenggang Yang and Kung Lap Yan on Christianity, worship, and religious persecution in China.

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Kyivan Rus’


Guest: Christian Raffensperger on the place of Kyivan Rus’ in the wider European medieval world.

The Soviet Rock Scene


Guest: Artemy Troitsky reflecting on his life in the Soviet and Russian rock scenes.

The Economic War

Guests: Ben Aris and Ilya Matveev on the Russian economy during wartime.

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.

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