Rebroadcast: Black Sojourners to the Soviet Union

Guest: Joy Gleason Carew on Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise.

Revisiting Nashi and Russian Youth Politics

Guest: Julie Hemment on Youth Politics in Putin’s Russia: Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs.

Neoliberalism in Russia

Guest: Ilya Matveev on neoliberalism in Russia.

Gulag Town, Company Town

Guest: Alan Barenberg on Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and its Legacy in Vorkuta.

Interrogating the Power Vertical

Guest: Brian Whitmore on Putin’s power vertical.

Russia, Syria, and the Jihadist Threat

Guest: Gordon Hahn on Russia’s intervention in Syria.

Putin’s Middle East Maneuver

Guest: Talal Nezameddin on Russia, Syria, and the Middle East.

Ukraine’s Refugee Crisis

Guest: Brian Milakovsky on the humanitarian crisis in the Donbas.

Questioning Russia’s Hybrid War in Ukraine

Guest: Michael Kofman on the myths of hybrid war.

The Memorialization of WWII in Russia

Guest: Elizabeth Wood on Russia’s WWII memory.