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The Eurasian Knot

To many, Russia, and the wider Eurasia, is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. But it doesn’t have to be. The Eurasian Knot dispels the stereotypes and myths about the region with lively and informative interviews on Eurasia’s complex past, present, and future. New episodes drop weekly with an eclectic mix of topics from punk rock to Putin, and everything in-between. Subscribe on your favorite podcasts app, grab your headphones, hit play, and tune in. Eurasia will never appear the same. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...

Mon, April 07, 2025
Kicking the Hydrocarbon Habit
One daunting challenge to addressing climate change is to kick our addiction to hydrocarbons. But this is easier said than done. Hydrocarbons remain the fuel of modernity. And a transition to renewable energy requires massive state intervention. How do we get from our carbon-based present to a green future? Especially in regions like Eastern Europe and Chin, that still rely heavily on oil, gas and coal. In this third event in our series, Eurasian Environments, the Eurasian Knot has paired Pawel Cyzyak, an expert on energy in Eastern Europe, and Zhaokin Zeng, an economic historian of China, to discuss the legacies of state socialist economies, the challenges of transitioning to renewables, their past and present reliance on Russia, the role of geopolitics, and how a turn to EVs presents different challenges, especially as electricity is still generated by coal. Guests: Zhaojin Zeng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Philosophy and Geography at Texas A&M University. His first book project is “Engineering Modern China: Industrial Factories and the Transformation of the Chinese Economy in the Long Twentieth Century.” Pawel Czyzak is an economist, engineer, expert on climate and energy policy, and author of several dozen publications on energy transformation in Europe. He is currently associated with the global energy think-tank Ember. As a consultant he has advised, among others, the largest European energy companies and the World Bank. He’s also an aspiring farmer. Send us your sounds! Patreon Knotty News Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, March 31, 2025
Seizing the Donbas
In 2014, in the wake of the Maidan in Kyiv and Russia’s annexation of Crimea, small groups of Russian-backed militias began seizing towns in the Donbas. The militias quickly declared the creation of two independent republics, the Donbas People’s Republic (DNR) and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR). How did this happen? And so quickly? Was it all the work of Russian agents? Or was there some local support? These are just a few of the questions Serhiy Kudelia has been asking for the last decade. Now he has answers. While there was grassroots support for separatism, it was quite thin and reliant on local officials nimbly choosing between opposition and collaboration. But first and foremost, the viability and survival of the DNR and LNR relied on Russia–for material and financial support. Russian agents worked to keep running or build new state structures, repel Ukrainian efforts to retake the region by force, and keep the population under control. The Eurasian Knot talked to Kudelia about his new book Seize the City, Undo the State: The Inception of Russia’s War on Ukraine to learn about the complexities behind Russia’s seizure of the Donbas and how it set the stage for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Guest: Serhiy Kudelia is an associate professor of political science at Baylor University where he teaches and researches political violence, state-building and Eastern European politics. He also frequently comments on Ukrainian politics and US-Ukrainian relations in Ukrainian and Western media. His new book is Seize the City, Undo the State: The Inception of Russia’s War on Ukraine published by Oxford University Press. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, March 24, 2025
Soviet Modernity
Crucibles of Power: Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union Michael David-Fox began writing Soviet history in a dynamic period. The Soviet Union had just collapsed, archives were flung wide open, and scholars began exploring new ways to conceptualize the Soviet century. And you can read this in David-Fox’s work–a bricolage of historiography, history of knowledge, cross-cultural exchange, politics, power, and the nature of the modern age. As one of founds of Kritika, he’s made his mark on the field. The Eurasian Knot talked to David-Fox about his career, his driving concepts and methods, and the particularities of Soviet modernity. Guest: Michael David-Fox is the Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies at Georgetown University and Professor in the School of Foreign Service and Department of History. He is founding and executive editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History and author of several books on Soviet history. His most recent book is Crucibles of Power: Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule published by Harvard University Press. Books discussed in this episode: Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918–1929. Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union. Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941. Crucibles of Power: Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, March 17, 2025
Terror and Democracy in the Soviet Union
Wendy Goldman has researched and written about the Soviet Union for almost 40 years. And her topics have been wide ranging– women, feminism, revolution, labor, political violence, war and survival. But if there is one throughline in her work, it is social history. Goldman is primarily concerned with the experience of working people. Their life worlds. Their trials and tribulations. Their agency in the construction of the Soviet system. Warts and all. The Eurasian Knot spoke to Wendy Goldman in her office at Carnegie Mellon University to hear about her experience as a historian, a woman, and a social historian and how this has shaped her understanding of Soviet socialism, politics, and history. Guest: Wendy Goldman is Wendy Goldman, Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of History, is a social and political historian of Russia. She’s the author of several books on Soviet history. Her most recent work (with Donald Filtzer) is Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front during World War II published by Oxford University Press. Books discussed in this episode: Women, State, and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936. Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia . Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression. Inventing the Enemy: Denunciation and Terror in Stalin’s Russia. Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front during World War II. Send us your sounds! Patreon Knotty News Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, March 10, 2025
Withering Water in Central Asia and East Africa
Water is life. A cliché and undeniable reality. So, what happens when climate change imperils water access? This episode, the second in our Eurasian Environments series, features a discussion with Sarah Cameron and Enda Wangui on water in two far flung regions—the Aral Sea and East Africa. How does the increasing scarcity of water impact these two arid climates? Cameron and Wangui address the environmental challenges in Central Asia and East Africa. They shed light on how colonial legacies disrupted traditional land access and ownership and climate change’s profound social and ecological impact on water politics, tradition, gender relations and migration patterns. Guests: Sarah Cameron is an associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press. At present, she is at work on a new book, Aral: Life and Death of a Sea , about the causes and consequences of the demise of Central Asia’s Aral Sea. Edna Wangui is currently the chair of the Geography Department at Ohio University. Her research examines the impacts of climate change, rural development, contemporary agriculture and rural land on gender roles and relations among pastoralists and other marginalized communities in East Africa. She has published several articles on these issues as book chapters and peer-reviewed journals. Listen to more tracks from Die Blutleuchte's RUS . Send us your sounds! Patreon Knotty News Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, February 17, 2025
Climate Change and Authoritarianism
Debates about climate change and what to do about it occur a perilous political climate. It’s a problem that requires international cooperation. But elected politicians increasingly deny climate change, break global agreements, turn inward, and embrace authoritarianism. It’s a situation that both Eve Darian-Smith and Boris Schneider know well. Darian-Smith has written about the right-wing political responses to climate change, particularly to devastating fires, in the US, Brazil, and Australia. Schneider watches climate policy in Eurasia. What are some of the issues that intersect these regions? Are there shared ideological and policy actions? And what of resistance by climate groups hoping to stem the tide? These questions and more, are in this first episode of a six-part interview series “ Eurasian Environments: Climate Justice and Sustainability in Global Context .” In each episode, experts on Eurasia are put in dialogue with those focusing on Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Guests: Eve Darian-Smith is a Distinguished Professor and Chair in the Department of Global Studies and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her latest award-winning book is Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis published by Stanford University Press. Boris Schneider is a political economist. As co-host of The Eurasian Climate Brief podcast, he looks into underreported climate & energy stories in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. In addition to that, he tracks Europe’s move to climate neutrality as European Programme Manager at Clean Energy Wire (CLEW). Send us your sounds! Patreon Knotty News Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, February 10, 2025
Recording Georgians in WWI POW Camps
In 1916, the German anthropologist Rudolf Pöch and musicologist Robert Lach set out to the Eger prisoner of war camp with a unique research agenda: to record the language and folk songs of Georgian prisoners from the Russian Empire. The recording equipment was clunky and its recordings scratchy and faint. Nevertheless, Pöch and Lach were doing some innovative recordings, not just in terms of their ethnographic research, but using multi-channel recording to capture Georgian polyphonic singing. What were these recordings for? How did they fit into theories of race science of the time? And just who was Lavrosi Mamaldze, the Georgian singer these recordings documented? The Eurasian Knot wanted to learn more and sat down with Brian Fairley to talk about his deep dive into early twentieth century audio recording in WWI POW camps. Guest: Brian Fairley is the UCIS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh. He studies song, sound, and media across historical and ethnographic settings. His manuscript, “Separating Sounds: A Media History of Georgian Polyphony,” excavates a series of experimental recordings of Georgian music from 1916 to today, showing how prominent scholars and scientists repeatedly tried to capture this elusive musical tradition on record. Send us your sounds! Patreon Knotty News Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, February 03, 2025
Intellectual Roots of Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism has so many meanings that some say it has no meaning. Nailing down a consensus is also hampered by the fact that no one calls themselves a “neoliberal.” There’s even calls to abandon the term altogether since it’s become more a slur than doctrine needing analysis. Enter Max Trecker. He took the debate over neoliberalism as an opportunity to investigate its intellectual origins in the 1920s and 1930s. What did it mean then? What was neoliberal thought a reaction to? And what would those neoliberals think today? Also, in this interview, Max talks about an additional project: How Ukraine has been imagined as an economic space. It’s an issue not only of historical import, but enormous relevance today as Ukraine plans its postwar future. Guest: Max Trecker is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Pittsburgh and an economic historian and postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe in Leipzig, Germany. He’s the author of Red Money for the Global South: East-South Economic Relations in the Cold War published by Routledge. Send us your sounds! Patreon Knotty News Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, January 27, 2025
Saving Seeds During the Siege of Leningrad
In 1941, as Nazi forces laid siege to Leningrad, a group of Soviet botanists faced an unthinkable choice: eat their life’s work, a rare seed bank, or starve to death. This is the dilemma at the heart of Simon Parkin’s story about the world's first seed bank and its dedicated botanists. At the heart of this tale is Nikolai Vavilov, a brilliant botanist who traveled five continents collecting specimens before falling victim to Stalin's purges. Through meticulous research and newly accessed archives, Parkin reveals a vivid tale of the sacrifice of 19 scientists during the siege’s 900 days. The Eurasian Knot spoke to Parkin to learn more about Vavilov’s seed bank, the moral dimensions of choosing science over death, and how their legacy lives on in modern agriculture. Guest: Simon Parkin is a British author and journalist. He is contributing writer for the New Yorker, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and the author of three narrative non-fiction books, including The Island of Extraordinary Captives , winner of The Wingate Literary Prize. His new book is The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice published by Simon and Shuster. Send us your sounds! Patreon Knotty News Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, January 20, 2025
Russian Antifa vs Neo-Nazis
Vladimir Kozlov’s new book Shramy (Scars) explores street battles between anti-fascists and neo-Nazi skinheads in Moscow during the late 2000s. Kozlov is no stranger to these subcultures. He’s long been involved in Russian punk. And though he never participated in these street battles himself, his failed attempt to make a documentary about Antifa for Russian television gave him an inside look at the scene. Now, almost two decades later, Kozlov uses Shramy to reflect on the roots of Russian fascism in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. How did elements of neo-Nazi subculture seep into the Russian mainstream? And how does the Putin regime manipulate “Nazism” and “anti-fascism” for its own domestic and geopolitical ends? The Eurasian Knot spoke to Kozlov about his punk past, how they shaped the writing of Shramy , and how violence, ideology, and the complexities of Russian society have led to public support for the war in Ukraine. Guest: Vladimir Kozlov is a writer and filmmaker born in Mogilev in the Belarussian Soviet Socialist Republic. He spent his youth in the suburbs of that city, witnessing the collapse of the Soviet empire and a bizarre mix of unbridled freedom, wild capitalism and rampant crime in the early 1990s. He lived in Moscow until he went into exile in 2022 following his condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Kozlov is the author of more than a dozen books that have been published in translation in the United States, France, Serbia and Slovakia. His most recent book is Shramy . You can read an English excerpt of Shramy here . Send us your sounds! Patreon
Mon, January 13, 2025
Romani Music and NGOs
Who speaks for whom within the Romani rights movement today? This is the question that drives Adriana Helbig’s investigation into the relationship between development aid and Romani musicians in her book, Resounding Poverty . Her findings are crucial as are provocative: NGOs unintentionally perpetuate narratives of Romani life that continue to marginalize the poorest among them. And while aid is crucial, it also fails to address issues of poverty, community, and health particularly in rural areas. The Eurasian Knot spoke to Helbig about the fraught and complicated presence of NGOs in postsocialist space, the tensions between aid and agency, the pressure Romani musicians face to perform "gypsiness" for non-Romani audiences, and her personal insights about conducting research in Ukraine and how her own family history intersects with her academic work. We even listen to some music by the Carpathian Ensemble, a University of Pittsburgh student group that Helbig directed. highlighting the challenges and rewards of representing Romani music in an academic context. Guest: Adriana N. Helbig is Associate Professor of Music and former Assistant Dean of Undergraduates at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration. Her most recent book is ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid published by Oxford University Press. Send us your sounds! Patreon Knotty News Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, January 03, 2025
Introducing: The Eurasian Climate Brief
The 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) ended in late November in Baku. Two weeks of intense climate negotiations unveiled deep divides—particularly between the Global North and South over climate finance and contentious debates on the right wording of transitioning away from fossil fuels. In this episode Angelina Davydova and Boris Schneider dissect the outcomes of the conference, offering insights into the broader implications for climate action, both globally and in Central Asia. Joining the conversation is Kyrgyz journalist Anastasia Bengard , who attended COP29 as a fellow of the Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) programme. She shares her firsthand observations from the conference, shedding light on the positions and statements of her home country and Central Asia at large, as detailed in her reporting for 24.kg . Tune in as we delve into the complex narratives and challenges that will define the future of climate action across Central Asia - and beyond. The Eurasian Climate Brief is a podcast dedicated to climate issues in the region stretching from Eastern Europe to Russia down to the Caucasus and Central Asia. This episode is supported by n-ost & eurasianet and made by: Angelina Davydova , environmental/climate journalist. Editor of the magazine "Environment and Rights", co-host of the podcast The Day After Tomorrow ("Posle Zavtra"). Environmental projects coordinator with the Dialogue for Understanding e. V (Berlin). Fellow with the Institute for Global Reconstitution (Berlin). Observer of the UN climate negotiations (UNFCCC) since 2008. Expert/editor of the Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group. Boris Schneider , political economist. European Programme Manager at Clean Energy Wire CLEW (Berlin). Has worked as a specialist on Eastern European climate and energy topics, amongst others for n-ost and the German Economic Team. Reports cited in the episode: Open Letter on COP reform <a href="https://theconversation.com/after-a-disappointing-cop29-heres-how-to-design-global-climate-talks-that-might-actually-work-244645" rel="noopene
Mon, December 23, 2024
The Russia and China Brain Trusts
Who are those “experts” who sit in Washington DC and come up with policy toward China and Russia? You know, those academics, journalists, and think-tankers who generate the knowledge US officials rely on? David McCourt’s new book, The End of Engagement , takes a stab by examining American foreign policy expertise on China and Russia since 1989. His main focus is on the divide within the Russia and China watching community. For Russia, it’s between "Russia we havers" versus "Russia we wanters,” and for China, the "engagement" against the "strategic competition" partisans. Curious to hear more, The Eurasian Knot spoke to McCourt to get a social profile of these expert communities, including how personal cliques, academic cred, and resumes influence how we understand Russia and China. Guest: David McCourt is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. His new book is The End of Engagement: America's China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989 published by Oxford University Press. Send us your sounds! Patreon Knotty News Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, December 16, 2024
A Tale of Two Nationalisms
Nationalists are not born. They are made. But how? That journey is far trickier. Fabian Baumann’s award-winning book, Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism , traces how one family in 19th-century Ukraine split into opposing branches–one embracing Ukrainian nationalism and the other Russian imperial nationalism. Shulgin/Shulhin family story shows how national identities form through the microcosms of family, private spaces, intellectual circles, and intentional choices rather than predetermined ethnicity. The Eurasian Knot asked Baumann to take us through the Shulgin/Shulhin family, their efforts to craft opposing nationalist identities, and how exile after the Russian Revolution led both branches to craft nationalist narratives of their experiences. The Shulgin/Shulhin story may be a century old. But their journey into Ukrainian and Russian nationalism has inescapable implications for us today. Guest: Fabian Baumann is a research associate at Heidelberg University working on the history of nationalism and empire in Ukraine, Russia, and East Central Europe. His award winning book is Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism published by Northern Illinois University Press. Send us your sounds! Patreon Knotty News Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, November 25, 2024
Adapting Master and Margarita
In 2020, Russian-American filmmaker Michael Lockshin and his co-writer, Roman Kantor, were offered an impossible task: to adapt Mikhail Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita for the big screen. It was a daunting task to rewrite such a beloved novel, with its complicated and overlapping narratives. Lockshin and Kantor hoped to succeed where others failed. After a period of touch-and-go, the film was released in Russia in January 2024 to critical and viewer acclaim. It also received fierce scorn, particularly from Russian state propagandists. To date, the film remains unreleased internationally due to complex rights issues following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. How has Lockshin dealt with all this personally and professionally? What does he make of the controversy surrounding the movie essentially cosplaying its plot. Lockshin recently visited Pittsburgh to screen the film. The Eurasian Knot jumped at the opportunity to interview him about it and its fallout. Guest: Michael Lockshin grew up in Russia and the United States. He began working in film while studying for a Masters in psychology at Moscow State University. He moved to London after graduating and directed several award-winning commercials and his first Russian language feature film, Silver Skates in 2020. Most recently, he co-wrote and directed an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita . Send us your sounds! https://euraknot.org/contact/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/euraknot Knotty News: https://eurasianknot.substack.com/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, November 18, 2024
Georgia in Crisis
Guest: Bryan Gigantino, co-host of the podcast Reimagining Soviet Georgia , on the context and causes for the current political crisis in Georgia. The post Georgia in Crisis appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, November 11, 2024
The World of Soviet Dissidents
Soviet dissidents have long been objects of fascination. Who were they? What made them dissent? What did they believe? And what did they endure at the hands of a repressive Soviet state? We now have a clearer picture thanks to Benjamin Nathans’ new book, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement . Soviet dissidents, or as they preferred to be called “rights defenders,” navigated a complicated choreography between the movement, the police, and its supporters abroad. Their approach was a strategy of “civil obedience,” that is pressuring the Soviet government to follow its own laws. Though amounting to around a thousand active participants, their influence grew, especially as they were lionized in the Western media. In this conversation with the Eurasian Knot , Nathans recounts this history, highlighting the often-overlooked role of women, dissidents’ complex relationship with Soviet society, and what their experience can teach us today. Guest: Benjamin Nathans is the Alan Charles Kors Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of the multiple award-winning book, Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia . His latest book is To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement published by Princeton University Press. Send us your sounds! Become a patron! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, November 04, 2024
A Deep Dive into Kabardino-Balkaria
Guest: Ian Lanzillotti guides through the history of Kabardino-Balkaria in his book Land, Community, and the State in the Caucasus published by Bloomsbury. The post A Deep Dive into Kabardino-Balkaria appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, October 28, 2024
Soviet DIY Folk Museums
Guest: Erin Hutchinson on her award-winning article, “ Gathering the Nation in the Village: Intellectuals and the Cultural Politics of Nationality in the Late Soviet Period ” in the January 2023 issue of the Russian Review . The post Soviet DIY Folk Museums appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, October 21, 2024
Intimate Lives of International Communism
Guest: Maurice Casey on the “lost world” of international communism in his book, Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals published by Footnote Press. The post Intimate Lives of International Communism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, October 14, 2024
Gulag Memory in Russia’s Far North
Guest: Tyler Kirk on After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia's Far North published by Indiana University Press. The post Gulag Memory in Russia’s Far North appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, October 07, 2024
The Russia That Was Lost
Guest: Pavel Khazanov on The Russia That We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse published by the University of Wisconsin Press. The post The Russia That Was Lost appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, September 30, 2024
Free Marc Fogel!
Guest: Ambassador Eric Rubin on the efforts to free Marc Fogel, an American serving 14 years in the Russian prison for possessing 17 g of medical marijuana. The post Free Marc Fogel! appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, September 23, 2024
A New History of Northern Eurasia
Guests: Marina Mogilner and Ilya Gerasimov on their new textbook, A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600–1700: From Russian to Global History published by Bloomsbury. The post A New History of Northern Eurasia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, September 09, 2024
The Sound of Socialism, Part 3
Guest: Andrea Bohlman on the curious history of the sound postcard in People's Republic of Poland. The post The Sound of Socialism, Part 3 appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, September 03, 2024
Women in Russian Politics
Guest: Valeria Umanets on women in municipal governance in the Soviet Union and under Putin. The post Women in Russian Politics appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, August 26, 2024
Illiberalism and Civil Society in Hungary
Guest: Daniel Mikecz on Civil Movements in an Illiberal Regime: Political Activism in Hungary published by Central European University Press. The post Illiberalism and Civil Society in Hungary appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, August 19, 2024
The Sound of Socialism, Part 2
Guest: Matthew Kendall on his article “ Room for Noise in Soviet Sound Recording ” in the Winter 2023 issue of the Slavic Review . The post The Sound of Socialism, Part 2 appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, August 12, 2024
The Sound of Socialism, Part 1
Guest: Gabrielle Cornish on the sound of Lenin's voice and other sounds of socialism. The post The Sound of Socialism, Part 1 appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, August 05, 2024
The Eastern International
Guest: Masha Kirasirova on The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire published by Oxford University Press. The post The Eastern International appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, July 29, 2024
The Soviet Bid to Run the World
Guest: Sergey Radchenko on To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power published by Cambridge University Press. The post The Soviet Bid to Run the World appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, July 01, 2024
The Rise and Fall of Yevgeny Prigozhin
Guests: Anna Arutunyan and Mark Galeotti on their new book Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the New Fight for the Future of Russia published by Penguin. The post The Rise and Fall of Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, June 24, 2024
Russians in Latvia
Guest: Kevin Platt on Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians Between World Orders published by Cornell University Press. The post Russians in Latvia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, June 17, 2024
Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip
Guest: Lisa Kirschenbaum on Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip published by Cambridge University Press. The post Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, June 10, 2024
Soviet Afghan War and Islam
Guest: Vassily Klimentov on A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communists, and Islam published by Cornell University Press. The post Soviet Afghan War and Islam appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, June 03, 2024
Populist Elitism in Russia and the US
Guest: Alexandar Mikhailovic on the unlikely convergence of the American and Russian far-right. The post Populist Elitism in Russia and the US appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, May 20, 2024
Soviet Industrial Ecology
Guest: Elena Kochetkova on wood, forests and industrial ecology in the Soviet Union. The post Soviet Industrial Ecology appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, May 13, 2024
Everyday War in Donbas
Guest: Greta Uehling on the ethics of care in Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine published by Cornell University Press. The post Everyday War in Donbas appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, May 06, 2024
Sugarland
Guest: Artan Hoxha on his new book, Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania published by Central European University Press. The post Sugarland appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, April 29, 2024
Citizen Poet
Guest: Russian poet Dmitrii Bykov on the War in Ukraine, the role of art in politics, satire, his poisoning in 2019, protest, love and family. The post Citizen Poet appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, April 22, 2024
Baku Oil and the Soviet State
Guest: Sara Brinegar on her book The Power and Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus: Periphery Unbound, 1920-29 published by Bloomsbury. The post Baku Oil and the Soviet State appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, April 15, 2024
Gleaning for Communism
Guest: Xenia Cherkaev on her book Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice published by Cornell University Press. The post Gleaning for Communism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, April 08, 2024
The Tunguska Mystery
Guest: Andy Bruno on his new book Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and its Environmental Legacy published by Cambridge University Press. The post The Tunguska Mystery appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, April 01, 2024
Sesame Street in Russia
Guest: Natasha Lance Rogoff on making Sesame Street in Russia in the turbulent 1990s. The post Sesame Street in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, March 25, 2024
Soviet Investigation of Nazi War Crimes
Guest: Paula Chan on the Extraordinary State Commission and its investigations in the Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union. The post Soviet Investigation of Nazi War Crimes appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, March 18, 2024
The Soviet Century
Guest: Karl Schlogel on the lost world of Soviet civilization. The post The Soviet Century appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, March 11, 2024
Black Skies Over Krasnoyarsk
Guest: Mariia Koskina on Siberian industrialization, the environment and the black skies over Krasnoyarsk. The post Black Skies Over Krasnoyarsk appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, March 04, 2024
Revisiting Nagorno-Karabakh
Guests: Tigran Grigoryan (The Regional Center for Democracy and Security) and Kelsey Rice (Berry College) revisiting the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. The post Revisiting Nagorno-Karabakh appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, February 26, 2024
The Soviet Avant Garde
Guest: Natalia Krylova on life, love, language, and the Soviet Avant Garde. The post The Soviet Avant Garde appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, February 16, 2024
Russia’s Prison Knocking Language
How did generations of Russian revolutionaries communicate in prison? Especially under strict surveillance, censorship and enforced silence? One way was through the sound of tapping. Prisoners used purposeful “tuks, tuks, tuks” in a coded pattern to communicate through their cells' thick granite walls. This syntax of taps developed in the 1820s and continued well into the 20th century. How did this tapping language develop and spread? How did it help concretize a collective revolutionary identity? The Eurasian Knot talked to Nicholas Bujalski to learn more about his prize winning article “Tuk, tuk, tuk!” A History of Russia’s Prison Knocking Language” published in the July 2022 issue of the Russian Review. Guest: Nicholas Bujalski is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Oberlin College. His writing has appeared in The Russian Review , Modern Intellectual History , and the Marx & Philosophy Review of Books , and his current book project is a cultural, intellectual, and spatial history of Russia’s revolutionary movement through the prison cells of the Peter and Paul Fortress. His article, “ Tuk, tuk, tuk!” A History of Russia’s Prison Knocking Language ” won best article in Russian Review in 2023. Send us your sounds! Patreon Knotty News Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, February 09, 2024
Ukraine’s Gloomy Winter
Guest: Brian Milakovsky with a grim update on Ukraine, the war, and the shrinking prospects of even a lousy peace. The post Ukraine’s Gloomy Winter appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, February 02, 2024
A Century Without Lenin
Guest: Christopher Read on Vladimir Lenin's legacy 100 years since his death. The post A Century Without Lenin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, January 26, 2024
Genealogy in Russia
Guest: Maria Lotsmanova on her genealogical journey to find information about her repressed great-grandfather, Jacob Jansen. The post Genealogy in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, January 12, 2024
The Black Russian
Guest: Vladimir Alexandrov on The Black Russian published by Grove Press. The post The Black Russian appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, January 05, 2024
Recording Russia
Guest: Gabriella Safran on Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century published by Cornell University Press. The post Recording Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, December 01, 2023
Making the Soviet Jew
Guest: Sasha Senderovich on How the Soviet Jew Was Made published by Harvard University Press. The post Making the Soviet Jew appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, November 17, 2023
Defection and the Cold War
Guest: Erik Scott on defection, the Cold War, and the regulation of borders and movement in a globalizing world. The post Defection and the Cold War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, November 10, 2023
Ainu Fever
Roma Shatrov is the founder of the Silent Cape Nature Park in Sakhalin. Irina Grudova is Ainu, the indigenous inhabitants of Sakhalin. Roma is obsessed with Ainu history and culture and has dedicated the Silent Cape to revitalizing their tradition. Irina is a local Ainu activist and is skeptical of such outsiders looking to exploit her heritage. Yet Roma and Irina instantly hit it off and formed a strong bond over their mutual love of the Ainu. Rusana Novikova brings us a story about the romanticism and self-discovery at the heart of Irina and Roma’s complicated friendship, and its potential promise for Ainu and Russian relations. The post Ainu Fever appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, November 03, 2023
Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds
Guest: Ilya Vinitsky on the persistence of fakes, forgeries, and frauds in Russian literary culture. The post Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, October 27, 2023
The Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh
Guests: Rafael Khachaturian and Richard Antaramian on Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh. The post The Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, October 21, 2023
Islam, Repression, and Memory
Guests: Elmira Muratova and Michael Kemper on Islam in the Soviet and Post-Soviet contexts. The post Islam, Repression, and Memory appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, October 13, 2023
Useable Pasts? Shamans, Spirituality and Resistance
Guest: Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer on the evolution of indigeneity and religion across the Soviet and post-Soviet divide. The post Useable Pasts? Shamans, Spirituality and Resistance appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, October 06, 2023
Theology after Gulag
Guest: Katya Tolstaya on theology, belief, and the remaning spiritual scars after Gulag. The post Theology after Gulag appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, September 22, 2023
Christianity in China
Guests: Fenggang Yang and Kung Lap Yan on Christianity, worship, and religious persecution in China. The post Christianity in China appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, September 15, 2023
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Anna Kovalova
Guest: Anna Kovalova, Pitt's new Visiting Assistant Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, on her work on early Russian cinema. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Anna Kovalova appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, September 08, 2023
Catholicism in Poland
Guests: Geneviève Zubrzycki and Jose Casanova on the place of the Catholic Church in Polish politics and national identity. The post Catholicism in Poland appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, August 18, 2023
Secret Police Archives as Depositories of Faith
Guests: Anca Sincan and Tatiana Vagramenko discuss the how secret police files document religious belief and worship in communist Romania and Ukraine. The post Secret Police Archives as Depositories of Faith appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, August 04, 2023
Lived Religion in Ukraine
Guest: Catherine Wanner on lived religion in Ukraine, belief, belonging and community, and the impact of the war on religion. The post Lived Religion in Ukraine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S1 E7 · Mon, July 17, 2023
The Nivkhi of Sakhalin
Guest: Bruce Grant revisits his book, In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas , on the Nivkhi of Sakhalin, their Soviet experience, and the complexities of indigeneity. The post The Nivkhi of Sakhalin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, June 29, 2023
Queer Under Communism
It’s Pride month! Misha Appeltova, Irina Roldugina, and Kate Davison join us to talk about their research on gender, sexuality and queer under state socialism. The post Queer Under Communism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, June 08, 2023
Red Whaling
The Soviet Union was a latecomer to the whaling industry. But after a bumbling start, by the 1960s, Soviet whalers were slaughtering over 20,000 whales a year. The decimation of the world’s whales in the 20 th century, a genocide in which the Soviets played no small part, has had catastrophic results on the world’s ocean environments. Ryan Tucker Jones tells us about the Soviet whaling industry, the lives of Soviet whalers, their attitudes toward their craft, and the lasting trauma of the hunt the ocean’s majestic creatures. The post Red Whaling appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, May 05, 2023
Harbin
Guest: Mark Gamsa on Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography The post Harbin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, April 21, 2023
Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic
Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin. The post Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, April 15, 2023
The Far East
Ed Pulford and Soren Urbansky on the cross-cultural and diverse past and present of the Russian Far East. The post The Far East appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, April 10, 2023
A Gift for Stalin, Part Two: The Accursed Share
It all started with a letter to Stalin in 1935. And when a Kremlin clerk opened it, there was a piece of shit inside. Was the turd an insult? A way of saying to Stalin, “You’re a shit. Here’s some shit”? Perhaps. But I ended Part One of a Gift for Stalin on a different note: that the turd addressed to Stalin was no slight at all. It was, in fact, a gift. A little brown present for Comrade Stalin. The post A Gift for Stalin, Part Two: The Accursed Share appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, March 31, 2023
A Gift for Stalin, Part One: Dear Comrade Stalin
It’s Sunday, October 13, 1935, and someone, we don’t know who mails a letter from the outskirts of Moscow. It’s addressed: “Kremlin. To Comrade Stalin.” It arrives a few days later. And when Comrade Sentaretskya, one of the secretaries sorting Stalin’s mail, got to this letter, she had no reason to worry . . . . that is until she opened it. The post A Gift for Stalin, Part One: Dear Comrade Stalin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, March 20, 2023
Trailer: A Gift for Stalin
It’s Sunday, October 13, 1935, and someone, we don’t know, who mails a letter. It’s addressed: “Kremlin. To Comrade Stalin.” Now, there was nothing odd about people writing Stalin. They wrote to him a lot. So, when Comrade Sentaretskaya, one of the secretaries sorting Stalin’s mail, got to this letter, she had no reason to worry . . . . that is until she opened it. Just what was in this letter? Find out March 31 when The Eurasian Knot debuts with A Gift to Stalin , two episodes about a letter mailed to the Soviet dictator and what it might have meant in the Soviet Union. Available wherever you get your podcasts. The post Trailer: A Gift for Stalin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, December 29, 2022
Ep 6 Cold War Colored Glasses
Teddy Goes to the USSR explored American tourism, KGB surveillance, consumerism, race, and daily life through Teddy Roe’s trip to the USSR. And many of Teddy’s observations were inevitably informed by the Cold War and American tropes. So, what to make of Teddy’s journey and what it says about Soviet life? In this final episode, TGU host Sean Guillory and historian Leah Goldman highlight key moments in the series to tease out the contradictions and reflect on America’s and the Soviet Union’s entangled relationship. The post Ep 6 Cold War Colored Glasses appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, December 29, 2022
Ep 5 Teddy Meets The Soviet People
American tourists expected few chances to meet Soviet people. You’d only see what Soviet officials wanted to show you. Touring the USSR, many assumed, was nothing more than a front row seat at a big show. And real Soviet life was hidden under layers upon layers of propaganda. So, if you wanted to see the truth of Soviet life—avoid officials and seek out “regular people.” Teddy wanted to seek out “regular” Soviet people. And he had a few chances to visit people’s homes. What did Teddy discover about “regular Soviet life and people” as a result? And what did it say about the Soviet system as a lived experience? The post Ep 5 Teddy Meets The Soviet People appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, December 29, 2022
Ep 4: Teddy Talks about Race
Teddy had few “official” meetings in the USSR. A factory here. A collective farm there. Maybe a school or two. And there was one question Teddy’s hosts always asked: “Why are you still lynching Blacks?” American racism was a global issue during the Cold War. And pointing to it was a strike at America’s Achilles heel. Soviet media devoted a lot of time to the Civil Rights Movement. And Teddy arrived in the USSR just when Martin Luther King was assassinated. So, just what was this Soviet concern for American Blacks? Was it merely a whataboutism, a way to deflect American criticism of Soviet life? Or was there something more to it? The post Ep 4: Teddy Talks about Race appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, December 29, 2022
Ep 3 Teddy Goes Shopping
Like many Americans, Teddy judged the USSR through a consumer lens. What could Soviets buy? How much? And what was up with those long lines and shortages? Teddy wasn’t very impressed. Yet, the “standard of living race” was a front in the Cold War like any other. And Soviet communism was losing. But things were never so simple. By the late 1960s, Soviet people were consuming more than ever. They were becoming consumers just like in the West. So, what was it like to shop in the USSR? And was buying stuff part of the Soviet dream? The post Ep 3 Teddy Goes Shopping appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, December 29, 2022
Ep 2 Teddy Meets The KGB
Teddy assumed the KGB would monitor his travels around the Soviet Union. In Kiev, Teddy discovers that someone went through his luggage. And half-century later he learns his suspicions were correct. The KGB wrote a report on him, complete with excerpts from his diary. What was in this report? What did the KGB hope to learn from Teddy? And what was this vast network for keeping tabs on tourists anyway? The post Ep 2 Teddy Meets The KGB appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, December 29, 2022
Ep 1: Teddy Greets the USSR
Teddy Roe took an extraordinary trip to the USSR in 1968. For three months, he travelled from one end of the USSR to the other. Most Americans at the time believed the USSR was their greatest enemy. Teddy was among tens of thousands who toured the Soviet Union. Why did Americans want to travel there? Why did the Soviets want them to come? What just what was the tourist experience like? The post Ep 1: Teddy Greets the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, December 16, 2022
Mental Health in Wartime Ukraine
Guests: Drs. Carmen Andreescu and Alex Dombrovski on their work on mental health in Ukraine though the Global Initiative on Psychiatry - USA . The post Mental Health in Wartime Ukraine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, December 02, 2022
Kyivan Rus’
Guest: Christian Raffensperger on the place of Kyivan Rus' in the wider European medieval world. The post Kyivan Rus’ appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, November 18, 2022
The Day of the Baptism of Rus
Guest: Sean Griffin on his prize winning article “ Revolution, Raskol, and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The 1,020th Anniversary of the Day of the Baptism of Rus ” published in the Russian Review . The post The Day of the Baptism of Rus appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, November 11, 2022
Between Memory and History in Ukraine
Guests: Victoria Smolkina and Georgyi Kasianov on the complexities of memory, history, and politics in narrating Ukrainian history. The post Between Memory and History in Ukraine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, November 04, 2022
The Soviet Rock Scene
Guest: Artemy Troitsky reflecting on his life in the Soviet and Russian rock scenes. The post The Soviet Rock Scene appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, October 26, 2022
Working Through Stalinism
Guests: Polly Jones and Zuzanna Bogumil on memory, politics, and trauma of Stalinism. The post Working Through Stalinism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, October 07, 2022
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Zoltan Kelemen
REEES faculty profile on Zoltan Zelemen about his research on neo-medievalism in international relations, law, and democracy. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Zoltan Kelemen appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, September 27, 2022
The Economic War
Guests: Ben Aris and Ilya Matveev on the Russian economy during wartime. The post The Economic War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, September 20, 2022
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. The post Mixed Marriages in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, September 13, 2022
Remembering Anne Garrels
Rebroadcast of my 2016 interview with the recently departed Anne Garrels, author of Putin’s Country: A Journey into the Real Russia . The post Remembering Anne Garrels appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, September 06, 2022
Soviet Aid to West Africa
Guests: Alessandro Iandolo and Natalia Telepneva on Soviet engagement with West Africa during the Cold War. The post Soviet Aid to West Africa appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, September 01, 2022
Rebroadcast: The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev
Guest: William Taubman on Gorbachev: His Life and Times . The post Rebroadcast: The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, August 09, 2022
Soviet WWII Mythologies
Guest: Jonathan Brunstedt on The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR published by Cambridge University Press. The post Soviet WWII Mythologies appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, August 02, 2022
Queer Spaces in Imperial St. Petersburg
Guest: Olga Petri on Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg published by Cornell University Press. The post Queer Spaces in Imperial St. Petersburg appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, July 26, 2022
Clientelism in Soviet Abkhazia
Guest: Timothy Blauvelt on Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba published by Routledge. The post Clientelism in Soviet Abkhazia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, July 14, 2022
Limonov and the National Bolsheviks
Guest: Fabrizio Fenghi on It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia published by University of Wisconsin Press. The post Limonov and the National Bolsheviks appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, July 06, 2022
Russian Orthodox Converts in Appalachia
Guest: Sarah Riccardi-Swartz on Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia published by Fordham University Press. The post Russian Orthodox Converts in Appalachia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, June 21, 2022
A Dissident Among Dissidents
Guest: Ilya Budraitskis on Russia's war in Ukraine, fascism, and his essay collection, Dissidents among Dissidents. Ideology, politics and The Left in Post-Soviet Russia published by Verso. The post A Dissident Among Dissidents appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, June 14, 2022
Russia in the Red Mirror
Guest: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova on The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure Identity published by Oxford University Press. The post Russia in the Red Mirror appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, June 07, 2022
Life and Death in the Donbas
Guest: Brian Milakovsky on everyday life in the Donbas and the effort to evacuate civilians. The post Life and Death in the Donbas appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, May 24, 2022
Central Asia Past and Present
Guest: Adeeb Khalid on Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present published by Princeton University Press. The post Central Asia Past and Present appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, May 17, 2022
Everything Was Forever Until
Guest: Alexei Yurchak on perestroika, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the experiences of the last Soviet generation. The post Everything Was Forever Until appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, May 16, 2022
Trailer 2: Teddy Goes to the USSR
Coming May 30! Teddy Goes to the USSR , a new six-part podcast series follows one such American, Teddy Roe, to shine light on Soviet tourism, police surveillance, consumerism, race, and everyday life through his extraordinary three-month trip to the Soviet Union in 1968. The post Trailer 2: Teddy Goes to the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, May 10, 2022
Suffering and Survival in Leningrad
Guest: Jeffrey Hass on The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944 published by Oxford University Press. The post Suffering and Survival in Leningrad appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, May 09, 2022
Trailer: Teddy Goes to the USSR
Coming May 30! Teddy Goes to the USSR, a new six-part podcast series follows one such American, Teddy Roe, to shine light on Soviet tourism, police surveillance, consumerism, race, and everyday life through his extraordinary three-month trip to the Soviet Union in 1968. The post Trailer: Teddy Goes to the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, May 03, 2022
The Collapse of the Soviet Union
Guest: Vladislav Zubok on Collapse: The End of the Soviet Union published by Yale University Press. The post The Collapse of the Soviet Union appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, April 26, 2022
Stalinism, Memorial, and Perestroika
Guest: Nanci Adler on Memorial, Stalinist repression, and Russia's incomplete transitional justice. The post Stalinism, Memorial, and Perestroika appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, April 19, 2022
Perestroika in the Periphery: Tajikistan
Guest: Isaac Scarborough on perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet system in Tajikistan. The post Perestroika in the Periphery: Tajikistan appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, April 12, 2022
Esperanto in Revolutionary Russia
Guest: Brigid O'Keeffe on Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia published by Bloomsbury. The post Esperanto in Revolutionary Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, March 22, 2022
Soviet Pronatalism
Guest: Mie Nakachi on Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Oxford University Press. The post Soviet Pronatalism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, March 15, 2022
Letters to Perestroika
Guest: Courtney Doucette on letter writing, Nina Andreeva, and perestroika "from below." The post Letters to Perestroika appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, March 06, 2022
Stalin and His Books
Guest: Geoffrey Roberts on Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books published by Yale University Press. The post Stalin and His Books appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, February 25, 2022
Russia, Ukraine, and the West
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. The post Russia, Ukraine, and the West appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, February 18, 2022
Russia’s Labor Dilemma
Stephen Crowley on Putin’s Labor Dilemma: Russian Politics between Stability and Stagnation published by Cornell University Press. The post Russia’s Labor Dilemma appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, February 11, 2022
Ditching Communism in Poland
Guest: Tom Junes on Poland in the 1980s and its legacies. The post Ditching Communism in Poland appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, November 19, 2021
The Lenfilm Art House
Guest: Catriona Kelly on Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev published by Oxford University Press. The post The Lenfilm Art House appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, November 15, 2021
The Things of Late Soviet Life
Guest: Alexey Golubev on The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia published by Cornell University Press. The post The Things of Late Soviet Life appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, November 05, 2021
Soviet Flower Power
Juliane Furst on Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in the Soviet Hippieland and Beyond published by Oxford University Press. The post Soviet Flower Power appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, October 29, 2021
Russia Upside Down
Guest: The Americans creator Joe Weisberg on Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy from the Second Cold War published by Public Affairs. The post Russia Upside Down appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, October 22, 2021
The Return of the Romanovs
Guest: Russell Martin on the recent wedding of George Romanov and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini. The post The Return of the Romanovs appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, October 18, 2021
Cold War from the Margins
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. The post Cold War from the Margins appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, October 08, 2021
The Vampires of A. K. Tolstoy
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 . The post The Vampires of A. K. Tolstoy appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, October 01, 2021
Cuban-Soviet Scientific Exchanges
Guest: Clare Ibarra on scientific exchange between Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The post Cuban-Soviet Scientific Exchanges appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, September 24, 2021
African Students in the USSR
Guest: Constantin Katsakioris on the experience of African students in the USSR during the Cold War. The post African Students in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, September 17, 2021
Unpacking Alexey Navalny
Guests: Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, and Ben Noble on Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? published by Hurst Publishers. The post Unpacking Alexey Navalny appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, September 12, 2021
Revisiting the Russian Military
Guests: Michael Kofman and Dmitry Gorenburg give an update on the Russian military. The post Revisiting the Russian Military appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, September 03, 2021
Russian Conquest of Central Asia
Guest: Alexander Morrison on The Russian Conquest of Central Asia published by Cambridge University Press. The post Russian Conquest of Central Asia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, August 18, 2021
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Ana Sekulic
REEES faculty profile on Ana Sekulic and her work on Catholic-Muslim relations in Bosnia under the Ottoman empire. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Ana Sekulic appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, August 18, 2021
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Attila Kenyeres
REEES faculty profile of Attila Kenyeres on his research into media manipulation and "fake news." The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Attila Kenyeres appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, August 06, 2021
Russian Revolutionaries in Exile
Guest: Faith Hillis on Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Exiles and the Quest for Freedom, 1830–1930 published by Oxford University Press. The post Russian Revolutionaries in Exile appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, July 30, 2021
The Weak Strongman
Guest: Timothy Frye on Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia published by Princeton University Press. The post The Weak Strongman appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, July 23, 2021
Weddings and Power in Early Modern Russia
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. The post Weddings and Power in Early Modern Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, July 16, 2021
Wine and Cheese: Komsomol Etiquette and Emily Post
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! The post Wine and Cheese: Komsomol Etiquette and Emily Post appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, July 12, 2021
Rebroadcast: Smoking Under the Tsars
Guest: Tricia Starks on Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press. The post Rebroadcast: Smoking Under the Tsars appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, July 02, 2021
Money and Prosperity in the USSR
Guest: Kristy Ironside on A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Harvard University Press. The post Money and Prosperity in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, June 25, 2021
Cold War Correspondents
Dina Fainberg on Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines published by John Hopkins University Press. The post Cold War Correspondents appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, June 19, 2021
Tolyatti’s Avtograd District
Guest: Guido Sechi on Tolyatti: Exploring Post-Soviet Spaces , co-authored with Michele Cera is published by the Velvet Cell and VAC Foundation. The post Tolyatti’s Avtograd District appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, June 13, 2021
Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties
Guest: Marko Dumančić on Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties published by the University of Toronto Press. The post Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, June 04, 2021
The US-Russia Rivalry
Guest: Andrei Tsygankov on the ongoing US-Russia rivalry. The post The US-Russia Rivalry appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, May 28, 2021
The US-Russia-China Triangle
Guest: Thomas Graham on the new "Cold War," the United States, Russia, and China. The post The US-Russia-China Triangle appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, May 14, 2021
Gulag Criminal Subculture
Guest: Mark Vincent on Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps published by Bloomsbury. The post Gulag Criminal Subculture appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, May 07, 2021
Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia
Guest : Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press. The post Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, April 30, 2021
Blind Activism in the Cold War
Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War. The post Blind Activism in the Cold War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, April 23, 2021
Environmental Activism in Russia
Guests: Konstantin Fokin and Angelina Davydova on environmental activism in Russia. The post Environmental Activism in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, April 16, 2021
Gogol’s Town of N
Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press. The post Gogol’s Town of N appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, April 09, 2021
Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe
Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe. The post Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, March 27, 2021
Navalny and Next
Guests: Ilya Budraitskis, Svetlana Erpyleva, and Greg Yudin on Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition, and the prospects of political pluralism in Russian society. The post Navalny and Next appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, March 19, 2021
Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR
Guest: Karl Qualls on Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51 published by the University of Toronto Press. The post Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, March 13, 2021
Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia
Guests: Tracy McDonald and Marianna Szczygielska on zoos, non-humans, and Animal Studies in Eastern Europe and Russia The post Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, March 05, 2021
Welcome to Chechnya
Guest: David France on his film Welcome To Chechnya . The post Welcome to Chechnya appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, February 26, 2021
Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine
Guests: Valerie Kivelson and Christine Worobec on witches, magic, spells in their new sourcebook Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 published by Cornell University Press. The post Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, February 12, 2021
From Soso to Stalin
Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press. The post From Soso to Stalin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, February 05, 2021
Watering the Soviet Lands
Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union. The post Watering the Soviet Lands appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, January 29, 2021
The Texel Uprising
Guest: Eric Lee on Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945 published by Greenhill Books. The post The Texel Uprising appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, January 21, 2021
REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia--James Pickett. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, January 21, 2021
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Iknur Lider
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Turkish instructor Iknur Lider. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Iknur Lider appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, January 15, 2021
The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus
Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen's University Press. The post The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, January 08, 2021
Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism
Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press. The post Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, January 04, 2021
Belarus Protests in Pittsburgh
I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here's what some of the protesters told me. The post Belarus Protests in Pittsburgh appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, December 18, 2020
Russian Other, American Other
Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions. The post Russian Other, American Other appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, December 11, 2020
Putin Kitsch in America
Guest : Alison Rowley on Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen's University Press. The post Putin Kitsch in America appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, December 04, 2020
The Wired Cold War
Guests: Ekaterina Babintseva and Slava Gerovitch on cybernetics in the United States and Soviet Union. The post The Wired Cold War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, November 20, 2020
Grand Duke Alexis Visits America
Guest: Lee Farrow on Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke's Tour, 1871-72 published by Louisiana State University Press. The post Grand Duke Alexis Visits America appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, November 13, 2020
Black Radicalism and the USSR
Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism. The post Black Radicalism and the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, November 09, 2020
American Tourism to the USSR
Guest: Andrew Jacobs on American tourism to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The post American Tourism to the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, October 30, 2020
Pogroms and Race Riots
Guests: Steven Zipperstein and Michael Pfeifer on anti-Jewish and anti-Black violence in Russia and the United States. The post Pogroms and Race Riots appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, October 23, 2020
From Aliaska to Alaska
Guests: Bathsheba Demuth and Ilya Vinkoveysky on Russian and American colonialism and the environment in Alaska. The post From Aliaska to Alaska appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, October 16, 2020
American Famine Relief to Soviet Russia
Guest: Douglas Smith on The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The post American Famine Relief to Soviet Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, October 09, 2020
Russian and American Empire
Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire. The post Russian and American Empire appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, October 02, 2020
Enter Dopeworld
Guest: Niko Vorobyov on the adventures in dopeworld. The post Enter Dopeworld appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, September 25, 2020
Russian Serfdom and American Slavery
Guests: Amanda Brickell Bellows and Alessandro Stanziani on Russian serfdom and American slavery. The post Russian Serfdom and American Slavery appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, September 23, 2020
SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move
Presenting Geopolitics on the Move , a podcast series I recorded this summer with Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affair s. The post SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, September 11, 2020
Protests in Belarus
Elena Gapova on the protests in Belarus. The post Protests in Belarus appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, September 02, 2020
Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission
The final two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “A Brief Conversation on Biculturalism” by Alexandra Diouk and “Remembering the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Mission: 45 years of US-Russian Space Cooperation” by Lisa Becker. The post Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, August 31, 2020
Trash Protests and Leninopad
Two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “The Great Russian Trash Crisis” by Seth Farkas and “An Empty Pedestal: Ukraine after Leninopad” by Sabrina Beaver. The post Trash Protests and Leninopad appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, August 23, 2020
Soviet Military Masculinity
Guest: Erica Fraser on Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union published by the University of Toronto Press. The post Soviet Military Masculinity appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, August 21, 2020
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Olga Klimova. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, August 21, 2020
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Katie Manukyan. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, August 17, 2020
Stories Along the Trans-Siberian
Guests : Marina Dmukhovskaya and Georg Wallner about their podcast project Mesto47 . The post Stories Along the Trans-Siberian appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, August 08, 2020
Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution
Guest: Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution. The post Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, August 01, 2020
Rebroadcast: The Kazakh Famine
Guest: Sarah Cameron on The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press. The post Rebroadcast: The Kazakh Famine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, July 24, 2020
Russia’s Wily Man
Joshua Yaffa on Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia published by Penguin Random House. The post Russia’s Wily Man appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, July 17, 2020
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg
Guest: Francine Hirsch on Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II published by Oxford University Press. The post Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, July 03, 2020
Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music
Guest: Leah Goldman on censorship and collaboration in the production of Late Stalinist classical music. The post Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, June 26, 2020
Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union
Guest: Elissa Bemporad on Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets published by Oxford University Press. The post Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, June 19, 2020
Plots Against Russia
Guest: Eliot Borenstein on Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism published by Cornell University Press. The post Plots Against Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, June 15, 2020
The Baltics In-Between
Guest: Aliide Naylor on The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front published by Bloomsbury. The post The Baltics In-Between appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, June 05, 2020
Rebroadcast: Black Sojourners to the Soviet Union
Guest: Joy Gleason Carew on Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise . The post Rebroadcast: Black Sojourners to the Soviet Union appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, May 29, 2020
Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China
Guest: Aminda Smith on Maoism, consciousness, and the everyday. The post Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, May 22, 2020
Soviet WWII Songs
Guest: Suzanne Ament on Sing to Victory! Song in Soviet Society during World War II published by Academic Studies Press. The post Soviet WWII Songs appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, May 21, 2020
Hearing Communism: Part Two
Part two of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of Pittsburgh. The post Hearing Communism: Part Two appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, May 19, 2020
Hearing Communism: Part One
Part one of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of Pittsburgh. The post Hearing Communism: Part One appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, May 15, 2020
Socialism for Realists
Guest: Sam Gindin on socialism for realists. The post Socialism for Realists appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, May 08, 2020
China’s New Red Guards
Jude Blanchette on China’s New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong published by Oxford University Press. The post China’s New Red Guards appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, May 01, 2020
Ideologies of Race in Russia
Guest: David Rainbow on Ideologies of Race: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. The post Ideologies of Race in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, April 26, 2020
Underground Entrepreneurs in the Soviet Union
Guest: James Heinzen on "underground entrepreneurs" and black markets in the Soviet 1950s to the 1980s. The post Underground Entrepreneurs in the Soviet Union appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, April 17, 2020
Russian Conservatism
Guest: Paul Robinson on Russian Conservatism published by Northern Illinois University Press. The post Russian Conservatism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, April 10, 2020
Cholera in Russia
John Davis on Russia in the Time of Cholera: Disease under Romanovs and Soviets published by Bloomsbury. The post Cholera in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, April 03, 2020
Postcolonial Socialisms in Africa
Guest: Priya Lal on African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World published by Cambridge University Press. The post Postcolonial Socialisms in Africa appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, March 27, 2020
Immortalism and Transhumanism in Russia
Guest: Anya Bernstein on The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia published by Princeton University Press. The post Immortalism and Transhumanism in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, March 20, 2020
Objects and Values of Labor in Socialist Hungary
Guest: Martha Lampland on the commodification of labor in Socialist Hungary. The post Objects and Values of Labor in Socialist Hungary appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, March 13, 2020
Political Diary from Russia
Friends of the show Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev on the latest news from Russia. The post Political Diary from Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, March 06, 2020
Structurally Adjusting Socialism
Guest: Johanna Bockman on neoliberalism, socialist globalization, and the Non-Aligned Movement. The post Structurally Adjusting Socialism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, February 28, 2020
The Nobility and the Russian Novel
Bella Grigoryan on Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762-1861 published by Northern Illinois University Press. The post The Nobility and the Russian Novel appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, February 19, 2020
After the Colored Revolution
Guest: Vasili Rukhadze on post-colored revolution regimes. The post After the Colored Revolution appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, February 07, 2020
Exposing Chernobyl
Guest: Kate Brown on Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future published by Norton. The post Exposing Chernobyl appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, January 29, 2020
Women of the Gulag
Guest: Marianna Yarovskaya on her film Women of the Gulag . The post Women of the Gulag appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, January 18, 2020
Nuclear Bombs and Bomb Shelters
Guest: Edward Geist on Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945-1991 published by University of North Carolina Press. The post Nuclear Bombs and Bomb Shelters appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, January 07, 2020
Russia in Global Affairs
Guest: Fyodor Lukyanov on Russia in the Middle East: Viewpoints, Policies, Strategies published by East View. The post Russia in Global Affairs appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, December 30, 2019
Ivan the Terrible
Guest: Charles Halperin on Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish published by University of Pittsburgh Press. The post Ivan the Terrible appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, December 18, 2019
The Stuff of Red Army Soldiers
Guest: Brandon Schechter on The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects published by Cornell University Press. The post The Stuff of Red Army Soldiers appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, December 07, 2019
Russia, China and Inbetween
Guest: Ed Pulford on Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between published by Hurst. The post Russia, China and Inbetween appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, November 17, 2019
The Collective Farm
Guests: Aaron Hale-Dorrell, Kristy Ironside, and Samantha Lomb on the collective farm system in the USSR. The post The Collective Farm appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, November 10, 2019
Atoms and Aliens in Eurasian Science Fiction
Guest: Anindita Banerjee on the nuclear in Soviet and Post-Soviet Science Fiction. The post Atoms and Aliens in Eurasian Science Fiction appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, November 03, 2019
Russians Under Nazi Occupation
Guest: Johannes Due Enstad on Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II published by Cambridge University Press. The post Russians Under Nazi Occupation appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, October 27, 2019
The Radioactive Mutants of Semipalatinsk
Magdalena Stawkowski on the rural Kazakh communities in the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. The post The Radioactive Mutants of Semipalatinsk appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, October 21, 2019
The Jewish Revolution in Belarus
Guest: Andrew Sloin on The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power published by Indiana University Press. The post The Jewish Revolution in Belarus appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, October 13, 2019
The Soviet Nuclear Industry
Guest: Sonja Schmid on Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry published by MIT Press. The post The Soviet Nuclear Industry appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, September 24, 2019
The Soviet Lives of Western Culture
Guest: Eleonor Gilburd on To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture published by Harvard University Press. The post The Soviet Lives of Western Culture appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, September 17, 2019
Investigating Hitler’s Remains
Guest: Lana Parshina on The Death of Hitler: The Final Word published by Da Capo Press. The post Investigating Hitler’s Remains appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, September 07, 2019
The Politics of Immigration in Russia
Guest: Caress Schenk on Why Control Immigration? Strategic Uses of Migration Management in Russia published by University of Toronto Press. The post The Politics of Immigration in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, September 03, 2019
Central Asian Migrants in the USSR
Guest: Jeff Sahadeo on Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow published by Cornell University Press. The post Central Asian Migrants in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, August 24, 2019
Domestic Service in the USSR
Alissa Klots on domestic service and aging in the USSR. The post Domestic Service in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, August 17, 2019
A Russian Voyage of Empires
Guest: Edyta Bojanowska on A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada published by Harvard University Press. The post A Russian Voyage of Empires appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, August 10, 2019
Russian Socialists in the Struggle for Democracy
For the past few weeks, protests for fair elections in upcoming municipal polls have become weekly in Moscow and St. Petersburg as thousands have defied authorities to attend unsanctioned rallies. The police crackdown has been particularly harsh in Moscow. Protests on July 27 and August 3 resulted in over 2000 detentions. Images of police in riot gear wrestling citizens to the ground and beating peaceful protesters were reminiscent of the mass protests against election fraud in 2011-2012. Members of the Russian Socialist Movement , a small Marxist, anti-Stalinist organization active in the Russian left, have been participants in local electoral campaigns and in the protests. Two RSM activists, Valeria Kovelishina and Ilya Budraitskis talk about the Russian Socialist Movement, their electoral work, the protests for democracy in Russia and what they might mean for the future. The post Russian Socialists in the Struggle for Democracy appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, August 02, 2019
Witnessing the Collapse of Communism
Roundtable discussion marking the 30th anniversary of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. Participants include Timothy Garton Ash, Bridget Kendall, and Jens Reich. The post Witnessing the Collapse of Communism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, July 27, 2019
Rasputin, the Man and the Myth (Rebroadcast)
Guest: Doug Smith on Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs . The post Rasputin, the Man and the Myth (Rebroadcast) appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, July 19, 2019
The Evictors
Around Moscow, there’s a whole industry of so-called “black creditors” — microfinance institutions (or MFOs) that swindle and seize debtors’ homes. Ivan Golunov’s investigation for Meduza has discovered that almost 500 apartments have been seized from their owners over the past five years without so much as a court order. In fact, this scheme involves more than simply “squeezing” people from their homes. It is possibly part of a wider, international money-laundering system. Here’s Meduza special correspondent Ivan Golunov on the ins and outs of this industry. The post The Evictors appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, July 13, 2019
Russians on Trump (Rebroadcast)
Guest: Laurence Bogoslaw on Russians on Trump: Press Coverage and Commentary published by Eastview. The post Russians on Trump (Rebroadcast) appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, July 05, 2019
Gender and Electoral Self-Polishing in Mongolia
Manduhai Buyandelger’s keynote address “Self-Polishing and Electoral Selves: Elections and the New Economies of Democratization in Postsocialist Mongolia” given at the 2019 Annual Soyuz Symposium . The post Gender and Electoral Self-Polishing in Mongolia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, June 30, 2019
Russian Revolutionary Postcards
Guest: Tobie Mathew on Greetings From The Barricades: Revolutionary Postcards in Imperial Russia published by Four Corners Books. The post Russian Revolutionary Postcards appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, June 21, 2019
Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible
Guest : Joan Neuberger on This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia published by Cornell University Press. The post Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, June 14, 2019
Soviet Anti-Americanism
Guest: Rósa Magnúsdóttir on Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 published by Oxford University Press. The post Soviet Anti-Americanism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, June 07, 2019
Stalin’s Short Course
Guest: David Brandenberger on Stalin's Master Narrative: A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course published by Yale University Press. The post Stalin’s Short Course appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, May 31, 2019
The Stories Polish Secret Police Files Tell Us
Guest: Anna Krakus on the stories Polish police files tell us. The post The Stories Polish Secret Police Files Tell Us appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, May 24, 2019
The Judeo-Bolshevik Myth
Guest: Paul Hanebrink on A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism published by Harvard University Press. The post The Judeo-Bolshevik Myth appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, May 21, 2019
“The Reddest of the Blacks”
For the past several months, I've been researching the life of Lovett Fort-Whiteman. Here's a short film I made about his eventual arrest and death in Stalinist Russia. The post “The Reddest of the Blacks” appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, May 17, 2019
Russia Without Putin
Guest: Tony Wood on Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War published by Verso. The post Russia Without Putin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, May 08, 2019
Local Perpetrators and the Holocaust in Ukraine
Guest: Jared McBride on the Holocaust, Soviet Secret Police Archives and Local Perpetrators in Western Ukraine. The post Local Perpetrators and the Holocaust in Ukraine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, April 25, 2019
Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia
Guests: Mark Galeotti, Kevin Rothrock, and Maxim Trudolyubov on making sense of Russia. The post Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, April 14, 2019
Lenin’s Government
Guest: Lara Douds on Inside Lenin’s Government: Power, Ideology and Practice in the Early Soviet State published by Bloomsbury. The post Lenin’s Government appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, April 05, 2019
Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation
Guest: Natalia Telepneva on Soviet and Warsaw Pact intelligence services and African anti-colonial movements. The post Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, 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. The post Photography and Russian Literature appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, March 20, 2019
The Soviet Origins of Lamaze
Guest: Paula Michaels on Lamaze: An International History published by Oxford University Press. The post The Soviet Origins of Lamaze appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, March 10, 2019
Russian Nationalism
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 Century, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The post Russian Nationalism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, March 01, 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. The post The Gulag at War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, February 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. The post The Kazakh Famine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, February 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. The post Lenders and Debtors in Imperial Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, February 08, 2019
Conspiracy Theories in Russia
Guest: Ilya Yablokov on Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World published by Polity. The post Conspiracy Theories in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, February 03, 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. The post The Politics of Russian Futurism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, January 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. The post American Girls in Red Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, January 20, 2019
Perestroika and Punk Rock
Guest: Vladimir Kozlov on punk rock, perestroika, his stories and films. The post Perestroika and Punk Rock appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, January 11, 2019
Youth Movements in Eastern Europe
Guest: Olena Nikolayenko on Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe published by Cambridge University Press. The post Youth Movements in Eastern Europe appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, December 14, 2018
American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes
Guest: Alexey Kovalev on American and Russian journalism. The post American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, December 07, 2018
Eurasianet on Eurasia
Guests: Eurasianet 's Peter Leonard and Josh Kucera on Central Asia and the South Caucausus The post Eurasianet on Eurasia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, November 05, 2018
Soviet and American Children in the Cold War
Guest: Margaret Peacock on Soviet and American Children in the Cold War. The post Soviet and American Children in the Cold War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, October 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. The post The Map Men of East Central Europe appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, October 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.” The post Communist Neverland at the Russian International Children’s Home appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, October 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. The post Decolonization and Development in Soviet Tajikistan appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, October 07, 2018
Communism, Youth and Generation
Guest: Matthias Neumann on communism, youth, and generation. The post Communism, Youth and Generation appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, October 01, 2018
Rich Russians
Guest: Elisabeth Schimpfossl on Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie published by Oxford University Press. The post Rich Russians appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, September 22, 2018
Kazakh Nomads Under Lenin and Stalin
Guest: Alun Thomas on Nomads a nd Soviet Rule: Central Asia from Lenin to Stalin published by I.B. Tauris. The post Kazakh Nomads Under Lenin and Stalin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, September 15, 2018
The Russian Monarchy’s Scenarios of Power
Guest: Richard Wortman on the Russian monarchy, symbolism, and ritual. The post The Russian Monarchy’s Scenarios of Power appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, September 07, 2018
Social-Economic Life in the Donbas
Guest: Brian Milakovsky on the social and economic situation in the Donbas. The post Social-Economic Life in the Donbas appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, August 31, 2018
The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution
Guest: Lesley Chamberlain on The Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution published by Reaktion Books. The post The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, August 29, 2018
SRB on the Dig Podcast
Me, your host, on The Dig Podcast . The post SRB on the Dig Podcast appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, August 24, 2018
Nation, Nationality, and Empire
Guest: Ronald Grigor Suny on nationality, nation, and empire in the Soviet Union. The post Nation, Nationality, and Empire appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, August 19, 2018
American-Russian Relations in the 19th Century
Guest: Norman Saul of US-Russian relations in the 19th Century The post American-Russian Relations in the 19th Century appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, August 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] The post Soviet Atheism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, August 03, 2018
The Russian Mafia
Guest: Mark Galeotti on The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia published by Yale University Press. [spp-player] The post The Russian Mafia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, 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] The post Psychotherapy and Neoliberalism in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, 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] The post Chinese Romance with the Russian Revolution appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, July 13, 2018
Collectivization and Stalinist Perpetrators
Guest: Lynne Viola on the Soviet collectivization of agriculture, resistance, and Stalinist perpetrators. [spp-player] The post Collectivization and Stalinist Perpetrators appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, July 06, 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] The post The Banya is Everything appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, 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] The post Russia’s A Terrible Country appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, 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] The post Surveillance Valley appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, June 09, 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] The post Russian Literature and Terrorism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, June 01, 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] The post Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, 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] The post A Memoir of Misadventures in Moscow appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, 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] The post Early Soviet Urban Communes appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, 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] The post Putinomics appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, 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] The post The Stalin Constitution appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, April 09, 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] The post The Mitki Art Collective appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, April 02, 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] The post William C. Bullitt in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, 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. The post Russia’s Long Hangover appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, March 19, 2018
Boris Savinkov and Russian Terrorism
Guest: Irina Meier on Boris Savinkov and Russian revolutionary terrorism. The post Boris Savinkov and Russian Terrorism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, March 09, 2018
The Georgian Democratic Republic
Guest: Eric Lee on The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution, 1918-1921 published by Zed Books . [spp-player] The post The Georgian Democratic Republic appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tue, February 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] The post Local Identity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Vladimir appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, February 17, 2018
The Stalinist Film Industry
Guest: Guest: Maria Belodubrovskaya on Not According to Plan: Filmmaking under Stalin published by Cornell University Press. The post The Stalinist Film Industry appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, February 09, 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] The post Life and Times of Vladimir Dzhunkovsky appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, February 03, 2018
Soviet Jokes Under Stalin
Guest: Jon Waterlow on Soviet jokes under Stalin. [spp-player] The post Soviet Jokes Under Stalin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, January 26, 2018
Old Age and Claustrophobia in Putin’s Russia
Evgenia Kovda on her film Podrugi (Girlfriends) , a tale of old age and claustrophobia in Putin's Russia. [spp-player] The post Old Age and Claustrophobia in Putin’s Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, January 19, 2018
The Ethics of Soviet Journalism
Guest: Natalia Roudakova on Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia published by Cambridge University Press. [spp-player] The post The Ethics of Soviet Journalism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, January 11, 2018
Deaf in the Soviet Union
Guest: Claire Shaw on Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991 . The post Deaf in the Soviet Union appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, December 24, 2017
The Russian Revolution as Utopian Leap in the Open Air of History
Mark Steinberg on the symbolism of angels, wings, and flight in the Russian Revolution. [spp-player] The post The Russian Revolution as Utopian Leap in the Open Air of History appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, November 29, 2017
The Epic of the House of Government
Guest: Yuri Slezkine on The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution . [spp-player] The post The Epic of the House of Government appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, November 19, 2017
Assessing the Russian Military
Guest: Michael Kofman on the Russian military. The post Assessing the Russian Military appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wed, November 08, 2017
Daughter of the Cold War
Guest: Grace Kennan Warnecke on growing up in George F. Kennan's shadow. The post Daughter of the Cold War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, October 30, 2017
American History Through Russian Eyes
Guest: Ivan Kurilla on American studies in Russia. The post American History Through Russian Eyes appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, October 21, 2017
Young Communists Under Stalin
Guest: Seth Bernstein on Raised Under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism . The post Young Communists Under Stalin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, October 16, 2017
Russian LGBTQ and New Left Activism
Guest: Jessica Mason on LGBTQ activism and the New Left in Russia. The post Russian LGBTQ and New Left Activism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sat, October 07, 2017
Russian and American Internal Colonization
Guest: Steve Sabol on “The Touch of Civilization” Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization . The post Russian and American Internal Colonization appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, September 29, 2017
Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
Guest: Brendan McGeever on the Bolsheviks and antisemitism. The post Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, September 24, 2017
The Politics of Russia’s Apartment Demolition
Guest: Maxim Trudolubov on Moscow's apartment demolition plans. The post The Politics of Russia’s Apartment Demolition appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sun, September 17, 2017
Feminists in the Maidan
Guest: Emily Channell-Justice on feminist activism and the Maidan. The post Feminists in the Maidan appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, September 08, 2017
The Early Modern Russian Empire
Guest: Nancy Kollmann on The Russian Empire, 1450-1801 . The post The Early Modern Russian Empire appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, September 01, 2017
Women, Resistance, and Revolution
Guest: Sheila Rowbotham on a lifetime of socialist feminist activism. [spp-player] The post Women, Resistance, and Revolution appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, August 07, 2017
Retrospective on Stalinism
Guest: Sheila Fitzpatrick on Stalinism. The post Retrospective on Stalinism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Thu, August 03, 2017
SRB on This is Hell!
A This is Hell! interview with your humble host. The post SRB on This is Hell! appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, July 31, 2017
Stalin’s Last Days
Guest: Joshua Rubenstein on The Last Days of Stalin . The post Stalin’s Last Days appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mon, July 24, 2017
Russia and Its Near Abroad
Guest: Gerard Toal on Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus . The post Russia and Its Near Abroad appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fri, July 14, 2017
Protest in Putin’s Russia
Guest: Mischa Gabowitsch on Protest in Putin’s Russia . The post Protest in Putin’s Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Kicking the Hydrocarbon Habit

Seizing the Donbas

Soviet Modernity

Terror and Democracy in the Soviet Union

Withering Water in Central Asia and East Africa

Climate Change and Authoritarianism

Recording Georgians in WWI POW Camps

Intellectual Roots of Neoliberalism

Saving Seeds During the Siege of Leningrad

Russian Antifa vs Neo-Nazis

Romani Music and NGOs

Introducing: The Eurasian Climate Brief

The Russia and China Brain Trusts

A Tale of Two Nationalisms

Adapting Master and Margarita

Georgia in Crisis

The World of Soviet Dissidents

A Deep Dive into Kabardino-Balkaria

Soviet DIY Folk Museums

Intimate Lives of International Communism

Gulag Memory in Russia’s Far North

The Russia That Was Lost

Free Marc Fogel!

A New History of Northern Eurasia

The Sound of Socialism, Part 3

Women in Russian Politics

Illiberalism and Civil Society in Hungary

The Sound of Socialism, Part 2

The Sound of Socialism, Part 1

The Eastern International

The Soviet Bid to Run the World

The Rise and Fall of Yevgeny Prigozhin

Russians in Latvia

Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip

Soviet Afghan War and Islam

Populist Elitism in Russia and the US

Soviet Industrial Ecology

Everyday War in Donbas

Sugarland

Citizen Poet

Baku Oil and the Soviet State

Gleaning for Communism

The Tunguska Mystery

Sesame Street in Russia

Soviet Investigation of Nazi War Crimes

The Soviet Century

Black Skies Over Krasnoyarsk

Revisiting Nagorno-Karabakh

The Soviet Avant Garde

Russia’s Prison Knocking Language

Ukraine’s Gloomy Winter

A Century Without Lenin

Genealogy in Russia

The Black Russian

Recording Russia

Making the Soviet Jew

Defection and the Cold War

Ainu Fever

Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds

The Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh

Islam, Repression, and Memory

Useable Pasts? Shamans, Spirituality and Resistance

Theology after Gulag

Christianity in China

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Anna Kovalova

Catholicism in Poland

Secret Police Archives as Depositories of Faith

Lived Religion in Ukraine

The Nivkhi of Sakhalin

Queer Under Communism

Red Whaling

Harbin

Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic

The Far East

A Gift for Stalin, Part Two: The Accursed Share

A Gift for Stalin, Part One: Dear Comrade Stalin

Trailer: A Gift for Stalin

Ep 6 Cold War Colored Glasses

Ep 5 Teddy Meets The Soviet People