Sean's Russia Blog

Gleaning for Communism

Guest: Xenia Cherkaev on her book Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in...

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The Tunguska Mystery

Guest: Andy Bruno on his new book Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and its Environmental Legacy...

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• 11 días

Sesame Street in Russia

Guest: Natasha Lance Rogoff on making Sesame Street in Russia in the turbulent 1990s. The...

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• 18 días

Soviet Investigation of Nazi War Crimes

Guest: Paula Chan on the Extraordinary State Commission and its investigations in the Nazi...

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• 25 días

The Soviet Century

Guest: Karl Schlogel on the lost world of Soviet civilization. The post The Soviet Century...

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Black Skies Over Krasnoyarsk

Guest: Mariia Koskina on Siberian industrialization, the environment and the black skies over...

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Revisiting Nagorno-Karabakh

Guests: Tigran Grigoryan (The Regional Center for Democracy and Security) and Kelsey Rice...

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The Soviet Avant Garde

Guest: Natalia Krylova on life, love, language, and the Soviet Avant Garde. The post The...

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Russia’s Prison Knocking Language

Guest: Nicholas Bujalski on his prize-winning Russian Review article, “Tuk, tuk, tuk!” A...

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Ukraine’s Gloomy Winter

Guest: Brian Milakovsky with a grim update on Ukraine, the war, and the shrinking prospects of...

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A Century Without Lenin

Guest: Christopher Read on Vladimir Lenin's legacy 100 years since his death. The post A...

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Genealogy in Russia

Guest: Maria Lotsmanova on her genealogical journey to find information about her repressed...

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Recording Russia

Guest: Gabriella Safran on Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century...

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Making the Soviet Jew

Guest: Sasha Senderovich on How the Soviet Jew Was Made published by Harvard University Press....

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Defection and the Cold War

Guest: Erik Scott on defection, the Cold War, and the regulation of borders and movement in a...

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Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds

Guest: Ilya Vinitsky on the persistence of fakes, forgeries, and frauds in Russian literary...

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The Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh

Guests: Rafael Khachaturian and Richard Antaramian on Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the ethnic...

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• 6 meses

Islam, Repression, and Memory

Guests: Elmira Muratova and Michael Kemper on Islam in the Soviet and Post-Soviet contexts....

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Useable Pasts? Shamans, Spirituality and Resistance

Guest: Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer on the evolution of indigeneity and religion across the...

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Theology after Gulag

Guest: Katya Tolstaya on theology, belief, and the remaning spiritual scars after Gulag. The...

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