Sean's Russia Blog

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Me, your host, on The Dig Podcast.The post SRB on the Dig Podcast appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Norman Saul of US-Russian relations in the 19th CenturyThe post American-Russian Relations in the 19th Century appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.