Sean's Russia Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Guest: Courtney Doucette on letter writing, Nina Andreeva, and perestroika "from below."The post Letters to Perestroika appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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

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

Guest: Tom Junes on Poland in the 1980s and its legacies.The post Ditching Communism in Poland appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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