Podcast: 1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast
Episode: 1869, Ep. 169 with Joseph Kellner, author of The Spirit of Socialism
Pub date: 2025-06-26

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Joseph Kellner is a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union at the University of Georgia.

We spoke to Joseph about why the collapse of the Soviet Union resulted in a dramatic increase in spiritual seeking by the mainstream population, the many colorful and memorable spiritual leaders who rose to prominence at that time, and why these new and apparently un-Soviet spiritual pursuits were most avidly supported, and practiced, by people with university and graduate degrees.

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