We’re back! And we have a new episode from San Francisco, where it looks like we’ll be living for a while. Evgenia and I talk about the enduring power of The Californian Ideology, despite the obvious cracks in it. And I talk about about how it feels to back in here — the place where I spent my formative immigrant years — after moving away for twenty years.

We’ll be back on a regular schedule from now on.

—Yasha Levine

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Check out our previous episodes: 

* Episode #14: The Soviet Jew & good riddance Los Feliz

* Episode #13: Immigrant Deprogramming with Anna/Аня

* Episode #12: “I didn’t want to live in a simulacrum of American life in the ruins of the Soviet Union”

* Episode #11: Watching American movies in the USSR ft. Boris Levine

* Episode #10: Anti-Soviet identities in the USSR

* Episode #9: The End

* Episode #8: Breeders

* Episode #7: Adam Curtis, get out of my head

* Episode #6: Navalny, the Kremlin, and the curse of neoliberalism

* Episode #5: The Serf aka Холоп

* Episode #4: Palestine and Soviet Jews

* Episode #3: Eduard Limonov and Natalia Medvedeva w/Thierry Marignac

* Episode #2: All the Sad Soviet Immigrant Lit

* Episode #1: Russians Against Politics

* Episode #0: The Ukrainian-Canadian left & Chrystia Freeland's Nazi grandpa

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