Guest:

Richard Robbins is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of New Mexico. He’s the author of Famine in Russia, 1891-1892: The Imperial Government Responds to a Crisis and The Tsar’s Viceroys: Russian Provincial Governors in the Last Years of the Empire. His new book is a biography of Vladimir Dzhunkovsky Overtaken by the Night: One Russian’s Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Music:

Gary Numan, “Metal,” The Pleasure Principle, 1979.