The Eurasian Knot

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The Eurasian Knot episodes

September 30, 2024 Free Marc Fogel!

Guest: Ambassador Eric Rubin on the efforts to free Marc Fogel, an American serving 14 years in the Russian prison for possessing 17 g of medical marijuana.
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1 hr 4 min
September 23, 2024 A New History of Northern Eurasia

Guests: Marina Mogilner and Ilya Gerasimov on their new textbook, A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600–1700: From Russian to Global History published by Bloomsbury.
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1 hr 3 min
September 09, 2024 The Sound of Socialism, Part 3

Guest: Andrea Bohlman on the curious history of the sound postcard in People's Republic of Poland.
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47 min
September 03, 2024 Women in Russian Politics

Guest: Valeria Umanets on women in municipal governance in the Soviet Union and under Putin.
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46 min
August 26, 2024 Illiberalism and Civil Society in Hungary

Guest: Daniel Mikecz on Civil Movements in an Illiberal Regime: Political Activism in Hungary published by Central European University Press.
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50 min
August 19, 2024 The Sound of Socialism, Part 2
Guest: Matthew Kendall on his article “Room for Noise in Soviet Sound Recording” in the Winter 2023 issue of the Slavic Review.
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56 min
August 12, 2024 The Sound of Socialism, Part 1
Guest: Gabrielle Cornish on the sound of Lenin's voice and other sounds of socialism.
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57 min
August 05, 2024 The Eastern International
Guest: Masha Kirasirova on The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire published by Oxford University Press.
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57 min
July 29, 2024 The Soviet Bid to Run the World
Guest: Sergey Radchenko on To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power published by Cambridge University Press.
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52 min
July 01, 2024 The Rise and Fall of Yevgeny Prigozhin

Guests: Anna Arutunyan and Mark Galeotti on their new book Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the New Fight for the Future of Russia published by Penguin.
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1 hr 10 min

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To many, Russia, and the wider Eurasia, is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. But it doesn’t have to be. The Eurasian Knot dispels the stereotypes and myths about the region with lively…