The Eurasian Knot

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June 24, 2024 Russians in Latvia
Guest: Kevin Platt on Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians Between World Orders published by Cornell University Press.
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52 min
June 17, 2024 Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip

Guest: Lisa Kirschenbaum on Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip published by Cambridge University Press.
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52 min
June 10, 2024 Soviet Afghan War and Islam
Guest: Vassily Klimentov on A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communists, and Islam published by Cornell University Press.
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1 hr
June 03, 2024 Populist Elitism in Russia and the US
Guest: Alexandar Mikhailovic on the unlikely convergence of the American and Russian far-right.
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1 hr 2 min
May 20, 2024 Soviet Industrial Ecology
Guest: Elena Kochetkova on wood, forests and industrial ecology in the Soviet Union.
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56 min
May 13, 2024 Everyday War in Donbas
Guest: Greta Uehling on the ethics of care in Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine published by Cornell University Press.
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1 hr 2 min
May 06, 2024 Sugarland

Guest: Artan Hoxha on his new book, Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania published by Central European University Press.
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45 min
April 29, 2024 Citizen Poet

Guest: Russian poet Dmitrii Bykov on the War in Ukraine, the role of art in politics, satire, his poisoning in 2019, protest, love and family.
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1 hr 3 min
April 22, 2024 Baku Oil and the Soviet State

Guest: Sara Brinegar on her book The Power and Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus: Periphery Unbound, 1920-29 published by Bloomsbury.
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59 min
April 15, 2024 Gleaning for Communism
Guest: Xenia Cherkaev on her book Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice published by Cornell University Press.
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43 min

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