The Eurasian Knot

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December 29, 2022 Ep 1: Teddy Greets the USSR

Teddy Roe took an extraordinary trip to the USSR in 1968. For three months, he travelled from one end of the USSR to the other. Most Americans at the time believed the USSR was their greatest enemy. Teddy was among tens of thousands who toured the Soviet Union. Why did Americans want to travel there? Why did the Soviets want them to come? What just what was the tourist experience like?
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52 min
December 16, 2022 Mental Health in Wartime Ukraine

Guests: Drs. Carmen Andreescu and Alex Dombrovski on their work on mental health in Ukraine though the Global Initiative on Psychiatry - USA.
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1 hr
December 02, 2022 Kyivan Rus’

Guest: Christian Raffensperger on the place of Kyivan Rus' in the wider European medieval world.
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51 min
November 18, 2022 The Day of the Baptism of Rus

Guest: Sean Griffin on his prize winning article “Revolution, Raskol, and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The 1,020th Anniversary of the Day of the Baptism of Rus” published in the Russian Review.
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1 hr 2 min
November 11, 2022 Between Memory and History in Ukraine
Guests: Victoria Smolkina and Georgyi Kasianov on the complexities of memory, history, and politics in narrating Ukrainian history.
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1 hr 24 min
November 04, 2022 The Soviet Rock Scene

Guest: Artemy Troitsky reflecting on his life in the Soviet and Russian rock scenes.
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1 hr 3 min
October 26, 2022 Working Through Stalinism

Guests: Polly Jones and Zuzanna Bogumil on memory, politics, and trauma of Stalinism.
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1 hr 15 min
October 07, 2022 REEES Faculty Spotlight: Zoltan Kelemen
REEES faculty profile on Zoltan Zelemen about his research on neo-medievalism in international relations, law, and democracy.
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19 min
September 27, 2022 The Economic War
Guests: Ben Aris and Ilya Matveev on the Russian economy during wartime.
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1 hr 21 min
September 20, 2022 Mixed Marriages in the USSR

Guest: Adrienne Edgar on Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia published by Cornell University Press.
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1 hr 6 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…