The Eurasian Knot

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September 13, 2022 Remembering Anne Garrels
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Rebroadcast of my 2016 interview with the recently departed Anne Garrels, author of Putin’s Country: A Journey into the Real Russia.
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52 min
September 06, 2022 Soviet Aid to West Africa

Guests: Alessandro Iandolo and Natalia Telepneva on Soviet engagement with West Africa during the Cold War.
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1 hr 30 min
September 01, 2022 Rebroadcast: The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev

Guest: William Taubman on Gorbachev: His Life and Times.
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55 min
August 09, 2022 Soviet WWII Mythologies
Guest: Jonathan Brunstedt on The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR published by Cambridge University Press.
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1 hr 13 min
August 02, 2022 Queer Spaces in Imperial St. Petersburg

Guest: Olga Petri on Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg published by Cornell University Press.
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1 hr 6 min
July 26, 2022 Clientelism in Soviet Abkhazia

Guest: Timothy Blauvelt on Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba published by Routledge.
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1 hr 11 min
July 14, 2022 Limonov and the National Bolsheviks

Guest: Fabrizio Fenghi on It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia published by University of Wisconsin Press.
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1 hr 5 min
July 06, 2022 Russian Orthodox Converts in Appalachia

Guest: Sarah Riccardi-Swartz on Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia published by Fordham University Press.
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1 hr 14 min
June 21, 2022 A Dissident Among Dissidents

Guest: Ilya Budraitskis on Russia's war in Ukraine, fascism, and his essay collection, Dissidents among Dissidents. Ideology, politics and The Left in Post-Soviet Russia published by Verso.
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1 hr 40 min
June 14, 2022 Russia in the Red Mirror
Guest: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova on The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure Identity published by Oxford University Press.
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1 hr 21 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…