The Eurasian Knot

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The Eurasian Knot episodes

June 07, 2022 Life and Death in the Donbas

Guest: Brian Milakovsky on everyday life in the Donbas and the effort to evacuate civilians.
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1 hr 30 min
May 24, 2022 Central Asia Past and Present

Guest: Adeeb Khalid on Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present published by Princeton University Press.
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1 hr 19 min
May 17, 2022 Everything Was Forever Until

Guest: Alexei Yurchak on perestroika, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the experiences of the last Soviet generation.
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1 hr 35 min
May 16, 2022 Trailer 2: Teddy Goes to the USSR

Coming May 30!
Teddy Goes to the USSR, a new six-part podcast series follows one such American, Teddy Roe, to shine light on Soviet tourism, police surveillance, consumerism, race, and everyday life through his extraordinary three-month trip to the Soviet Union in 1968.
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2 min
May 10, 2022 Suffering and Survival in Leningrad

Guest: Jeffrey Hass on The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944 published by Oxford University Press.
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1 hr 27 min
May 09, 2022 Trailer: Teddy Goes to the USSR

Coming May 30! Teddy Goes to the USSR, a new six-part podcast series follows one such American, Teddy Roe, to shine light on Soviet tourism, police surveillance, consumerism, race, and everyday life through his extraordinary three-month trip to the Soviet Union in 1968.
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2 min
May 03, 2022 The Collapse of the Soviet Union

Guest: Vladislav Zubok on Collapse: The End of the Soviet Union published by Yale University Press.
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1 hr 46 min
April 26, 2022 Stalinism, Memorial, and Perestroika

Guest: Nanci Adler on Memorial, Stalinist repression, and Russia's incomplete transitional justice.
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1 hr 20 min
April 19, 2022 Perestroika in the Periphery: Tajikistan
Guest: Isaac Scarborough on perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet system in Tajikistan.
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1 hr 8 min
April 12, 2022 Esperanto in Revolutionary Russia

Guest: Brigid O'Keeffe on Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia published by Bloomsbury.
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1 hr 23 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…