The Eurasian Knot

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The Eurasian Knot episodes

March 22, 2022 Soviet Pronatalism

Guest: Mie Nakachi on Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Oxford University Press.
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1 hr 32 min
March 15, 2022 Letters to Perestroika
Guest: Courtney Doucette on letter writing, Nina Andreeva, and perestroika "from below."
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1 hr 10 min
March 06, 2022 Stalin and His Books

Guest: Geoffrey Roberts on Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books published by Yale University Press.
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1 hr 11 min
February 25, 2022 Russia, Ukraine, and the West

This discussion was recorded on Wednesday, February 23, 2022, the morning before Russia invaded Ukraine.

Guests: Michael Kimmage, Marlene Laruelle, and Fyodor Lukyanov on the ongoing geopolitical crisis between Russia, Ukraine and the West.
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1 hr 38 min
February 18, 2022 Russia’s Labor Dilemma

Stephen Crowley on Putin’s Labor Dilemma: Russian Politics between Stability and Stagnation published by Cornell University Press.
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1 hr 13 min
February 11, 2022 Ditching Communism in Poland

Guest: Tom Junes on Poland in the 1980s and its legacies.
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1 hr 15 min
November 19, 2021 The Lenfilm Art House

Guest: Catriona Kelly on Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev published by Oxford University Press.
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1 hr 30 min
November 15, 2021 The Things of Late Soviet Life

Guest: Alexey Golubev on The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia published by Cornell University Press.
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1 hr 33 min
November 05, 2021 Soviet Flower Power

Juliane Furst on Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in the Soviet Hippieland and Beyond published by Oxford University Press.
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1 hr 27 min
October 29, 2021 Russia Upside Down

Guest: The Americans creator Joe Weisberg on Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy from the Second Cold War published by Public Affairs.
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1 hr 25 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…