The Eurasian Knot

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The Eurasian Knot episodes

August 06, 2021 Russian Revolutionaries in Exile

Guest: Faith Hillis on Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Exiles and the Quest for Freedom, 1830–1930 published by Oxford University Press.
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1 hr 6 min
July 30, 2021 The Weak Strongman

Guest: Timothy Frye on Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia published by Princeton University Press.
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1 hr 11 min
July 23, 2021 Weddings and Power in Early Modern Russia

Russell Martin on The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495–1745 published by Cornell University Press.
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1 hr 11 min
July 16, 2021 Wine and Cheese: Komsomol Etiquette and Emily Post

SRB interns Amelia Parlier and Felix Helbing dive into the weird world of advice columns. Two unlikely parings on the block—Komsomol decorum and the diva of dish, Emily Post. It’s wine and cheese!
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47 min
July 12, 2021 Rebroadcast: Smoking Under the Tsars

Guest: Tricia Starks on Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press.
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1 hr 7 min
July 02, 2021 Money and Prosperity in the USSR

Guest: Kristy Ironside on A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Harvard University Press.
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1 hr 1 min
June 25, 2021 Cold War Correspondents

Dina Fainberg on Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines published by John Hopkins University Press.
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1 hr 21 min
June 19, 2021 Tolyatti’s Avtograd District

Guest: Guido Sechi on Tolyatti: Exploring Post-Soviet Spaces, co-authored with Michele Cera is published by the Velvet Cell and VAC Foundation.
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55 min
June 13, 2021 Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties

Guest: Marko Dumančić on Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties published by the University of Toronto Press.
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1 hr 9 min
June 04, 2021 The US-Russia Rivalry

Guest: Andrei Tsygankov on the ongoing US-Russia rivalry.
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1 hr 7 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…