The Eurasian Knot

By The Eurasian KnotSociety & Culture History

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The Eurasian Knot episodes

March 05, 2021 Welcome to Chechnya

Guest: David France on his film Welcome To Chechnya.
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57 min
February 26, 2021 Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine

Guests: Valerie Kivelson and Christine Worobec on witches, magic, spells in their new sourcebook Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 published by Cornell University Press.
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1 hr 15 min
February 12, 2021 From Soso to Stalin

Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press.
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1 hr
February 05, 2021 Watering the Soviet Lands

Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.
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1 hr 22 min
January 29, 2021 The Texel Uprising

Guest: Eric Lee on Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945 published by Greenhill Books.
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53 min
January 21, 2021 REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia--James Pickett.
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12 min
January 21, 2021 REEES Faculty Spotlight: Iknur Lider

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Turkish instructor Iknur Lider.
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13 min
January 15, 2021 The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus

Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen's University Press.
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50 min
January 08, 2021 Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism

Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.
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54 min
January 04, 2021 Belarus Protests in Pittsburgh

I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here's what some of the protesters told me.
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11 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…