The Eurasian Knot

By The Eurasian Knot

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... more

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January 25, 2019 American Girls in Red Russia

Guest:

Julia Mickenberg is a professor of American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Learning from the Left: Children’s Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States and co-editor of Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature. Her new book is American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream published by the University of Chicago Press.

Music:

Emily’s Sassy Lime, “You with the Crumby Face,” Desperate, Scared, But Social, 1995.
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57min
January 20, 2019 Perestroika and Punk Rock
Guest: Vladimir Kozlov on punk rock, perestroika, his stories and films.
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59min
January 20, 2019 Perestroika and Punk Rock

Guest:

Vladimir Kozlov is an novelist and filmmaker. He’s written over a dozen fiction and non-fiction books and the winner of the Made in Russia award for literature in 2013 and nominated for GQ Russia’s Writer of the Year in 2011 and 2012. His most recent books translated into English are USSR: Diary of a Perestroika Kid and 1987 and Other Stories. He’s also the director of several films, including Traces in the Snow, a groundbreaking documentary about the influential Siberian punk rock movement of the 1980s. You can watch his films on his YouTube channel.

Music:

Yanka Dyagileva, “Na chernyi den’,” Deklassirovannym elementam, 1988.
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59min
January 11, 2019 Youth Movements in Eastern Europe
Guest: Olena Nikolayenko on Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe published by Cambridge University Press.
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59min
January 11, 2019 Youth Movements in Eastern Europe

Guest:

Olena Nikolayenko is Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Fordham University. Her research interests include comparative democratization, social movements, political behavior, women’s activism, and youth, with a regional focus on Eastern Europe. She’s the author of Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe published by Cambridge University Press.

Music:

King Curtis, “Memphis Soul Stew,” Soul: The Collection, 2017.
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59min
December 14, 2018 American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes
Guest: Alexey Kovalev on American and Russian journalism.
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57min
December 14, 2018 American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes
Guest:
Alexey Kovalev is a Russian journalist currently working as the managing editor of Codaru.com, an independent investigative reporting outlet. He’s also the founder of Noodleremover, a website devoted to exposing Russian media propaganda. You can follow him on Twitter at @Alexey__Kovalev.
Listen to my previous interview with Alexey on Russian propaganda.
Music:
Lead into Gold, “Faster than Light,” Chicks & Speed: Futurism, 1990.

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57min
December 07, 2018 Eurasianet on Eurasia
Guests: Eurasianet's Peter Leonard and Josh Kucera on Central Asia and the South Caucausus
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1h 23min
December 07, 2018 Eurasianet on Eurasia
Guests:
Peter Leonard has served as Eurasianet’s Central Asia editor since 2015. Prior to that he worked as Ukraine bureau chief for the Associated Press (AP) news agency. Between 2009 and 2013, he served as Central Asia correspondent for the AP.
Josh Kucera is Eurasianet’s Turkey &Caucasus Editor. He has also has written about the Caucasus and Central Asia for Slate, The New York Times, Al Jazeera America, The Atlantic, and other publications. He is a former staff reporter for Jane’s Defense Weekly and the Associated Press.
Music:
Skinny Puppy, “Warlock,” Rabies, 1989.
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1h 23min
November 19, 2018 Red Children’s Republics

Guest:
Diana Georgescu is a Lecturer in Transnational/Comparative Southeast European Studies in the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Her research focuses on the history of childhood and youth in the socialist and post-socialist periods. She’s currently finishing a book titled Ceaușescu’s Children: The Making and Unmaking of Romania’s Last Socialist Generation, 1965-2010.
Music:
The Cure, “Bananafishbones,” The Top, 1984
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43min

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