The Eurasian Knot

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February 16, 2019 Lenders and Debtors in Imperial Russia
Guest: Sergei Antonov on Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy published by Harvard University Press.
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1 hr 5 min
February 16, 2019 Lenders and Debtors in Imperial Russia

Guest:

Sergei Antonov is an Assistant Professor in History at Yale University where he specializes in modern Russia, with particular interest in politics, culture, and society in the late imperial and early Soviet period. He’s the author of Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy published by Harvard University Press.

Music:

John Lennon, “Money (That’s What I Want)” Lennon, 1990.
1 hr 4 min
February 08, 2019 Conspiracy Theories in Russia
Guest: Ilya Yablokov on Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World published by Polity.
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1 hr
February 08, 2019 Conspiracy Theories in Russia

Guest:

Ilya Yablokov is a lecturer in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds where he specializes in Russian media and international broadcasting, Russian politics, conspiracy theories, and nation-building in the post-Soviet space. He’s the author of Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World published by Polity.

Music:

Garbage, “I Think I’m Paranoid,” Version 2.0, 1998.
1 hr
February 03, 2019 The Politics of Russian Futurism
Guest: Iva Glisic on The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930 published by Northern Illinois University Press.
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59 min
February 03, 2019 The Politics of Russian Futurism

Guest:

Iva Glisic is a Research Associate at the University of Western Australia and specializes in the history of modern Russian art and culture, and the European avant-garde. She’s the author of The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930 published by Northern Illinois University Press.

Music:

Love and Rockets, “If there’s a Heaven Above,” Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, 1988.
59 min
January 25, 2019 American Girls in Red Russia
Guest: Julia Mickenberg on American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream published by the University of Chicago Press.
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57 min
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.
57 min
January 20, 2019 Perestroika and Punk Rock
Guest: Vladimir Kozlov on punk rock, perestroika, his stories and films.
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59 min
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.
59 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…