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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July 28, 2018 Psychotherapy and Neoliberalism in Russia
Guest: Tomas Matza on Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia published by Duke University Press.
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July 28, 2018 Psychotherapy and Neoliberalism in Russia
Guest:
Tomas Matza is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh where he specializes in medical and psychological anthropology, mental health, political economy and global health. He’s the author of Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia published by Duke University Press.
Music:
The Ramones, “Gimme, Gimme Shock Treatment,” Ramones Anthology, 1999.
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1h 8min
July 20, 2018 Chinese Romance with the Russian Revolution
Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution published by Oxford University Press.
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July 20, 2018 Chinese Romance with the Russian Revolution
Guest:
Elizabeth McGuire is an Assistant Professor of history at California State East Bay where she specializes in the global communism, specifically the relationship between modern Russia and China. She is the author of Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution published by Oxford University Press.
Music:
Guns N’ Roses, “Mr. Brownstone,” Appetite for Destruction, 1987.
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1h 11min
July 13, 2018 Collectivization and Stalinist Perpetrators
Guest: Lynne Viola on the Soviet collectivization of agriculture, resistance, and Stalinist perpetrators.
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July 13, 2018 Collectivization and Stalinist Perpetrators
Guest:
Lynne Viola is a Professor of History at the University of Toronto specializing in the political and social history of 20th century Russia. Her books include The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization; Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance; The War Against the Peasantry, 1927-1930; and The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements among other edited volumes, document collections, and articles. Her most recent book is Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial published by Oxford University Press.
Music:
AC/DC, “For Those Who Like to Rock (We Salute You),” Who Made Who, 1986.
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July 06, 2018 The Banya is Everything
Guest: Bryon MacWilliams on With Light Steam: A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths was published by Northern Illinois University Press.
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July 06, 2018 The Banya is Everything
Guest:
Bryon MacWilliams is a journalist, essayist, poet and translator. His writings have appeared in publications big and small, including: The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nature, The Literary Review, and B O D Y. His book, The Girl in a Haystack, a true-life Holocaust story from Ukraine, is forthcoming in the fall of 2018 from Serving House Books. He is seeking a publisher for his translation of the memoirs of Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky. His memoir With Light Steam: A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths was published by Northern Illinois University Press.
Music:
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Fall,” Darklands, 1987.
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June 29, 2018 Russia’s A Terrible Country
Guest: Keith Gessen on America's Russia Hands and his novel A Terrible Country published by Viking.
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June 29, 2018 Russia’s A Terrible Country
Guest:
Keith Gessen is a journalist, novelist, editor and translator. He’s the founding editor of N+1 and the translator of Kirill Medvedev’s It’s No Good and Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl. He’s also written for the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and many other publications between teaching journalism at Columbia University. He’s the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men and his new novel is A Terrible Country published by Viking.
Read Keith’s article “The Quiet Americans Behind the U.S.-Russia Imbroglio” and my response.
Listen to Keith Gessen’s previous appearance on the SRB Podcast!
Music:
The Smiths, “That Joke isn’t Funny Anymore,” Meat is Murder, 1984.
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