The Eurasian Knot

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November 05, 2018 Soviet and American Children in the Cold War
Guest:
Margaret Peacock is an Associate Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History at the University of Alabama. Her research interests range from the history of the Soviet Union, the Cold War, the Middle East, childhood and media. She the author of Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War published by The University of North Carolina Press in 2015. And her new book that in the works is tentatively titled Frequencies of Deceit: Propaganda in the post-Truth Middle East.
Music:
The Damned, “Problem Child,” Music for Pleasure, 1977.
1 hr 2 min
October 29, 2018 The Map Men of East Central Europe
Guest: Steven Seegel on Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe published by University of Chicago Press.
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1 hr 6 min
October 29, 2018 The Map Men of East Central Europe
Guest:
Steven Seegel is Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado. He is the author of Mapping Europe’s Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire and Ukraine under Western Eyes. His new book is Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe published by University of Chicago Press.
Music:
Jimi Hendrix Experience, “If 6 Was 9,” Axis: Bold as Love, 1967.
1 hr 6 min
October 23, 2018 Communist Neverland at the Russian International Children’s Home
Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on “Communist Neverland: New Research on a Russian International Children's Home, 1933-1991.”
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38 min
October 23, 2018 Communist Neverland at the Russian International Children’s Home
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. Her new research focuses on the International Children Home, 1933-1991.
Listen to my interview with Elizabeth McGuire on her book Red at Heart.
Music:
Nirvana, “Serve the Servants,” In Utero, 1993.
38 min
October 23, 2018 Communist Neverland at the Russian International Children's Home
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. Her new research focuses on the International Children Home, 1933-1991.
Listen to my interview with Elizabeth McGuire on her book Red at Heart: https://seansrussiablog.org/2018/07/20/chinese-romance-with-the-russian-revolution/
38 min
October 13, 2018 Decolonization and Development in Soviet Tajikistan
Guest: Artemy Kalinovsky on The Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan published by Cornell University Press.
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1 hr 3 min
October 13, 2018 Decolonization and Development in Soviet Tajikistan
Guest:
Artemy Kalinovsky is a Senior Lecturer in East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam where he specializes in the history of modern Russia, Central Asia and the Cold War. He’s the author of A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan published by Harvard University Press. His most recent book is The Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan published by Cornell University Press.
Listen to my interview with Artemy on his book A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Music:
Man’s Best Friend, “Attack Russia,” The New Human is Illegal, 2004.
1 hr 3 min
October 07, 2018 Communism, Youth and Generation
Guest: Matthias Neumann on communism, youth, and generation.
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54 min
October 07, 2018 Communism, Youth and Generation
Guest:
Matthias Neumann is Senior Lecturer in Modern Russian History at the University of East Anglia. He has published widely on the history of childhood and youth in revolutionary Russia. He’s author of The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1917-1932, which has been translated into Spanish and will be published in South America in spring 2019. He’s also the co-editor of Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide: Tradition, Rupture and Modernity published by Routledge.
Music:
Sham 69, “If the Kids are United,” No Thanks!: The ’70s Punk Rebellion, 2003.
54 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…