The Eurasian Knot

The Eurasian Knot

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  • 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.
    54 min
  • Rich Russians

    Guest: Elisabeth Schimpfossl on Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie published by Oxford University Press.

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    57 min
  • Rich Russians
    Guest:
    Elisabeth Schimpfossl is a Lecturer in Sociology and Policy as Aston University where specializes in the sociology of elites, power and social inequality and comparative media and journalism in post-communist Europe. She’s the author of Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie published by Oxford University Press.
    Music:
    Betty Wright & The Roots, “Hollywould,” Betty Wright: The Movie, 2011.
    57 min
  • Kazakh Nomads Under Lenin and Stalin

    Guest: Alun Thomas on Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia from Lenin to Stalin published by I.B. Tauris.

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Kazakh Nomads Under Lenin and Stalin
    Guest:
    Alun Thomas is a Lecturer in Modern European History at Staffordshire University where he specializes in the modern history of Russia and Central Asia and the postcolonial nature of early Soviet governance in non-Russian regions of the USSR. He’s the author of Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia from Lenin to Stalin published by I.B. Tauris.
    Music:
    Czarface, “Marvel Team-Up,” Inspectah Deck + 7L & Esoteric = CZARFACE, 2013.
    1 hr 1 min
  • The Russian Monarchy’s Scenarios of Power
    Guest:
    Richard Wortman is James Bryce Professor Emeritus of European Legal History, specializing in the history of imperial Russia at Columbia University. His the author of many books on Russian cultural and intellectual history including The Crisis of Russian Populism; The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness; and Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy From Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas II. He has also published two volumes of collected articles: Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule and Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration: Collected Articles on the Representation of Russian Monarchy. His most recent book is The Power of Language and Rhetoric in Russian Political History: Charismatic Words from the 18 to the 21st Centuries published by Bloomsbury Press.
    The photo of the Russian translation of Richard Wortman’s book Scenarios of Power on Vladislav Surkov’s bookshelf is here. Photo #22.
    Music:
    Talking Heads, “Psycho Killer,” 77, 1977.
    46 min
  • The Russian Monarchy's Scenarios of Power
    Guest:
    Richard Wortman is James Bryce Professor Emeritus of European Legal History, specializing in the history of imperial Russia at Columbia University. His the author of many books on Russian cultural and intellectual history including The Crisis of Russian Populism; The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness; and Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy From Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas II. He has also published two volumes of collected articles: Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule and Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration: Collected Articles on the Representation of Russian Monarchy. His most recent book is The Power of Language and Rhetoric in Russian Political History: Charismatic Words from the 18 to the 21st Centuries published by Bloomsbury Press.
    46 min
  • Social-Economic Life in the Donbas

    Guest: Brian Milakovsky on the social and economic situation in the Donbas.

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    1 hr
  • Social-Economic Life in the Donbas
    Guest:
    Brian Milakovsky works a consultant for international projects on economic recovery in the Donbas and writes about the economy of that region for outlets such as the Kennan Institute, the National Interest and OpenDemocracy Russia. He has been working in Ukraine and Russia since 2009 on ecological and development issues. His most recent article is “On the Edge: War and Industrial Crisis in Luhansk Oblast.”
    Listen to past interviews with Brian Milakovsky on internally displaced persons and the Donbas.
    You can listen the Russia Guy podcast I mention on Zakharchenko’s assassination.
    Music:
    Public Enemy, “Raw Shit,” Rebirth of a Nation, 2005.
    1 hr

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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…

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