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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February 03, 2018 Soviet Jokes Under Stalin
Guest: Jon Waterlow on Soviet jokes under Stalin.
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February 03, 2018 Soviet Jokes Under Stalin
Guest:
Jon Waterlow received his PhD in History at Oxford and went on to be a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow there. He is the author of It’s Only A Joke, Comrade! Humor, Trust, And Everyday Life Under Stalin, 1929-1941. He’s the co-editor of the forthcoming War Crimes Trials & Investigations: A Multi-Disciplinary Introduction to be published by Palgrave in a couple of months. Jon is also host of the podcast Voices in the Dark which features conversations and interviews about real life psychology, philosophy, psychedelics, spirituality, social dynamics and much more.
Music:
Man . . . or Astro-man?, “Philip K. Dick in the Pet Section of a Wal-Mart,” Project Infinity, 1995.
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January 26, 2018 Old Age and Claustrophobia in Putin’s Russia
Evgenia Kovda on her film Podrugi (Girlfriends), a tale of old age and claustrophobia in Putin's Russia.
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January 26, 2018 Old Age and Claustrophobia in Putin’s Russia
Guest:
Evgenia Kovda is a Brooklyn-based Russian filmmaker from Moscow currently pursuing MFA in Integrated Media arts at Hunter College in New York. “Girlfriends” is her first narrative short film.
Music:
Bauhaus, “Slice of Life,” Burning from the Inside, 1983.
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January 26, 2018 Old Age and Claustrophobia in Putin's Russia
Guest:
Evgenia Kovda is a Brooklyn-based Russian filmmaker from Moscow currently pursuing MFA in Integrated Media arts at Hunter College in New York. “Girlfriends” is her first narrative short film.

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January 19, 2018 The Ethics of Soviet Journalism
Guest: Natalia Roudakova on Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia published by Cambridge University Press.
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January 19, 2018 The Ethics of Soviet Journalism
Guest:
Natalia Roudakova is a cultural anthropologist working in the field of political communication and comparative media studies, with a broad interest in moral philosophy and political and cultural theory. She has worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication, University of California in San Diego, and is now a visiting scholar in the Media and Communication Department at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. She’s the author of Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia published by Cambridge University Press.
Music:
The Cure, “I’m Cold (Studio Demo),” Rarities 1977-1979, 2004
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46min
January 11, 2018 Deaf in the Soviet Union

Guest: Claire Shaw on Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991.

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January 11, 2018 Deaf in the Soviet Union
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Guest:
Claire Shaw is an Associate Professor of History at Warwick University specializing in the history of the Soviet Union, with a particular interest in the formation of Soviet identity and the history of marginal groups. She’s the author of Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991 published by Cornell University Press.
Music:
Killing Joke, “Pssyche,” Chaos for Breakfast Disc 2, 2003.
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December 24, 2017 The Russian Revolution as Utopian Leap in the Open Air of History
Mark Steinberg on the symbolism of angels, wings, and flight in the Russian Revolution.
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