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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The podcast currently has 547 episodes available.

The Eurasian Knot episodes:

March 23, 2018 Russia’s Long Hangover

Guest: Shaun Walker on The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past published by Oxford University Press.
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March 23, 2018 Russia’s Long Hangover
Guest:
Shaun Walker is the former Moscow correspondent for the Independent and most recently for the Guardian. Educated at Oxford University in Russian and Soviet History, he’s since lived and worked as a journalist in Russia for over a decade. His new book is The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past published by Oxford University Press.
Music:
Rufus Thomas, “Itch and Scratch (Part 1),” Funkiest Man Alive: The Stax Funk Sessions 1967-1975, 2002.
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56min
March 23, 2018 Russia's Long Hangover
Guest:
Shaun Walker is the former Moscow correspondent for the Independent and most recently for the Guardian. Educated at Oxford University in Russian and Soviet History, he’s since lived and worked as a journalist in Russia for over a decade. His new book is The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past published by Oxford University Press.
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56min
March 19, 2018 Boris Savinkov and Russian Terrorism

Guest: Irina Meier on Boris Savinkov and Russian revolutionary terrorism.
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45min
March 19, 2018 Boris Savinkov and Russian Terrorism
Guest:
Irina Meier is a lecturer in Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of New Mexico. Her research focuses on the development of Russian terrorism from the second half of the 19th through the 21st centuries and the birth of the modern terrorist in the Russian revolutionary period. In her work, she explores the philosophical contexts in which terrorism exists today, traces the development of terrorists’ self-representation, and examines Russian terrorism from the angle of cultural studies. Her dissertation is titled “Evil men have no songs: The terrorist and littératuer Boris Savinkov, 1879-1925.”
Music:
Rage Against the Machine, “Calm like a Bomb,” The Battle of Los Angeles, 2003.
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March 09, 2018 The Georgian Democratic Republic
Guest: Eric Lee on The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution, 1918-1921 published by Zed Books.
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41min
March 09, 2018 The Georgian Democratic Republic
Guest:
Eric Lee is a journalist, historian, and trade union and political activist in the US and UK. He’s the author of Saigon to Jerusalem: Conversations with Israel’s Vietnam Veterans and Operation Basalt: The British Raid on Sark and Hitler’s Commando Order. His most recent book is The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution, 1918-1921 published by Zed Books.
Music:
The Chosen Few, “Don’t Break Your Promise,” Studio One Soul, 2001.
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41min
February 27, 2018 Local Identity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Vladimir
Guest: Susan Smith-Peter on Imagining Russian Regions: Civil Society and Subnational Identity in Nineteenth-Century Russia published by Brill.
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February 27, 2018 Local Identity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Vladimir
Guest:
Susan Smith-Peter is an Associate Professor of History at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York where she specializes in Russian history beyond the two capitals of Moscow and St. Petersburg, regional identity, and civil society. She’s the author of Imagining Russian Regions: Civil Society and Subnational Identity in Nineteenth-Century Russia published by Brill.
Music:
Danger Doom, “Sofa King (Remix),” Occult Hymn EP, 2006.
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55min
February 17, 2018 The Stalinist Film Industry

Guest:
Guest: Maria Belodubrovskaya on Not According to Plan: Filmmaking under Stalin published by Cornell University Press.

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