The Eurasian Knot

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August 31, 2018 The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution
Guest: Lesley Chamberlain on The Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution published by Reaktion Books.
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44 min
August 31, 2018 The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution
Guest:
Lesley Chamberlain is a novelist and historian of ideas who writes about Russian history and culture. She’s the author of Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia and Lenin’s Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia. Her new book is The Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution published by Reaktion Books.
Music:
Skinny Puppy, “Love,” Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse, 1986.
44 min
August 29, 2018 SRB on the Dig Podcast
Me, your host, on The Dig Podcast.
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1 hr 53 min
August 29, 2018 SRB on the Dig Podcast
Me, your host, on Daniel Denvir’s The Dig.
Russia: the more your average American thinks about it, the less they seem to know. National security-state enthused liberals blame Putin and for creating what is an obviously-if-incomprehensibly made-in-America monster. Trump, in turn, cannot seem to contain his giddy enthusiasm for Putin’s brand of hyper-masculine authoritarianism. Meanwhile, Russia, an actual country where roughly 144 million people live, has become mostly invisible to Americans—because it has been replaced by a caricature. Sean Guillory, the host of the SRB podcast and author of seansrussiablog.org, explains it all.
1 hr 53 min
August 24, 2018 Nation, Nationality, and Empire
Guest: Ronald Grigor Suny on nationality, nation, and empire in the Soviet Union.
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1 hr 11 min
August 24, 2018 Nation, Nationality, and Empire
Guest:
Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago, and Senior Researcher at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He is the author of many books including The Baku Commune, 1917-1918: Class and Nationality in the Russian Revolution; Armenia in the Twentieth Century; The Making of the Georgian Nation; Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History; The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union; The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States; and “They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else:” A History of the Armenian Genocide. His most recent book is Red Flag Unfurled: History, Historians, and the Russian Revolution published by Verso.
Music:
System of a Down, “Toxicity,” Toxicity, 2001.
1 hr 11 min
August 19, 2018 American-Russian Relations in the 19th Century
Guest: Norman Saul of US-Russian relations in the 19th Century
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55 min
August 19, 2018 American-Russian Relations in the 19th Century
Guest:
Norman Saul is a professor emeritus of history and of Russian and East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas, where he taught for forty years. He is the author of several books on US-Russian relations including Distant Friends: the United States and Russia, 1763-1867; Concord and Conflict: The United States and Russia, 1867-1914; War and Revolution: The United States and Russia, 1914-1921 among others. He’s the editor of the Journal of Russian American Studies and the book series Americans in Revolutionary Russia published by Slavica Press.
Music:
The B-52’s, “Private Idaho,” Wild Planet, 1980.
55 min
August 19, 2018 US-Russian Relations in the 19th Century
Guest:
Norman Saul is a professor emeritus of history and of Russian and East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas, where he taught for forty years. He is the author of several books on US-Russian relations including Distant Friends: the United States and Russia, 1763-1867; Concord and Conflict: The United States and Russia, 1867-1914; War and Revolution: The United States and Russia, 1914-1921 among others. He’s the editor of the Journal of Russian American Studies and the book series Americans in Revolutionary Russia published by Slavica Press.
55 min
August 10, 2018 Soviet Atheism
Guest: Victoria Smolkin on A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism published by Princeton University Press.
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1 hr 4 min

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