The Eurasian Knot

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August 10, 2018 Soviet Atheism
Guest:
Victoria Smolkin is an Associate Professor of History at Wesleyan University where she specializes in atheism and religion in the Soviet Union, religious politics and secularism, and the Soviet space program. She’s the author of A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism published by Princeton University Press.
Music:
Christian Death, “Song of Songs,” The Scriptures, 1987
1 hr 4 min
August 03, 2018 The Russian Mafia
Guest: Mark Galeotti on The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia published by Yale University Press.
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1 hr 17 min
August 03, 2018 The Russian Mafia
Guest:

Mark Galeotti is a senior non-resident fellow at the Institute of International Relations in Prague and an expert and prolific author on transnational crime and the Russian security services. He runs in the In Moscow’s Shadows blog and is the author of several books. His new book is The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia published by Yale University Press.

Music:

The Clash, “Police and Thieves,” The Clash, 1977.
1 hr 17 min
July 28, 2018 Psychotherapy and Neoliberalism in Russia
Guest: Tomas Matza on Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia published by Duke University Press.
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1 hr 8 min
July 28, 2018 Psychotherapy and Neoliberalism in Russia
Guest:
Tomas Matza is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh where he specializes in medical and psychological anthropology, mental health, political economy and global health. He’s the author of Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia published by Duke University Press.
Music:
The Ramones, “Gimme, Gimme Shock Treatment,” Ramones Anthology, 1999.
1 hr 8 min
July 20, 2018 Chinese Romance with the Russian Revolution
Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution published by Oxford University Press.
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1 hr 11 min
July 20, 2018 Chinese Romance with the Russian Revolution
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.
Music:
Guns N’ Roses, “Mr. Brownstone,” Appetite for Destruction, 1987.
1 hr 11 min
July 13, 2018 Collectivization and Stalinist Perpetrators
Guest: Lynne Viola on the Soviet collectivization of agriculture, resistance, and Stalinist perpetrators.
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1 hr 2 min
July 13, 2018 Collectivization and Stalinist Perpetrators
Guest:
Lynne Viola is a Professor of History at the University of Toronto specializing in the political and social history of 20th century Russia. Her books include The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization; Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance; The War Against the Peasantry, 1927-1930; and The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements among other edited volumes, document collections, and articles. Her most recent book is Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial published by Oxford University Press.
Music:
AC/DC, “For Those Who Like to Rock (We Salute You),” Who Made Who, 1986.
1 hr 2 min
July 06, 2018 The Banya is Everything
Guest: Bryon MacWilliams on With Light Steam: A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths was published by Northern Illinois University Press.
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57 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…