The Eurasian Knot

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May 26, 2018 Russians on Trump
Guest:
Laurence Bogoslaw has a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan and directs the Translation Laboratory, a communication and consulting service that he co-founded in 1996. Since 2010, he has worked as an editor and translator at East View Information Services in Minneapolis. He also serves on the American Translators Association’s Certification Committee. He’s the editor of Russians on Trump: Press Coverage and Commentary published by Eastview.
Music:
Monetochka, “Mama, ya ne ziguiu (Mama, I don’t Seig Heil),” 2017.
57 min
May 18, 2018 A Memoir of Misadventures in Moscow
Guest: Michael Idov on Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin’s Moscow published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.
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55 min
May 18, 2018 A Memoir of Misadventures in Moscow
Guest:
Michael Idov is an award winning journalist, novelist and screenwriter. From 2006 to 2012 he was a contributing editor at New York magazine where he won three National Magazine Awards for his journalism. From 2012 to 2014 he edited GQ Russia. He’s the author of Ground Up published in 2002. His new book is Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin’s Moscow published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.
Music:
Pavement, “Trigger Cut / Wounded Kite at: 17,” Slanted and Enchanted, 1992.
55 min
April 30, 2018 Early Soviet Urban Communes
Guest: Andy Willimott on Living the Revolution: Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1931 published Oxford University Press.
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April 30, 2018 Early Soviet Urban Communes
Guest:
Andy Willimott is Lecturer in Modern Russian & Soviet History at the University of Reading specializing in the social and cultural history of revolutionary Russia and the early Soviet state, with a particular interest in the formation and experience of radical ideology. He is the co-editor with Matthias Neumann of Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide. His new book is Living the Revolution: Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1931 published Oxford University Press and winner of the BASEES Alexander Nove Book Prize for 2018.
Music:
Skinny Puppy, “Cage,” B-Sides Collection, 1999.
59 min
April 24, 2018 Putinomics
Guest: Chris Miller on Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia published by the University of North Carolina Press.
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50 min
April 24, 2018 Putinomics
Guest:
Chris Miller is an Assistant Professor of international history in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He’s the author of The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR. His new book is Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia published by the University of North Carolina Press.
Listen to my interview with Chris Miller on Perestroika and the Chinese Model.
Music:
The Flying Lizards, “Money,” 1979.
50 min
April 16, 2018 The Stalin Constitution
Guest: Samantha Lomb on Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution published by Routledge.
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44 min
April 16, 2018 The Stalin Constitution
Guest:
Samantha Lomb is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Vyatka State University in Kirov, Russia. Her article “Personal and Political: A Microhistory of the “Red Column” Collective Farm, 1935-36,” was published 2016 in The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies. She is currently working on a book examining daily life on the collective farms and the day-to-day relationships between collective farmers and local officials. Her new book Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution published by Routledge.
Music:
The Clash, “Spanish Bombs,” London Calling, 1979.
44 min
April 09, 2018 The Mitki Art Collective
Guest: Alexandar Mihailovic on The Mitki: The Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia published by University of Wisconsin Press.
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52 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…