The Eurasian Knot

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April 09, 2018 The Mitki Art Collective
Guest:
Alexandar Mihailovic is a professor emeritus of comparative literature and Russian at Hofstra University and visiting professor of Slavic Studies at Brown University. His books include Corporeal Words: Mikhail Bakhtin’s Theology of Discourse, the edited volume Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries: A Centenary Symposium, and a coedited book Navid Kermani: Contemporary German Writers. His new book is The Mitki: The Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia published by University of Wisconsin Press.
Music:
“Mashinist,” Mit’kovskie pesni, 1996.
52 min
April 02, 2018 William C. Bullitt in the USSR
Guest: Alexander Etkind on Roads not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt published by Pittsburgh University Press.
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50 min
April 02, 2018 William C. Bullitt in the USSR
Guest:
Alexander Etkind is the Mikhail M. Bakhtin Professor of History of Russia-Europe Relations at the European University Institute and the editor, author and co-author of an eclectic list of books, including Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied; Internal Colonization: Russia’s Imperial Experience; and Eros of the Impossible: The History of Psychoanalysis in Russia. His most recent book is Roads not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt published by Pittsburgh University Press.
Read my review of Roads Not Taken in Bookforum.
Music:
Bauhaus, “The Man With the X-Ray Eyes,” Mask, 1981
50 min
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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56 min
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.
56 min
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.
56 min
March 19, 2018 Boris Savinkov and Russian Terrorism

Guest: Irina Meier on Boris Savinkov and Russian revolutionary terrorism.
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45 min
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.
45 min
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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41 min
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.
41 min

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