The Eurasian Knot

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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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55 min
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.
55 min
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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54 min
February 17, 2018 The Stalinist Film Industry
Guest:
Maria Belodubrovskaya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison specializing in Russian and Soviet film history, theory, visual culture, and ideology. She’s the author of Not According to Plan: Filmmaking under Stalin published by Cornell University Press.
Music:
Siouxsie & and the Banshees, “Silly Thing,” Superstition, 1991.
54 min
February 09, 2018 Life and Times of Vladimir Dzhunkovsky
Guest: Richard Robbins on Overtaken by the Night: One Russian’s Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
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59 min
February 09, 2018 Life and Times of Vladimir Dzhunkovsky
Guest:
Richard Robbins is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of New Mexico. He’s the author of Famine in Russia, 1891-1892: The Imperial Government Responds to a Crisis and The Tsar’s Viceroys: Russian Provincial Governors in the Last Years of the Empire. His new book is a biography of Vladimir Dzhunkovsky Overtaken by the Night: One Russian’s Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Music:
Gary Numan, “Metal,” The Pleasure Principle, 1979.
59 min
February 03, 2018 Soviet Jokes Under Stalin
Guest:
Jon Waterlow received his PhD in History at Oxford and went on to be a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow there. He is the author of It’s Only A Joke, Comrade! Humor, Trust, And Everyday Life Under Stalin, 1929-1941. He’s the co-editor of the forthcoming War Crimes Trials & Investigations: A Multi-Disciplinary Introduction to be published by Palgrave in a couple of months. Jon is also host of the podcast Voices in the Dark which features conversations and interviews about real life psychology, philosophy, psychedelics, spirituality, social dynamics and much more.
Music:
Man . . . or Astro-man?, “Philip K. Dick in the Pet Section of a Wal-Mart,” Project Infinity, 1995.
1 hr 3 min
January 26, 2018 Old Age and Claustrophobia in Putin’s Russia
Evgenia Kovda on her film Podrugi (Girlfriends), a tale of old age and claustrophobia in Putin's Russia.
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43 min
January 26, 2018 Old Age and Claustrophobia in Putin’s Russia
Guest:
Evgenia Kovda is a Brooklyn-based Russian filmmaker from Moscow currently pursuing MFA in Integrated Media arts at Hunter College in New York. “Girlfriends” is her first narrative short film.
Music:
Bauhaus, “Slice of Life,” Burning from the Inside, 1983.
Girlfriends (Podrugi) from Evgenia Kovda on Vimeo.
43 min
January 26, 2018 Old Age and Claustrophobia in Putin's Russia
Guest:
Evgenia Kovda is a Brooklyn-based Russian filmmaker from Moscow currently pursuing MFA in Integrated Media arts at Hunter College in New York. “Girlfriends” is her first narrative short film.
Watch Girlfriends: https://vimeo.com/221237421
43 min

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