The Eurasian Knot

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January 19, 2018 The Ethics of Soviet Journalism
Guest: Natalia Roudakova on Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia published by Cambridge University Press.
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46 min
January 19, 2018 The Ethics of Soviet Journalism
Guest:
Natalia Roudakova is a cultural anthropologist working in the field of political communication and comparative media studies, with a broad interest in moral philosophy and political and cultural theory. She has worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication, University of California in San Diego, and is now a visiting scholar in the Media and Communication Department at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. She’s the author of Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia published by Cambridge University Press.
Music:
The Cure, “I’m Cold (Studio Demo),” Rarities 1977-1979, 2004
46 min
January 11, 2018 Deaf in the Soviet Union

Guest: Claire Shaw on Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991.

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59 min
January 11, 2018 Deaf in the Soviet Union
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Guest:
Claire Shaw is an Associate Professor of History at Warwick University specializing in the history of the Soviet Union, with a particular interest in the formation of Soviet identity and the history of marginal groups. She’s the author of Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991 published by Cornell University Press.
Music:
Killing Joke, “Pssyche,” Chaos for Breakfast Disc 2, 2003.
59 min
December 24, 2017 The Russian Revolution as Utopian Leap in the Open Air of History
Mark Steinberg on the symbolism of angels, wings, and flight in the Russian Revolution.
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December 24, 2017 The Russian Revolution as Utopian Leap in the Open Air of History
Guest:
Mark Steinberg is a professor of Russian History at the University of Illinois. He’s the author of many wonderful books including, Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925; Voices of Revolution, 1917; Petersburg Fin de Siecle; and with Nicholas Riasanovsky, A History of Russia, now in its 8th edition. His most recent book is The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 published by Oxford University Press.
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My previous interview with Mark Steinberg, Experiencing the Russian Revolution.
Music:
Tom Waits, “Jesus Gonna Be Here,” Bone Machine, 1992
45 min
December 18, 2017 The Russian Revolution as Utopian Leap in the Open Air of History
Mark Steinberg is a professor of Russian History at the University of Illinois. He’s the author of many wonderful books including, Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925; Voices of Revolution, 1917; Petersburg Fin de Siecle; and with Nicholas Riasanovsky, A History of Russia, now in its 8th edition. His most recent book is The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 published by Oxford University Press.
You can view the presentation slides here: https://pitt.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=cf74dfb2-30bf-48fb-91db-f972fbd0f42c
My previous interview with Mark Steinberg: http://seansrussiablog.org/2017/04/03/experiencing-the-russian-revolution-2/
45 min
December 06, 2017 The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev
Guest:
William Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College. He’s the author of many books, most notably of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era which won a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His new book is Gorbachev: His Life and Times is published by Norton. For more on Taubman’s work visit williamtaubmanbooks.com.
Music:
The Dramatics, “Get Up and Get Down,” Roots of Hip Hop, 2003.
55 min
November 29, 2017 The Epic of the House of Government
Guest: Yuri Slezkine on The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution.
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November 29, 2017 The Epic of the House of Government

Guest:
Yuri Slezkine is the Jane K. Sather Professor of History at UC Berkeley and the author of many influential works on Russian and Soviet history. His books include Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North and The Jewish Century. His most recent book is The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution published by Princeton University Press.
Music:
Smashing Pumpkins, “Zero,” Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 1995.
1 hr

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