The Eurasian Knot

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November 19, 2017 Assessing the Russian Military
Guest: Michael Kofman on the Russian military.
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1 hr 2 min
November 19, 2017 Assessing the Russian Military

Guest:
Michael Kofman is Research Scientist at CNA Corporation and Fellow at the Kennan Institute where he specializes in security and defense in Eurasia. He comments widely on Russian military affairs and foreign policy. He also blogs on the Russian military at his site Russian Military Analysis. You can also find a list of his many recent publications there as well.
You can listen to my previous interview with Michael Kofman on hybrid warfare here.
Music:
The Elements, “Both Feet On The Ground,” Elementary, 1981.
1 hr 2 min
November 08, 2017 Daughter of the Cold War
Guest: Grace Kennan Warnecke on growing up in George F. Kennan's shadow.
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56 min
November 08, 2017 Daughter of the Cold War
Guest:
Grace Kennan Warnecke has had a lifelong personal and professional association with Russia. She’s served on the boards of the National Advisory Council, Harriman Institute, at Columbia University, as well as a member of the Advisory Council of the Kennan Institute. She served as country director for Winrock International in Kyiv, Ukraine, from 1999 to 2013. The former president of SOVUS Business Consultants, she was also the founder and project supervisor of the Volkhov International Small Business Incubator in Russia and executive vice president of the Alliance of American and Russian Women among many more initiatives and projects. She currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy.
If that wasn’t enough Grace is also the daughter of George F. Kennan, perhaps the most influential American diplomat of the 20th century. Grace’s memoir, Daughter of the Cold War, will be published by Pittsburgh University Press in Spring 2018.
Music:
Tamar Miansarova, Chernyi kot (The Black Cat),” 1965.
56 min
October 30, 2017 American History Through Russian Eyes
Guest: Ivan Kurilla on American studies in Russia.
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1 hr 3 min
October 30, 2017 American History Through Russian Eyes
Guest:
Ivan Kurilla is a Professor of History and International Relations at the European University at St. Petersburg. He specializes in the history of the US–Russian relations, especially during American antebellum and Civil War period. He’s the author of Zaokeanskie partnery: Amerika i Rossiya v 1830-1850-e gody (Partners across the Ocean: The United States and Russia, 1830s–1850s). His scholarship in English includes “Abolition of Serfdom in Russia and American Newspaper and Journal Opinion” in New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations, edited by Norman Saul and Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, Amerikanistika in Russia: Mutual Representations in Academic Projects, edited with Victoria Zhuraleva and published by Lexington Books.
Music:
Funkadelic, “One Nation Under a Groove,” The Best, 1999.
1 hr 3 min
October 21, 2017 Young Communists Under Stalin
Guest: Seth Bernstein on Raised Under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism.
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51 min
October 21, 2017 Young Communists Under Stalin
Guest:
Seth Bernstein is an Assistant professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow where he specializes in the history of Soviet politics, culture and society. He’s the author of Raised Under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism published by Cornell University Press and the English translator of Alexander Vatlin’s Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin’s Secret Police published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Music:
Queen, “Flash,” Flash Gordon, 1980.
51 min
October 16, 2017 Russian LGBTQ and New Left Activism
Guest: Jessica Mason on LGBTQ activism and the New Left in Russia.
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52 min
October 16, 2017 Russian LGBTQ and New Left Activism

Guest:
Jessica Mason is a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow and Federal Policy Analyst at the National Partnership for Women & Families and Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research and policy work address vulnerable social groups seeking greater legal protections and social recognition, particularly in relation to gender, sexuality, and national belonging in Russia and the United States. She’s the author of “Wake up, Russia! Political Activism and the Reanimation of Agency,” published in the October 2016 issue of Anthropology Today.
Music:
Front 242, “Until Death (Us do Part),” Front by Front, 1988.
52 min

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