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September 08, 2017 The Early Modern Russian Empire

Guest:
Nancy Kollmann is the William H. Bonsall Professor of History at Stanford University specializing in early modern Russia. She’s the author of several books including Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia; By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia; and Kinship and Politics: The Making of the Muscovite Political System, 1345-1547. Her most recent book is The Russian Empire, 1450-1801 published by Oxford University Press.
Music:
James Brown, “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World,” 20 All Time Greatest Hits, 1991.
55 min
September 01, 2017 Women, Resistance, and Revolution
Guest: Sheila Rowbotham on a lifetime of socialist feminist activism. [spp-player]
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1 hr 5 min
September 01, 2017 Women, Resistance, and Revolution

Guest:
Sheila Rowbotham is known internationally as an historian of feminism and radical social movements. She is the author of the ground-breaking books Women, Resistance and Revolution; Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World; and Hidden from History among several others published by Verso.
Music:
Bikini Kill, “Rebel Girl,” Pussy Whipped, 1993.
1 hr 5 min
August 07, 2017 Retrospective on Stalinism
Guest: Sheila Fitzpatrick on Stalinism.
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54 min
August 07, 2017 Retrospective on Stalinism

Guest:
Sheila Fitzpatrick is Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago and a Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney. She’s the author numerous books and articles on Soviet history including A Spy in the Archives: A Memoir of Cold War Russia; Tear off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia; The Russian Revolution; and Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. Her most recent book is On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics published by Princeton University Press.
Music:
Imperial Teen, “Ivanka,” On, 2002.
Reading:
Sheila Fitzpatrick, “Remembering T. H. Rigby.”
Sheila Fitzpatrick, “Revisionism in Retrospect: A Personal View.”
Ronald Grigor Suny, “Writing Russia: The Work of Sheila Fitzpatrick,” in Writing the Stalin Era: Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet Historiography, Golfo Alexopoulos, Julie Hessler, and Kirill Tomoff, eds.
54 min
August 03, 2017 SRB on This is Hell!
A This is Hell! interview with your humble host.
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36 min
August 03, 2017 SRB on This is Hell!

About two weeks ago I had the pleasure of being on This is Hell!, one of my favorite leftwing podcasts to talk about Russia, Navalny, protest, and Putin.
Chuck and his crew were kind enough to let me re-purpose the interview as part of the SRB Podcast.
Enjoy!
36 min
July 31, 2017 Stalin’s Last Days
Guest: Joshua Rubenstein on The Last Days of Stalin.
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42 min
July 31, 2017 Stalin’s Last Days

Guest:
Joshua Rubenstein is an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. He was also an organizer and regional director for Amnesty International USA for thirty-seven years. He’s the author of many books including Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life, Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg, and Stalin’s Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. His new book is The Last Days of Stalin published by Yale University Press.
Music:
Killing Joke, “Follow the Leaders (Original Lyrics),” Chaos for Breakfast, 2004.
42 min
July 31, 2017 Stalin's Last Days
Joshua Rubenstein is an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. He was also an organizer and regional director for Amnesty International USA for thirty-seven years. He’s the author of many books including Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life, Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg, and Stalin’s Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. His new book is The Last Days of Stalin published by Yale University Press.
42 min

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