The Eurasian Knot

By The Eurasian Knot

To many, Russia, and the wider Eurasia, is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. But it doesn’t have to be. The Eurasian Knot dispels the stereotypes and myths about the region with lively... more

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March 27, 2017 The Invisibility of Chernobyl in Belarus

Guest:
Olga Kuchinskaya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. She specializes in science communication related to health and the environment. She’s the author of The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl published by MIT Press.
Music:
Siouxsie & The Banshees, “Dazzle,” Hyæna, 1984.
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42min
March 27, 2017 The Invisibility of Chernobyl in Belarus
Guest: Olga Kuchinskaya on The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl published by MIT Press.
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42min
March 20, 2017 Lenin and the Bolsheviks
Guest: Lars Lih on Lenin.
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45min
March 07, 2017 Perestroika and the Chinese Model
Guest: Chris Miller on The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR.
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38min
February 28, 2017 Searching for Orpheus at the Twilight of the Russian Empire
Guest: Rebecca Mitchell on Nietzsche’s Orphans: Music, Metaphysics and the Twilight of the Russian Empire.
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42min
February 20, 2017 Preserving Leningrad During WWII
Guest: Steve Maddox on Saving Stalin’s Imperial City: Historic Preservation in Leningrad, 1930–1950.
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34min
February 06, 2017 Wading Through RuNet

Guest:
Kevin Rothrock is RuNet Echo project editor at Global Voices, a news site that reports on civil society around the world, and web editor at The Moscow Times, Russia’s longest-running English-language independent newspaper. He previously worked as an editor and translator at Meduza and, long before that, a research assistant at the American Enterprise Institute.
Some useful sites for following RuNet:
TJournal.ru
Old Lentach
True Lentach
Media Metrics
Music:
Kraftwerk, “Home Computer,” Computer World, 1984.
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49min
January 30, 2017 Working Class Life in Anytown Russia

Guest:
Jeremy Morris is an Associate Professor in the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University where he researches and writes about the informal economy, class, precarity and post-socialism. His most recent book is Everyday Postsocialism: Working-class Communities in the Russian Margins published by Palgrave.
Jeremy has written up an addendum to this interview providing more detail. I highly recommend it.
Music:
The Clash, “Career Opportunities,” The Clash, 1977.
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1h
January 23, 2017 Stalin’s Purge of the Red Army

Guest:
Peter Whitewood is a Lecturer in History at York St. John University where he specializes in Soviet history, military history, and the aftermath of war. He’s the author of The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Soviet Military published by University Press of Kansas.
Music:
Einsturzende Neubauten, “The Willy-Nicky Telegrams,” Lament, 2014.
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45min
January 17, 2017 Russia’s Mass Protests Five Years On

Guest:
Marc Bennetts is a British journalist who has been living in Russia for almost two decades. He writes for Newsweek, The Times (of London), and Politico, as well as other US and British newspapers and magazines. He’s the author of I’m Going to Ruin Their Lives: Inside Putin’s War on Russia’s Opposition published by Oneworld. You can follow him @marcbennetts1.
Music:
Cows, “Sexy Pee Story,” Sexy Pee Story, 1993.
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48min

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