The Eurasian Knot

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July 24, 2017 Russia and Its Near Abroad
Guest: Gerard Toal on Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus.
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55 min
July 24, 2017 Russia and Its Near Abroad

Guest:
Gerard Toal is a Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. He writes about US foreign policy, geopolitics, and territorial conflicts. He’s co-author with Carl Dahlman of Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal and editor of several books on critical geopolitics. Gerard’s newest book is Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus published by Oxford University Press.
Music:
Tommy Makem, “Four Green Fields.”
55 min
July 14, 2017 Protest in Putin’s Russia
Guest: Mischa Gabowitsch on Protest in Putin’s Russia.
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1 hr
July 14, 2017 Protest in Putin’s Russia

Guest:
Mischa Gabowitsch is member of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam Germany and a sociologist and contemporary historian specializing in the study of protest and social movements in Russia as well as Soviet war memorials. He is the author of Protest in Putin’s Russia published by Polity.
Music:
Rage Against the Machine, “Guerrilla Radio,” The Battle of Los Angeles, 1999.
1 hr
July 14, 2017 Protest in Putin's Russia
Mischa Gabowitsch is member of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam Germany and a sociologist and contemporary historian specializing in the study of protest and social movements in Russia as well as Soviet war memorials. He is the author of Protest in Putin’s Russia published by Polity.
1 hr
July 07, 2017 International Communism and the Spanish Civil War

Guest:
Lisa Kirschenbaum is a professor of History at West Chester University. Her research explores how people come to represent and understand their life stories as part of history, focusing on the linkages between individual, private lives and the momentous, often traumatic events of Russia’s twentieth century. She is the author of three books: Small Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932 published by Routledge; The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995: Myth, Memories, and Monuments published by Cambridge University Press; and International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion also published by Cambridge University Press.
Music:
Woody Guthrie, “Jarama Valley,” 1944.
52 min
July 07, 2017 International Communism and the Spanish Civil War
Guest: Lisa Kirschenbaum on International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion.
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52 min
June 30, 2017 Russian Peasants in Revolution

Guest:
Aaron Retish is an associate professor of history at Wayne State University where he specializes in late Imperial and Soviet history with a focus on the social, cultural, and political history of the countryside. He is the author of Russia’s Peasants in Revolution and Civil War: Citizenship, Identity, and the Creation of the Soviet State, 1914-1922, published by Cambridge University Press.
Music:
Grandmaster Flash, “Adventures of Flash on the Wheels of Steel,” Roots of Hip Hop, 2003.
41 min
June 30, 2017 Russian Peasants in Revolution
Guest: Aaron Retish on peasants in the Russian Revolution.
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41 min
June 21, 2017 The Crimean Nexus
Guest: Constantine Pleshakov on The Crimean Nexus: Putin’s War and the Clash of Civilizations.
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50 min

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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…