The Eurasian Knot

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June 21, 2017 The Crimean Nexus

Guest:
Constantine Pleshakov teaches at the Five-College Consortium in Massachusetts. In 2012, The Princeton Review named him one of the 300 best college professors in the United States. He’s the author of many books, including There Is No Freedom Without Bread!: 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism, Stalin’s Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front and with Vladislav Zubok, Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev. His newest book is The Crimean Nexus: Putin’s War and the Clash of Civilizations published by Yale University Press.
Music:
Sparklehorse, “Piano Fire,” It’s a Wonderful Life, 2001.
50 min
June 08, 2017 Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan

Guest:
Botakoz Kassymbekova is a research associate in the History Department in Humboldt University in Berlin and author of Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Music:
Non-Prophets, “Any Port,” Hope, 2003.
40 min
June 08, 2017 Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan
Guest: Botakoz Kassymbekova on Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan.
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40 min
May 31, 2017 The Force of Custom in Kyrgyzstan

Guest:
Judith Beyer is professor of anthropology at the University of Konstanz, Germany where she focuses on the anthropology of the state, legal pluralism, and theories of social order in Central Asia and Southeast Asia. She’s the author of The Force of Custom: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan published by Pittsburgh University Press.
Music:
Joy Division, “She’s Lost Control,” Unknown Pleasures, 1979.
47 min
May 31, 2017 The Force of Custom in Kyrgyzstan
Guest: Judith Beyer on The Force of Custom: Law and the Ordering of Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan.
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47 min
May 25, 2017 Patronalism in Eurasia
Guest: Henry Hale on Patronal Politics: Eurasian Regime Dynamics in Comparative Perspective.
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55 min
May 25, 2017 Patronalism in Eurasia

Guest:
Henry Hale is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs in the Eliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and Co-Director of the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia or PONARS Eurasia. He’s the author of many articles and books on post-Soviet politics. His most recent book is Patronal Politics: Eurasian Regime Dynamics in Comparative Perspective published by Cambridge University Press.
Music:
Richard Hell, “(I Belong to the) Blank Generation,” The Stiff Records Box Set, 1976.
55 min
May 17, 2017 A Life with the Russian Revolution
Guest: Alexander Rabinowitch on the Bolsheviks coming to power.
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44 min
May 17, 2017 A Life with the Russian Revolution
Guest:
Alexander Rabinowitch is Professor Emeritus of History and Indiana University, where he taught from 1968 until 1999, and an Affiliated Research Scholar at the St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences since 2013. He’s the author of several studies on the Russian Revolutionary era, including Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising published by Indiana University Press, The Bolsheviks Come To Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd published by Haymarket Books, and The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd published by Indiana University Press.
Music:
Cat Power, “You are Free,” You Are Free, 2003.
44 min
May 10, 2017 Searching for Postcommunist Sincerity

Guest:
Ellen Rutten is a professor of literature and chair of the Slavonic Department at the University of Amsterdam, where she researches post-Soviet and global contemporary culture, literature and art, design, social media and memory. She’s the author of Sincerity after Communism: A Cultural History published by Yale University Press.
Music:
The Smiths, “Unhappy Birthday,” Strangeways, Here We Come, 1987.
40 min

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