The Eurasian Knot

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May 10, 2017 Searching for Postcommunist Sincerity
Guest: Ellen Rutten on Sincerity after Communism: A Cultural History.
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40 min
May 03, 2017 Reviving Holy Rus

Guest:
John Burgess is the James Henry Snowden Professor of Systematic Theology at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He’s the author of several books on Protestant theology, church life, the place of faith in the modern world in addition to an interest in Russian Orthodoxy. His new book is Holy Rus’: The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia published by Yale University Press.
Music:
Johnny Cash, “Personal Jesus,” The Man Comes Around, 2002.
45 min
May 03, 2017 Reviving Holy Rus
Guest: John Burgess on Holy Rus’: The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia.
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45 min
April 27, 2017 The Tsarist Exile System
Guest:
Daniel Beer is a senior lecturer in the History Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. He’s written widely on 19th century Russia and is the author of Renovating Russia: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880–1930, published by Cornell University Press. His new book is The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars published by Knopf.
Music:
Adam & the Ants, “King of the Wild Frontier,” Antbox, 2000.
48 min
April 27, 2017 The Tsarist Exile System
Guest: Daniel Beer on The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars.
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48 min
April 24, 2017 Russophobia in America: A Genealogy
This podcast is a talk I gave titled “Russophobia in America: A Genealogy” at Kennan Institute on April 11, 2017. It’s been re-purposed here with the kind permission of the Kennan.
I refer to many images in the talk. You can view the accompanying presentation below:
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Music:
Made for TV, “So Afraid of the Russians,” 1983.
27 min
April 24, 2017 Russophobia in America: A Genealogy
My talk at the Kennan on the history of russophobia.
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27 min
April 19, 2017 Georgian Diaspora and the Soviet Empire
Guest:
Erik Scott is an Associate professor of history at the University of Kansas who specializes in Modern Russia, comparative empires, migration and diasporas. He is the author of several publications on contemporary Russia and Eurasia. His most recent book is Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire published by Oxford University Press.
Music:
Blackalicious, “Blazing Arrow,” Blazing Arrow, 2002.
46 min
April 19, 2017 Georgian Diaspora and the Soviet Empire
Guest: Erik Scott on Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire.
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46 min
April 12, 2017 The Russian Propaganda Machine

Guest:
Alexey Kovalev is a journalist living and working in Russia. He was a senior editor at RIA Novosti, Russia’s largest state news agency, and edited inosmi.ru, a website that translates news articles from foreign publications into Russian. He is the founder and editor of noodleremover.news, a Russian-language fact-checking and anti-propaganda website. He writes a bimonthly column for the Moscow Times on the maneuverings of the Russian media.
Music:
Carson Robinson, “I’m No Communist,” 1952.
53 min

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