The Eurasian Knot

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The Eurasian Knot episodes

April 12, 2017 The Russian Propaganda Machine
Guest: Alexey Kovalev on Russian propaganda.
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53 min
April 03, 2017 Experiencing the Russian Revolution
Guest:
Mark Steinberg is a professor of Russian History at the University of Illinois. He’s the author of many wonderful books including, Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925; Voices of Revolution, 1917; Petersburg Fin de Siecle; and with Nicholas Riasanovsky, A History of Russia, now in its 8th edition. His most recent book is The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 published by Oxford University Press.
Listen to my interview with Mark Steinberg on his St. Petersburg Fin de Siecle on the New Books Network.
Music:
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Coma Girl,” Streetcore, 2003.
49 min
April 03, 2017 Experiencing the Russian Revolution
Guest: Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution.
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49 min
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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42 min
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.
42 min
March 20, 2017 Lenin and the Bolsheviks
Guest: Lars Lih on Lenin.
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45 min
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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38 min
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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42 min
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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34 min
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.
49 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…