The Eurasian Knot

Guest:

Tim Nunan is a scholar of international and global history. His work focuses on the history of Russia and Eurasia–Central Asia, Iran, and Afghanistan–in an international context. He is the Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and author of Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan.

Music:

Ramones, “Teenage Lobotomy,” Anthology, 1999.

Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon & the Toadliquors, “Love Me, I’m a Liberal,” Prairie Home Invasion, 1994.

Guest:

Maxim Edwards is Commissioning Editor at Open Democracy Russia. He writes on nationalism, migration, minorities and memory, with a focus on post-Soviet countries. His most recent articles are “Armenia to House World’s Largest Yazidi Temple” for Eurasianet and co-authored with Thomas Rowley “In Ukraine, Not Only Heroes Deserve Justice” on Open Democracy.

Ilya Budraitskis, “Neither Moscow, nor NATO: Notes on the NATO summit and the antiwar counter-summit in Warsaw.”

Guest:

Gleb Bogush is an associate professor in the Department of Criminal law and Criminology in Moscow State University’s Faculty of Law and counsel for Threefold Legal Advisers. He’s the author of over 6o articles on Russian and International Criminal law. His most recent commentary is “Killing Russian Criminal Law” for the Carnegie Moscow Center.

 

Guest:

Josh Shifrinson is an assistant professor at Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. His most recent articles are “Deal or No Deal? The End of the Cold War and the U.S. Offer to Limit NATO Expansion,” published in the Spring 2016 issue of International Security and “Russia’s got a point: The U.S. broke a NATO promise” in the LA Times.

Guest:

James Harris is a Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Leeds University where he specializes in the history of Stalinism. James has published several books and articles on the Stalin period. His most recent book is The Great Fear: Stalin’s Terror in the 1930s.

Guest:

Ben Peters is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Tulsa and affiliated faculty at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He is the author of How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet.

Music:

Kraftwerk, “Computer World,” Computer World, 1984.

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Guest:

Tarik Cyril Amar is an Associate Professor of History at Columbia University specializing in the Soviet Union, Russia, and Ukraine. He’s the author of The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv. A Borderland City between Nazis, Stalinists, and Nationalists.

Music:

Danger Doom, “Space Ho’s,” The Mouse and the Mask, 2005.

Guest:

James Casteel is an assistant professor of German, Russian, and Jewish history in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University. His research interests include transnational relations between Germany and Russia, nations and empires in central and eastern Europe, and diasporic cultures and belonging. He is the author of Russia in the German Global Imaginary: Imperial Visions and Utopian Desires, 1905-1941.

Music:

Fugazi, “Long Division,” Steady Diet of Nothing, 1991.

Guest:

Russell Martin is a professor of History at Westminster College focusing on autocracy, marriage, power and the Romanov dynasty in early modern Russia. He is the author of many books and articles. His most recent book is A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia.

 

Reading:

Russell Martin, “Eulogy for Ned Keenan.”

Greg Afinogenov, “Breaking Muscovy’s Silence: Edward Keenan, 1935-2015.”

Russell Martin, “Dowries, Diplomacy, and Marriage Politics in Muscovy.”

Russell Martin, “A Reappreciation of Sergei Fedorovich Platonov’s Ocherki po istorii smuty.”

Music:

The Smiths, “There is a Light That Never Goes Out,” The Queen is Dead, 1986.

Guest:

Natalia Antonova is a pundit, playwright and sometime journalist living in Russia. You can read her blog where she comments a wide variety of topics, including sex, at nataliaantonova.com. Her most recent article is “Russia’s Porn Stars Aren’t Just Hot, They’re Also Ostracised And Exploited” on Open Democracy.

Music:

Prince and the Revolution, “Darling Nikki,” Purple Rain, 1984.