Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTamizdat under Putin: A Discussion with Publisher Feliks Sandalov
Episode 296
Russia has a long history of publishers operating from abroad, producing books and periodicals for a Russian-speaking audience. One notable example i…
1 year, 6 months ago
László Borhi, "Survival under Dictatorships: Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes" (Central European UP, 2024)
Episode 220
A complex array of individual responses to the abuse of power by the state is represented in this book in three horrific episodes in the history of E…
1 year, 6 months ago
Victoria Khiterer, "Jewish Pogroms in Kiev During the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920" (Edwin Mellen, 2015)
Episode 614
Jewish Pogroms in Kiev During the Russian Civil War discusses how anti-Jewish violence began during the revolution and civil war 1917-1920 raising qu…
1 year, 6 months ago
Irina Rebrova, "Re-Constructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory: The Case of the North Caucasus" (de Gruyter, 2020)
Episode 613
The main objective of Re-Constructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory: The Case of the North Caucasus (de Gruyter, 2020) is to locate the grass roots ini…
1 year, 6 months ago
Christina Kiaer, "Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 295
Dislodging the avant-garde from its central position in the narrative of Soviet art, Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Rea…
1 year, 6 months ago
Shay A. Pilnik, "The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War" (Purdue UP, 2025)
Episode 610
The Nazis and their collaborators buried over 100,000 victims at Babyn Yar, a ravine in modern-day Ukraine. Most of the individuals were Jewish, maki…
1 year, 7 months ago
Trevor Wilson, "Alexandre Kojève and the Specters of Russian Philosophy" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
Episode 294
In this episode, Alisa interviews Dr. Trevor Wilson about his new book, Alexandre Kojève and the Specters of Russian Philosophy (Northwestern Univers…
1 year, 7 months ago
Canada and Eastern Europe, 1945–1991: Meeting in the Middle
Episode 19
In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press) sat down with Andrea Chandler to talk about her new book with CEU Press, Canada and Eastern Europe, …
1 year, 7 months ago
Laurel Victoria Gray, "Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan: Legacy of the Silk Road" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 41
Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan: Legacy of the Silk Road (Bloomsbury, 2024) is the first comprehensive work in English on the three major regi…
1 year, 7 months ago
Peter Whitewood, "The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Soviet Military" (UP of Kansas, 2015)
Episode 294
On June 11, 1937, a closed military court ordered the execution of a group of the Soviet Union's most talented and experienced army officers, includi…
1 year, 7 months ago