Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDemocracy, Great Powers, and the Russia-Ukraine War. A Discussion with Stefan Wolff
Episode 7
How helpful is the democracy-authoritarianism binary when it comes to our understanding of contemporary conflict? What is the state of the Russia-Ukr…
2 years, 8 months ago
Matthew Romaniello, "Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 69
In his new book Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia (Cambridge University Press), Matthew Romaniello examines the …
2 years, 8 months ago
Yaroslav Trofimov, "Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence" (Penguin, 2023)
Episode 26
Since February 2022, a string of books have been published about the war in Ukraine but, for the most part, these have been histories and political s…
2 years, 8 months ago
Kateryna Malaia, "Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room: Domestic Architecture before and after 1991" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
Episode 259
In Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room: Domestic Architecture Before and After 1991 (Northern Illinois UP, 2023) Kateryna Malaia examines the …
2 years, 8 months ago
Pavel Khazanov, "The Russia that We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Episode 258
In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries overthrew the tsar of Russia and established a new, communist government, one that viewed the Imperial Russia of o…
2 years, 8 months ago
Christine E. Evans, “Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television” (Yale UP, 2016)
Episode 64
In Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television (Yale University Press, 2016), Christine E. Evans reveals that Soviet television in…
2 years, 8 months ago
Scott D. Seligman, "Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Episode 167
On an August night in 1933 Harbin in then-Japanese controlled Manchuria–Semyon Kaspe, French citizen, famed concert musician, and Russian Jew, is abd…
2 years, 8 months ago
Alyssa M. Park, “Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Episode 306
Even in states where borders and sovereignty are supposedly well established, large movements of transnational migrants are seen to present problems,…
2 years, 8 months ago
Philip Snow, "China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 1395
Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for four centuries. In …
2 years, 9 months ago
Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)
Episode 141
Olga V. Solovieva's book The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently (Oxford UP. 2023) offers a new historical per…
2 years, 9 months ago