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Back to SearchChristopher P. Atwood, "The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese Sources" (Hackett, 2021)
Episode 70
In this interview we deep dive into the historiographical issues of the texts in The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese Sources (Hackett, 2021), edite…
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Books in Early Modern Europe
Episode 51
If you are reading this, it’s probably hard—nearly impossible—to imagine a world without writing—without print, books, newspapers, signs, graffiti, a…
2 years, 11 months ago
Harriet Murav and Gennady Estraikh, "Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering" (Academic Studies Press, 2018)
Episode 446
Harriet Murav and Gennady Estraikh's book Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering (Academic Studies Press, 2018) discusses the…
2 years, 11 months ago
Daniel Satinsky, "Creating the Post-Soviet Russian Market Economy: Through American Eyes" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 251
Creating the Post-Soviet Russian Market Economy: Through American Eyes (Routledge, 2023) captures the essence of the period when Russians and America…
2 years, 11 months ago
Isaac McKean Scarborough, "Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 250
Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. Isaac Mckean Scarborough tells the story of the colla…
2 years, 11 months ago
Gwendolyn Sasse, "Russia's War Against Ukraine" (Polity, 2023)
Episode 18
Nineteen months since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the books are coming thick and fast.
Fortunately, each tells a different and compell…
2 years, 11 months ago
Alex J. Bellamy, "Warmonger: Vladimir Putin's Imperial Wars" (Agenda Publishing, 2023)
Episode 19
"War was always central to Putin's project," writes Alex J. Bellamy in Warmonger: Vladimir Putin's Imperial Wars (Agenda, 2023). Not just the second …
2 years, 11 months ago
Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 249
A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibil…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Future of Ukraine: A Discussion with Christopher Miller
Episode 79
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has already changed the world. Why did it happen? Who is winning? How will it end? Christopher Miller is the author o…
2 years, 11 months ago
Erik R. Scott, "Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 78
Defectors fleeing the Soviet Union seized the world's attention during the Cold War. Their stories were told in sensational news coverage and dramati…
2 years, 11 months ago