Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAndrew Long, "Secrets of the Cold War: Espionage and Intelligence Operations from Both Sides of the Iron Curtain" (Pen and Sword History, 2022)
Episode 149
The Cold War was a major geopolitical contest between the United States and the Soviet Union over predominance over the entire world. Unlike the prev…
3 years, 5 months ago
Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov, "Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia" (Brill, 2022)
Episode 230
The world as seen by a Qur’an specialist in late imperial and early Soviet Russia.
Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov's book Muslim Subjectivity in So…
3 years, 5 months ago
Iain MacGregor, "The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Heart of the Greatest Battle of World War II" (Scribner, 2022)
Episode 147
To the Soviet Union, the sacrifices that enabled the country to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II are sacrosanct. The foundation of the Soviets’ ha…
3 years, 5 months ago
Jade McGlynn, "Russia's War" (Polity, 2023)
Episode 8
A year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and nine years since its annexation of Crimea and occupation of Ukraine’s far east, why are so many Russians…
3 years, 5 months ago
Sudha Rajagopalan, "Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 1310
At the intersection of history, material culture studies, and post-socialist memory studies, Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience …
3 years, 5 months ago
Keir Giles, "Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 229
With the annexation of Crimea in 2014 as well the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia's place in the world is a matter of fierce debate among world l…
3 years, 5 months ago
Suzanna Eibuszyc, "Memory Is Our Home: Loss and Remembering--Three Generations in Poland and Russia 1917-1960s" (Ibidem, 2022)
Episode 387
A courageous young woman escaping Nazi Germany, with no choice other than to leave her family behind...
Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc was born in Warsaw n…
3 years, 5 months ago
War, Optimism, Humility: A Conversation with Literary Critic Mariia Shuvalova
Episode 20
This episode of How To Be Wrong is a conversation with Mariia Shuvalova, a lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Fulbright Scho…
3 years, 5 months ago
Svetlana Lavochkina, "Dam Duchess" (Whiskey Tit, 2018)
Episode 15
Svetlana Lavochkina's book Dam Duchess (Whiskey Tit, 2018) invites readers to take a surreal journey into the past: the construction of Dnipro Dam, t…
3 years, 5 months ago
Oleksandra Keudel, "How Patronal Networks Shape Opportunities for Local Citizen Participation in a Hybrid Regime: A Comparative Analysis of Five Cities in Ukraine" (Ibidem, 2022)
Episode 16
In How Patronal Networks Shape Opportunities for Local Citizen Participation in a Hybrid Regime: A Comparative Analysis of Five Cities in Ukraine (Ib…
3 years, 5 months ago