Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrank Wolff, "Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund" (Haymarket Books, 2021)
Episode 350
Frank Wolff's ground-breaking Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund (Haymarket Books, 2021) inves…
3 years, 7 months ago
Adam Lajeunesse, "Lock, Stock, and Icebergs: A History of Canada's Arctic Maritime Sovereignty" (UBC Press, 2016)
Episode 16
In April 1988, after years of failed negotiations over the status of the Northwest Passage, Brian Mulroney gave Ronald Reagan a globe, pointed to the…
3 years, 8 months ago
Jeff Fearnside, "Ships in the Desert" (Santa Fe Writer's Project, 2022)
Episode 118
Many of us have likely seen photos of the Aral Sea, and the rusted Soviet-era ships, sitting in the desert with no water in sight. The Aral Sea is no…
3 years, 8 months ago
Tricia Starks, "Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 220
Seeing cigarette smoking as a cultural phenomenon of Western modernity is perhaps easier when the test case is outside the US where the narrative is …
3 years, 8 months ago
Alessandro Iandolo, "Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 219
In the middle of the 20th century, there was a passionate affair, between the Soviet empire and newly independent West African states. It was a short…
3 years, 8 months ago
Franziska Exeler, "Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 182
How do states and societies confront the legacies of war and occupation, and what do truth, guilt, and justice mean in that process?
In Ghosts of War…
3 years, 8 months ago
Regine A. Spector, "Order at the Bazaar: Power and Trade in Central Asia" (Cornell UP, 2017)
Episode 35
Order at the Bazaar: Power and Trade in Central Asia (Cornell UP, 2017) delves into the role of bazaars in the political economy and development of C…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Russo-Ukrainian War from a Military Point of View
Episode 22
On February 24 2022, Vladimir Putin shocked the world by invading Ukraine. In this short interview, veteran military historian Jeremy Black looks at …
3 years, 8 months ago
Svetlana Lavochkina, "Carbon: Song of Crafts" (Lost Horse Press, 2020)
Episode 10
Donetsk, the black gem of Ukraine―Eden and Sodom in one, a stew steaming with coal fever, Manifest Destiny of Europe's east: Svetlana Lavochkina send…
3 years, 8 months ago
Sean Patterson, "Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917-1921" (U Manitoba Press, 2020)
Episode 213
In the chaos of the end of WWI, the Russian Civil War, and a brief period of Ukrainian independence there occurred a series of massacres of German Me…
3 years, 8 months ago