Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIan Garner, "Stalingrad Lives!: Stories of Combat and Survival" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)
Episode 218
In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler’s army ran rampant. With the fate of the USSR han…
3 years, 8 months ago
Mariëlle Wijermars et al., "The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Episode 217
How has digitalisation changed Russian politics? How has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed Russia studies? What is special about Russia’s approach…
3 years, 8 months ago
Elena Goodwin, "Translating England into Russian: The Politics of Children's Literature in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 216
From governesses with supernatural powers to motor-car obsessed amphibians, the iconic images of English children's literature helped shape the view …
3 years, 8 months ago
Sandra Frimmel, "Art Judgements: Art on Trial in Russia After Perestroika" (Vernon Press, 2021)
Episode 215
Since the turn of the millennium, there has been an unusually large number of court cases against artists and curators in Russia. Focusing on promine…
3 years, 9 months ago
Zvi Preigerzon, "Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2022)
Episode 337
Today I talked to Alex Lahav about his edition and translation Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag (Cherry Orchard Books, 2022).
Zvi Preigerzon …
3 years, 9 months ago
Muhammet Koçak, "Turkey-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century: Cooperation and Competition Amid Systemic Turbulence" (Lexington, 2022)
Episode 181
Turkey and Russia are two of the most significant powerhouses in Eurasia. The foreign policies of two countries directly impact the regional dynamics…
3 years, 9 months ago
Kiril Feferman, "The Holocaust in the Crimea and the North Caucasus" (Yad Vadhem, 2016)
Episode 335
Kiril Feferman's The Holocaust in the Crimea and the North Caucasus (Yad Vadhem, 2016) presents a comprehensive account of the Jews in the Crimea and…
3 years, 9 months ago
Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 634
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton UP, 2022) explores why dictatorships born of social revolutio…
3 years, 9 months ago
William Inboden, "The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink" (Dutton, 2022)
Episode 17
With decades of hindsight, the peaceful end of the Cold War seems a foregone conclusion. But in the early 1980s, most experts believed the Soviet Uni…
3 years, 9 months ago
Vladislav M. Zubok, "Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union" (Yale UP, 2021)
Episode 215
In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong with …
3 years, 9 months ago