Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJames Mark and Paul Betts, "Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 180
Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation (Oxford UP, 2022) is the first work to provide a broad histor…
3 years, 9 months ago
Inna Perheentupa, "Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources" (Policy Press, 2022)
Episode 262
Inna Perheentupa's book Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources (Policy Press, 2022) is a nuanced and…
3 years, 9 months ago
Nicholas Morton, "The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East" (Basic Books, 2022)
Episode 20
For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the medieval Near East, but these religious wars are only part of the region’s complex …
3 years, 9 months ago
Andrew Spria, "Foreshadowed: Malevich’s "Black Square" and Its Precursors" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Episode 126
When Kasimir’s Malevich’s Black Square was produced in 1915, no one had ever seen anything like it before. And yet it does have precedents. In fact, …
3 years, 9 months ago
Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega, "Amanat: Women's Writing from Kazakhstan" (Gaudy Boy, 2022)
Episode 212
A man is arrested for a single typo, a woman gets on buses at random, and two friends reunite in a changed world.... Diverse in form, scope and style…
3 years, 9 months ago
Lan Anh Hoang, "Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times of Uncertainty" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
Episode 114
Vietnam and Russia share a common socialist history dating back to the Cold War. But since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and Vietnam’s đổi…
3 years, 9 months ago
Jonathan R. Hunt, "The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 16
The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam (Stanford UP, 2022) reveals how a coalition of powerful and de…
3 years, 9 months ago
Olena Braichenko et al., "Ukraine: Food and History" (O. Braichenko, 2020)
Episode 8
Ukraine: Food and History (O. Braichenko, 2020) tells about the past and present of Ukrainian cuisine. It includes recipes of dishes that everyone ca…
3 years, 9 months ago
Sofya Glazunova, "Digital Activism in Russia: The Communication Tactics of Political Outsiders" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 211
Digital Activism in Russia: The Communication Tactics of Political Outsiders (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) examines various forms of Russian online anti…
3 years, 9 months ago
Darra Goldstein, "The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 209
The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food (U California Press, 2022) unearths the foods and flavors of the Russian land. Preeminent food st…
3 years, 9 months ago