Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMark D. Steinberg, "Russian Utopia: A Century of Revolutionary Possibilities" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 201
It has long been a cliché to argue that Russian revolutionary movements have been inspired by varieties of 'utopian dreaming' – claims which, althoug…
4 years, 1 month ago
Christina E. Crawford, "Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 77
Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union (Cornell UP, 2022) is the first comparative parallel study of Soviet architec…
4 years, 1 month ago
Roselyn Hsueh, "Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 113
Roselyn Hsueh’s Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism (Cambridge, 2022) presents a new framework for understanding how developing countries i…
4 years, 1 month ago
Anastasia Shesterinina, "Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 12
Anastasia Shesterinina begins Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia (Cornell University Press, 2021) with an account o…
4 years, 1 month ago
Anthony Pagden, "The Pursuit of Europe: A History" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 1241
The European Union, we are told, is facing extinction. Most of those who believe that, however, have no understanding of how, and why, it become poss…
4 years, 1 month ago
Kathryn E. Stoner, "Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 1240
Too often, we are told that Russia plays a weak hand well. But, perhaps the nation's cards are better than we know. Russia ranks significantly behind…
4 years, 1 month ago
Olena Palko and Constantin Ardeleanu, "Making Ukraine: Negotiating, Contesting, and Drawing the Borders in the Twentieth Century" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Episode 7
Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine have brought scholarly and public attention to Ukraine's borders…
4 years, 1 month ago
Sergei Zhuk, "KGB Operations Against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine 1953-1991" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 5
Oriented for a general reading audience, Sergei Zhuk's book KGB Operations Against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine 1953-1991 (Routledge, 2022) g…
4 years, 2 months ago
War and Peace: America's Humane War and the Crisis in Ukraine
Episode 35
This podcast is a recorded panel discussion on “War and Peace: America's Humane War and the Crisis in Ukraine.” The panel was part of the Annual Conf…
4 years, 2 months ago
Japan’s Reaction to Russia’s War in Ukraine
Episode 135
Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has dramatically affected international politics, and the effects are also felt in East Asia. We have heard a lot abou…
4 years, 2 months ago