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Back to SearchKalani Pickhart, "I Will Die in a Foreign Land" (Two Dollar Radio, 2021)
Episode 27
An interview with Kalani Pickhart, I Will Die in a Foreign Land (2021), a New York Public Library Best Book of 2021. Russia is again amassing troops …
4 years, 8 months ago
Putin's Attempt to Hide the Crimes of Stalinism
Episode 181
For the past 30 years, a group of Russian scholars have dedicated themselves to uncovering the crimes of Stalinism. Their organization, Memorial, has…
4 years, 8 months ago
Anna Bokov, "Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930" (Park Books, 2020)
Episode 65
In Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930 (Park Books, 2020), Anna Bokov examines the history of the Higher Art and Te…
4 years, 8 months ago
Tomek Jankowski, "Eastern Europe! Everything You Need to Know" (New Europe Books, 2021)
Episode 145
When the legendary Romulus killed his brother Remus and founded the city of Rome in 753 BCE, Plovdiv―today the second-largest city in Bulgaria―was th…
4 years, 8 months ago
Paul Bushkovitch, "Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia: The Transfer of Power 1450-1725" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 180
The transfer of power is something every must state attend to (and preferably by peaceful means). Remarkably, this fundamental aspect of statecraft w…
4 years, 8 months ago
East Asian Cold War History with a Maritime Twist
Episode 96
When did the Cold War in East Asia really begin? According to ADI-NIAS researcher Kuan-Jen Chen, the answer is 1945 – if we view the Cold War through…
4 years, 8 months ago
Lucie Fremlova, "Queer Roma" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 144
Lucie Fremlova's book Queer Roma (Routledge, 2021) offers in-depth insight into the lives of queer Roma, thus providing rich evidence of the heteroge…
4 years, 8 months ago
Jeffrey Brooks, "The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 179
Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks (Cambridge UP, 2019) by Jeffrey Brooks, Professor of History at Johns Hopkins Univer…
4 years, 8 months ago
Bogdan Popa, "De-Centering Queer Theory: Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and After the Cold War" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Episode 253
Bogdan Popa’s De-Centering Queer Theory: Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and After the Cold War (Manchester University Press, 2021) seeks to r…
4 years, 9 months ago
Alex Panasenko, "The Long Vacation: A Memoir" (Iris Press, 2020)
Episode 1120
NB: This interview contains material about wartime experiences that may be upsetting to some listeners.
When Alex Panasenko was born in 1933, his nat…
4 years, 9 months ago