Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGrant T. Harward, "Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 137
What motivated conscripted soldiers to fight in the Romanian Army during the Second World War? Why did they obey orders, take risks, and sometimes de…
4 years, 9 months ago
Christopher Coker, "The Rise of the Civilizational State" (Polity Press, 2019)
Episode 1107
In recent years the resurgence of great power competition has gripped the headlines, with new emerging powers (such as Russia and China) seeking to c…
4 years, 9 months ago
Molly Thomasy Blasing, "Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 175
Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture (Cornell UP, 2021) considers how photography has shaped Russian poetry from …
4 years, 9 months ago
Marshall Poe on Getting Post-Soviet Russia Wrong
Episode 2
In this episode of How To Be Wrong we talk with Marshall Poe, founder and head of the New Books Network, about his work as an historian of Russia and…
4 years, 9 months ago
Vladimir Alexandrov, "To Break Russia's Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks" (Pegasus, 2021)
Episode 174
The latest book by Vladimir Alexandrov is a brilliant examination of the enigmatic Russian revolutionary, Boris Savinkov.
Although now largely forgott…
4 years, 10 months ago
Svitlana Biedarieva, "Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
Episode 136
Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art (Ibidem Press, 2021) focuses on political and social expressions in contemporary art of Ukraine, Estonia, Lithu…
4 years, 10 months ago
Rico Isaacs and Erica Marat, "Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 28
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia (Routledge, 2021), edited by Rico Isaacs and Erica Marat, offers the first comprehensive, cross-d…
4 years, 10 months ago
Anna Saunders et al., "Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 173
In 1917, the adoption of the revolutionary Mexican Constitution and the October Revolution shook the foundations of international order in profound, …
4 years, 10 months ago
Yuri Kostenko, "Ukraine's Nuclear Disarmament: A History" (HURI, 2020)
Episode 133
Yuri Kostenko’s Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament: A History (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2020) is a meticulous account of how the Ukrainian go…
4 years, 10 months ago
Marlene Laruelle, "Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia" (UCL Press, 2021)
Episode 27
This month we are delighted to host one of the most important voices in Central Asian Studies worldwide: Professor Marlene Laruelle from George Washi…
4 years, 10 months ago