Sean's Russia Blog
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Weekly interviews on Eurasian politics, history and society.
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Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip
17/06/2024 Duração: 51minGuest: Lisa Kirschenbaum on Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip published by Cambridge University Press.The post Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Soviet Afghan War and Islam
10/06/2024 Duração: 59minGuest: Vassily Klimentov on A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communists, and Islam published by Cornell University Press.The post Soviet Afghan War and Islam appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Populist Elitism in Russia and the US
03/06/2024 Duração: 01h01minGuest: Alexandar Mikhailovic on the unlikely convergence of the American and Russian far-right.The post Populist Elitism in Russia and the US appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Soviet Industrial Ecology
20/05/2024 Duração: 55minGuest: Elena Kochetkova on wood, forests and industrial ecology in the Soviet Union.The post Soviet Industrial Ecology appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Everyday War in Donbas
13/05/2024 Duração: 01h01minGuest: Greta Uehling on the ethics of care in Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine published by Cornell University Press.The post Everyday War in Donbas appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sugarland
06/05/2024 Duração: 44minGuest: Artan Hoxha on his new book, Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania published by Central European University Press.The post Sugarland appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Citizen Poet
29/04/2024 Duração: 01h02minGuest: Russian poet Dmitrii Bykov on the War in Ukraine, the role of art in politics, satire, his poisoning in 2019, protest, love and family.The post Citizen Poet appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Baku Oil and the Soviet State
22/04/2024 Duração: 58minGuest: Sara Brinegar on her book The Power and Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus: Periphery Unbound, 1920-29 published by Bloomsbury.The post Baku Oil and the Soviet State appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Gleaning for Communism
15/04/2024 Duração: 43minGuest: Xenia Cherkaev on her book Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice published by Cornell University Press.The post Gleaning for Communism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Tunguska Mystery
08/04/2024 Duração: 38minGuest: Andy Bruno on his new book Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and its Environmental Legacy published by Cambridge University Press.The post The Tunguska Mystery appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sesame Street in Russia
01/04/2024 Duração: 47minGuest: Natasha Lance Rogoff on making Sesame Street in Russia in the turbulent 1990s.The post Sesame Street in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Soviet Investigation of Nazi War Crimes
25/03/2024 Duração: 51minGuest: Paula Chan on the Extraordinary State Commission and its investigations in the Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union.The post Soviet Investigation of Nazi War Crimes appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Soviet Century
18/03/2024 Duração: 01h04minGuest: Karl Schlogel on the lost world of Soviet civilization.The post The Soviet Century appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Black Skies Over Krasnoyarsk
11/03/2024 Duração: 53minGuest: Mariia Koskina on Siberian industrialization, the environment and the black skies over Krasnoyarsk.The post Black Skies Over Krasnoyarsk appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Revisiting Nagorno-Karabakh
04/03/2024 Duração: 01h05minGuests: Tigran Grigoryan (The Regional Center for Democracy and Security) and Kelsey Rice (Berry College) revisiting the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh.The post Revisiting Nagorno-Karabakh appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Soviet Avant Garde
26/02/2024 Duração: 57minGuest: Natalia Krylova on life, love, language, and the Soviet Avant Garde.The post The Soviet Avant Garde appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Russia’s Prison Knocking Language
16/02/2024 Duração: 48minHow did generations of Russian revolutionaries communicate in prison? Especially under strict surveillance, censorship and enforced silence? One way was through the sound of tapping. Prisoners used purposeful “tuks, tuks, tuks” in a coded pattern to communicate through their cells' thick granite walls. This syntax of taps developed in the 1820s and continued well into the 20th century. How did this tapping language develop and spread? How did it help concretize a collective revolutionary identity? The Eurasian Knot talked to Nicholas Bujalski to learn more about his prize winning article “Tuk, tuk, tuk!” A History of Russia’s Prison Knocking Language” published in the July 2022 issue of the Russian Review.Guest:Nicholas Bujalski is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Oberlin College. His writing has appeared in The Russian Review, Modern Intellectual History, and the Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, and his current book project is a cultural, intellectual, and spatial history of R
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Ukraine’s Gloomy Winter
09/02/2024 Duração: 54minGuest: Brian Milakovsky with a grim update on Ukraine, the war, and the shrinking prospects of even a lousy peace.The post Ukraine’s Gloomy Winter appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A Century Without Lenin
02/02/2024 Duração: 40minGuest: Christopher Read on Vladimir Lenin's legacy 100 years since his death.The post A Century Without Lenin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Genealogy in Russia
26/01/2024 Duração: 41minGuest: Maria Lotsmanova on her genealogical journey to find information about her repressed great-grandfather, Jacob Jansen.The post Genealogy in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.