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Roland Elliott Brown, "Godless Utopia: Soviet A...
Brown examines the Soviet anti-religious campaign through a unique collection of illustrations,..
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Olga Zilberbourg, "Like Water and Other Stories...
To this generation that includes writers as disparate as Gary Shteyngart and Irina Reyn comes Olga Zilberbourg...
54 min
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David Brandenberger, "Stalin's Master Narrative...
The Short Course was designed to be the definitive party narrative, but the party purges and Stalin’s own personal preferences led to him stripping out the traditional historical framework...
60 min
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Charles Halperin, "Ivan the Terrible: Free to R...
Halperin’s Ivan IV emerges as a ruler at once less—and more—mysterious than in previous treatments of this subject...
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Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, "The Epistolary Art of Cat...
Rubin-Detlev evaluates the place that Catherine sought to occupy in the intellectual and cultural landscape of her time...
56 min
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Serhii Plokhy, "Forgotten Bastards of the Easte...
Using a wealth of memoirs and recently declassified secret police files, Plokhy captures the intimate detail of a culture clash that chilled relations before Nazism was even defeated...
55 min
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Michael Khodarkovsky, "Russia's 20th Century: A...
Khodarkovsky has taken a novel approach to charting the century by crafting one hundred vignettes, one for each year of the century...
68 min
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Iain MacGregor, "Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold W...
There is perhaps no more iconic symbol of the Cold War than the Berlin Wall...
68 min
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Sara Lorenzini, "Global Development: A Cold War...
The idea of economic development was a relatively novel one even as late as the 1940s...
48 min
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Donald Ostrowski, "Europe, Byzantium, and the '...
Why did intellectual path of Medieval Russian culture differ so much from its counterparts in Western Europe?
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Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Stuck on Communism: Memoi...
This memoir by one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period spans three continents and more than half a century...
58 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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Tamara Hundorova, "The Post-Chornobyl Library: ...
Hundorova has written a compelling study of the literary changes that mark Ukrainian literature at the end of the 20th century...
45 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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Michael Mandelbaum, "The Rise and Fall of Peace...
In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history...
52 min
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Joanna Lillis, "Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret...
Lillis paints a compelling picture of a nation that is still grappling with the consequences of Joseph Stalin’s devastating disruption...
58 min
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Larry Diamond, "Ill Winds: Saving Democracy fro...
Larry Diamond joins us this week to talk about the threat China’s model of authoritarian capitalism...
40 min
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Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, "No Path Home: Humanitar...
"No Path Home" is the engaging result of more than sixteen years of fieldwork in Georgian IDP camps.
36 min
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Yan Li, “China’s Soviet Dream: Propaganda, Cult...
Li offers a sophisticated argument that this all fed into an entire framework for socialist modernity which China sought to adopt at this crucial period in its history...
63 min
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Anastasia Denisova, "Internet Memes and Society...
How have memes changed politics?
32 min
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Aaron Hale-Dorrell, "Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s...
Hale-Dorrell re-evaluates Khrushchev’s corn campaign as the cornerstone of his reformation programs...
74 min
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Bathsheba Demuth, "Floating Coast: An Environme...
Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years...
51 min
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Rico Issacs, "Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: ...
Issacs uses cinema as an analytical tool to demonstrate the constructed and contested nature of Kazakh national identity...
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Keir Giles, "Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia t...
From Moscow, the world looks different...
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Mariëlle Wijermars, "Memory Politics in Contemp...
Wijermars discusses how history is being reimagined by in pop culture and by the Russian government to give legitimacy and a sense of history to the Putin regime.
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