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Bill Sewell, "Constructing Empire: The Japanese...
An interview with Bill Sewell
45 min
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Kathryn Ciancia, "On Civilization's Edge: A Pol...
An interview with Kathryn Ciancia
57 min
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David Nasaw, "The Last Million: Europe's Displa...
An interview with David Nasaw
55 min
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F. B. Chang and S. T. Rucker-Chang, "Roma Right...
An interview with F. B. Chang and S. T. Rucker-Chang
53 min
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Serhy Yekelchyk, "Ukraine: What Everyone Needs ...
An interview with Serhy Yekelchyk
69 min
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Olena Palko, "Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature...
An interview with Olena Palko
52 min
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Myroslav Shkandrij, "Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine...
An interview with Myroslav Shkandrij
45 min
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Stanley J. Rabinowitz, "And Then Came Dance: Th...
An interview with Stanley Rabinowitz
79 min
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Keith A. Livers, "Conspiracy Culture: Post-Sovi...
Livers offers a solid background that helps historicize the conspiracy preoccupations in Russia...
54 min
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Tatiana Zhurzhenko, "War and Memory in Russia, ...
This book analyzes the shaping of the commemorative space in the three post-Soviet countries that used to share commemorative practices and memorial space in general...
45 min
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Aubrey Menard, "Young Mongols: Forging Democrac...
Mongolia is sometimes seen as one of the few examples of a successful youth-led revolution, where a 1990 movement forced the Soviet-appointed Politburo to resign....
40 min
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M. Wodziński and W. Spallek, "Historical Atlas ...
The Historical Atlas of Hasidism (Princeton UP, 2018) is the first cartographic reference book on one of the modern era’s most vibrant and important mystical movements...
41 min
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Vadim Shneyder, "Russia's Capitalist Realism: N...
Shneyder examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov responded to the dangers and possibilities posed by Russia's industrial revolution....
37 min
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Julius Margolin, "Journey Into the Land of the ...
Julius Margolin was a Polish Jew caught between the twin 1939 invasions of Poland by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. He spent the years 1940-1945 in Soviet labor camps...
58 min
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Ronald Grigor Suny, "Stalin: Passage to Revolut...
Suny provides a wealth of detail as to the young Stalin’s life, and he embeds that life story in the broader story of Bolshevism...
56 min
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Erica Marat, "The Politics of Police Reform: So...
Erica Marat provides an answer to a very important question: “What does it take to reform a post-Soviet police force?”
43 min
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Y. Gorlizki and O. Khlevniuk, "Substate Dictato...
Gorlizki and Khlevniuk chart the strategies of Soviet regional leaders, paying particular attention to the forging and evolution of local trust networks...
55 min
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Jonathan Schneer, "The Lockhart Plot: Love Betr...
Schneer's recounts the story of a young British diplomat, Bruce Lockhart, sent to Soviet Russia soon after the October Revolution in 1917...
52 min
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Alexey Golubev, "The Things of Life: Materialit...
Golubev offers a social and cultural history of material objects and spaces during the late socialist era...
57 min
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H. Shelest and M. Rabinovych, "Decentralization...
The volume draws particular attention to the issues that have been escalated and intensified since the inception of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict...
54 min
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Jessica Zychowicz, "Superfluous Women: Art, Fem...
Zychowicz tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union...
54 min
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A. Wylegala and M. Glowacka-Grajper, "The Burde...
In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma...
60 min
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Brandon M. Schechter, "The Stuff of Soldiers: A...
Brandon Schechter attends to a diverse array of things―from spoons to tanks―to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the provisioning of material goods separated soldiers from civilians...
55 min
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Jennifer J. Carroll, "Narkomania: Drugs, HIV, a...
Carroll considers whether substance use disorders are everywhere the same and whether our responses to drug use presuppose what kind of people those who use drugs really are...
56 min
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David R. Marples, "Understanding Ukraine and Be...
Marples highlights the dramatic changes of the late Soviet and post-Soviet periods, his travel stories, experiences, and the Stalinist legacy in both countries...
55 min