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Society & Culture
History
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John Connelly, "From Peoples into Nations: A Hi...
Connelly traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War...
53 min
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Sören Urbansky, "Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A ...
The fact that the vast border between China and Russia is often overlooked goes hand-in-hand with a lack of understanding of the ordinary citizens in these much-discussed places, who often lose out to larger-than-life figures like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping...
73 min
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Joanna Stingray, "Red Wave: An American in the ...
"Red Wave" is Joanna Stingray’s autobiographical account of her time on the underground music scene in the USSR and Russia in the late 1980s and early 1990s....
57 min
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James C. Pearce, "The Use of History in Putin's...
History matters in Russia. It really matters, so much so that the state has a "historical policy" to help legitimize itself and support its policy agenda...
32 min
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Marco Puleri, "Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) R...
Puleri examines a complex process of identity formation in the context of exposure to a diversity of linguistic and cultural influences...
53 min
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Stephen Riegg, "Russia’s Entangled Embrace: The...
Riegg traces the relationship between the Romanov state and the Armenian diaspora that populated Russia's territorial fringes and navigated the tsarist empire's metropolitan centers....
55 min
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Adam Teller, "Rescue the Surviving Souls: The G...
A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tens of thousands of Jews fled their homes, or were captured and trafficked across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa....
72 min
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Matthew Romaniello, "Enterprising Empires: Russ...
Romaniello examines the workings of the British Russia Company and the commercial entanglements of the British and Russian empires in the long eighteenth century...
57 min
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David Moon, "The American Steppes: The Unexpect...
Beginning in the 1870s, migrant groups from Russia's steppes settled in the similar environment of the Great Plains. Many were Mennonites. They brought plants...
54 min
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Natan M. Meir, "Stepchildren of the Shtetl" (St...
Meir reconsiders the place of the lowliest members of an already stigmatized minority....
56 min
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Will Smiley, "From Slaves to Prisoners of War: ...
Smiley examines the emergence of rules of warfare surrounding captivity and slavery in the context of Ottoman-Russian military rivalry between 1700 and 1878....
69 min
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Madina Tlostanova, "What Does it Mean to be Pos...
Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition...
55 min
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Sonya Bilocerkowycz, "On Our Way Home from the ...
Bilocerkowycz speculates on the possibility of future revolutions built on the lessons of revolutions past—both big, and small...
37 min
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Nathan Spannaus, "Preserving Islamic Tradition:...
Who exactly was Abu Nasr Qursawi and what was his reformist project to grapple with this situation?
50 min
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Iraj Bashiri, "The History of the Civil War in ...
Iraj Bashiri provides an overview of the Civil War in Tajikistan that emerged amidst the collapse of the Soviet Union...
48 min
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Roger Moorhouse, "Poland 1939: The Outbreak of ...
Combing English, German and crucially Polish language sources, Moorhouse reveals to the reader the German campaign from start to finish...
42 min
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Diana T. Kudaibergenova, "Toward Nationalizing ...
Kudaibergenova takes the new states and nations of Eurasia that emerged in 1991, Latvia and Kazakhstan, and seeks to better understand the phenomenon of post-Soviet states tapping into nationalism to build legitimacy....
51 min
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Gregory Afinogenov, "Spies and Scholars: Chines...
Afinogenov offers a trove of insights into the centuries-long entanglements which have shaped Sino-Russian relationships up to the present...
62 min
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Scott Levi, "The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected H...
Levi reflects on recent scholarship to identify multiple causal factors that contributed to the Bukharan crisis of the 18th century...
72 min
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Francine Hirsch, "Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg...
How did an authoritarian regime help lay the cornerstones of human rights and international law?
82 min
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David Shimer, "Rigged: America, Russia, and One...
Shimer narrates in meticulous but page-turning detail a century of covert electoral interference, by both the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and continuing to this day...
52 min
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Archie Brown, "The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Rea...
What brought about an end to the Cold War has long been a subject of speculation and mythology...
49 min
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Mark Vincent, "Criminal Subculture in the Gulag...
Vincent draws on Gulag journals, song collections, tattoo drawings and dictionaries of slang, to explore the lives of the recidivist criminals and criminal gangs that originated in the Gulag under Stalin....
47 min
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Catherine Belton, "Putin's People: How the KGB ...
The Russian state is back.
34 min
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Laura A. Dean, "Diffusing Human Trafficking Pol...
Dean analyzes the development and effectiveness of anti-trafficking policies and institutions in Latvia, Russia, and Ukraine...
61 min