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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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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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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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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
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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