New Books in Russian and Eurasian Stu...

Interviews with Scholars of Russia and Eurasia about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
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The Treaty of Versailles One Hundred Years On
The Versailles Treaty of 1919, celebrates its one-hundred anniversary this year...
37 min
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Jennifer Utrata, "Women without Men: Single Mot...
Utrata investigates what she calls a “quiet revolution” in the Russian family after the fall of the Soviet Union...
53 min
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Paul Robinson, "Russian Conservatism" (Cornell ...
Robinson provides a comprehensive examination of the roots and development of the hardy strain of conservative political thought in Russian history...
58 min
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Beth Fischer, "The Myth of Triumphalism: Rethin...
Fischer argues that the military buildup was actually deeply counterproductive, frightening the Soviet leadership and delaying meaningful negotiations for several years...
40 min
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Alison Rowley, "Putin Kitsch in America" (McGil...
Rowley examines the outsized influence that Vladimir Putin, both the man and the myth, have had on US political discourse in the last decade....
66 min
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Katya Cengel, "From Chernobyl with Love" (U Neb...
Cengel has written an engaging memoir of a Western newspaper reporter’s youthful experiences in Latvia and Ukraine...
55 min
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Roberto Carmack, "Kazakhstan in World War II: ...
Carmack looks at the experience of the Kazakh Republic during the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War...
54 min
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Oleksandra Humenna, "Ukraine 2030: The Doctrine...
"Ukraine 2030" offers a program that includes complex strategies for the economic development of Ukraine...
33 min
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
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Lesley Chamberlain, "Ministry of Darkness: How ...
Chamberlain delineates Uvarov's career and shows how one of the most cosmopolitan of men, became in the course of his official career the inventor of much that can be seen in to-day's xenophobic and nationalistic Russia of Vladimir Putin...
45 min
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Roland Elliott Brown, "Godless Utopia: Soviet A...
Brown examines the Soviet anti-religious campaign through a unique collection of illustrations,..
44 min
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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...
59 min
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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?
76 min
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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
722
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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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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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min