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Shoshana Keller, "Russia and Central Asia: Coex...
Keller provides an excellent introduction and overview of the history of Central Asia, from roughly the 14th century to the present...
64 min
702
The Origins of World War One
Who or what originated and/or caused the Great War from breaking out in July 1914?
65 min
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Steve Vogel, "Betrayal in Berlin: The True Stor...
Vogel tells the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage operations of the Cold War—and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it...
59 min
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Loretta E. Kim, "Ethnic Chrysalis: China’s Oroc...
Kim's book is the first monograph published in English on the early modern history of the Orochen, an ethnic group that has inhabited northeast Asia for centuries...
60 min
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Darra Goldstein, "Beyond the North Wind: Russia...
Goldstein set out on a challenging but ultimately rewarding journey to discover the "quintessential flavors of Russia."
46 min
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Aliide Naylor, "The Shadow in the East: Vladimi...
The Baltics are about to be thrust onto the world stage.
50 min
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Richard Pomfret, "The Central Asian Economies i...
Pomfret looks at the economies of the five former Soviet Republics of Kazkahstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, considering the different trajectories of each of the countries...
54 min
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
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Maria Taroutina, "The Icon and the Square: Russ...
Taroutina examines how the traditional interests of institutions such as the crown, the church, and the Imperial Academy of Arts temporarily aligned with the radical, leftist, and revolutionary avant-garde at the turn of the twentieth century...
61 min
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Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, "Mass Violence in...
The book argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence...
39 min
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Abdullah Qodiriy, "Bygone Days" (Bowker, 2019)
Mark Reese’s recent translation of Abdullah Qodiriy’s 1920s novel "Bygone Days" brings an exemplary piece of modern Uzbek literature to English-speaking audiences...
61 min
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
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Mark Gamsa, “Manchuria: A Concise History” (Blo...
The term ‘Manchuria’ conjures up all manner of evocative associations for people interested in East Asian and world history,..
48 min
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Magnus Nordenman, "The New Battle for the Atlan...
With Vladimir Putin’s Russia threatening the peace in Europe following the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the North Atlantic and other maritime domains around Europe are once again vitally important...
42 min
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Alyssa M. Park, “Sovereignty Experiments: Korea...
Park focuses on the movement of Koreans around the point where China, Russia and Korea converged from the mid-19th century onwards...
65 min
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Marlene Laruelle, "The Nazarbayev Generation: Y...
52 min
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Sarah Wobick-Segev, "Homes Away from Home: Jewi...
In pre-emancipation Europe, most Jews followed Jewish law most of the time, but by the turn of the twentieth century, a new secular Jewish identity had begun to take shape...
68 min
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Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon, "Night and...
Fort gives readers a chance to dive into the world of early 20th century Uzbek literature and understand the complex social problems of late Russian imperial Turkestan...
44 min
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Adele Lindenmeyr, "Citizen Countess: Sofia Pani...
In the aftermath of the February Revolution in 1917 Panina served on the Petrograd city council and as an assistant cabinet minister—the first female cabinet member in world history...
42 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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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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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