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Andrei Kushnir, "Epic Journey: Life and Times o...
Wasyl Kushnir goes back to the second half of the 19th century and takes the reader to the present moment: the story provides a glimpse into a family that seems to be shaped by all the atrocities of the 20th century...
48 min
727
Alexander Bukh, "These Islands Are Ours" (Stanf...
Bukh provides critical historical perspective on the social construction of territorial disputes between Japan and its neighbors in Northeast Asia...
77 min
728
Coryne Hall, "Queen Victoria and the Romanovs: ...
The balance of power in nineteenth-century Europe was anchored on one end by the redoubtable Queen Victoria (1819 -1901), the doyenne of sovereigns, and at the opposite end by the autocratic Romanov dynasty...
39 min
729
Iva Glisic, "The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, P...
Glisic demonstrates that Futurism took a calculated and systematic approach to its contemporary socio-political reality...
60 min
730
Anne Lounsbery, "Life is Elsewhere: Symbolic Ge...
Lounsbery investigates the long-standing trope of the “provinces” – an imaginary space of static non-modernity where time stands still and where residents nurse an inferiority complex...
68 min
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Brendan McGeever, "Antisemitism and the Russian...
McGeever examines Bolshevik and Jewish communists' attempts to confront antisemitism, including within the revolutionary movement itself...
47 min
732
Tatiana Linkhoeva, "Revolution Goes East: Imper...
As Russia’s 1917 October Revolution distended itself across north Asia and reverberated globally, socialism acted – not unlike today’s pandemic – as a Rorschach test revealing divisions in societies and politics, and to some offering cautious hope for a new world which might be constructed in the aftermath...
63 min
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Andrew Monaghan, "Dealing with the Russians" (P...
Monaghan argues that Western policy makers are using an outdated Cold War model of ideology, language and institutions, which is wholly unsuited for understanding, engaging, and countering where necessary Russia in the 21st century...
35 min
734
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
735
Danielle Ross, "Tatar Empire: Kazan's Muslims a...
Danielle Ross looks at how the Tatars of Kazan participated in the formation of the Russian empire through their various activities in trade, settlement, clerical work, intellectual culture, and trade...
68 min
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Karl Qualls, "Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish...
Qualls examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War...
57 min
737
Maya K. Peterson, "Pipe Dreams: Water and Empir...
The drying up of the Aral Sea - a major environmental catastrophe of the late twentieth century - is deeply rooted in the dreams of the irrigation age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,..
54 min
738
Alexander Watson, "The Fortress: The Siege of P...
Almost unknown in the West, this siege of Przemysl was one of the great turning points of the First World War...
50 min
739
Kevin O'Connor, "The House of Hemp and Butter: ...
Latvia's elegant capital, Riga, is one of Europe's best-kept secrets...
59 min
740
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
741
David Stahel, "Retreat from Moscow: A New Histo...
Germany’s winter campaign of 1941–1942 is commonly seen as the Wehrmacht's first defeat. Stahel argues that it was in fact their first strategic success in the east.
71 min
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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
743
The Origins of World War One
Who or what originated and/or caused the Great War from breaking out in July 1914?
65 min
744
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
745
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
746
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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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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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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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