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Aaron Hale-Dorrell, "Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s...
Hale-Dorrell re-evaluates Khrushchev’s corn campaign as the cornerstone of his reformation programs...
74 min
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Bathsheba Demuth, "Floating Coast: An Environme...
Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years...
51 min
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Rico Issacs, "Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: ...
Issacs uses cinema as an analytical tool to demonstrate the constructed and contested nature of Kazakh national identity...
56 min
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Keir Giles, "Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia t...
From Moscow, the world looks different...
31 min
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Mariëlle Wijermars, "Memory Politics in Contemp...
Wijermars discusses how history is being reimagined by in pop culture and by the Russian government to give legitimacy and a sense of history to the Putin regime.
56 min
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Larry Holmes, "War, Evacuation, and the Exercis...
Holmes uses the case study of the Pedagogical Institute during the war years to explore power relationships in the institute and between local/ regional power and central power in Moscow...
50 min
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A. Lakhtikova, A. Brintlinger, and I. Glushchen...
Food plays a pivotal role throughout Russian history, but perhaps no more so than during the Soviet era, when the perennial Russian cycle of feast and famine took on a highly political aspect...
59 min
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Jeff Sahadeo, "Voices from the Soviet Edge: Sou...
Sahadeo looks at the migrant experiences of peoples from the Caucuses and Central Asia in the late Soviet and early Post-Soviet periods ( 1960s-1990s)...
52 min
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Vanessa Heggie, "Higher and Colder: A History o...
Heggie talks about the history of biomedical research in extreme environments...
34 min
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Betsy Perabo, "Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-...
Perabo examines the conflict through the concept of an “interreligious war” between Christian and Buddhist nations...
46 min
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C. W. Gortner, "The Romanov Empress: A Novel of...
101 years have passed since the murder of the Imperial Family of Russia at Yekaterinburg, but their appeal has not diminished...
67 min
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Jeremy Friedman, "Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Sov...
Taking ideology seriously as a component of socialist foreign policy, Friedman’s new and compelling analysis shows how deep Moscow and Beijing’s disagreements ran...
61 min
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Sophia Shalmiyev, "Mother Winter: A Memoir" (Si...
For writer Sophia Shalmiyev, the question was never “who is my mother,” but rather, “where has she gone?”
37 min
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Sergei Zhuk, "Soviet Americana: The Cultural Hi...
Zhuk offers an insightful investigation of the development of American studies in the Soviet Union, with a specific emphasis on Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine...
78 min
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Caroline Boggis-Rolfe, "The Baltic Story: A Tho...
The story of the littoral nations of the Baltic Sea is like a saga, that genre perfected by those tenacious inhabitants of the rocky shores of this ancient trading corridor...
51 min
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Petra Goedde, "The Politics of Peace: A Global ...
Earlier histories of the Cold War haven’t exactly been charitable toward the peace activists and pacifists who led peace initiatives...
51 min
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Adrienne Celt, "Invitation to a Bonfire" (Bloom...
"Invitation to a Bonfire" is inspired by the life of the well-known Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov.
37 min
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Kristen Ghodsee, "Red Hangover: Legacies of Twe...
In this very personal book with essays and short stories, Ghodsee describes the post-socialist realities of the victims of the greedy neoliberalism that has dismantled their social safety nets and expresses her frustration about the continuing tendency to reduce the twentieth-century East European state socialisms to Stalinism and the Gulags...
73 min
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Botakoz Kassymbekova, "Despite Cultures: Early ...
Kassymbekova explores technologies of governance used in early Soviet Tajikistan in order to implement Soviet plans for industrialization and collectivization...
62 min
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Kristen R. Ghodsee, "Second World, Second Sex: ...
Ghodsee addresses a telling gap in the historiography of women rights movements – the contributions of the Second World women rights activists...
66 min
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Eleonory Gilburd, "To See Paris and Die: The So...
Gilburd looks at the perfect cultural and social storm created by the combination of more liberal politics, foreign culture and the technology to make it accessible to 11 time zones...
84 min
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Vahram Ter-Matevosyan, "Turkey, Kemalism and th...
Ter-Matevosyan looks into the origins, evolution, and transformational phases of Kemalism between the 1920s and 1970s...
33 min
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Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "The Cold War's Killing...
Chamberlin reminds us that the Cold War was not at all Cold for hundreds of millions of people...
61 min
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Mark Galeotti, “The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia”...
"The Vory" traces the development of the Russian underworld
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Cathal J. Nolan, "The Allure of Battle: A Histo...
Nolan also challenges the hoary concept of the military "genius," even of the Great Captains--from Alexander to Frederick and Napoleon--mapping instead the decent into total war...
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