Sean's Russia Blog

Guest: Jonathan Brunstedt on The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR published by Cambridge University Press. The post Soviet WWII Mythologies appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Olga Petri on Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg published by Cornell University Press. The post Queer Spaces in Imperial St. Petersburg appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Timothy Blauvelt on Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba published by Routledge. The post Clientelism in Soviet Abkhazia appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Fabrizio Fenghi on It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia published by University of Wisconsin Press. The post Limonov and the National Bolsheviks appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Sarah Riccardi-Swartz on Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia published by Fordham University Press. The post Russian Orthodox Converts in Appalachia appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Teddy had few “official” meetings in the USSR. A factory here. A collective farm there. Maybe a school or two. And there was one question Teddy’s hosts always asked: “Why are you still lynching Blacks?” American racism was a global issue during the Cold War. And pointing to it was a strike at America’s Achilles heel. Soviet media devoted a lot of time to the Civil Rights Movement. And Teddy arrived in the USSR just when Martin Luther King was assassinated. So, just what was this Soviet concern for American Blacks? Was it merely a whataboutism, a way to deflect American criticism of Soviet life? Or was there something more to it? The post Ep 4: Teddy Talks about Race appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Ilya Budraitskis on Russia's war in Ukraine, fascism, and his essay collection, Dissidents among Dissidents. Ideology, politics and The Left in Post-Soviet Russia published by Verso. The post A Dissident Among Dissidents appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova on The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure Identity published by Oxford University Press. The post Russia in the Red Mirror appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Brian Milakovsky on everyday life in the Donbas and the effort to evacuate civilians. The post Life and Death in the Donbas appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Adeeb Khalid on Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present published by Princeton University Press. The post Central Asia Past and Present appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Alexei Yurchak on perestroika, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the experiences of the last Soviet generation. The post Everything Was Forever Until appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Coming May 30! Teddy Goes to the USSR, a new six-part podcast series follows one such American, Teddy Roe, to shine light on Soviet tourism, police surveillance, consumerism, race, and everyday life through his extraordinary three-month trip to the Soviet Union in 1968. The post Trailer 2: Teddy Goes to the USSR appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Jeffrey Hass on The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944 published by Oxford University Press. The post Suffering and Survival in Leningrad appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Coming May 30! Teddy Goes to the USSR, a new six-part podcast series follows one such American, Teddy Roe, to shine light on Soviet tourism, police surveillance, consumerism, race, and everyday life through his extraordinary three-month trip to the Soviet Union in 1968. The post Trailer: Teddy Goes to the USSR appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Vladislav Zubok on Collapse: The End of the Soviet Union published by Yale University Press. The post The Collapse of the Soviet Union appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Nanci Adler on Memorial, Stalinist repression, and Russia's incomplete transitional justice. The post Stalinism, Memorial, and Perestroika appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Isaac Scarborough on perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet system in Tajikistan. The post Perestroika in the Periphery: Tajikistan appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Brigid O'Keeffe on Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia published by Bloomsbury. The post Esperanto in Revolutionary Russia appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Mie Nakachi on Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Oxford University Press. The post Soviet Pronatalism appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Courtney Doucette on letter writing, Nina Andreeva, and perestroika "from below." The post Letters to Perestroika appeared first on SRB Podcast.