Sean's Russia Blog

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

Guest: Geoffrey Roberts on Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books published by Yale University Press. The post Stalin and His Books appeared first on SRB Podcast.

This discussion was recorded on Wednesday, February 23, 2022, the morning before Russia invaded Ukraine.   Guests: Michael Kimmage, Marlene Laruelle, and Fyodor Lukyanov on the ongoing geopolitical crisis between Russia, Ukraine and the West. The post Russia, Ukraine, and the West appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Stephen Crowley on Putin’s Labor Dilemma: Russian Politics between Stability and Stagnation published by Cornell University Press. The post Russia’s Labor Dilemma appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Tom Junes on Poland in the 1980s and its legacies. The post Ditching Communism in Poland appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Catriona Kelly on Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev published by Oxford University Press. The post The Lenfilm Art House appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Alexey Golubev on The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia published by Cornell University Press. The post The Things of Late Soviet Life appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Juliane Furst on Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in the Soviet Hippieland and Beyond published by Oxford University Press. The post Soviet Flower Power appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: The Americans creator Joe Weisberg on Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy from the Second Cold War published by Public Affairs. The post Russia Upside Down appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Russell Martin on the recent wedding of George Romanov and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini. The post The Return of the Romanovs appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Theodora Dragostinova on The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene, was published by Cornell University Press. The post Cold War from the Margins appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Irina Erman on her article “Nation and Vampiric Narration in Aleksey Tolstoy’s “The Family of the Vourdalak” published in the January 2020 issue of The Russian Review.  The post The Vampires of A. K. Tolstoy appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Clare Ibarra on scientific exchange between Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The post Cuban-Soviet Scientific Exchanges appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Constantin Katsakioris on the experience of African students in the USSR during the Cold War. The post African Students in the USSR appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guests: Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, and Ben Noble on Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? published by Hurst Publishers. The post Unpacking Alexey Navalny appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guests: Michael Kofman and Dmitry Gorenburg give an update on the Russian military. The post Revisiting the Russian Military appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Alexander Morrison on The Russian Conquest of Central Asia published by Cambridge University Press. The post Russian Conquest of Central Asia appeared first on SRB Podcast.

REEES faculty profile on Ana Sekulic and her work on Catholic-Muslim relations in Bosnia under the Ottoman empire. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Ana Sekulic appeared first on SRB Podcast.

REEES faculty profile of Attila Kenyeres on his research into media manipulation and "fake news." The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Attila Kenyeres appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Faith Hillis on Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Exiles and the Quest for Freedom, 1830–1930 published by Oxford University Press. The post Russian Revolutionaries in Exile appeared first on SRB Podcast.