Guest: Sara Brinegar on her book The Power and Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus: Periphery Unbound, 1920-29 published by Bloomsbury.The post Baku Oil and the Soviet State appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Baku Oil and the Soviet State

4 days ago 58m 44s

Gleaning for Communism

11 days ago 43m

Guest: Xenia Cherkaev on her book Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice published by Cornell University Press.The post Gleaning for Communism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

The Tunguska Mystery

18 days ago 38m 42s

Guest: Andy Bruno on his new book Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and its Environmental Legacy published by Cambridge University Press.The post The Tunguska Mystery appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Sesame Street in Russia

25 days ago 47m 21s

Guest: Natasha Lance Rogoff on making Sesame Street in Russia in the turbulent 1990s.The post Sesame Street in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Soviet Investigation of Nazi War Crimes

Mar 25th, 2024 51m 2s

Guest: Paula Chan on the Extraordinary State Commission and its investigations in the Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union.The post Soviet Investigation of Nazi War Crimes appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

The Soviet Century

Mar 18th, 2024 1h 4m

Guest: Karl Schlogel on the lost world of Soviet civilization.The post The Soviet Century appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Black Skies Over Krasnoyarsk

Mar 11th, 2024 53m 49s

Guest: Mariia Koskina on Siberian industrialization, the environment and the black skies over Krasnoyarsk.The post Black Skies Over Krasnoyarsk appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Revisiting Nagorno-Karabakh

Mar 4th, 2024 1h 5m

Guests: Tigran Grigoryan (The Regional Center for Democracy and Security) and Kelsey Rice (Berry College) revisiting the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh.The post Revisiting Nagorno-Karabakh appeared first

The Soviet Avant Garde

Feb 26th, 2024 57m 41s

Guest: Natalia Krylova on life, love, language, and the Soviet Avant Garde.The post The Soviet Avant Garde appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Russia’s Prison Knocking Language

Feb 16th, 2024 48m 10s

Guest: Nicholas Bujalski on his prize-winning Russian Review article, “Tuk, tuk, tuk!” A History of Russia’s Prison Knocking Language.” The post Russia’s Prison Knocking Language appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Ukraine’s Gloomy Winter

Feb 9th, 2024 54m 17s

Guest: Brian Milakovsky with a grim update on Ukraine, the war, and the shrinking prospects of even a lousy peace.The post Ukraine’s Gloomy Winter appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

A Century Without Lenin

Feb 2nd, 2024 40m 24s

Guest: Christopher Read on Vladimir Lenin's legacy 100 years since his death.The post A Century Without Lenin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Genealogy in Russia

Jan 26th, 2024 41m 44s

Guest: Maria Lotsmanova on her genealogical journey to find information about her repressed great-grandfather, Jacob Jansen.The post Genealogy in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

The Black Russian

Jan 12th, 2024 1h 5m

Guest: Vladimir Alexandrov on The Black Russian published by Grove Press.The post The Black Russian appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Recording Russia

1 Jan 5th, 2024 1h 1m

Guest: Gabriella Safran on Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century published by Cornell University Press.The post Recording Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Making the Soviet Jew

Dec 1st, 2023 1h 10m

Guest: Sasha Senderovich on How the Soviet Jew Was Made published by Harvard University Press.The post Making the Soviet Jew appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Defection and the Cold War

Nov 17th, 2023 1h 1m

Guest: Erik Scott on defection, the Cold War, and the regulation of borders and movement in a globalizing world.The post Defection and the Cold War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Ainu Fever

Nov 10th, 2023 56m 51s

Roma Shatrov is the founder of the Silent Cape Nature Park in Sakhalin. Irina Grudova is Ainu, the indigenous inhabitants of Sakhalin. Roma is obsessed with Ainu history and culture and has dedicated the Silent Cape to revitalizing their tradi

Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds

Nov 3rd, 2023 52m 25s

Guest: Ilya Vinitsky on the persistence of fakes, forgeries, and frauds in Russian literary culture.The post Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

The Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh

Oct 27th, 2023 59m 9s

Guests: Rafael Khachaturian and Richard Antaramian on Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh.The post The Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Islam, Repression, and Memory

Oct 21st, 2023 54m 55s

Guests: Elmira Muratova and Michael Kemper on Islam in the Soviet and Post-Soviet contexts.The post Islam, Repression, and Memory appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Useable Pasts? Shamans, Spirituality and Resistance

Oct 13th, 2023 1h

Guest: Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer on the evolution of indigeneity and religion across the Soviet and post-Soviet divide.The post Useable Pasts? Shamans, Spirituality and Resistance appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Theology after Gulag

Oct 6th, 2023 38m 43s

Guest: Katya Tolstaya on theology, belief, and the remaning spiritual scars after Gulag.The post Theology after Gulag appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Christianity in China

Sep 22nd, 2023 1h 9m

Guests: Fenggang Yang and Kung Lap Yan on Christianity, worship, and religious persecution in China.The post Christianity in China appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.