Sean's Russia Blog

Guest: Benjamin Nathans on To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement published by Princeton University Press. The post The World of Soviet Dissidents appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guest: Ian Lanzillotti guides through the history of Kabardino-Balkaria in his book Land, Community, and the State in the Caucasus published by Bloomsbury. The post A Deep Dive into Kabardino-Balkaria appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guest: Erin Hutchinson on her award-winning article, “Gathering the Nation in the Village: Intellectuals and the Cultural Politics of Nationality in the Late Soviet Period” in the January 2023 issue of the Russian Review. The post Soviet DIY Folk Museums appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guest: Maurice Casey on the “lost world” of international communism in his book, Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals published by Footnote Press. The post Intimate Lives of International Communism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guest: Tyler Kirk on After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia's Far North published by Indiana University Press. The post Gulag Memory in Russia’s Far North appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guest: Pavel Khazanov on The Russia That We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse published by the University of Wisconsin Press. The post The Russia That Was Lost appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guest: Ambassador Eric Rubin on the efforts to free Marc Fogel, an American serving 14 years in the Russian prison for possessing 17 g of medical marijuana. The post Free Marc Fogel! appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guests: Marina Mogilner and Ilya Gerasimov on their new textbook, A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600–1700: From Russian to Global History published by Bloomsbury. The post A New History of Northern Eurasia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guest: Andrea Bohlman on the curious history of the sound postcard in People's Republic of Poland. The post The Sound of Socialism, Part 3 appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guest: Valeria Umanets on women in municipal governance in the Soviet Union and under Putin. The post Women in Russian Politics appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guest: Daniel Mikecz on Civil Movements in an Illiberal Regime: Political Activism in Hungary published by Central European University Press. The post Illiberalism and Civil Society in Hungary appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guest: Matthew Kendall on his article “Room for Noise in Soviet Sound Recording” in the Winter 2023 issue of the Slavic Review. The post The Sound of Socialism, Part 2 appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guest: Gabrielle Cornish on the sound of Lenin's voice and other sounds of socialism. The post The Sound of Socialism, Part 1 appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guest: Masha Kirasirova on The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire published by Oxford University Press. The post The Eastern International appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guest: Sergey Radchenko on To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power published by Cambridge University Press. The post The Soviet Bid to Run the World appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guests: Anna Arutunyan and Mark Galeotti on their new book Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the New Fight for the Future of Russia published by Penguin. The post The Rise and Fall of Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guest: Kevin Platt on Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians Between World Orders published by Cornell University Press. The post Russians in Latvia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guest: Lisa Kirschenbaum on Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip published by Cambridge University Press. The post Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guest: Vassily Klimentov on A Slow Reckoning: The USSR, the Afghan Communists, and Islam published by Cornell University Press. The post Soviet Afghan War and Islam appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Guest: Alexandar Mikhailovic on the unlikely convergence of the American and Russian far-right. The post Populist Elitism in Russia and the US appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.