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Does identity matter? Yes, as the case of a 16th-century imposter Martin Guerre proves it.  To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready...

When the peasants speak, the elites are puzzled. In this episode we talk about how Carlo Ginzburg deciphered testimonies of a miller in a small village in Italy.  To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on Yo...

What can we see in the French village of Montaillou? A community, a trial, and heretics, but also a world of Christianity.  To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel...

Knowledge is impossible without memory. In the epoch of Renaissance, memory could be a theater.  To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ R...

A staunch Catholic, Thomas More raised his voice against sheep "that ate people."  To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave...

He is the most influential philosopher of the 20th century and one of the most difficult ones to understand.   To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROX...

The capitalists and the workers are like Tom and Jerry – always in a fight. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the cla...

Colonization means settlement in new areas, but also control over the people and resources. Are there differences between Spanish. Portuguese, or British colonization?  To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation...

In the 17th century, Jan Sobieski, the king of the powerful Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth saved Vienna from the Ottoman Empire. A hundred years later,  this state disappeared from the map. How was it possible? To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sam...

Held in 1756-63, this war's consequences are still felt.  To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the classroom and try mod...

When men go to war, women go to war and to the factories. And this change is irreversible.   To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready...

Treachery has many faces, and some of them are unreconcilable.  To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the classroom and t...

Bonapartism comes from Bonaparte, Napoleon Bonaparte. There were actually two Napoleons, the First and the Third. These emperors could not do without plebiscites. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on Yo...

You need Latin and Greek to have the Renaissance, but the Eastern Slavs had Church Slavonic.   To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Rea...

After Charlemagne, Charles V Habsburg was arguably the most famous Charles. His empire was enormous, nevertheless he abdicated in 1555. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube...

Rome conquered Greece, but Greece conquered Rome. It is easy to see it, when reading Plutarch. And it is not that difficult to read his Parallel Lives! To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  htt...

Alsace was on the move from the Holy Roman Empire to France, from France to the German Empire, and then again back to France. And now Alsace speaks Alsatian and French. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation...

Here are the dates: the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905, the First Russian revolution of 1905, WWI of 1914-1918, the February revolution of 1917, the October revolution of 1917.  To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Co...

From the ancient East to the medieval South to the modern West. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the classroom and t...

When Elias read textbooks on good manners, he discovered how bad the manners were. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave...

Enlightenment means light. Coming from England, it made its way to Europe via France. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to lea...

Reformation generated Counterreformation. They both gave rise to modern Europe. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the...

If analysis means violence, what is the alternative? To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the classroom and try modern R...

Yes, we can. No, we cannot. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the classroom and try modern Russian? Learn Russian Con...

There was another war. It took place at home. To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit  https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian  How to listen Give it a try with our free  Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the classroom and try modern Russian?...