The Eurasian Knot

Teddy assumed the KGB would monitor his travels around the Soviet Union. In Kiev, Teddy discovers that someone went through his luggage. And half-century later he learns his suspicions were correct. The KGB wrote a report on him, complete with excerpts from his diary. What was in this report? What did the KGB hope to learn from Teddy? And what was this vast network for keeping tabs on tourists any...

Teddy Roe took an extraordinary trip to the USSR in 1968. For three months, he travelled from one end of the USSR to the other. Most Americans at the time believed the USSR was their greatest enemy. Teddy was among tens of thousands who toured the Soviet Union. Why did Americans want to travel there? Why did the Soviets want them to come? What just what was the tourist experience like? The post Ep...

Guests: Drs. Carmen Andreescu and Alex Dombrovski on their work on mental health in Ukraine though the Global Initiative on Psychiatry - USA . The post Mental Health in Wartime Ukraine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Christian Raffensperger on the place of Kyivan Rus' in the wider European medieval world. The post Kyivan Rus’ appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Sean Griffin on his prize winning article “ Revolution, Raskol, and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The 1,020th Anniversary of the Day of the Baptism of Rus ” published in the Russian Review . The post The Day of the Baptism of Rus appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Victoria Smolkina and Georgyi Kasianov on the complexities of memory, history, and politics in narrating Ukrainian history. The post Between Memory and History in Ukraine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Artemy Troitsky reflecting on his life in the Soviet and Russian rock scenes. The post The Soviet Rock Scene appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Polly Jones and Zuzanna Bogumil on memory, politics, and trauma of Stalinism. The post Working Through Stalinism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

REEES faculty profile on Zoltan Zelemen about his research on neo-medievalism in international relations, law, and democracy. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Zoltan Kelemen appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Ben Aris and Ilya Matveev on the Russian economy during wartime. The post The Economic War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Adrienne Edgar on  Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples:  Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia published by Cornell University Press. The post Mixed Marriages in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Rebroadcast of my 2016 interview with the recently departed Anne Garrels, author of Putin’s Country: A Journey into the Real Russia . The post Remembering Anne Garrels appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Alessandro Iandolo and Natalia Telepneva on Soviet engagement with West Africa during the Cold War. The post Soviet Aid to West Africa appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: William Taubman on  Gorbachev: His Life and Times . The post Rebroadcast: The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...