The Eurasian Knot

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

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

Guest: Timothy Frye on Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia published by Princeton University Press. The post The Weak Strongman appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Russell Martin on   The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495–1745 published by Cornell University Press. The post Weddings and Power in Early Modern Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SRB interns Amelia Parlier and Felix Helbing dive into the weird world of advice columns. Two unlikely parings on the block—Komsomol decorum and the diva of dish, Emily Post. It’s wine and cheese! The post Wine and Cheese: Komsomol Etiquette and Emily Post appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Tricia Starks on  Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press. The post Rebroadcast: Smoking Under the Tsars appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Kristy Ironside on A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Harvard University Press. The post Money and Prosperity in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dina Fainberg on  Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines published by John Hopkins University Press. The post Cold War Correspondents appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Guido Sechi on   Tolyatti: Exploring Post-Soviet Spaces , co-authored with Michele Cera is published by the Velvet Cell and VAC Foundation. The post Tolyatti’s Avtograd District appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Marko Dumančić on   Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties published by the University of Toronto Press. The post Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Andrei Tsygankov on the ongoing US-Russia rivalry. The post The US-Russia Rivalry appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Thomas Graham on the new "Cold War," the United States, Russia, and China. The post The US-Russia-China Triangle appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Mark Vincent on Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps published by Bloomsbury. The post Gulag Criminal Subculture appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest : Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press. The post Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War. The post Blind Activism in the Cold War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Konstantin Fokin and Angelina Davydova on environmental activism in Russia. The post Environmental Activism in Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press. The post Gogol’s Town of N appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe. The post Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Ilya Budraitskis, Svetlana Erpyleva, and Greg Yudin on Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition, and the prospects of political pluralism in Russian society. The post Navalny and Next appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Karl Qualls on Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51 published by the University of Toronto Press. The post Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Tracy McDonald and Marianna Szczygielska on zoos, non-humans, and Animal Studies in Eastern Europe and Russia The post Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: David France on his film Welcome To Chechnya . The post Welcome to Chechnya appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Valerie Kivelson and Christine Worobec on witches, magic, spells in their new sourcebook Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 published by Cornell University Press. The post Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press. The post From Soso to Stalin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union. The post Watering the Soviet Lands appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.