The Eurasian Knot

The Eurasian Knot

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To many, Russia, and the wider Eurasia, is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. But it doesn’t have to be. The Eurasian Knot dispels the stereotypes and myths about the region with lively and informative interviews on Eurasia’s complex past, present, and future. New episodes drop weekly with an eclectic mix of topics from punk rock to Putin, and everything in-between. Subscribe on your favorite podcasts app, grab your headphones, hit play, and tune in. Eurasia will never appear the same. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Eurasian Knot

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Latest episode

Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

Enter Dopeworld 02.10.2020

Guest: Niko Vorobyov on the adventures in dopeworld. The post Enter Dopeworld appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Russian Serfdom and American Slavery 25.09.2020

Guests: Amanda Brickell Bellows and Alessandro Stanziani on Russian serfdom and American slavery. The post Russian Serfdom and American Slavery appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move 23.09.2020

Presenting Geopolitics on the Move , a podcast series I recorded this summer with Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affair s. The post SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Protests in Belarus 11.09.2020

Elena Gapova on the protests in Belarus. The post Protests in Belarus appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission 02.09.2020

The final two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “A Brief Conversation on Biculturalism” by Alexandra Diouk and “Remembering the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Mission: 45 years of US-Russian Space Cooperation” by Lisa Becker. The post Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trash Protests and Leninopad 31.08.2020

Two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “The Great Russian Trash Crisis” by Seth Farkas and  “An Empty Pedestal: Ukraine after Leninopad” by Sabrina Beaver. The post Trash Protests and Leninopad appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Soviet Military Masculinity 23.08.2020

Guest: Erica Fraser on Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union published by the University of Toronto Press. The post Soviet Military Masculinity appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova 21.08.2020

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Olga Klimova. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan 21.08.2020

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Katie Manukyan. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stories Along the Trans-Siberian 17.08.2020

Guests : Marina Dmukhovskaya and Georg Wallner about their podcast project Mesto47 .   The post Stories Along the Trans-Siberian appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution 08.08.2020

Guest: Mark Steinberg on the experience of the Russian Revolution. The post Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rebroadcast: The Kazakh Famine 01.08.2020

Guest: Sarah Cameron on  The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan published by Cornell University Press. The post Rebroadcast: The Kazakh Famine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Russia’s Wily Man 24.07.2020

Joshua Yaffa on Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia published by Penguin Random House. The post Russia’s Wily Man appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg 17.07.2020

Guest: Francine Hirsch on Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II published by Oxford University Press. The post Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music 03.07.2020

Guest: Leah Goldman on censorship and collaboration in the production of Late Stalinist classical music. The post Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union 26.06.2020

Guest: Elissa Bemporad on Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets ​ published by Oxford University Press. The post Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Plots Against Russia 19.06.2020

Guest: Eliot Borenstein on Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism published by Cornell University Press. The post Plots Against Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Baltics In-Between 15.06.2020

Guest: Aliide Naylor on The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front published by Bloomsbury. The post The Baltics In-Between appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rebroadcast: Black Sojourners to the Soviet Union 05.06.2020

Guest: Joy Gleason Carew on Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise . The post Rebroadcast: Black Sojourners to the Soviet Union appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China 29.05.2020

Guest: Aminda Smith on Maoism, consciousness, and the everyday. The post Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Soviet WWII Songs 22.05.2020

Guest: Suzanne Ament on Sing to Victory! Song in Soviet Society during World War II published by Academic Studies Press. The post Soviet WWII Songs appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hearing Communism: Part Two 21.05.2020

Part two of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of Pittsburgh. The post Hearing Communism: Part Two appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hearing Communism: Part One 19.05.2020

Part one of Hearing Communism—five short audio pieces by students in my International Communism undergraduate research seminar at the University of Pittsburgh. The post Hearing Communism: Part One appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Socialism for Realists 15.05.2020

Guest: Sam Gindin on socialism for realists. The post Socialism for Realists appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

China’s New Red Guards 08.05.2020

Jude Blanchette on China’s New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong published by Oxford University Press. The post China’s New Red Guards appeared first on The Eurasian Knot . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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