Sean's Russia Blog

Guest: Lynn Patyk on Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture published by the University of Wisconsin Press.[spp-player]The post Russian Literature and Terrorism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Maxim Suchkov, editor of Al-Monitor’s Russia-Mideast coverage, on Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria.[spp-player]The post Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Michael Idov on Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin’s Moscow published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.[spp-player]The post A Memoir of Misadventures in Moscow appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Andy Willimott on  Living the Revolution: Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1931 published Oxford University Press.[spp-player]The post Early Soviet Urban Communes appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Chris Miller on Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia published by the University of North Carolina Press.[spp-player]The post Putinomics appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Samantha Lomb on  Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution published by Routledge.[spp-player]The post The Stalin Constitution appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Alexandar Mihailovic on The Mitki: The Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia published by University of Wisconsin Press.[spp-player]The post The Mitki Art Collective appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Alexander Etkind on Roads not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt published by Pittsburgh University Press.[spp-player]The post William C. Bullitt in the USSR appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Shaun Walker on The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past published by Oxford University Press.The post Russia’s Long Hangover appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Irina Meier on Boris Savinkov and Russian revolutionary terrorism.The post Boris Savinkov and Russian Terrorism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Eric Lee on The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution, 1918-1921 published by Zed Books.[spp-player]The post The Georgian Democratic Republic appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Susan Smith-Peter on Imagining Russian Regions: Civil Society and Subnational Identity in Nineteenth-Century Russia published by Brill.[spp-player]The post Local Identity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Vladimir appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest:Guest: Maria Belodubrovskaya on Not According to Plan: Filmmaking under Stalin published by Cornell University Press. The post The Stalinist Film Industry appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Richard Robbins on Overtaken by the Night: One Russian’s Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.[spp-player]The post Life and Times of Vladimir Dzhunkovsky appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Jon Waterlow on Soviet jokes under Stalin.[spp-player]The post Soviet Jokes Under Stalin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Evgenia Kovda on her film Podrugi (Girlfriends), a tale of old age and claustrophobia in Putin's Russia.[spp-player]The post Old Age and Claustrophobia in Putin’s Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Natalia Roudakova on Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia published by Cambridge University Press.[spp-player]The post The Ethics of Soviet Journalism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Claire Shaw on Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991. The post Deaf in the Soviet Union appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Steinberg on the symbolism of angels, wings, and flight in the Russian Revolution.[spp-player]The post The Russian Revolution as Utopian Leap in the Open Air of History appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Yuri Slezkine on The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution.[spp-player]The post The Epic of the House of Government appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.