Sean's Russia Blog

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. Get bonus content on Patreon 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. Get bonus content on Patreon 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. Get bonus content on Patreon 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. Get bonus content on Patreon 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. Get bonus content on Patreon 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. Get bonus content on Patreon 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 RussiaThe post Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon 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. Get bonus content on Patreon 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. Get bonus content on Patreon 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. Get bonus content on Patreon 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. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Eric Lee on Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945 published by Greenhill Books.The post The Texel Uprising appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia--James Pickett.The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Turkish instructor Iknur Lider.The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Iknur Lider appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen's University Press.The post The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.The post Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here's what some of the protesters told me.The post Belarus Protests in Pittsburgh appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions.The post Russian Other, American Other appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Alison Rowley on Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen's University Press.The post Putin Kitsch in America appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Ekaterina Babintseva and Slava Gerovitch on cybernetics in the United States and Soviet Union.The post The Wired Cold War appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.