Episodes

  • The Sound of Socialism, Part 3
    Sep 9 2024


    Guest: Andrea Bohlman on the curious history of the sound postcard in People's Republic of Poland.

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    47 mins
  • Women in Russian Politics
    Sep 3 2024


    Guest: Valeria Umanets on women in municipal governance in the Soviet Union and under Putin.

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    46 mins
  • Illiberalism and Civil Society in Hungary
    Aug 26 2024


    Guest: Daniel Mikecz on Civil Movements in an Illiberal Regime: Political Activism in Hungary published by Central European University Press.

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    50 mins
  • The Sound of Socialism, Part 2
    Aug 19 2024

    Guest: Matthew Kendall on his article “Room for Noise in Soviet Sound Recording” in the Winter 2023 issue of the Slavic Review.

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    56 mins
  • The Sound of Socialism, Part 1
    Aug 12 2024

    Guest: Gabrielle Cornish on the sound of Lenin's voice and other sounds of socialism.

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    57 mins
  • The Eastern International
    Aug 5 2024

    Guest: Masha Kirasirova on The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire published by Oxford University Press.

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    57 mins
  • The Soviet Bid to Run the World
    Jul 29 2024

    Guest: Sergey Radchenko on To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power published by Cambridge University Press.

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    52 mins
  • The Rise and Fall of Yevgeny Prigozhin
    Jul 1 2024


    Guests: Anna Arutunyan and Mark Galeotti on their new book Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the New Fight for the Future of Russia published by Penguin.

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    1 hr and 10 mins