Sean's Russia Blog

Guest: Bryon MacWilliams on With Light Steam: A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths was published by Northern Illinois University Press.[spp-player]The post The Banya is Everything appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Keith Gessen on America's Russia Hands and his novel A Terrible Country published by Viking.[spp-player]The post Russia’s A Terrible Country appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Yasha Levine on Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet published by Public Affairs Books.[spp-player]The post Surveillance Valley appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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