Sean's Russia Blog

Guest: Alexey Golubev on The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia published by Cornell University Press. The post The Things of Late Soviet Life appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Juliane Furst on Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in the Soviet Hippieland and Beyond published by Oxford University Press. The post Soviet Flower Power appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: The Americans creator Joe Weisberg on Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy from the Second Cold War published by Public Affairs. The post Russia Upside Down appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Russell Martin on the recent wedding of George Romanov and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini. The post The Return of the Romanovs appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Theodora Dragostinova on The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene, was published by Cornell University Press. The post Cold War from the Margins appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Irina Erman on her article “Nation and Vampiric Narration in Aleksey Tolstoy’s “The Family of the Vourdalak” published in the January 2020 issue of The Russian Review.  The post The Vampires of A. K. Tolstoy appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Clare Ibarra on scientific exchange between Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The post Cuban-Soviet Scientific Exchanges appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Constantin Katsakioris on the experience of African students in the USSR during the Cold War. The post African Students in the USSR appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guests: Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, and Ben Noble on Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? published by Hurst Publishers. The post Unpacking Alexey Navalny appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guests: Michael Kofman and Dmitry Gorenburg give an update on the Russian military. The post Revisiting the Russian Military appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Alexander Morrison on The Russian Conquest of Central Asia published by Cambridge University Press. The post Russian Conquest of Central Asia appeared first on SRB Podcast.

REEES faculty profile on Ana Sekulic and her work on Catholic-Muslim relations in Bosnia under the Ottoman empire. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Ana Sekulic appeared first on SRB Podcast.

REEES faculty profile of Attila Kenyeres on his research into media manipulation and "fake news." The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Attila Kenyeres appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Faith Hillis on Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Exiles and the Quest for Freedom, 1830–1930 published by Oxford University Press. The post Russian Revolutionaries in Exile appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Timothy Frye on Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia published by Princeton University Press. The post The Weak Strongman appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Russell Martin on The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495–1745 published by Cornell University Press. The post Weddings and Power in Early Modern Russia appeared first on SRB Podcast.

SRB interns Amelia Parlier and Felix Helbing dive into the weird world of advice columns. Two unlikely parings on the block—Komsomol decorum and the diva of dish, Emily Post. It’s wine and cheese! The post Wine and Cheese: Komsomol Etiquette and Emily Post appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Kristy Ironside on A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Harvard University Press. The post Money and Prosperity in the USSR appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Dina Fainberg on Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines published by John Hopkins University Press. The post Cold War Correspondents appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Guido Sechi on Tolyatti: Exploring Post-Soviet Spaces, co-authored with Michele Cera is published by the Velvet Cell and VAC Foundation. The post Tolyatti’s Avtograd District appeared first on SRB Podcast.