Sean's Russia Blog

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.

Guest: Marko Dumančić on Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties published by the University of Toronto Press. The post Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Andrei Tsygankov on the ongoing US-Russia rivalry. The post The US-Russia Rivalry appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Thomas Graham on the new "Cold War," the United States, Russia, and China. The post The US-Russia-China Triangle appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Mark Vincent on Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps published by Bloomsbury. The post Gulag Criminal Subculture appeared first on .

Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press. The post Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia appeared first on .

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 .

Guests: Konstantin Fokin and Angelina Davydova on environmental activism in Russia. The post Environmental Activism in Russia appeared first on .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 .

Guests: Tracy McDonald and Marianna Szczygielska on zoos, non-humans, and Animal Studies in Eastern Europe and Russia The post Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia appeared first on .

Guest: David France on his film Welcome To Chechnya. The post Welcome to Chechnya appeared first on .

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 .

Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press. The post From Soso to Stalin appeared first on .

Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union. The post Watering the Soviet Lands appeared first on SRB Podcast.

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 SRB Podcast.