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NBN Episodes hosted by Marina:

Jill Massino, "Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania" (Berghahn, 2019)

November 10, 2020

Ambiguous Transitions

Jill Massino
Hosted by Marina Kadriu

In this episode, we meet Dr. Jill Massino, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina Charlotte who is fascinated with rese…

Gediminas Lankauskas, "The Land of Weddings and Rain: Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania" (U Toronto Press, 2015)

January 10, 2020

The Land of Weddings and Rain

Gediminas Lankauskas
Hosted by Marina Kadriu

Gediminas Lankauskas’ new book The Land of Weddings and Rain: Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania (University of Toronto Press, 2015) is …

Kristen Ghodsee, "Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism" (Duke UP, 2017)

June 27, 2019

Red Hangover

Kristen R. Ghodsee
Hosted by Marina Kadriu

I am a child of the so-called transition in Bulgaria and growing-up I could never understand why my parents and grandparents would spend our family ga…

Kristen R. Ghodsee, "Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War" (Duke UP, 2019)

June 20, 2019

Second World, Second Sex

Kristen R. Ghodsee
Hosted by Marina Kadriu

Last week, I had the privilege to talk with Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee about her most recent book Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and…