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Russian and Eurasian Studies
Interviews with scholars of Russia and Eurasia about their new books.
October 12, 2026
March 1917
In this latest Books for Better Understanding video from Notre Dame Press, David Carlson facilitates a conversation between Marian Schwartz and Dan Ma…
October 10, 2026
Painting Paranoia
The Soviet Union’s rise as a totalitarian state and economic rival to the United States sparked a cultural cold war. The conflict was colored by paran…
October 9, 2026
A Room of His Own
A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet (Academic Studies Press, 2025) makes the original and persuasive claim that Brods…
October 8, 2026
The Steppe and Its Empires
Winston Churchill famously called Russia "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." But what if the riddle is partly of our own making—the pr…
October 6, 2026
The Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy
Ukraine and Russia are today at opposite points of the political spectrum: Despite 300 years of contact with Russian authoritarian politics, Ukraine's…
October 5, 2026
Soviet Blocks
A geopolitical and legal history of the bestselling videogame Tetris—the stunningly successful game that began in a Soviet research lab monitored by t…
October 5, 2026
The Steppe and Its Empires
What is Russia? For two centuries, observers inside and outside the country have tried to answer that question, and most of them have looked west. The…
October 2, 2026
Into the Reich
Enriched by extraordinary first-hand accounts, Prit Buttar's Into the Reich: The Red Army’s Advance to the Oder in 1945 (Osprey Publishing, 2025) is a…
September 19, 2026
Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma
Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma (Academic Studies Press, 2026) explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the begi…
September 16, 2026
Women, Gender, and Socialist Ideology in Soviet Russia
Women, Gender, and Socialist Ideology in Soviet Russia (Routledge, 2026) examines the place of women in Soviet Russia from the 1917 Revolution through…
September 4, 2026
Legal Weapons of the Wealthy
In Legal Weapons of the Wealthy: The Offshoring of Elite Conflict in Emerging Markets (Cornell University Press, 2026), Dr. Nikhil Kalyanpur examines …
August 30, 2026
Blue Sea, Black Gold, Red Banner
Blue Sea, Black Gold, Red Banner: The South Caucasus and Scandinavia, 1880s–1920s (Northern Illinois University Press, 2026) tells the story of the …
August 29, 2026
'PS: Burn after Reading'
After Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko defected in 1945, Canada was shocked by the revelation that its own citizens were engaged in espionage for…
August 27, 2026
Ukrainian Men Fleeing Conscription
Our conversation focuses on a groundbreaking article by Dan Storyev recently published in The Nation: “Millions of Ukrainian Men Are Fleeing a Cruel C…
August 25, 2026
After Putin
Russian leader Vladimir Putin, at 73 years old, is still very much alive, yet the “After Putin” conversation is an active one inside and outside of Ru…
August 13, 2026
Good Mothers , Nations and Nationalisms
In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press, 2026) talks with Yulia Gradskova and Ieva Bisigirskaitė, two of the three authors behind Good Mothers…
August 9, 2026
Near and Desired Things
Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums (Cornell University Press, 2026) reveals nineteenth-century Siberian museum…
August 8, 2026
Russia’s Jews in World War I
When World War I began, the Russian Empire was home to more than 5.7 million Jews, the most densely settled Jewish population in the world. Thirty yea…
August 8, 2026
Fate in My Hands
In this episode, Alisa interviews Dr. Yana Skorobogatov about her book, Fate in My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Union (University of Chicago…
August 2, 2026
Pandemic Politics in Central Asia
Pandemic Politics in Central Asia: Authoritarian Contagion (Routledge, 2026) examines how the authoritarian regimes of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and U…