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Russian and Eurasian Studies
Interviews with scholars of Russia and Eurasia about their new books.
September 19, 2024
The Wagner Group
The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army (Reaktion, 2024) exposes the history and the future of the Wagner Group, Russia’s notorious and secre…
September 12, 2024
The Holy Alliance
The Holy Alliance is now most familiar as a label for conspiratorial reaction. In The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation (Prince…
September 8, 2024
Building a Ruin
A masterful account of the global Cold War’s decisive influence on Soviet economic reform, and the national decay that followed.What brought down the …
September 4, 2024
Russia in the Time of Cholera
The idea of “backwardness” often plagues historical writing on Russia. In Russia in the Time of Cholera: Disease under Romanovs and Soviets (Bloomsbur…
September 2, 2024
The Zinoviev Letter
The Zinoviev Affair is a story of one of the most long-lasting and enduring conspiracy theories in modern British politics, an intrigue that still res…
August 31, 2024
Building Stalinism
In Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space (I. B. Tauris, 2018), Cynthia Ruder explores how the building of the Moscow c…
August 30, 2024
What is Going on with Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?
After being the posterchild of democratization, today Central and Eastern Europe is often seen as the region of democratic backsliding. In this episod…
August 26, 2024
New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan
Dr. Yerkebulan Sairambay’s New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) confronts the sociological p…
August 24, 2024
Writing Rogues
Plot elements such as adventure, travel to far-flung regions, the criminal underworld, and embezzlement schemes are not usually associated with Soviet…
August 21, 2024
Pogrom
In what has become perhaps the most infamous example of modern anti-Jewish violence prior to the Holocaust, the Kishinev pogrom should have been a sma…
August 18, 2024
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty
The specter of the “Godless” Soviet Union haunted the United States and continental Western Europe throughout the Cold War, but what did atheism mean …
August 17, 2024
Russian Orientalism in a Global Context
Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940 (Manchester UP, 2023) features new research on Russia's h…
August 13, 2024
The First Cold War
Britain and Russia maintained a frosty civility for a few years after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. But, by the 1820s, their relations degenerated into c…
August 13, 2024
The Brink
The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983 (Simon & Schuster, 2018), by Marc Ambinder, is a history of US-Soviet Relations under Ro…
August 11, 2024
The Stalinist Era
In his new book The Stalinist Era (Cambridge University Press, 2018), David L. Hoffmann focuses on the myriad ways in which Stalinist practices had th…
August 6, 2024
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand is a provocative and polarizing figure. Strongly pro-capitalist and anti-communist, Rand was a dogmatic preacher of her moral philosophy. Bas…
August 5, 2024
The Dragonbear in the Geopolitics of the 21st Century
What is the “dragonbear”? It is a metaphor of an emerging strategic alliance between Russia and China. In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talks to geo…
August 4, 2024
The Politics of Peace
Earlier histories of the Cold War haven’t exactly been charitable toward the peace activists and pacifists who led peace initiatives. Pacifists in the…
August 2, 2024
Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan
Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life (UCL Press, 2024) by Dr. Elena Borisova is the first ethnographic monograph on migration …
July 30, 2024
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause
A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR--and still provides a model of opposition in Putin's Russia. …