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Russian and Eurasian Studies
July 22, 2019
Smoking Under the Tsars
A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia
Tricia Starks
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Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon
How and when did Russia become a country of smokers? Why did makhorka and papirosy become ubiquitous products of tobacco consumption? Tricia Starks explores these themes as well as the …
Central Asian Studies
December 26, 2018
Azan on the Moon
Entangling Modernity Along Tajikistan’s Pamir Highway
Till Mostowlansky
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Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon
In eastern Tajikistan, the Trans-Pamir Highway flows through the mountains creating a lunar-like landscape. In his latest work, Azan on the Moon: Entangling Modernity Along Tajikistan’s Pamir Highway (University of …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
December 11, 2018
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty
A History of Soviet Atheism
Victoria Smolkin
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Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon
The specter of the “Godless” Soviet Union haunted the United States and continental Western Europe throughout the Cold War, but what did atheism mean in the Soviet Union? What was …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
October 30, 2018
The New Immigrant Whiteness
Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States
Claudia Sadowski-Smith
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Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon
From Dancing with the Stars to the high-profile airport abandonment of seven-year-old Artyom Savelyev by his American adoptive parents in April 2010, popular representations of post-Soviet immigrants in America span …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
September 10, 2018
State of Madness
Psychiatry, Literature and Dissent After Stalin
Rebecca Reich
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Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon
In her new book, State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature and Dissent After Stalin (Northern Illinois University Press, 2018), Rebecca Reich argues that Soviet dissident writers used literary narratives to counter …
Central Asian Studies
July 31, 2018
Soviet and Muslim
The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia
Eren Tasar
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Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon
How was the Soviet Union able to avoid issues of religious and national conflict with its large and diverse Islamic population? In his new book, Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
July 16, 2018
Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial
Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
Lynne Viola
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Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon
What happened inside NKVD interrogation rooms during the Great Terror? How did the perpetrators feel when the Soviet state turned on them in 1938 during “the purge of the purgers?” …
Eastern European Studies
March 22, 2018
If the Walls Could Speak
Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland
Anna Muller
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Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon
Today we talked to Dr. Anna Muller about her latest book, If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland (Oxford University Press, 2017). Using archival research …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
February 22, 2018
Soviet Journey
A Critical Annotated Edition
Christopher J. Lee, ed.
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Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon
Kimberly speaks with Dr. Christopher J. Lee about his newest book A Soviet Journey: A Critical Annotated Edition (Lexington Books, 2017). A Soviet Journey was a travel memoir written by …