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About Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon is a history professor.
NBN Episodes hosted by Kimberly:
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 …
December 30, 2023
Soviet and Muslim
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, Sovie…
July 22, 2019
Smoking Under the Tsars
How and when did Russia become a country of smokers? Why did makhorka and papirosy become ubiquitous products of tobacco consumption? Tricia Starks ex…
December 26, 2018
Azan on the Moon
In eastern Tajikistan, the Trans-Pamir Highway flows through the mountains creating a lunar-like landscape. In his latest work, Azan on the Moon: Enta…
October 30, 2018
The New Immigrant Whiteness
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, …
September 10, 2018
State of Madness
In her new book, State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature and Dissent After Stalin (Northern Illinois University Press, 2018), Rebecca Reich argues th…
July 16, 2018
Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial
What happened inside NKVD interrogation rooms during the Great Terror? How did the perpetrators feel when the Soviet state turned on them in 1938 duri…
March 22, 2018
If the Walls Could Speak
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 Pre…
February 22, 2018
Soviet Journey
Kimberly speaks with Dr. Christopher J. Lee about his newest book A Soviet Journey: A Critical Annotated Edition (Lexington Books, 2017). A Soviet Jou…