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NBN Episodes hosted by Filipp:

Willard Sunderland, "The Baron's Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution" (Cornell UP, 2014)

September 4, 2014

The Baron's Cloak

Willard Sunderland
Hosted by Filipp Velgach

The Russian Empire once extended from the Baltic Sea to the Sea of Japan and contained a myriad of different ethnicities and nationalities. Dr. Willar…

Ivo Mijnssen, "The Quest for an Ideal Youth in Putin's Russia" (Ibidem Press, 2014)

August 12, 2014

The Quest for an Ideal Youth in Putin's Russia I

Ivo Mijnssen
Hosted by Filipp Velgach

The Soviet Union once boasted of its unparalleled political participation among youth. Belonging to outwardly political organizations, these Octobrist…

Anne Gorsuch, "All This is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad After Stalin" (Oxford UP, 2011)

May 22, 2014

All This is Your World

Anne Gorsuch
Hosted by Filipp Velgach

Thirty years after a trip to the GDR, Soviet cardiologist V.I. Metelitsa still remembered mistakenly trying to buy a dress for a ten-year-old daughter…

Denis Kozlov, "Novyi Mir: Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past" (Harvard UP, 2013)

December 20, 2013

The Readers of Novyi Mir

Denis Kozlov
Hosted by Filipp Velgach

In Russia's collective memory, the Stalin terror is often remembered and referred to by its most grueling year: "1937." Following Stalin's death and t…

Steven Usitalo, "The Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov: A Russian National Myth" (Academic Studies Press, 2013)

October 13, 2013

The Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov

Steven Usitalo
Hosted by Filipp Velgach

Mikhail Lomonosov is a well known Russian figure. As poet, geographer, and physicist, Lomonosov enjoyed access to the best resources that 18th century…

Wendy Z. Goldman, "Inventing the Enemy: Denunciation and Terror in Stalin's Russia" (Cambridge UP, 2011)

September 2, 2013

Inventing the Enemy

Wendy Z. Goldman
Hosted by Filipp Velgach

A period of mass repression and terror swept through the Soviet Union between the years of 1936-39. Following the shocking Kirov assassination and sho…

Donald J. Raleigh, "Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation" (Oxford UP, 2012)

August 22, 2013

Soviet Baby Boomers

Donald J. Raleigh
Hosted by Filipp Velgach

The Cold War was experienced by millions around the world. For many, Soviets were the enemies, and nuclear war the threat. For millions more, however,…