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NBN Episodes hosted by Olga:
April 22, 2017
Writers and Rebels
Rebecca Gould's Writers and Rebels: Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (Yale University Press, 2016) is the first existing comparative study of …
March 14, 2017
Soviet Daughter
Julia Alekseyeva's graphic novel Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution was published by Microcosm Publishing in 2017. This is the intertwining story o…
February 14, 2017
Russia's Securitization of Chechnya
In Russia's Securitization of Chechnya: How War Became Acceptable (Routledge, 2017), a study of the transformations of the image of Chechnya in the Ru…
January 9, 2017
The Worlds of Russian Village Women
The Worlds of Russian Village Women: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013) by Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyev…
December 14, 2016
Tsar and Sultan
Victor Taki's Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire (I.B. Taurus, 2016) invites the reader to explore the captivating story of t…
November 19, 2016
Greetings, Pushkin!
Greetings, Pushkin! Stalinist Cultural Politics and the Russian National Bard (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016) by Jonathan Brooks Platt explores…
November 3, 2016
The Depths of Russia
Ever since the accidental discovery of oil in Perm in 1929, the so-called "Second Baku" has been known to be an industrial hub as well as the home to …