About Olga Breininger

NBN Episodes hosted by Olga:

Rebecca Gould, "Writers and Rebels: Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus" (Yale UP, 2016)

April 22, 2017

Writers and Rebels

Rebecca Gould
Hosted by Olga Breininger

Rebecca Gould's Writers and Rebels: Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (Yale University Press, 2016) is the first existing comparative study of …

Julia Alekseyeva, "Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution" (Microcosm Publishing, 2017)

March 14, 2017

Soviet Daughter

Julia Alekseyeva
Hosted by Olga Breininger

Julia Alekseyeva's graphic novel Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution was published by Microcosm Publishing in 2017. This is the intertwining story o…

Julie Wilhelmsen "Russia's Securitization of Chechnya: How War Became Acceptable" (Routledge, 2017)

February 14, 2017

Russia's Securitization of Chechnya

Julie Wilhelmsen
Hosted by Olga Breininger

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…

Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva, "The Worlds of Russian Village Women: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise" (U Wisconsin Press, 2013)

January 9, 2017

The Worlds of Russian Village Women

Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva
Hosted by Olga Breininger

The Worlds of Russian Village Women: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013) by Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyev…

Victor Taki, "Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire" (I.B. Taurus, 2016)

December 14, 2016

Tsar and Sultan

Victor Taki
Hosted by Olga Breininger

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…

Jonathan Brooks Platt, "Greetings, Pushkin! Stalinist Cultural Politics and the Russian National Bard" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2016)

November 19, 2016

Greetings, Pushkin!

Jonathan Brooks Platt
Hosted by Olga Breininger

Greetings, Pushkin! Stalinist Cultural Politics and the Russian National Bard (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016) by Jonathan Brooks Platt explores…

Douglas Rogers, "The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism" (Cornell UP, 2015)

November 3, 2016

The Depths of Russia

Douglas Rogers
Hosted by Olga Breininger

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 …