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Hey there! I'm Alisa, a History PhD Candidate in Cultural Cold War History. Thanks to the New Books Network, I get to have conversations with talented historians and simply wonderful people. I’ve noticed that being in this field—whether professionally or not—encourages us to become more reflective and retrospective. I consider it a real privilege when my guests are open to sharing beyond their project outlines. I love talking about meanings, personal connections, and finding ways to engage with history both in and outside of academia.
In this episode, Alisa talks with Lewis H. Siegelbaum, who, along with J. Arch Getty, edited Reflections on Stalinism (Northern Illinois University Pr…
In this episode, Alisa talks with Ali İğmen, Professor of Central Asian History and the Director of the Oral History Program at California State Unive…
In Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism (Cornell UP, 2022), Susan Grant examines the history of nursing care in the Soviet Union from its ninetee…