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About Maria Lipman
For the past 30 years I have edited, and contributed to a range of publications in Russian and English. In recent years I've been writing capsule reviews of Russia-related books for the Foreign Affairs and have produced a podcast and several publications on the Russian politics and society for the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University.
Editor, Russia.Post (https://russiapost.info/) published by the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
NBN Episodes hosted by Maria:
September 19, 2025
Cultural Capitalism
Bradley Gorski, a literary and culture scholar, examines the breakneck commercialization of Russian book publishing and of Russian literature more b…
July 21, 2025
The Spirit of Socialism
The Spirit of Socialism is a cultural history of the Soviet collapse. It examines the millions of Soviet people who, during the cascading crises of th…
June 12, 2025
Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime
Much has been written to try to understand the ideological characteristics of the current Russian government, as well as what is happening inside the …
May 21, 2025
Zero Sum
Today I interviewed Charles Hecker about Zero Sum. The Arc of International Business in Russia (Oxford UP, 2025). Hecker, a journalist and business …
April 29, 2025
The Illegals
Shaun Walker, The Illegals (Knopf, 2025) is the definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to …
April 16, 2025
Seize the City, Undo the State
How do separatist conflicts arise and spread? When does separatism become a cover for a foreign aggression? How do local communities respond when stat…
March 5, 2025
Tamizdat under Putin
Russia has a long history of publishers operating from abroad, producing books and periodicals for a Russian-speaking audience. One notable example is…
February 5, 2025
Lost Souls
When World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as its citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in the We…
January 26, 2025
From Incarceration to Repatriation
From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union (Cornell UP, 2024), Susan Grunewald significantly enhances understandi…
December 10, 2024
Replacing the Dead
Today I talked to Mie Nakachi about Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union (Oxford UP, 2021) In 1920, the Sovie…
October 24, 2024
Dear Unknown Friend
In the tense years of the early Cold War, American and Soviet women conducted a remarkable pen-pal correspondence that enabled them to see each other …