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NBN Episodes hosted by Sean:
May 27, 2013
Fragile Empire
Debates about the nature of Putin's rule abound. Is Putin a hard fisted authoritarian? Is he the master of the power vertical? An arbiter of competing…
April 10, 2013
Breaking the Ties that Bound
Divorce was virtually impossible in Imperial Russia. The Russian Orthodox Church monopolized matrimony, and it rarely granted divorce except in extrao…
December 21, 2012
Opposing Jim Crow
In December 1958, US Senator Hubert H. Humphery recalled that at some point during an eight hour meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier "t…
October 27, 2012
Former People
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Russian nobility numbered about 1.9 million people, or 1.5 percent of the population. The 1917 Revoluti…
September 18, 2012
St. Petersburg
Public discourse in the final decade of Imperial Russia was dominated by images of darkness and dread. Discussions of "these times" and "times of trou…
July 18, 2012
The Kirov Murder and Soviet History
On 1 December 1934, Leonid Nikolaev, a disgruntled Bolshevik Party member, shot Sergei Kirov in the back of the head as the Leningrad Party boss appro…
June 20, 2012
Post-Soviet Social
Pipes matter. That's right: pipes. Anyone who has spent time in Russia knows that the hulkish cylinders that snake throughout its cities are the lifeb…
May 17, 2012
The Crisis of Russian Democracy
Richard Sakwa's new book, The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism, and the Medvedev Succession (Cambridge University Press, 2011…
April 20, 2012
The Great War in Russian Memory
Historical studies on the European memory of World War I are, to put it mildly, voluminous. There are too many monographs to count on a myriad of subj…
April 9, 2012
Understanding Russian Politics
Stephen White's Understanding Russian Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2011) begins simply enough: "Russia is no longer the Soviet Union." While …
March 22, 2012
The Stalin Cult
Jan Plamper begins in his book, The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power (Yale University Press, 2012), with two illuminating anecdotes that d…
January 16, 2012
A Long Goodbye
It's been twenty years since the Soviet Union collapsed, and scholars still joust over its long- and short-term causes. Amid the myriad factors--stagn…
December 2, 2011
Tales of Imperial Russia
When it comes to Russia's great reformers of the nineteenth century, Count Sergei Witte looms large. As a minster to both Alexander III and Nicholas I…
September 23, 2011
Death and Redemption
Most Westerners know about the Gulag (aka "Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies") thanks to Alexander Solzhenitsyn's eloquent, …
August 22, 2011
Odessa
"Look up the street or down the street, this way or that way, we only saw America," wrote Mark Twain to capture his visit to Odessa in 1867. In a way,…
July 22, 2011
Cars for Comrades
A recent editorial in the Moscow Times declared that in Moscow "the car is king." Indeed, one word Muscovites constantly mutter is probka (traffic jam…
July 5, 2011
The Return
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, journalists, academics, and policymakers have sought to make sense of post-Soviet Russia. Is Russia an emergin…
June 3, 2011
Miss Gulag
In this episode of NBRES, we're doing something a bit out of the ordinary. Instead of interviewing an author about his or her new book, we are going t…
May 17, 2011
The Old Faith and the Russian Land
What are ethics? What are morals? How are they constituted, practiced, and regulated? How do they change over time? My own research is informed by the…
April 24, 2011
Holy Fathers, Secular Sons
The lives, let alone the fates, of Imperial Russia's priesthood have garnered little attention among historians. I think the reason is partially becau…
April 8, 2011
Brezhnev's Folly
At the Seventeenth Komsomol Congress in 1974, Leonid Brezhnev announced the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway, or BAM. This "Path to th…
March 25, 2011
The Caucasus
On August 8, 2008 many Americans learned that Russia had gone to war with a mysterious country called Georgia over an even stranger territory called S…
March 15, 2011
Khruschev's Cold Summer
Examinations of the Soviet gulag are a cottage industry in Russian studies. Since 1991, a torrent of books have been published examining the gulag's c…
March 3, 2011
The Odd Man Karakozov
Scan the historical literature of the Russian revolutionary movement and you'll find that Dmitrii Vladimirovich Karakozov occupies no more than a foot…