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Learn Russian Conversation — 200 episodes · page 1 of 2
286--287 Eternal Sicily in the Modern Age
270–271 Karl Polanyi and capitalism
284–285 Prince Oleg of Kiev – the epic hero
282–283 International relations - theories and approaches
280–281 Gnostics and the Bible
278–279 Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes
276–277 Nikolai Fedorov – resurrection and cosmos
274–275 Blaise Pascal – the last believer
272–273 Are there philosophers in Russia?
268-269 Did the Black Death delay the Renaissance?
266–267 Herodotus – the father of history
264–265 Iran between Islam and the West
263–264 The borders of Iraq
260–261 The birth of Middle East
258–259 German Romanticism
256–257 Russia’s Greek project
254–255 When Russia became part of Europe
252–253 Jesuits in China
250–251 Goya, Spain, and modern art
248—249 Franciscans and Dominicans
246–247 China turns Communist
244–245 Saint Augustine
242–243 Manon Lescaut, the best love story
240–241 Michel Foucault, the death of author and archeology of knowledge
238–239 Don Quixote, madness and reason
236–237 The return of Martin Guerre
234–235 Cheese and worms
232–233 Peasants, Christians, and heretics
230–231 Renaissance art of memory
228–229 Thomas More and early English capitalism
226–227 Heidegger and crisis in science
224–225 Marx didn’t like capitalism
222–223 Europe and the people without history
220–221 When Poland disappeared
218–219 The Seven years’ war, the first global conflict
216–217 Women and war
214–215 Machiavelli, the Jesuits, and dishonesty in politics
212–213 Bonapartism, plebiscites and Napoleon III
210–211 Why Russia did not have the Renaissance
208–209 Charles V, the world emperor
206–207 Plutarch, common reading
204–205 France, Germany, and Alsace
202–203 Three Russian revolutions
200–201 The rise of the West
198–199 Elias – on violence and politeness
196–197 Enlightenment – private vices, public benefits
194–195 Reformation and the birth of Europe
192–193 Levinas – how to overcome war?
190–191 Can we live without a fight?
188–189 World War I and internal enemies
187 France, farewell to empire
186 Turkey, the birth of the nation
185 Pirates between empires
184 Montaigne, writing about himself
183 Where Australian rivers flow
182 Latin America beyond stereotypes
181 Solaris – thinking ocean
180 Socrates, famous without writing a line
179 Africa reimagined
178 On ancient and modern China
177 Turkish tea and empire
176 The Soviet consumer culture
175 Islam in Russia
174 Marxism, Orthodoxy, and paganism in Russia
173 Siberia – the biggest part of Russia
172 Poland and Russia
171 BAM — the Soviet project of the century
170 Turning rivers, connecting continents
169 The white sun of Central Asia
168 Russian Germans
167 Finland and Russia
166 Alaska — from Russia to the US
165 The North Caucasus – the roots of conflict
164 Armenia and Azerbaijan – challenging neighbourhood
163 Transcaucasia – between three empires
162 Stalin – dictator, intellectual, and theater-goer
161 Georgia – a country in the Caucasus
160 Moldavia – between Romania and Ukraine
159 The Baltic way
158 The map of the Soviet Motherland
157 Jews in Ukraine and Russia
156 Cossacks, the frontier people
155 The myth of Russian-Ukrainian brotherhood
154 Ukraine – the meaning of the name
153 How Ukraine made Russian history longer
152 Ukrainian and Russian in Ukraine
151 Icicles and thaws
150 Masks and faces
149 Doping scandals and big sport
148 Fears and joys of public speaking
147 Moving, traveling, and coming back
146 Counseling and confession
145 Why you do not have to read Dostoevsky
144 Fines and penalties
143 How to understand numbers
142 Um, well, and other fillers
141 Friends in life and in Facebook
140 National styles of hockey
139 Card sharps and unfair play
138 Playing cards