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The Eurasian Knot — 367 episodes

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1

The Rise and Fall of the Georgian Democratic Republic

2

The Man Who Knew Russia

3

Reporting Russia's Descent

4

Boris Nemtsov

5

The Last Soviet Artist

6

Remembering Alexander Rabinowitch

7

Anastas Mikoyan

8

Soviet Holocaust Literature

9

The Russian Paradox

10

Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR

11

The Post-Soviet Human Condition

12

Bye, Bye Orban

13

The Georgian August 1924 Uprising

14

The Edge of Sports

15

Russian and American Internal Colonization

16

Everyday Politics in Russia

17

Ukraine's Euromaidan

18

KGB Same-Sex Honey Traps

19

The Bolshevik Rank and File

20

Stalin's Last Days

21

Searching for Belief during the Soviet End Times

22

Moscow's Hunt for Olympic Gold

23

The Long History of American-Russian Relations

24

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Gregor Thum

25

Russia Starts Here

26

The Further Adventures of the Black Russian

27

The Great Reforms

28

Post-Soviet Graffiti

29

The Stiliagi

30

Fraternization and Survival During WWII

31

The Art of War

32

How Peat Electrified the USSR

33

Murder Mystery in Moscow

34

How Konigsberg Became Kaliningrad

35

The Judeo-Bolshevik Myth

36

Romani, Waste, and Race in Bulgaria

37

Rebel Russia

38

Russians in San Francisco

39

Soviet Jokes Under Stalin

40

Video Games of Eastern Europe

41

The Deforestation of Eastern Ukraine

42

From Great Fear to the Great Terror

43

Communists and NY's Hotel Workers Union

44

City Symphonies

45

Russia's 1993 Constitutional Crisis

46

Anthropology of Oil

47

Green Cities in the USSR and Brazil

48

Abortion (Bio)politics in Russia

49

Romanian Presidential Elections

50

Remembering J. Arch Getty

51

Muslim Refugees in the Ottoman Empire

52

Migration and Climate Change

53

Birobidzhan

54

Cold War Pen Pals

55

Ukraine in the Global Food System

56

Orthodoxy's Social Gospel

57

Kicking the Hydrocarbon Habit

58

Seizing the Donbas

59

Soviet Modernity

60

Terror and Democracy in the Soviet Union

61

Withering Water in Central Asia and East Africa

62

Climate Change and Authoritarianism

63

Recording Georgians in WWI POW Camps

64

Intellectual Roots of Neoliberalism

65

Saving Seeds During the Siege of Leningrad

66

Russian Antifa vs Neo-Nazis

67

Romani Music and NGOs

68

Introducing: The Eurasian Climate Brief

69

The Russia and China Brain Trusts

70

A Tale of Two Nationalisms

71

Adapting Master and Margarita

72

Georgia in Crisis

73

The World of Soviet Dissidents

74

A Deep Dive into Kabardino-Balkaria

75

Soviet DIY Folk Museums

76

Intimate Lives of International Communism

77

Gulag Memory in Russia’s Far North

78

The Russia That Was Lost

79

Free Marc Fogel!

80

A New History of Northern Eurasia

81

The Sound of Socialism, Part 3

82

Women in Russian Politics

83

Illiberalism and Civil Society in Hungary

84

The Sound of Socialism, Part 2

85

The Sound of Socialism, Part 1

86

The Eastern International

87

The Soviet Bid to Run the World

88

The Rise and Fall of Yevgeny Prigozhin

89

Russians in Latvia

90

Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip

91

Soviet Afghan War and Islam

92

Populist Elitism in Russia and the US

93

Soviet Industrial Ecology

94

Everyday War in Donbas

95

Sugarland

96

Citizen Poet

97

Baku Oil and the Soviet State

98

Gleaning for Communism

99

The Tunguska Mystery

100

Sesame Street in Russia

101

Soviet Investigation of Nazi War Crimes

102

The Soviet Century

103

Black Skies Over Krasnoyarsk

104

Revisiting Nagorno-Karabakh

105

The Soviet Avant Garde

106

Russia’s Prison Knocking Language

107

Ukraine’s Gloomy Winter

108

A Century Without Lenin

109

Genealogy in Russia

110

The Black Russian

111

Recording Russia

112

Making the Soviet Jew

113

Defection and the Cold War

114

Ainu Fever

115

Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds

116

The Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh

117

Islam, Repression, and Memory

118

Useable Pasts? Shamans, Spirituality and Resistance

119

Theology after Gulag

120

Christianity in China

121

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Anna Kovalova

122

Catholicism in Poland

123

Secret Police Archives as Depositories of Faith

124

Lived Religion in Ukraine

125

The Nivkhi of Sakhalin

126

Queer Under Communism

127

Red Whaling

128

Harbin

129

Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic

130

The Far East

131

A Gift for Stalin, Part Two: The Accursed Share

132

A Gift for Stalin, Part One: Dear Comrade Stalin

133

Trailer: A Gift for Stalin

134

Ep 5 Teddy Meets The Soviet People

135

Ep 4: Teddy Talks about Race

136

Ep 3 Teddy Goes Shopping

137

Ep 2 Teddy Meets The KGB

138

Ep 1: Teddy Greets the USSR

139

Mental Health in Wartime Ukraine

140

Kyivan Rus’

141

The Day of the Baptism of Rus

142

Between Memory and History in Ukraine

143

The Soviet Rock Scene

144

Working Through Stalinism

145

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Zoltan Kelemen

146

The Economic War

147

Mixed Marriages in the USSR

148

Remembering Anne Garrels

149

Soviet Aid to West Africa

150

Rebroadcast: The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev

151

Soviet WWII Mythologies

152

Queer Spaces in Imperial St. Petersburg

153

Clientelism in Soviet Abkhazia

154

Limonov and the National Bolsheviks

155

Russian Orthodox Converts in Appalachia

156

A Dissident Among Dissidents

157

Russia in the Red Mirror

158

Life and Death in the Donbas

159

Central Asia Past and Present

160

Everything Was Forever Until

161

Trailer 2: Teddy Goes to the USSR

162

Suffering and Survival in Leningrad

163

Trailer: Teddy Goes to the USSR

164

The Collapse of the Soviet Union

165

Stalinism, Memorial, and Perestroika

166

Perestroika in the Periphery: Tajikistan

167

Esperanto in Revolutionary Russia

168

Soviet Pronatalism

169

Letters to Perestroika

170

Stalin and His Books

171

Russia, Ukraine, and the West

172

Russia’s Labor Dilemma

173

Ditching Communism in Poland

174

The Lenfilm Art House

175

The Things of Late Soviet Life

176

Soviet Flower Power

177

Russia Upside Down

178

The Return of the Romanovs

179

Cold War from the Margins

180

The Vampires of A. K. Tolstoy

181

Cuban-Soviet Scientific Exchanges

182

African Students in the USSR

183

Unpacking Alexey Navalny

184

Revisiting the Russian Military

185

Russian Conquest of Central Asia

186

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Ana Sekulic

187

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Attila Kenyeres

188

Russian Revolutionaries in Exile

189

The Weak Strongman

190

Weddings and Power in Early Modern Russia

191

Wine and Cheese: Komsomol Etiquette and Emily Post

192

Rebroadcast: Smoking Under the Tsars

193

Money and Prosperity in the USSR

194

Cold War Correspondents

195

Tolyatti’s Avtograd District

196

Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties

197

The US-Russia Rivalry

198

The US-Russia-China Triangle

199

Gulag Criminal Subculture

200

Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia

201

Blind Activism in the Cold War

202

Environmental Activism in Russia

203

Gogol’s Town of N

204

Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe

205

Navalny and Next

206

Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR

207

Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia

208

Welcome to Chechnya

209

Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine

210

From Soso to Stalin

211

Watering the Soviet Lands

212

The Texel Uprising

213

REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett

214

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Iknur Lider

215

The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus

216

Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism

217

Belarus Protests in Pittsburgh

218

Russian Other, American Other

219

Putin Kitsch in America

220

The Wired Cold War

221

Grand Duke Alexis Visits America

222

Black Radicalism and the USSR

223

American Tourism to the USSR

224

Pogroms and Race Riots

225

From Aliaska to Alaska

226

American Famine Relief to Soviet Russia

227

Russian and American Empire

228

Enter Dopeworld

229

Russian Serfdom and American Slavery

230

SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move

231

Protests in Belarus

232

Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission

233

Trash Protests and Leninopad

234

Soviet Military Masculinity

235

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova

236

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan

237

Stories Along the Trans-Siberian

238

Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution

239

Rebroadcast: The Kazakh Famine

240

Russia’s Wily Man

241

Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg

242

Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music

243

Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union

244

Plots Against Russia

245

The Baltics In-Between

246

Rebroadcast: Black Sojourners to the Soviet Union

247

Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China

248

Soviet WWII Songs

249

Hearing Communism: Part Two

250

Hearing Communism: Part One

251

Socialism for Realists

252

China’s New Red Guards

253

Ideologies of Race in Russia

254

Underground Entrepreneurs in the Soviet Union

255

Russian Conservatism

256

Cholera in Russia

257

Postcolonial Socialisms in Africa

258

Immortalism and Transhumanism in Russia

259

Objects and Values of Labor in Socialist Hungary

260

Political Diary from Russia

261

Structurally Adjusting Socialism

262

The Nobility and the Russian Novel

263

After the Colored Revolution

264

Exposing Chernobyl

265

Women of the Gulag

266

Nuclear Bombs and Bomb Shelters

267

Russia in Global Affairs

268

Ivan the Terrible

269

The Stuff of Red Army Soldiers

270

Russia, China and Inbetween

271

The Collective Farm

272

Atoms and Aliens in Eurasian Science Fiction

273

Russians Under Nazi Occupation

274

The Radioactive Mutants of Semipalatinsk

275

The Jewish Revolution in Belarus

276

The Soviet Nuclear Industry

277

The Soviet Lives of Western Culture

278

Investigating Hitler’s Remains

279

The Politics of Immigration in Russia

280

Central Asian Migrants in the USSR

281

Domestic Service in the USSR

282

A Russian Voyage of Empires

283

Russian Socialists in the Struggle for Democracy

284

Witnessing the Collapse of Communism

285

Rasputin, the Man and the Myth (Rebroadcast)

286

The Evictors

287

Russians on Trump (Rebroadcast)

288

Gender and Electoral Self-Polishing in Mongolia

289

Russian Revolutionary Postcards

290

Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible

291

Soviet Anti-Americanism

292

Stalin’s Short Course

293

The Stories Polish Secret Police Files Tell Us

294

“The Reddest of the Blacks”

295

Russia Without Putin

296

Local Perpetrators and the Holocaust in Ukraine

297

Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia

298

Lenin’s Government

299

Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation

300

Photography and Russian Literature

301

The Soviet Origins of Lamaze

302

Russian Nationalism

303

The Gulag at War

304

The Kazakh Famine

305

Lenders and Debtors in Imperial Russia

306

Conspiracy Theories in Russia

307

The Politics of Russian Futurism

308

American Girls in Red Russia

309

Perestroika and Punk Rock

310

Youth Movements in Eastern Europe

311

American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes

312

Eurasianet on Eurasia

313

Soviet and American Children in the Cold War

314

The Map Men of East Central Europe

315

Communist Neverland at the Russian International Children’s Home

316

Decolonization and Development in Soviet Tajikistan

317

Communism, Youth and Generation

318

Rich Russians

319

Kazakh Nomads Under Lenin and Stalin

320

The Russian Monarchy’s Scenarios of Power

321

Social-Economic Life in the Donbas

322

The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution

323

SRB on the Dig Podcast

324

Nation, Nationality, and Empire

325

American-Russian Relations in the 19th Century

326

Soviet Atheism

327

The Russian Mafia

328

Psychotherapy and Neoliberalism in Russia

329

Chinese Romance with the Russian Revolution

330

Collectivization and Stalinist Perpetrators

331

The Banya is Everything

332

Russia’s A Terrible Country

333

Surveillance Valley

334

Russian Literature and Terrorism

335

Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria

336

A Memoir of Misadventures in Moscow

337

Early Soviet Urban Communes

338

Putinomics

339

The Stalin Constitution

340

The Mitki Art Collective

341

William C. Bullitt in the USSR

342

Russia’s Long Hangover

343

Boris Savinkov and Russian Terrorism

344

The Georgian Democratic Republic

345

Local Identity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Vladimir

346

The Stalinist Film Industry

347

Life and Times of Vladimir Dzhunkovsky

348

Old Age and Claustrophobia in Putin’s Russia

349

The Ethics of Soviet Journalism

350

Deaf in the Soviet Union

351

The Russian Revolution as Utopian Leap in the Open Air of History

352

The Epic of the House of Government

353

Assessing the Russian Military

354

Daughter of the Cold War

355

American History Through Russian Eyes

356

Young Communists Under Stalin

357

Russian LGBTQ and New Left Activism

358

Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution

359

The Politics of Russia’s Apartment Demolition

360

Feminists in the Maidan

361

The Early Modern Russian Empire

362

Women, Resistance, and Revolution

363

Retrospective on Stalinism

364

SRB on This is Hell!

365

Stalin’s Last Days

366

Russia and Its Near Abroad

367

Protest in Putin’s Russia