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The Eurasian Knot — 355 episodes

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1

The Georgian August 1924 Uprising

2

The Edge of Sports

3

Russian and American Internal Colonization

4

Everyday Politics in Russia

5

Ukraine's Euromaidan

6

KGB Same-Sex Honey Traps

7

The Bolshevik Rank and File

8

Stalin's Last Days

9

Searching for Belief during the Soviet End Times

10

Moscow's Hunt for Olympic Gold

11

The Long History of American-Russian Relations

12

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Gregor Thum

13

Russia Starts Here

14

The Further Adventures of the Black Russian

15

The Great Reforms

16

Post-Soviet Graffiti

17

The Stiliagi

18

Fraternization and Survival During WWII

19

The Art of War

20

How Peat Electrified the USSR

21

Murder Mystery in Moscow

22

How Konigsberg Became Kaliningrad

23

The Judeo-Bolshevik Myth

24

Romani, Waste, and Race in Bulgaria

25

Rebel Russia

26

Russians in San Francisco

27

Soviet Jokes Under Stalin

28

Video Games of Eastern Europe

29

The Deforestation of Eastern Ukraine

30

From Great Fear to the Great Terror

31

Communists and NY's Hotel Workers Union

32

City Symphonies

33

Russia's 1993 Constitutional Crisis

34

Anthropology of Oil

35

Green Cities in the USSR and Brazil

36

Abortion (Bio)politics in Russia

37

Romanian Presidential Elections

38

Remembering J. Arch Getty

39

Muslim Refugees in the Ottoman Empire

40

Migration and Climate Change

41

Birobidzhan

42

Cold War Pen Pals

43

Ukraine in the Global Food System

44

Orthodoxy's Social Gospel

45

Kicking the Hydrocarbon Habit

46

Seizing the Donbas

47

Soviet Modernity

48

Terror and Democracy in the Soviet Union

49

Withering Water in Central Asia and East Africa

50

Climate Change and Authoritarianism

51

Recording Georgians in WWI POW Camps

52

Intellectual Roots of Neoliberalism

53

Saving Seeds During the Siege of Leningrad

54

Russian Antifa vs Neo-Nazis

55

Romani Music and NGOs

56

Introducing: The Eurasian Climate Brief

57

The Russia and China Brain Trusts

58

A Tale of Two Nationalisms

59

Adapting Master and Margarita

60

Georgia in Crisis

61

The World of Soviet Dissidents

62

A Deep Dive into Kabardino-Balkaria

63

Soviet DIY Folk Museums

64

Intimate Lives of International Communism

65

Gulag Memory in Russia’s Far North

66

The Russia That Was Lost

67

Free Marc Fogel!

68

A New History of Northern Eurasia

69

The Sound of Socialism, Part 3

70

Women in Russian Politics

71

Illiberalism and Civil Society in Hungary

72

The Sound of Socialism, Part 2

73

The Sound of Socialism, Part 1

74

The Eastern International

75

The Soviet Bid to Run the World

76

The Rise and Fall of Yevgeny Prigozhin

77

Russians in Latvia

78

Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip

79

Soviet Afghan War and Islam

80

Populist Elitism in Russia and the US

81

Soviet Industrial Ecology

82

Everyday War in Donbas

83

Sugarland

84

Citizen Poet

85

Baku Oil and the Soviet State

86

Gleaning for Communism

87

The Tunguska Mystery

88

Sesame Street in Russia

89

Soviet Investigation of Nazi War Crimes

90

The Soviet Century

91

Black Skies Over Krasnoyarsk

92

Revisiting Nagorno-Karabakh

93

The Soviet Avant Garde

94

Russia’s Prison Knocking Language

95

Ukraine’s Gloomy Winter

96

A Century Without Lenin

97

Genealogy in Russia

98

The Black Russian

99

Recording Russia

100

Making the Soviet Jew

101

Defection and the Cold War

102

Ainu Fever

103

Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds

104

The Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh

105

Islam, Repression, and Memory

106

Useable Pasts? Shamans, Spirituality and Resistance

107

Theology after Gulag

108

Christianity in China

109

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Anna Kovalova

110

Catholicism in Poland

111

Secret Police Archives as Depositories of Faith

112

Lived Religion in Ukraine

113

The Nivkhi of Sakhalin

114

Queer Under Communism

115

Red Whaling

116

Harbin

117

Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic

118

The Far East

119

A Gift for Stalin, Part Two: The Accursed Share

120

A Gift for Stalin, Part One: Dear Comrade Stalin

121

Trailer: A Gift for Stalin

122

Ep 5 Teddy Meets The Soviet People

123

Ep 4: Teddy Talks about Race

124

Ep 3 Teddy Goes Shopping

125

Ep 2 Teddy Meets The KGB

126

Ep 1: Teddy Greets the USSR

127

Mental Health in Wartime Ukraine

128

Kyivan Rus’

129

The Day of the Baptism of Rus

130

Between Memory and History in Ukraine

131

The Soviet Rock Scene

132

Working Through Stalinism

133

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Zoltan Kelemen

134

The Economic War

135

Mixed Marriages in the USSR

136

Remembering Anne Garrels

137

Soviet Aid to West Africa

138

Rebroadcast: The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev

139

Soviet WWII Mythologies

140

Queer Spaces in Imperial St. Petersburg

141

Clientelism in Soviet Abkhazia

142

Limonov and the National Bolsheviks

143

Russian Orthodox Converts in Appalachia

144

A Dissident Among Dissidents

145

Russia in the Red Mirror

146

Life and Death in the Donbas

147

Central Asia Past and Present

148

Everything Was Forever Until

149

Trailer 2: Teddy Goes to the USSR

150

Suffering and Survival in Leningrad

151

Trailer: Teddy Goes to the USSR

152

The Collapse of the Soviet Union

153

Stalinism, Memorial, and Perestroika

154

Perestroika in the Periphery: Tajikistan

155

Esperanto in Revolutionary Russia

156

Soviet Pronatalism

157

Letters to Perestroika

158

Stalin and His Books

159

Russia, Ukraine, and the West

160

Russia’s Labor Dilemma

161

Ditching Communism in Poland

162

The Lenfilm Art House

163

The Things of Late Soviet Life

164

Soviet Flower Power

165

Russia Upside Down

166

The Return of the Romanovs

167

Cold War from the Margins

168

The Vampires of A. K. Tolstoy

169

Cuban-Soviet Scientific Exchanges

170

African Students in the USSR

171

Unpacking Alexey Navalny

172

Revisiting the Russian Military

173

Russian Conquest of Central Asia

174

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Ana Sekulic

175

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Attila Kenyeres

176

Russian Revolutionaries in Exile

177

The Weak Strongman

178

Weddings and Power in Early Modern Russia

179

Wine and Cheese: Komsomol Etiquette and Emily Post

180

Rebroadcast: Smoking Under the Tsars

181

Money and Prosperity in the USSR

182

Cold War Correspondents

183

Tolyatti’s Avtograd District

184

Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties

185

The US-Russia Rivalry

186

The US-Russia-China Triangle

187

Gulag Criminal Subculture

188

Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia

189

Blind Activism in the Cold War

190

Environmental Activism in Russia

191

Gogol’s Town of N

192

Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe

193

Navalny and Next

194

Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR

195

Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia

196

Welcome to Chechnya

197

Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine

198

From Soso to Stalin

199

Watering the Soviet Lands

200

The Texel Uprising

201

REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett

202

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Iknur Lider

203

The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus

204

Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism

205

Belarus Protests in Pittsburgh

206

Russian Other, American Other

207

Putin Kitsch in America

208

The Wired Cold War

209

Grand Duke Alexis Visits America

210

Black Radicalism and the USSR

211

American Tourism to the USSR

212

Pogroms and Race Riots

213

From Aliaska to Alaska

214

American Famine Relief to Soviet Russia

215

Russian and American Empire

216

Enter Dopeworld

217

Russian Serfdom and American Slavery

218

SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move

219

Protests in Belarus

220

Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission

221

Trash Protests and Leninopad

222

Soviet Military Masculinity

223

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova

224

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan

225

Stories Along the Trans-Siberian

226

Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution

227

Rebroadcast: The Kazakh Famine

228

Russia’s Wily Man

229

Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg

230

Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music

231

Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union

232

Plots Against Russia

233

The Baltics In-Between

234

Rebroadcast: Black Sojourners to the Soviet Union

235

Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China

236

Soviet WWII Songs

237

Hearing Communism: Part Two

238

Hearing Communism: Part One

239

Socialism for Realists

240

China’s New Red Guards

241

Ideologies of Race in Russia

242

Underground Entrepreneurs in the Soviet Union

243

Russian Conservatism

244

Cholera in Russia

245

Postcolonial Socialisms in Africa

246

Immortalism and Transhumanism in Russia

247

Objects and Values of Labor in Socialist Hungary

248

Political Diary from Russia

249

Structurally Adjusting Socialism

250

The Nobility and the Russian Novel

251

After the Colored Revolution

252

Exposing Chernobyl

253

Women of the Gulag

254

Nuclear Bombs and Bomb Shelters

255

Russia in Global Affairs

256

Ivan the Terrible

257

The Stuff of Red Army Soldiers

258

Russia, China and Inbetween

259

The Collective Farm

260

Atoms and Aliens in Eurasian Science Fiction

261

Russians Under Nazi Occupation

262

The Radioactive Mutants of Semipalatinsk

263

The Jewish Revolution in Belarus

264

The Soviet Nuclear Industry

265

The Soviet Lives of Western Culture

266

Investigating Hitler’s Remains

267

The Politics of Immigration in Russia

268

Central Asian Migrants in the USSR

269

Domestic Service in the USSR

270

A Russian Voyage of Empires

271

Russian Socialists in the Struggle for Democracy

272

Witnessing the Collapse of Communism

273

Rasputin, the Man and the Myth (Rebroadcast)

274

The Evictors

275

Russians on Trump (Rebroadcast)

276

Gender and Electoral Self-Polishing in Mongolia

277

Russian Revolutionary Postcards

278

Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible

279

Soviet Anti-Americanism

280

Stalin’s Short Course

281

The Stories Polish Secret Police Files Tell Us

282

“The Reddest of the Blacks”

283

Russia Without Putin

284

Local Perpetrators and the Holocaust in Ukraine

285

Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia

286

Lenin’s Government

287

Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation

288

Photography and Russian Literature

289

The Soviet Origins of Lamaze

290

Russian Nationalism

291

The Gulag at War

292

The Kazakh Famine

293

Lenders and Debtors in Imperial Russia

294

Conspiracy Theories in Russia

295

The Politics of Russian Futurism

296

American Girls in Red Russia

297

Perestroika and Punk Rock

298

Youth Movements in Eastern Europe

299

American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes

300

Eurasianet on Eurasia

301

Soviet and American Children in the Cold War

302

The Map Men of East Central Europe

303

Communist Neverland at the Russian International Children’s Home

304

Decolonization and Development in Soviet Tajikistan

305

Communism, Youth and Generation

306

Rich Russians

307

Kazakh Nomads Under Lenin and Stalin

308

The Russian Monarchy’s Scenarios of Power

309

Social-Economic Life in the Donbas

310

The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution

311

SRB on the Dig Podcast

312

Nation, Nationality, and Empire

313

American-Russian Relations in the 19th Century

314

Soviet Atheism

315

The Russian Mafia

316

Psychotherapy and Neoliberalism in Russia

317

Chinese Romance with the Russian Revolution

318

Collectivization and Stalinist Perpetrators

319

The Banya is Everything

320

Russia’s A Terrible Country

321

Surveillance Valley

322

Russian Literature and Terrorism

323

Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria

324

A Memoir of Misadventures in Moscow

325

Early Soviet Urban Communes

326

Putinomics

327

The Stalin Constitution

328

The Mitki Art Collective

329

William C. Bullitt in the USSR

330

Russia’s Long Hangover

331

Boris Savinkov and Russian Terrorism

332

The Georgian Democratic Republic

333

Local Identity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Vladimir

334

The Stalinist Film Industry

335

Life and Times of Vladimir Dzhunkovsky

336

Old Age and Claustrophobia in Putin’s Russia

337

The Ethics of Soviet Journalism

338

Deaf in the Soviet Union

339

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

340

The Epic of the House of Government

341

Assessing the Russian Military

342

Daughter of the Cold War

343

American History Through Russian Eyes

344

Young Communists Under Stalin

345

Russian LGBTQ and New Left Activism

346

Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution

347

The Politics of Russia’s Apartment Demolition

348

Feminists in the Maidan

349

The Early Modern Russian Empire

350

Women, Resistance, and Revolution

351

Retrospective on Stalinism

352

SRB on This is Hell!

353

Stalin’s Last Days

354

Russia and Its Near Abroad

355

Protest in Putin’s Russia