Sean's Russia Blog

Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War. The post Blind Activism in the Cold War appeared first on .

Guests: Konstantin Fokin and Angelina Davydova on environmental activism in Russia. The post Environmental Activism in Russia appeared first on .

Guest: Anne Lounsbery on Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 published by Cornell University Press. The post Gogol’s Town of N appeared first on .

Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe. The post Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe appeared first on .

Guests: Ilya Budraitskis, Svetlana Erpyleva, and Greg Yudin on Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition, and the prospects of political pluralism in Russian society. The post Navalny and Next appeared first on .

Guest: Karl Qualls on Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51 published by the University of Toronto Press. The post Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR appeared first on .

Guests: Tracy McDonald and Marianna Szczygielska on zoos, non-humans, and Animal Studies in Eastern Europe and Russia The post Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia appeared first on .

Guest: David France on his film Welcome To Chechnya. The post Welcome to Chechnya appeared first on .

Guests: Valerie Kivelson and Christine Worobec on witches, magic, spells in their new sourcebook Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 published by Cornell University Press. The post Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine appeared first on .

Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press. The post From Soso to Stalin appeared first on .

Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union. The post Watering the Soviet Lands appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Eric Lee on Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945 published by Greenhill Books. The post The Texel Uprising appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia--James Pickett. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh's Turkish instructor Iknur Lider. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Iknur Lider appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen's University Press. The post The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press. The post Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism appeared first on SRB Podcast.

I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here's what some of the protesters told me. The post Belarus Protests in Pittsburgh appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions. The post Russian Other, American Other appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Alison Rowley on Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen's University Press. The post Putin Kitsch in America appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guests: Ekaterina Babintseva and Slava Gerovitch on cybernetics in the United States and Soviet Union. The post The Wired Cold War appeared first on SRB Podcast.