Sean's Russia Blog

Guest: Irina Erman on her article “Nation and Vampiric Narration in Aleksey Tolstoy’s “The Family of the Vourdalak” published in the January 2020 issue of The Russian Review.  The post The Vampires of A. K. Tolstoy appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Clare Ibarra on scientific exchange between Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The post Cuban-Soviet Scientific Exchanges appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Constantin Katsakioris on the experience of African students in the USSR during the Cold War. The post African Students in the USSR appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guests: Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, and Ben Noble on Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? published by Hurst Publishers. The post Unpacking Alexey Navalny appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guests: Michael Kofman and Dmitry Gorenburg give an update on the Russian military. The post Revisiting the Russian Military appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Alexander Morrison on The Russian Conquest of Central Asia published by Cambridge University Press. The post Russian Conquest of Central Asia appeared first on SRB Podcast.

REEES faculty profile on Ana Sekulic and her work on Catholic-Muslim relations in Bosnia under the Ottoman empire. The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Ana Sekulic appeared first on SRB Podcast.

REEES faculty profile of Attila Kenyeres on his research into media manipulation and "fake news." The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Attila Kenyeres appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Faith Hillis on Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Exiles and the Quest for Freedom, 1830–1930 published by Oxford University Press. The post Russian Revolutionaries in Exile appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Timothy Frye on Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia published by Princeton University Press. The post The Weak Strongman appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Russell Martin on The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495–1745 published by Cornell University Press. The post Weddings and Power in Early Modern Russia appeared first on SRB Podcast.

SRB interns Amelia Parlier and Felix Helbing dive into the weird world of advice columns. Two unlikely parings on the block—Komsomol decorum and the diva of dish, Emily Post. It’s wine and cheese! The post Wine and Cheese: Komsomol Etiquette and Emily Post appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Kristy Ironside on A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Harvard University Press. The post Money and Prosperity in the USSR appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Dina Fainberg on Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines published by John Hopkins University Press. The post Cold War Correspondents appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Guido Sechi on Tolyatti: Exploring Post-Soviet Spaces, co-authored with Michele Cera is published by the Velvet Cell and VAC Foundation. The post Tolyatti’s Avtograd District appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Marko Dumančić on Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties published by the University of Toronto Press. The post Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Andrei Tsygankov on the ongoing US-Russia rivalry. The post The US-Russia Rivalry appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Thomas Graham on the new "Cold War," the United States, Russia, and China. The post The US-Russia-China Triangle appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Mark Vincent on Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps published by Bloomsbury. The post Gulag Criminal Subculture appeared first on .

Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press. The post Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia appeared first on .