Sean's Russia Blog

Guest: Elisabeth Schimpfossl on Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie published by Oxford University Press. The post Rich Russians appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Alun Thomas on Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia from Lenin to Stalin published by I.B. Tauris. The post Kazakh Nomads Under Lenin and Stalin appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Richard Wortman on the Russian monarchy, symbolism, and ritual. The post The Russian Monarchy’s Scenarios of Power appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Brian Milakovsky on the social and economic situation in the Donbas. The post Social-Economic Life in the Donbas appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Lesley Chamberlain on The Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution published by Reaktion Books. The post The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Me, your host, on The Dig Podcast. The post SRB on the Dig Podcast appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Ronald Grigor Suny on nationality, nation, and empire in the Soviet Union. The post Nation, Nationality, and Empire appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Norman Saul of US-Russian relations in the 19th Century The post American-Russian Relations in the 19th Century appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Victoria Smolkin on A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism published by Princeton University Press. [spp-player] The post Soviet Atheism appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Mark Galeotti on The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia published by Yale University Press. [spp-player] The post The Russian Mafia appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Tomas Matza on Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia published by Duke University Press. [spp-player] The post Psychotherapy and Neoliberalism in Russia appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution published by Oxford University Press. [spp-player] The post Chinese Romance with the Russian Revolution appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Lynne Viola on the Soviet collectivization of agriculture, resistance, and Stalinist perpetrators. [spp-player] The post Collectivization and Stalinist Perpetrators appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Bryon MacWilliams on With Light Steam: A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths was published by Northern Illinois University Press. [spp-player] The post The Banya is Everything appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Keith Gessen on America's Russia Hands and his novel A Terrible Country published by Viking. [spp-player] The post Russia’s A Terrible Country appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Yasha Levine on Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet published by Public Affairs Books. [spp-player] The post Surveillance Valley appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Lynn Patyk on Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture published by the University of Wisconsin Press. [spp-player] The post Russian Literature and Terrorism appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Maxim Suchkov, editor of Al-Monitor’s Russia-Mideast coverage, on Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria. [spp-player] The post Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Laurence Bogoslaw on Russians on Trump: Press Coverage and Commentary published by Eastview.   The post Russians on Trump (Rebroadcast) appeared first on SRB Podcast.

Guest: Michael Idov on Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin’s Moscow published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. [spp-player] The post A Memoir of Misadventures in Moscow appeared first on SRB Podcast.