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SRB Podcast

aka "Sean's Russia Blog". Pittsburgh University.

To many, Russia, and the wider Eurasia, is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. But it doesn’t have to be. The SRB Podcast dispels the stereotypes and myths about the region with lively and informative interviews on Eurasia’s complex past, present, and future. New episodes drop weekly with an eclectic mix of topics from punk rock to Putin, and everything in-between. Subscribe on your favorite podcasts app, grab your headphones, hit play, and tune in. Eurasia will never appear the same.

  1. The Lenfilm Art House


    Guest: Catriona Kelly on Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev published by Oxford University Press.

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  2. The Things of Late Soviet Life


    Guest: Alexey Golubev on The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia published by Cornell University Press.

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  3. Soviet Flower Power


    Juliane Furst on Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in the Soviet Hippieland and Beyond published by Oxford University Press.

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  4. Russia Upside Down


    Guest: The Americans creator Joe Weisberg on Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy from the Second Cold War published byPublic Affairs.

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  5. The Return of the Romanovs


    Guest: Russell Martin on the recent wedding of George Romanov and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini.

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  6. Cold War from the Margins


    Guest: Theodora Dragostinova on The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene, was published by Cornell University Press.

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  7. The Vampires of A. K. Tolstoy


    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.

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  8. Cuban-Soviet Scientific Exchanges


    Guest: Clare Ibarra on scientific exchange between Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

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  9. African Students in the USSR

    Guest: Constantin Katsakioris on the experience of African students in the USSR during the Cold War.

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  10. Unpacking Alexey Navalny


    Guests: Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, and Ben Noble on Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? published by Hurst Publishers.

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  11. Revisiting the Russian Military


    Guests: Michael Kofman and Dmitry Gorenburg give an update on the Russian military.

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  12. Russian Conquest of Central Asia


    Guest: Alexander Morrison on The Russian Conquest of Central Asia published by Cambridge University Press.

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  13. REEES Faculty Spotlight: Ana Sekulic

    REEES faculty profile on Ana Sekulic and her work on Catholic-Muslim relations in Bosnia under the Ottoman empire.

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  14. REEES Faculty Spotlight: Attila Kenyeres

    REEES faculty profile of Attila Kenyeres on his research into media manipulation and "fake news."

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  15. Russian Revolutionaries in Exile


    Guest: Faith Hillis on Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Exiles and the Quest for Freedom, 1830–1930 published by Oxford University Press.

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  16. The Weak Strongman


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

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  17. Weddings and Power in Early Modern Russia


    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.

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  18. Wine and Cheese: Komsomol Etiquette and Emily Post


    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!

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  19. Rebroadcast: Smoking Under the Tsars


    Guest: Tricia Starks on Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press.

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  20. Money and Prosperity in the USSR


    Guest: Kristy Ironside onA Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Harvard University Press.

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