Sean's Russia Blog
Sean's Russia Blog podcast features weekly interviews with academics, journalists and policy makers on Eurasian politics, history and society.
- Website
- http://seansrussiablog.org
- Description
- Russia Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-21 18:30
- last episode published
- 2025-01-20 17:47
- publication frequency
- 6.45 days
- Contributors
- Sean Guillory
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 1048
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture News History
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-20 | Vladimir Kozlov’s new book Shramy (Scars) explores street battles between anti-fascists and neo-Nazi skinheads in Moscow during the late 2000s. Kozlov is no stranger to these subcultures. He’s long been involved in Russian punk. And though he never par... | |
| 2025-01-13 | Who speaks for whom within the Romani rights movement today? This is the question that drives Adriana Helbig’s investigation into the relationship between development aid and Romani musicians in her book, Resounding Poverty. Her findings are crucial as... | |
| 2025-01-03 | The 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) ended in late November in Baku. Two weeks of intense climate negotiations unveiled deep divides—particularly between the Global North and South over climate finance and contentious debates on the right word... | |
| 2024-12-23 | Who are those “experts” who sit in Washington DC and come up with policy toward China and Russia? You know, those academics, journalists, and think-tankers who generate the knowledge US officials rely on? David McCourt’s new book, The End of Engagement... | |
| 2024-12-16 | Nationalists are not born. They are made. But how? That journey is far trickier. Fabian Baumann’s award-winning book, Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism, traces how one family in 19th-century Ukraine split into oppos... | |
| 2024-11-25 | In 2020, Russian-American filmmaker Michael Lockshin and his co-writer, Roman Kantor, were offered an impossible task: to adapt Mikhail Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita for the big screen. It was a daunting task to rewrite such a beloved novel, with its... | |
| 2024-11-18 | Guest: Bryan Gigantino, co-host of the podcast Reimagining Soviet Georgia, on the context and causes for the current political crisis in Georgia. The post Georgia in Crisis appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. |
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| 2024-11-11 | Guest: Benjamin Nathans on To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement published by Princeton University Press. The post The World of Soviet Dissidents appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. |
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| 2024-11-04 | Guest: Ian Lanzillotti guides through the history of Kabardino-Balkaria in his book Land, Community, and the State in the Caucasus published by Bloomsbury. The post A Deep Dive into Kabardino-Balkaria appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. |
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| 2024-10-28 | Guest: Erin Hutchinson on her award-winning article, “Gathering the Nation in the Village: Intellectuals and the Cultural Politics of Nationality in the Late Soviet Period” in the January 2023 issue of the Russian Review. The post Soviet DIY Folk Muse... |
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