The Eurasian Knot
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 Eurasian Knot 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...
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Making the Soviet Jew
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Defection and the Cold War
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Ainu Fever
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Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds
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The Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh
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Islam, Repression, and Memory
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Useable Pasts? Shamans, Spirituality and Resistance
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Theology after Gulag
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Christianity in China
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REEES Faculty Spotlight: Anna Kovalova
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Catholicism in Poland
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Secret Police Archives as Depositories of Faith
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Lived Religion in Ukraine
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The Nivkhi of Sakhalin
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Queer Under Communism
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Red Whaling
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Harbin
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Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic
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The Far East
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A Gift for Stalin, Part Two: The Accursed Share
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A Gift for Stalin, Part One: Dear Comrade Stalin
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Trailer: A Gift for Stalin
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Ep 5 Teddy Meets The Soviet People
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Ep 4: Teddy Talks about Race
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Ep 3 Teddy Goes Shopping
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Ep 2 Teddy Meets The KGB
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Ep 1: Teddy Greets the USSR
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Mental Health in Wartime Ukraine
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Kyivan Rus’
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The Day of the Baptism of Rus
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Between Memory and History in Ukraine
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The Soviet Rock Scene
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Working Through Stalinism
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REEES Faculty Spotlight: Zoltan Kelemen
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The Economic War
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Mixed Marriages in the USSR
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Remembering Anne Garrels
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Soviet Aid to West Africa
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Rebroadcast: The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev
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Soviet WWII Mythologies
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Queer Spaces in Imperial St. Petersburg
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Clientelism in Soviet Abkhazia
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Limonov and the National Bolsheviks
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Russian Orthodox Converts in Appalachia
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A Dissident Among Dissidents
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Russia in the Red Mirror
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Life and Death in the Donbas
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Central Asia Past and Present
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Everything Was Forever Until
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Trailer 2: Teddy Goes to the USSR
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