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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Suffering and Survival in Leningrad
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Trailer: Teddy Goes to the USSR
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union
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Stalinism, Memorial, and Perestroika
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Perestroika in the Periphery: Tajikistan
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Esperanto in Revolutionary Russia
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Soviet Pronatalism
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Letters to Perestroika
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Stalin and His Books
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Russia, Ukraine, and the West
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Russia’s Labor Dilemma
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Ditching Communism in Poland
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The Lenfilm Art House
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The Things of Late Soviet Life
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Soviet Flower Power
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Russia Upside Down
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The Return of the Romanovs
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Cold War from the Margins
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The Vampires of A. K. Tolstoy
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Cuban-Soviet Scientific Exchanges
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African Students in the USSR
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Unpacking Alexey Navalny
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Revisiting the Russian Military
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Russian Conquest of Central Asia
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REEES Faculty Spotlight: Ana Sekulic
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REEES Faculty Spotlight: Attila Kenyeres
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Russian Revolutionaries in Exile
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The Weak Strongman
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Weddings and Power in Early Modern Russia
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Wine and Cheese: Komsomol Etiquette and Emily Post
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Rebroadcast: Smoking Under the Tsars
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Money and Prosperity in the USSR
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Cold War Correspondents
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Tolyatti’s Avtograd District
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Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties
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The US-Russia Rivalry
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The US-Russia-China Triangle
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Gulag Criminal Subculture
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Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia
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Blind Activism in the Cold War
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Environmental Activism in Russia
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Gogol’s Town of N
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Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe
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Navalny and Next
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Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR
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Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia
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Welcome to Chechnya
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Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine
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From Soso to Stalin
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Watering the Soviet Lands
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