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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The Nobility and the Russian Novel
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After the Colored Revolution
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Exposing Chernobyl
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Women of the Gulag
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Nuclear Bombs and Bomb Shelters
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Russia in Global Affairs
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Ivan the Terrible
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The Stuff of Red Army Soldiers
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Russia, China and Inbetween
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The Collective Farm
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Atoms and Aliens in Eurasian Science Fiction
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Russians Under Nazi Occupation
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The Radioactive Mutants of Semipalatinsk
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The Jewish Revolution in Belarus
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The Soviet Nuclear Industry
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The Soviet Lives of Western Culture
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Investigating Hitler’s Remains
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The Politics of Immigration in Russia
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Central Asian Migrants in the USSR
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Domestic Service in the USSR
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A Russian Voyage of Empires
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Russian Socialists in the Struggle for Democracy
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Witnessing the Collapse of Communism
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Rasputin, the Man and the Myth (Rebroadcast)
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The Evictors
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Russians on Trump (Rebroadcast)
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Gender and Electoral Self-Polishing in Mongolia
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Russian Revolutionary Postcards
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Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible
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Soviet Anti-Americanism
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Stalin’s Short Course
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The Stories Polish Secret Police Files Tell Us
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“The Reddest of the Blacks”
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Russia Without Putin
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Local Perpetrators and the Holocaust in Ukraine
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Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia
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Lenin’s Government
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Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation
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Photography and Russian Literature
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The Soviet Origins of Lamaze
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Russian Nationalism
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The Gulag at War
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The Kazakh Famine
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Lenders and Debtors in Imperial Russia
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Conspiracy Theories in Russia
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The Politics of Russian Futurism
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American Girls in Red Russia
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Perestroika and Punk Rock
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Youth Movements in Eastern Europe
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American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes
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