The Eurasian Knot

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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 same. Get bonus content on Patreon

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Episode Date
A Tale of Two Nationalisms
Dec 16, 2024
Adapting Master and Margarita
Nov 25, 2024
Georgia in Crisis
Nov 18, 2024
The World of Soviet Dissidents
Nov 11, 2024
A Deep Dive into Kabardino-Balkaria
Nov 04, 2024
Soviet DIY Folk Museums
Oct 28, 2024
Intimate Lives of International Communism
Oct 21, 2024
Gulag Memory in Russia’s Far North
Oct 14, 2024
The Russia That Was Lost
Oct 07, 2024
Free Marc Fogel!
Sep 30, 2024
A New History of Northern Eurasia
Sep 23, 2024
The Sound of Socialism, Part 3
Sep 09, 2024
Women in Russian Politics
Sep 03, 2024
Illiberalism and Civil Society in Hungary
Aug 26, 2024
The Sound of Socialism, Part 2
Aug 19, 2024
The Sound of Socialism, Part 1
Aug 12, 2024
The Eastern International
Aug 05, 2024
The Soviet Bid to Run the World
Jul 29, 2024
The Rise and Fall of Yevgeny Prigozhin
Jul 01, 2024
Russians in Latvia
Jun 24, 2024
Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip
Jun 17, 2024
Soviet Afghan War and Islam
Jun 10, 2024
Populist Elitism in Russia and the US
Jun 03, 2024
Soviet Industrial Ecology
May 20, 2024
Everyday War in Donbas
May 13, 2024
Sugarland
May 06, 2024
Citizen Poet
Apr 29, 2024
Baku Oil and the Soviet State
Apr 22, 2024
Gleaning for Communism
Apr 15, 2024
The Tunguska Mystery
Apr 08, 2024
Sesame Street in Russia
Apr 01, 2024
Soviet Investigation of Nazi War Crimes
Mar 25, 2024
The Soviet Century
Mar 18, 2024
Black Skies Over Krasnoyarsk
Mar 11, 2024
Revisiting Nagorno-Karabakh
Mar 04, 2024
The Soviet Avant Garde
Feb 26, 2024
Russia’s Prison Knocking Language
Feb 16, 2024
Ukraine’s Gloomy Winter
Feb 09, 2024
A Century Without Lenin
Feb 02, 2024
Genealogy in Russia
Jan 26, 2024
The Black Russian
Jan 12, 2024
Recording Russia
Jan 05, 2024
Making the Soviet Jew
Dec 01, 2023
Defection and the Cold War
Nov 17, 2023
Ainu Fever
Nov 10, 2023
Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds
Nov 03, 2023
The Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh
Oct 27, 2023
Islam, Repression, and Memory
Oct 21, 2023
Useable Pasts? Shamans, Spirituality and Resistance
Oct 13, 2023
Theology after Gulag
Oct 06, 2023
Christianity in China
Sep 22, 2023
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Anna Kovalova
Sep 15, 2023
Catholicism in Poland
Sep 08, 2023
Secret Police Archives as Depositories of Faith
Aug 18, 2023
Lived Religion in Ukraine
Aug 04, 2023
The Nivkhi of Sakhalin
Jul 17, 2023
Queer Under Communism
Jun 29, 2023
Red Whaling
Jun 08, 2023
Harbin
May 05, 2023
Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic
Apr 21, 2023
The Far East
Apr 15, 2023
A Gift for Stalin, Part Two: The Accursed Share
Apr 10, 2023
A Gift for Stalin, Part One: Dear Comrade Stalin
Mar 31, 2023
Trailer: A Gift for Stalin
Mar 20, 2023
Ep 6 Cold War Colored Glasses
Dec 29, 2022
Ep 5 Teddy Meets The Soviet People
Dec 29, 2022
Ep 4: Teddy Talks about Race
Dec 29, 2022
Ep 3 Teddy Goes Shopping
Dec 29, 2022
Ep 2 Teddy Meets The KGB
Dec 29, 2022
Ep 1: Teddy Greets the USSR
Dec 29, 2022
Mental Health in Wartime Ukraine
Dec 16, 2022
Kyivan Rus’
Dec 02, 2022
The Day of the Baptism of Rus
Nov 18, 2022
Between Memory and History in Ukraine
Nov 11, 2022
The Soviet Rock Scene
Nov 04, 2022
Working Through Stalinism
Oct 26, 2022
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Zoltan Kelemen
Oct 07, 2022
The Economic War
Sep 27, 2022
Mixed Marriages in the USSR
Sep 20, 2022
Remembering Anne Garrels
Sep 13, 2022
Soviet Aid to West Africa
Sep 06, 2022
Rebroadcast: The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev
Sep 01, 2022
Soviet WWII Mythologies
Aug 09, 2022
Queer Spaces in Imperial St. Petersburg
Aug 02, 2022
Clientelism in Soviet Abkhazia
Jul 26, 2022
Limonov and the National Bolsheviks
Jul 14, 2022
Russian Orthodox Converts in Appalachia
Jul 06, 2022
A Dissident Among Dissidents
Jun 21, 2022
Russia in the Red Mirror
Jun 14, 2022
Life and Death in the Donbas
Jun 07, 2022
Central Asia Past and Present
May 24, 2022
Everything Was Forever Until
May 17, 2022
Trailer 2: Teddy Goes to the USSR
May 16, 2022
Suffering and Survival in Leningrad
May 10, 2022
Trailer: Teddy Goes to the USSR
May 09, 2022
The Collapse of the Soviet Union
May 03, 2022
Stalinism, Memorial, and Perestroika
Apr 26, 2022
Perestroika in the Periphery: Tajikistan
Apr 19, 2022
Esperanto in Revolutionary Russia
Apr 12, 2022
Soviet Pronatalism
Mar 22, 2022
Letters to Perestroika
Mar 15, 2022
Stalin and His Books
Mar 06, 2022
Russia, Ukraine, and the West
Feb 25, 2022
Russia’s Labor Dilemma
Feb 18, 2022
Ditching Communism in Poland
Feb 11, 2022
The Lenfilm Art House
Nov 19, 2021
The Things of Late Soviet Life
Nov 15, 2021
Soviet Flower Power
Nov 05, 2021
Russia Upside Down
Oct 29, 2021
The Return of the Romanovs
Oct 22, 2021
Cold War from the Margins
Oct 18, 2021
The Vampires of A. K. Tolstoy
Oct 08, 2021
Cuban-Soviet Scientific Exchanges
Oct 01, 2021
African Students in the USSR
Sep 24, 2021
Unpacking Alexey Navalny
Sep 17, 2021
Revisiting the Russian Military
Sep 12, 2021
Russian Conquest of Central Asia
Sep 03, 2021
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Ana Sekulic
Aug 18, 2021
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Attila Kenyeres
Aug 18, 2021
Russian Revolutionaries in Exile
Aug 06, 2021
The Weak Strongman
Jul 30, 2021
Weddings and Power in Early Modern Russia
Jul 23, 2021
Wine and Cheese: Komsomol Etiquette and Emily Post
Jul 16, 2021
Rebroadcast: Smoking Under the Tsars
Jul 12, 2021
Money and Prosperity in the USSR
Jul 02, 2021
Cold War Correspondents
Jun 25, 2021
Tolyatti’s Avtograd District
Jun 19, 2021
Masculinity in the Long Soviet Sixties
Jun 13, 2021
The US-Russia Rivalry
Jun 04, 2021
The US-Russia-China Triangle
May 28, 2021
Gulag Criminal Subculture
May 14, 2021
Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia
May 07, 2021
Blind Activism in the Cold War
Apr 30, 2021
Environmental Activism in Russia
Apr 23, 2021
Gogol’s Town of N
Apr 16, 2021
Trash in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe
Apr 09, 2021
Navalny and Next
Mar 27, 2021
Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR
Mar 19, 2021
Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia
Mar 13, 2021
Welcome to Chechnya
Mar 05, 2021
Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine
Feb 26, 2021
From Soso to Stalin
Feb 12, 2021
Watering the Soviet Lands
Feb 05, 2021
The Texel Uprising
Jan 29, 2021
REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett
Jan 21, 2021
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Iknur Lider
Jan 21, 2021
The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus
Jan 15, 2021
Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism
Jan 08, 2021
Belarus Protests in Pittsburgh
Jan 04, 2021
Russian Other, American Other
Dec 18, 2020
Putin Kitsch in America
Dec 11, 2020
The Wired Cold War
Dec 04, 2020
Grand Duke Alexis Visits America
Nov 20, 2020
Black Radicalism and the USSR
Nov 13, 2020
American Tourism to the USSR
Nov 09, 2020
Pogroms and Race Riots
Oct 30, 2020
From Aliaska to Alaska
Oct 23, 2020
American Famine Relief to Soviet Russia
Oct 16, 2020
Russian and American Empire
Oct 09, 2020
Enter Dopeworld
Oct 02, 2020
Russian Serfdom and American Slavery
Sep 25, 2020
SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move
Sep 23, 2020
Protests in Belarus
Sep 11, 2020
Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission
Sep 02, 2020
Trash Protests and Leninopad
Aug 31, 2020
Soviet Military Masculinity
Aug 23, 2020
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Olga Klimova
Aug 21, 2020
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Katie Manukyan
Aug 21, 2020
Stories Along the Trans-Siberian
Aug 17, 2020
Rebroadcast: Experiencing the Russian Revolution
Aug 08, 2020
Rebroadcast: The Kazakh Famine
Aug 01, 2020
Russia’s Wily Man
Jul 24, 2020
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg
Jul 17, 2020
Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music
Jul 03, 2020
Pogroms and Blood Libel in the Soviet Union
Jun 26, 2020
Plots Against Russia
Jun 19, 2020
The Baltics In-Between
Jun 15, 2020
Rebroadcast: Black Sojourners to the Soviet Union
Jun 05, 2020
Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China
May 29, 2020
Soviet WWII Songs
May 22, 2020
Hearing Communism: Part Two
May 21, 2020
Hearing Communism: Part One
May 19, 2020
Socialism for Realists
May 15, 2020
China’s New Red Guards
May 08, 2020
Ideologies of Race in Russia
May 01, 2020
Underground Entrepreneurs in the Soviet Union
Apr 26, 2020
Russian Conservatism
Apr 17, 2020
Cholera in Russia
Apr 10, 2020
Postcolonial Socialisms in Africa
Apr 03, 2020
Immortalism and Transhumanism in Russia
Mar 27, 2020
Objects and Values of Labor in Socialist Hungary
Mar 20, 2020
Political Diary from Russia
Mar 13, 2020
Structurally Adjusting Socialism
Mar 06, 2020
The Nobility and the Russian Novel
Feb 28, 2020
After the Colored Revolution
Feb 19, 2020
Exposing Chernobyl
Feb 07, 2020
Women of the Gulag
Jan 29, 2020
Nuclear Bombs and Bomb Shelters
Jan 18, 2020
Russia in Global Affairs
Jan 07, 2020
Ivan the Terrible
Dec 30, 2019
The Stuff of Red Army Soldiers
Dec 18, 2019
Russia, China and Inbetween
Dec 07, 2019
The Collective Farm
Nov 17, 2019
Atoms and Aliens in Eurasian Science Fiction
Nov 10, 2019
Russians Under Nazi Occupation
Nov 03, 2019
The Radioactive Mutants of Semipalatinsk
Oct 27, 2019
The Jewish Revolution in Belarus
Oct 21, 2019
The Soviet Nuclear Industry
Oct 13, 2019
The Soviet Lives of Western Culture
Sep 24, 2019
Investigating Hitler’s Remains
Sep 17, 2019
The Politics of Immigration in Russia
Sep 07, 2019
Central Asian Migrants in the USSR
Sep 03, 2019
Domestic Service in the USSR
Aug 24, 2019
A Russian Voyage of Empires
Aug 17, 2019
Russian Socialists in the Struggle for Democracy
Aug 10, 2019
Witnessing the Collapse of Communism
Aug 02, 2019
Rasputin, the Man and the Myth (Rebroadcast)
Jul 27, 2019
The Evictors
Jul 19, 2019
Russians on Trump (Rebroadcast)
Jul 13, 2019
Gender and Electoral Self-Polishing in Mongolia
Jul 05, 2019
Russian Revolutionary Postcards
Jun 30, 2019
Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible
Jun 21, 2019
Soviet Anti-Americanism
Jun 14, 2019
Stalin’s Short Course
Jun 07, 2019
The Stories Polish Secret Police Files Tell Us
May 31, 2019
The Judeo-Bolshevik Myth
May 24, 2019
“The Reddest of the Blacks”
May 21, 2019
Russia Without Putin
May 17, 2019
Local Perpetrators and the Holocaust in Ukraine
May 08, 2019
Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia
Apr 25, 2019
Lenin’s Government
Apr 14, 2019
Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation
Apr 05, 2019
Photography and Russian Literature
Mar 27, 2019
The Soviet Origins of Lamaze
Mar 20, 2019
Russian Nationalism
Mar 10, 2019
The Gulag at War
Mar 01, 2019
The Kazakh Famine
Feb 22, 2019
Lenders and Debtors in Imperial Russia
Feb 16, 2019
Conspiracy Theories in Russia
Feb 08, 2019
The Politics of Russian Futurism
Feb 03, 2019
American Girls in Red Russia
Jan 25, 2019
Perestroika and Punk Rock
Jan 20, 2019
Youth Movements in Eastern Europe
Jan 11, 2019
American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes
Dec 14, 2018
Eurasianet on Eurasia
Dec 07, 2018
Soviet and American Children in the Cold War
Nov 05, 2018
The Map Men of East Central Europe
Oct 29, 2018
Communist Neverland at the Russian International Children’s Home
Oct 23, 2018
Decolonization and Development in Soviet Tajikistan
Oct 13, 2018
Communism, Youth and Generation
Oct 07, 2018
Rich Russians
Oct 01, 2018
Kazakh Nomads Under Lenin and Stalin
Sep 22, 2018
The Russian Monarchy’s Scenarios of Power
Sep 15, 2018
Social-Economic Life in the Donbas
Sep 07, 2018
The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution
Aug 31, 2018
SRB on the Dig Podcast
Aug 29, 2018
Nation, Nationality, and Empire
Aug 24, 2018
American-Russian Relations in the 19th Century
Aug 19, 2018
Soviet Atheism
Aug 10, 2018
The Russian Mafia
Aug 03, 2018
Psychotherapy and Neoliberalism in Russia
Jul 28, 2018
Chinese Romance with the Russian Revolution
Jul 20, 2018
Collectivization and Stalinist Perpetrators
Jul 13, 2018
The Banya is Everything
Jul 06, 2018
Russia’s A Terrible Country
Jun 29, 2018
Surveillance Valley
Jun 18, 2018
Russian Literature and Terrorism
Jun 09, 2018
Russia, Israel, Iran and Syria
Jun 01, 2018
A Memoir of Misadventures in Moscow
May 18, 2018
Early Soviet Urban Communes
Apr 30, 2018
Putinomics
Apr 24, 2018
The Stalin Constitution
Apr 16, 2018
The Mitki Art Collective
Apr 09, 2018
William C. Bullitt in the USSR
Apr 02, 2018
Russia’s Long Hangover
Mar 23, 2018
Boris Savinkov and Russian Terrorism
Mar 19, 2018
The Georgian Democratic Republic
Mar 09, 2018
Local Identity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Vladimir
Feb 27, 2018
The Stalinist Film Industry
Feb 17, 2018
Life and Times of Vladimir Dzhunkovsky
Feb 09, 2018
Soviet Jokes Under Stalin
Feb 03, 2018
Old Age and Claustrophobia in Putin’s Russia
Jan 26, 2018
The Ethics of Soviet Journalism
Jan 19, 2018
Deaf in the Soviet Union
Jan 11, 2018
The Russian Revolution as Utopian Leap in the Open Air of History
Dec 24, 2017
The Epic of the House of Government
Nov 29, 2017
Assessing the Russian Military
Nov 19, 2017
Daughter of the Cold War
Nov 08, 2017
American History Through Russian Eyes
Oct 30, 2017
Young Communists Under Stalin
Oct 21, 2017
Russian LGBTQ and New Left Activism
Oct 16, 2017
Russian and American Internal Colonization
Oct 07, 2017
Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
Sep 29, 2017
The Politics of Russia’s Apartment Demolition
Sep 24, 2017
Feminists in the Maidan
Sep 17, 2017
The Early Modern Russian Empire
Sep 08, 2017
Women, Resistance, and Revolution
Sep 01, 2017
Retrospective on Stalinism
Aug 07, 2017
SRB on This is Hell!
Aug 03, 2017
Stalin’s Last Days
Jul 31, 2017
Russia and Its Near Abroad
Jul 24, 2017
Protest in Putin’s Russia
Jul 14, 2017