Making an audio documentary about Lovett Fort-Whiteman, the only known Black American victim of Stalin's Terror.
"Nothing of them is left over except the same ghostly objecthood—a bare gelatinous blob of undifferentiated human labor."--Marx, Capital.
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How did the desire for a democratic, European Ukraine devolve into a mad spiral short of civil war? Longtime friend of the pod, William Risch, was in Kyiv in the initial days of the Maidan Uprising, or Euromaidan. This week, we spoke to Bill about its legacy.
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Listen to Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav discuss Holocaust literature in the Soviet Union. www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
Interesting looking new episode from @euraknot.bsky.social! A book comparing the overlapping trajectories of Russian and U.S. internal colonization? Yes, please. www.patreon.com/posts/155612...
Really interesting new episode of @euraknot.bsky.social podcast on the works of Kurt Vonnegut and why they were popular in the Soviet Union
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'Searching for Belief During the Soviet End Times', w/ Sean Guillory, Rusana Novikova & Joseph Kellner, on @euraknot.bsky.social.
Harriet Murav and I spoke about our new translation “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union" on the latest episode of @euraknot.bsky.social Available on any podcast app and also here online: www.euraknot.org/soviet-holoc... @stanfordpress.bsky.social
The Eurasian Knot🎙️
The Eurasian Knot🎙️
Preeminent Soviet historian Shelia Fitzpatrick reviews Joey Kellner's The Spirit of Socialism for LRB. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... We interviewed him back in March. Revisit this excellent discussion about spirituality, the occult, and alt-history in the late USSR www.euraknot.org/searching-fo...
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It has long been assumed that there was no Holocaust memory in the Soviet Union. Official Soviet ideology lumped the 3 million Soviet Jews exterminated by the Nazis…
New episode with Pietro Shakarian on Anastas Mikoyan, de-Stalinization, and Soviet nationality policy during the Thaw.
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Alexander Rabinowitch has died at 91 years old. He was arguably one of the most important historians of the Russian Revolution. It's hard to state how much Rabinowitch's work influence our understanding of 1917.
And now that Alexander Rabinowitch has left us, I figured I’d dig out my old interview
I went through my Kurt Vonnegut phase in my late teens. I read Player Piano, Cat’s Cradle , I think, Deadeye Dick , and of course, Slaughterhouse Five . I can’t say…
