הפודקאסטים הטובים ביותר ב-Eurasia (2023)

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Sounds of Eurasia Podcast (2021)

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Artist 14: Vavabond (Beijing) 10:53

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VAVABOND is a laptop improviser and noise player. By processing meaningless and fragmented sounds in a nonlinear-time approach, she explores the theme of ”time and existence” especially in various environmental contexts. Besides solo project, she is also the member of the psychedelic noise group “VagusNerve” and free improvised duo “Mind Fiber.” ht…

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Suzanna Eibuszyc, "Memory Is Our Home: Loss and Remembering--Three Generations in Poland and Russia 1917-1960s" (Ibidem, 2022) 1:52:34

3h ago1:52:34

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A courageous young woman escaping Nazi Germany, with no choice other than to leave her family behind... Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc was born in Warsaw near the end of World War I, the youngest of six children. Little Roma grows up to become a striking, opinionated woman, but her life in its current form is about to change completely. The first shots …

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EurasiaChat

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Lingering tensions with the Taliban 24:23

2d ago24:23

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In our podcast this week Aigerim Toleukhanova and Alisher Khamidov revisit the “relokanty” – Russians who fled the war – who are now receiving expedited Kyrgyz citizenship, buying property and opening businesses. But their presence is no longer as controversial as it was last year when the sudden arrival of thousands upset local economies and stoke…

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The Eurasian Climate Brief

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Not a breath of fresh air: Pollution in Serbia 30:17

2d ago30:17

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Air pollution has blighted Serbia for years. This is due to the country’s heavy reliance on coal, which in 2021 powered around 70% of its electricity. Old diesel-powered vehicles and authorities move to tamper with air pollution criteria have also been part of the problem. In turn, activists have taken to the streets and courts. Our correspondents …

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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War, Optimism, Humility: A Conversation with Literary Critic Mariia Shuvalova 1:02:13

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This episode of How To Be Wrong is a conversation with Mariia Shuvalova, a lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Fulbright Scholar (Harriman Institute, Columbia University in the city of New York, 2019–2020) and co-founder and head of the non-governmental organization New Ukrainian Academic Community. Joining us from Kyiv, Mar…

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Svetlana Lavochkina, "Dam Duchess" (Whiskey Tit, 2018) 56:37

6d ago56:37

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Svetlana Lavochkina's book Dam Duchess (Whiskey Tit, 2018) invites readers to take a surreal journey into the past: the construction of Dnipro Dam, the Stalinist regime, the fate of the aristocrats of the Russian Empire, the horrors of the Holodomor, the memory of the Cossack Hetmanate that travels from generation to generation, the Soviet harrowin…

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Oleksandra Keudel, "How Patronal Networks Shape Opportunities for Local Citizen Participation in a Hybrid Regime: A Comparative Analysis of Five Cities in Ukraine" (Ibidem, 2022) 51:40

7d ago51:40

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In How Patronal Networks Shape Opportunities for Local Citizen Participation in a Hybrid Regime: A Comparative Analysis of Five Cities in Ukraine (Ibidem, 2022), Oleksandra Keudel proposes a novel explanation for why some local governments in hybrid regimes enable citizen participation while others restrict it. She argues that mechanisms for citize…

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The Eurasian Knot

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Trailer: A Gift for Stalin 2:08

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It’s Sunday, October 13, 1935, and someone, we don’t know, who mails a letter. It’s addressed: “Kremlin. To Comrade Stalin.” Now, there was nothing odd about people writing Stalin. They wrote to him a lot. So, when Comrade Sentaretskaya, one of the secretaries sorting Stalin’s mail, got to this letter, she had no reason to worry . . . . that is unt…

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Megan Swift, "Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin" (U Toronto Press, 2020) 1:00:28

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Based on sources from rare book libraries in Russia and around the world, Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin (U Toronto Press, 2020) offers a vivid exploration of illustrated children’s literature and reading under Lenin and Stalin – a period when mass publishing for children and universal publi…

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Nomadic Pastoralism Among the Mongol Herders 50:01

15d ago50:01

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Nomadic Pastoralism among the Mongol Herders: Multispecies and Spatial Ethnography in Mongolia and Transbaikalia (Amsterdam University Press, 2021) is based on anthropological research Charlotte Marchina carried out between 2008 and 2016 to investigate the spatial features of nomadic pastoralism among the Mongol herders of Mongolia and Southern Sib…

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Susan Colbourn, "Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO" (Cornell UP, 2022) 1:13:48

15d ago1:13:48

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In Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO (Cornell UP, 2022), Susan Colbourn tells the story of the height of nuclear crisis and the remarkable waning of the fear that gripped the globe. In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers against one another, Europe was the principal battleground. Washington and Moscow ha…

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EurasiaChat

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How to reintegrate ISIS women and children 31:06

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This week on our podcast, Aigerim Toleukhanova and Alisher Khamidov discuss local cynicism about the American commitment to Central Asia following U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit. Russia is more dependent on good relations with Central Asia than ever before, and China gives billions without demanding reforms. Kazakhstan, which will h…

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Megan Buskey, "Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet: A Family Story of Exile and Return" (Ibidem-Verlag, 2023) 57:27

17d ago57:27

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Today I talked to Megan Buskey about her book Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet: A Family Story of Exile and Return (Ibidem-Verlag, 2023). When Megan Buskey’s grandmother Anna dies in Cleveland in 2013, Megan is compelled in her grief to document her grandmother’s life as a native of Ukraine. A Ukrainian American, Buskey returns to her family’s homeland and …

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Kiril Feferman, "If We Had Wings We Would Fly to You: A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction 1941-42" (Academic Studies Press, 2020) 1:30:02

22d ago1:30:02

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If We Had Wings We Would Fly to You: A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction 1941-42 (Academic Studies Press, 2020) is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family. It is also the first study to ex…

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Martin K. Dimitrov, "Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China" (Oxford UP, 2023) 51:45

22d ago51:45

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Fear pervades dictatorial regimes. Citizens fear leaders, the regime's agents fear superiors, and leaders fear the masses. The ubiquity of fear in such regimes gives rise to the "dictator's dilemma," where autocrats do not know the level of opposition they face and cannot effectively neutralize domestic threats to their rule. The dilemma has led sc…

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Clare Griffin, "Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022) 50:31

23d ago50:31

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Clare Griffin's book Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022) introduces the reader to the dynamic and complex world of early modern Russian medical drugs, from the enthusiasm for newly imported American botanicals to the disgust at Western European medicines made from human corpses. Based on a uniqu…

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Sounds of Eurasia Podcast (2021)

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Artist 15: Rajan Shrestha (Kathmandu) 14:22

23d ago14:22

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Rajan Shrestha (b.1981) is a Kathmandu based inter-disciplinary artist working primarily with music. Bassist/co-producer for a Kathmandu based post-rock outfit, Jindabaad, Shrestha is an Ethnomusicology graduate from Kathmandu Universityís Department of Music and produces music under the moniker of 'phatcowlee'. He is also one half of Anaasir, a co…

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Greta Lynn Uehling, "Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine" (Cornell UP, 2023) 1:02:02

27d ago1:02:02

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Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine (Cornell UP, 2023) provides an accessible lens through which to understand what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war. What goes through the mind of a mother who must send her child to school across a minefield or the men who belong to groups of volunteer body collectors? In Ukraine, s…

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Soviet Hippies and German “Other ‘68ers”: A Conversation about Youth Non-Conformity and Protest 1:06:56

29d ago1:06:56

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On first glance, Soviet hippies would seem to have little in common with right-wing student protestors in West Germany in 1968. Yet as Juliane Fürst and Anna von der Goltz point out, both groups were non-conformists in their respective milieus, and both groups sought to carve out space for individual freedom and expression amid political forces tha…

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EurasiaChat

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A year of de-Russification in Central Asia 27:12

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This week on our podcast, Aigul Adzhieva, a documentary filmmaker investigating Kyrgyzstan's epidemic of gender-based and domestic violence, discusses how the scourge is fueled by social fragmentation, the growing wealth gap, and a lack of kindness in Kyrgyz society. She and hosts Aigerim Toleukhanova and Alisher Khamidov then reflect on the annive…

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Sarah M. Zaides, "Tevye's Ottoman Daughter: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews at the End of Empire" (Libra Kitap, 2022) 1:07:40

1M ago1:07:40

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In existing scholarship on Jewish subjects of the Russian Empire, there were three typical fates available to Russia's Jews on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution: they could remain in the shtetl, leave for a new life in America, or participate in the Russian Revolution. Tevye's Ottoman Daughter: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews at the End of Empire (Li…

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The Eurasian Climate Brief

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One year of full-scale war in Ukraine 20:34

1M ago20:34

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It’s been a year since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The war has killed hundreds of thousands both sides included and displaced millions of Ukrainians, while plunging the rest of Europe into an energy crisis. Its environmental impacts have also been devastating, ranging from military chemical contamination and emissions to nuclea…

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Rethinking the End of the Russian and Habsburg Empires 1:01:57

1M ago1:01:57

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Historians often think of World War I and the period surrounding it as the acme of nationalism in European politics. In two very different books, Joshua Sanborn and Dominique Kirchner Reill have recently questioned several core assumptions in the literature on this period, such as the idea that national state-building precipitated the end of empire…

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Sofia Gavrilova, "Russia's Regional Museums: Representing and Misrepresenting Knowledge about Nature, History and Society" (Routledge, 2022) 39:05

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Sofia Gavrilova's Russia's Regional Museums: Representing and Misrepresenting Knowledge about Nature, History and Society (Routledge, 2022) presents the results of extensive research into the very interesting phenomenon of local museums—kraevedschskyi museums—in Russia’s regions. It outlines how numerous such museums are, how long they have existed…

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Lyudmyla Khersonska, "Today is a Different War" (Arrowsmith Press, 2023) 56:03

1M ago56:03

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Today is a Different War (Arrowsmith Press, 2023) is Lyudmyla Khersonska's striking portrayal of life from inside war-torn Ukraine. Masterfully translated into English by Olga Livshin, Andrew Janco, Maya Chhabra, and Lev Fridman, no other volume of poems captures the duality of fear and bravery, anger and love, despair and hope, as well as the numb…

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads 33:41

1M ago33:41

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Saga Bougdaeva is the translator of the first English version of Jangar (University of California Press, 2023), the heroic epic of the Kalmyk nomads. The Kalmyks are the Western Mongols of Genghis Khan’s medieval empire in Europe. Today, Kalmykia is situated in the territory that was once the Golden Horde, founded by Genghis Khan son’s Juchi. Altho…

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EurasiaChat

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EurasiaChat: Central Asians live in Turkish buildings 24:09

1M ago24:09

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In our podcast this week, hosts Aigerim Toleukhanova and Alisher Khamidov discuss how Central Asians see the Turkish earthquake: a tragedy in a friendly country, first, but also a frightening portent. Shoddy construction, dodgy inspection regimes, and active fault lines – the Central Asian states look a lot like Turkey. Moreover, many construction …

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Ruth Rogaski, "Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland" (U Chicago Press, 2022) 59:50

2M ago59:50

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Among all the world’s most storied and legend-filled regions, the place known to some over time as ‘Manchuria’ has had an especially wide range of ideas projected onto it. Everyone from Manchu emperors to Chinese exiles, European missionaries, Korean poets, indigenous shamans, Russian botanists, Japanese colonists and socialist planners have sought…

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New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Natasha Lance Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) 31:33

2M ago31:33

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It’s the early 1990s, and the USSR is no more. An intrepid young American TV producer has been given a seemingly foolhardy task: bringing the beloved children’s show Sesame Street to Russia, and the rest of the post-Soviet sphere. This is the premise of Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia (Rowman & L…

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