Guest:
Arch Getty is a Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA where he seeks to understand how the greatest experiment of the 20th century, led by a movement that grew out of rational, enlightened, egalitarian, and democratic traditions resulted in dictatorship and the deaths of millions of its own people. He’s the author of several books and articles on the Great Terror, political violence, and Stalinism. His most recent book is Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition published by Yale University Press.
Music:
Muddy Waters, “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man,” Gold Collection, 1992.
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Autocracy, Marriage, and Power in Early Modern Russia
Guest:
Russell Martin is a professor of History at Westminster College focusing on autocracy, marriage, power and the Romanov dynasty in early modern Russia. He is the author of many books and articles. His most recent book is A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia.
Reading:
Russell Martin, “Eulogy for Ned Keenan.”
Greg Afinogenov, “Breaking Muscovy’s Silence: Edward Keenan, 1935-2015.”
Russell Martin, “Dowries, Diplomacy, and Marriage Politics in Muscovy.”
Russell Martin, “A Reappreciation of Sergei Fedorovich Platonov’s Ocherki po istorii smuty.”
Music:
The Smiths, “There is a Light That Never Goes Out,” The Queen is Dead, 1986.
