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Transcript: Peering Under the Rug: Sources of Information about Russia

This week’s podcast is a roundtable interview I conducted at the University of Pittsburgh for the Center for Russia, East European, and Eurasian Studies Spring

April 22, 2019

Lenin’s Government

Guest: Lara Douds on Inside Lenin’s Government: Power, Ideology and Practice in the Early Soviet State published by Bloomsbury.

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April 14, 2019

Transcript: Lenin’s Government

Partial transcript of an interview with Lara Douds on the formation, functioning, and decline of the Lenin’s Council of People’s Commissars, or Sovnarkom.

April 13, 2019

Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation

Guest: Natalia Telepneva on Soviet and Warsaw Pact intelligence services and African anti-colonial movements.

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Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation

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April 5, 2019

Transcript: Soviet Intelligence and African National Liberation

Partial transcript of an interview with Natalia Telepneva on Soviet and Czechoslovak intelligence in African national liberation movements.

April 3, 2019

Children’s Choir of the USSR

January 4, 2012
Communism, Culture, Memory, Soviet Union, Youth

More holiday catch-up. BBC Documentaries did a program on the Children’s Choir of the USSR. A good way to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union.

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Here’s a performance of Crocodile Gena:

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