Writing
Mapping the American Left
I wrote an article with Rafael Khachaturian on the American Left for the Russian journal Социология власти (Sociology of Power). You can download it here.
Comment on Keith Gessen’s The Quiet Americans
My thoughts on Keith Gessen’s “The Quiet Americans Behind the U.S.-Russia Imbroglio” as an opening salvo in the need to deconstruct the discourses of the “Russia Hand.”
The Theater of Diplomacy
I wrote a review of Alexander Etkind’s Roads Not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt and Michael McFaul’s From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia for Bookforum. Unfortunately, the review is behind the dreaded paywall. So here’s the pdf.
Transcript: Deaf in the Soviet Union
The following is the transcript of my interview with Claire Shaw for the podcast Deaf in the Soviet Union. The transcript has been edited for clarity. I thought we’d start by having you talk about the origins of your work on deafness in Russia. How did you come to...
Russian Presidential Elections 2018: Predicable Results with Unpredictable Aftermath
Ilya Budraitskis breaks down the upcoming Russian Presidential Election. Originally posted on LeftEast.
The SRB Podcast in 2017
The SRB Podcast in 2017 by the numbers.
Latest Podcast
Youth Movements in Eastern Europe
Guest: Olena Nikolayenko on Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe published by Cambridge University Press.
Top Ten for 2018
The top ten SRB Podcasts for 2018.
American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes
Guest: Alexey Kovalev on American and Russian journalism.
Eurasianet on Eurasia
Guests: Eurasianet‘s Peter Leonard and Josh Kucera on Central Asia and the South Caucausus
Red Children’s Republics
Guest: Diana Georgescu on “Red Children’s Republics: Socialist Internationalism and Transnational Youth Exchanges During the Late Cold War.”
Smoking Under the Tsars
Guest: Tricia Starks on Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press.
Soviet and American Children in the Cold War
Guest: Margaret Peacock on Soviet and American Children in the Cold War.
The Map Men of East Central Europe
Guest: Steven Seegel on Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe published by University of Chicago Press.
Communist Neverland at the Russian International Children’s Home
Guest: Elizabeth McGuire on “Communist Neverland: New Research on a Russian International Children’s Home, 1933-1991.”
Decolonization and Development in Soviet Tajikistan
Guest: Artemy Kalinovsky on The Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan published by Cornell University Press.
Communism, Youth and Generation
Guest: Matthias Neumann on communism, youth, and generation.
