Bye, Bye Orban
On April 12, 2026, Hungarians overwhelmingly voted Peter Magyar into office ending the sixteen-year rule of Viktor Orban. It was a stunning...
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To many, Russia, and the wider Eurasia, is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. But it doesn’t have to be. The SRB Podcast dispels the stereotypes and myths about the region wit...
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The Georgian August 1924 Uprising
In August 1924, a group of rebels organized by the anti-Bolshevik Committee for the Independence of Georgia and led by the Georgian Social D...
The Edge of Sports
Spoiler alert. This episode has nothing to do with the Eurasian Knot’s usual fare. Dave Zirin was speaking at the University of Pittsburgh....
Russian and American Internal Colonization
About eight years ago, I interviewed Steven Sabol about his book, The Touch of Civilization . It was the first book I was aware of that comp...
Everyday Politics in Russia
What do Russians really think? The question is old and elusive. It is also somewhat of a tell–to pose it is to suggest there’s a coherent an...
Ukraine's Euromaidan
In the winter of 2013-14, protests erupted in Kyiv, Ukraine. Their goal was to oppose President Viktor Yanukovich’s rejection of the EU Asso...
KGB Same-Sex Honey Traps
One of the most salacious and storied methods of KGB spycraft during the Cold War was the honey trap. Agents would get an informant to seduc...
The Bolshevik Rank and File
In 1917, the Bolshevik Party had roughly 24,000 members. A decade later, it boasted about 1.2 million. Recruitment came in waves and so did...
Stalin's Last Days
Joseph Stalin died today, March 5, seventy-three years ago. So, I thought it would be a good idea to dig out, re-edit and remaster, the inte...
Searching for Belief during the Soviet End Times
When societies are in crisis, people tend to seek alternative belief systems to give them comfort, explain a complex world, or fill a space...
Moscow's Hunt for Olympic Gold
As a Cold War kid, I remember the intense rivalry between the United States and USSR during the Olympics. Of course, we remember the US’ boy...
The Long History of American-Russian Relations
A quick scan of the hundreds of books on US-Russia relations gives the impression that the two countries only met in the 20th century. But r...
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Gregor Thum
The history of borders and nations in Eastern Europe is fraught. What we even call the region is a site of contestation. Is it “Eastern Euro...
Russia Starts Here
What is Russia? There’s no easy answer. Travelers, scholars, philosophers, and journalists have pondered the question for centuries. And tho...
The Further Adventures of the Black Russian
A decade ago, Vladimir Alexandrov published an excellent biography, The Black Russian , about an unknown historical figure–Fredrick Bruce Th...
The Great Reforms
Alexander II’s Great Reforms were sweeping. They freed over 22 million serfs, overhauled the judicial, university, and municipal systems, an...
Post-Soviet Graffiti
I love street art. And I don’t care in what form. Beautifully crafted murals. Spraypainted gang tags. Scrawls on bathroom stalls. Even gueri...
The Stiliagi
A new youth subculture emerged in the Soviet Union in the late 1940s and early 1950s–the Stiliagi. Roughly translated as “the stylish,” thes...
Fraternization and Survival During WWII
Soviet ideology called for the emancipation of women. Soviet women would be active participants in public life, unburdened by the home, chil...
The Art of War
About two years ago, I was brought on to a podcast project started by the Global Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh. The initial...
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