New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies
Latest Episodes
Mikhail Shishkin, "My Russia: War Or Peace?" (RiverRun Press, 2023)
An interview with Mikhail Shishkin
Mark Harrison, "Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism" (Stanford UP, 2023)
An interview with Mark Harrison
Mongol Nomadism, Mongol Identity, and the Fall of the Mongol Empire
An interview with Nicholas Morton
Sofia Samatar, "The White Mosque: A Memoir" (Catapult, 2022)
An interview with Sofia Samatar
Anna Schur, "The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
An interview with Anna Schur
Frank Costigliola, "Kennan: A Life Between Worlds" (Princeton UP, 2023)
An interview with Frank Costigliola
Simon Dreher and Wolfgang Mueller, "Foreigners in Muscovy: Western Immigrants in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Russia" (Routledge, 2023)
This interview delves into a book that is indebted to the scholarly work with which New Books Network founder, Marshall Poe, began his career:A People Born to Slavery: Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography, 14761748(Cornell UP, 2000), a seminal
Socialist Cultures and Politics of Secularism and Atheism
An interview with Todd Weir and Victoria Smolkin
New Histories of Violence in and around the Second World War
An discussion with Max Bergholz and Nicole Eaton
Doug Enaa Greene, "Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn: Anticommunism, Marxism, and the Fate of the Soviet Union" (Lexington, 2023)
An interview with Doug Enaa Greene