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Episodes: 600
Frequency: Several times a week
Rating: 4.6/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000
Gender skew: Neutral
Listener location: USA
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Miranda Melcher - Author and scholar specializing in post-conflict military integration, treaty negotiation, and treaty implementation in civil-war contexts, including Angola and Mozambique.
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Tamara Hundorova - Post-soviet Cultural Consciousness, Ukrainian Literature, Postcolonial Trauma, Historical Memory, And Intergenerational Experience.
David L. Hoffmann - Women’s Labor, Reproductive Policy, Military Service, Gender Inequality, Socialist Ideology, And Soviet History.
Nikhil Kalyanpur - Russian Plutocrats, Foreign Courts, Offshore Assets, Transnational Law, State Capture, And Elite Power Struggles.
Tom Trier - Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Scandinavian Trade And Diplomacy, Caspian Oil, And The Collapse Of The Russian Empire.
Tom Mitchell - Soviet Espionage, Cold War Intelligence, Canadian Security, Civil Liberties, And Archival Evidence.
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The Steppe and Its Empires: The Russian Empire and Its Eurasian Counterparts
October 08, 2026
Winston Churchill famously called Russia "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." But what if the riddle is partly of our own making—the product of a habit of looking only west for answers? Michael Khodarkovsky today argues that to understand Russia, we need to look east, to the steppe and the empires it shaped.Michael’s new book, The Steppe and Its Empires: The Russian Empire and Its Eurasian Counterparts (Yale UP, 2026), sets Russia beside the Ottoman, Persian, and Mug...
The Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy with Nataliya Kibita (Oxford UP, 2024)
October 06, 2026
Ukraine and Russia are today at opposite points of the political spectrum: Despite 300 years of contact with Russian authoritarian politics, Ukraine's post-independence period has been characterised by pluralism. To explain why and how Ukraine's and Russia's paths diverged, this monograph investigates the century-long and Soviet origins of regionalism in Ukraine, which the author argues are at the foundation of the modern Ukrainian institutional system. Drawing on unused archival material, th...
The Steppe and Its Empires: The Russian Empire and Its Eurasian Counterparts with Michael Khodarkovsky (Yale UP, 2026)
October 05, 2026
What is Russia? For two centuries, observers inside and outside the country have tried to answer that question, and most of them have looked west. The familiar story holds that Peter the Great pulled a backward Muscovy toward Europe and that Catherine the Great finished the job by declaring Russia a European state.In The Steppe and Its Empires: The Russian Empire and Its Eurasian Counterparts (Yale UP, 2026), Professor Michael Khodarkovsky looks south and east instead. He argues that Russia i...
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