New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies
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Location: USA
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Alisa - Interviewer for this New Books Network channel episode (Russian and Eurasian Studies). Specific credentials are not included in the provided episode text; she interviews Dr. Gennady Estraikh about ...
Miranda Melcher - Dr. Miranda Melcher has a research and publication focus on post-conflict military integration and treaty negotiation/implementation in civil war contexts, using qualitative analysis (notably Angol...
Schneur Zalman Newfield - Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Hunter College (CUNY). Author of Brooklyn Odyssey: My Journey out of Hasidism and Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultr...
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Gennady Estraikh - Birobidzhan (jewish Autonomous Region) In Soviet Propaganda And Its Historical/demographic-cultural Role; Use Of Russian And Yiddish Sources; Soviet Jewish Rights And Entitlements.
Stephen F. Jones - Georgia’s Democratic Republic As The First Social Democratic State; Constitutional Debates; Territorial Threats And Geopolitical Rivalries; Collapse Under Red Army/bolshevik Takeover; Recovery Of A Democratic Experiment.
Harriet Murav - How Soviet-era Literary Works Engaged Holocaust Remembrance Beyond Official Narratives; Literary History Across Ukraine/lithuania/russia/belarus.
Sasha Senderovich - Jewish Short Fiction From The Soviet Union As A Lens On Holocaust Experience And Memory In USSR Contexts; Authors Writing In Yiddish And Russian.
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David Leupold, "The Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities: Urban Futures and Their Afterlives" (Routledge, 2026)
June 15, 2026
What does it mean, three decades after the demise of the USSR, to inhabit cities built for a future that has never arrived? In pursuit of the question—what is left of the socialist city?—this book aims not only to trace the material and mnemonic remains of the socialist city, but to show how the Soviet discourse of the city at times engendered radical ideas that challenged the narrow confines of state socialism itself. These ideas are, for instance, the efforts of Esperanto-speaki...
Ida Kinalska-Pietruska and Isabella Skrypczak, "A Polish Girl in Siberia: Surviving and Transcending Exile" (Disruption Books, 2026)
June 14, 2026
A memoir of a child’s forced relocation to Siberia under Stalin’s Gulag system reveals the potential for true human kindness in the face of extraordinary hardship. In April of 1940, six-year-old Ida woke to the sound of pounding on her door. Soviet soldiers forcibly packed her and her mother onto a train with thousands of their neighbors and deported them to remote Siberia, leaving them stranded to survive the brutal winter in subhuman conditions. Looking back, Ida shares their strugg...
Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski
May 29, 2026
Sh. An-ski (Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport, 1863-1920) was a writer in Russian and Yiddish, a revolutionary, a wartime relief worker, and an ethnographer who studied the Jews of the Russian Empire. During his 1911-1914 expeditions to shtetls in Ukraine—he would report—he and his co-workers took 1000 photographs, recorded 1000 Yiddish songs and 1500 stories, and purchased 400 objects for a Jewish museum. The expedition also inspired An-ski to write his signature play, The Dybbuk. Although East Europe...
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