We are a multigenerational, multilingual, Tbilisi based collective. Our goal is to reexamine and rearticulate the history of Soviet Georgia by producing and supporting critical research, including oral and written histories, and a podcast for both Georgian and English speaking audiences.
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Qui est vraiment Vladimir Poutine ? Dans cette série en 5 épisodes, Philippe Collin vous propose de décrypter l'esprit du président russe depuis son enfance, les logiques historiques qui conditionnent son rapport au pouvoir et sa vision de la Russie. Rendez-vous sur l'application Radio France pour découvrir des milliers d'autres podcasts.
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Cinephile, history fan, and one-time Muscovite Ally Pitts explores contemporary and Soviet-era Russian language cinema one film at a time! The show combines interviews and movie discussion, and features expert guests including authors, journalists, stand-up comedians, and indie podcasters. From time to time, it also tackles Hollywood’s attempts to bring aspects of Russian culture, literature, and history to the Silver Screen.
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Официальный Русский Подкаст о Футбольном Лондонском Клубе Арсенал. При поддержке StevesBaldcollective.
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Lance Bass, NSYNC Superstar and Russian trained astronaut, takes you on a wild ride into space. He tells the story of the last Soviet cosmonaut who is trapped on the world’s only space station, as the country he knows and loves collapses beneath him. On this journey through Earth’s atmosphere in the form of a podcast, Lance introduces you to the woman who won a reality show cosmonaut contest, a ham radio operator in Australia who became a lifeline for the Soviet Space Station, a hustler from ...
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A podcast on Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and other former Soviet Union members exploring notable historical and political events that have shaped these countries since 1991. Hosted by Andre Martirosyan. Subscribe via email and access our social media: https://linktr.ee/postsoviet_chronicles
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We are gonna be talking for a while about the Cold War and the whole process of the Arms race. Cover art photo provided by Andrew Ridley on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@aridley88
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US History Cover art photo provided by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@impatrickt
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"FE{Lvj'btoi' Cover art photo provided by Parker Johnson on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@pkripperprivate
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This is the story of the space programme of the Soviet Union, told from the perspective of the many firsts that it accomplished. My name is Alex Deva, and I invite you on a journey of nine episodes (plus an introduction) to hear about one of the most fantastic sagas in modern history!
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Welcome to the Post-Soviet Press Pod’s "10 Minutes on…" series, which condenses the key information you need to know about each of the 15 countries of the former USSR into a bitesize 10 minutes(ish).
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A conference to share as much practical and methodological information as possible to give all new researchers in the history of former Soviet States a head start so they could avoid getting bogged down in administrative or organisational difficulties. The conference had a strong interdisciplinary focus, incorporating talks on History, Film, Theatre, Visual Art, Literature, Language, Music, Cultural Studies and Memory.
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April 1919. Tanks on the streets of Limerick. Workers on strike. A soviet declared. The workers control prices and produce food. They even have their own police force and money. Listen to this amazing true story of popular revolt, betrayal, and a city that defied an empire. Hosted by Cian Prendiville & Aprille Scully. Cian and Aprille are socialist activists in Limerick, and members of RISE. A former city councillor, Cian lead the anti-water charges movement in Limerick. Aprille is a sociali ...
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Episode 46: Anti-Soviet Memory Politics in Georgia with Beka Natsvlishvili
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Since the collapse of the USSR and Georgia's independence in 1991, anti-soviet memory politics have played an intractable role in Georgian politics. On the one hand, they are a rhetorical allegory without limits - nearly anything and everything negative can be associated with the soviet past. Yet on the other hand, they also played a crucial role i…
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Toutes les séries documentaires de Philippe Collin sont désormais rassemblées dans le podcast Face à l’HistoireRadio France
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Episode 45: Georgia's Neoliberal Lock-in with Tato Khundadze
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Georgia’s trade dynamics with the EU have not improved, even though it signed a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) in 2014. The Georgian export basket deteriorated qualitatively since that time. Specifically, Georgia’s export basket sophistication has decreased, and the share of low-tech and resource-based products hasincreased. Mo…
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Episode 44: War, Class and Economy in Ukraine with Peter Korotaev
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On today's episode we discuss how Ukraine's market oriented war economy is affecting the population, war time class divisions, post-Soviet Ukraine's economic development and how History and memory politics fit into the picture. Our guest to discuss all this and more is Peter Korotaev. Peter Korotaev is a researcher who has worked on class dynamics …
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Episode 43: Life on the Left with Helena Sheehan
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Helena Sheehan has spent decades involved in working class and Left struggles across the globe. She is an accomplished writer and academic who never lost or loses sight of her Marxist convictions. Her life brought her from America, as a devout Catholic entering the convent, to embracing revolutionary Marxism and participating in the Irish Republica…
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100 years of Aelita: Queen of Mars (Yakov Protazanov; 1924)
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Classic episode re-release, featuring music by composer Juliet Merchant. In this episode, originally released in August 2018, Sarah Roberts, artist and podcaster, joins Ally Pitts to discuss this early Soviet silent sci-fi adventure. SPOILERS from about 16 minutes in until the end. CONTENT WARNING: discussion of the film's depiction of abusive rela…
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Episode 42: Soviet Anti-Colonialism & the East with Masha Kirasirova
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On today's episode, we discuss The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire with the book's author, historian Masha Kirasirova Book description: "In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the inter…
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Host Ally Pitts shares news about two exhibitions running in 2024 that feature the work of artist Alexandra Exter. He also discusses a previous film covered on the podcast, Aelita, which she worked on as a costume designer and set decorator. The Royal Academy of Art's exhibition is In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine from 1900 to the 1930…
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Host Ally Pitts shares news about the BFI's Béla Tarr retrospective season Will Heaven Fall Upon Us? Ally's local, the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford is one of the participating UK cinemas. Links mentioned/alluded to in the episode: Béla Tarr retrospective Season at the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford For a 30-day free trial of the streaming s…
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Nostalgia AKA Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky; 1983)
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International(?) man of mystery Lyn Seren joins Ally Pitts to discuss Andrei Tarkovsky's penultimate film. We also talk about rückenfigurs and Milton Keynes artists Boyd & Evans a bit! Links mentioned/alluded to in the episode: International Association for Suicide Prevention’s directory: https://www.iasp.info/suicidalthoughts/ UK: https://www.sama…
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Episode 41: Europe, Memory and the Resurgent Right with David Broder
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This is a special TWO PART episode with Historian and Jacobin Europe editor David Broder. In Part I (recorded July 10th 2024), we discuss recent European Parliamentary and French election results, how both the right and left fared in the outcome, and the implications of these results for Europe, EU expansion and more. In Part II (starts at 50:45), …
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A young radio producer in Afghanistan is given an impossible task: to create a brand new, revolutionary talent show in just two months. ... To purchase original Afghan Star artwork visit www.awastudios.com/afghanstar — proceeds go to support The Noor Initiative, who are on a mission to ensure every Afghan girl has access to education and opportunit…
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Episode 40: Baku Oil, Bolsheviks and Sovietization in the South Caucasus with Sara Brinegar
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On this episode we discuss how Baku oil shaped Bolshevism, Sovietization, and the structuring of the Soviet state between 1920-1929 in the South Caucasus. Our guest is Sara Brinegar, historian and author of the book Power and the Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus: Periphery Unbound 1920-1929. Book description and author bio below: The bo…
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NEWS: Man with a Movie Camera, 60 years of Mikhail Kalatozov’s I am Cuba, and Oxford Meet-ups
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Episode 39: Georgia's Chronic Crisis with Anatol Lieven and Almut Rochowanski
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This episode was recorded on May 8th/9th 2024 - the situation is still unfolding. A political crisis is currently underway in Georgia. Sparked by the ruling Georgian Dream party's proposed law on the "transparency of foreign influence", the stand off between the government, NGOs, protestors - both those of the formal opposition and not - and even s…
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Episode 38: Post-Socialist Mortality Crisis with Gabor Scheiring
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The collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union unleashed an unprecedented mortality crisis. In the years following, the region endured upwards of 7.5 million excess (and thus preventable) deaths. This post-socialist mortality crisis was not only the result of the economic devastation and social fracturing caused by socialism's end…
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Episode 37: Georgian Film, Emigration and Post Soviet Life with Levan Koguashvili
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One of Georgia's most exciting contemporary filmmakers is Levan Koguashvili. His films are as comedic as they are tragic, focusing on the intricacies (both beautiful and heartbreaking) of the day to day struggles Georgians live through today. In this discussion, we explore Levan's approach to filmmaking, stories behind the scripts, and the way his …
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This is the second part on Yevgeniy Prigozhin covering his private military company, the Wagner Group. I discuss the origins of the group, their operations across the Middle East, Africa, and Ukraine, as well as their notorious brutality. I also talk about Prigozhin's political ambitions and his escalating conflict with the Russian Ministry of Defe…
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Saint Audio Podcast Festival is happening over the late May Bank Holiday Weekend (that's 23-26 May), in Oxford, UK! See you there, maybe? Links mentioned in the episode: Saintaudiopodcastfestival.com Screening of Spice World (1997) at the Ultimate Picture Palace, presented by The Flop House podcast. Contact us/socials: (We've changed the name of th…
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Episode 36: Tea Production in Soviet Georgia with Camille Neufville
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On today's episode we discuss the emergence of the Georgian tea industry and how its development interacted with processes of economic, political and national consolidation in the first decades of the Georgian SSR. Our guest is Camille Neufville. Camille is a PhD student at Strasbourg university, France. She is interested in the entangled histories…
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FEED TAKEOVER: Ally guests on Projection Booth episode on Amphibian Man (Vladimir Chebotaryov, Gennadi Kazansky; 1961)
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Ally Pitts introduces an episode of The Projection Booth he guested on in 2022. Links mentioned in the episode: Listen to the rest of Ally's guest appearances on The Projection Booth. Contact us: (We've changed the name of the show, but the social handles are staying the same for now). Email: russophilesunite@gmail.com Letterboxd: https://letterbox…
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Episode 35: Dollarization in Georgia with Ia Eradze
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On today's episode we sit down with political economist Ia Eradze to discuss how extreme rates of dollarization in Georgia emerged after the Soviet Union's demise, why dollarization persists, as well as how the dominance of neoliberal economic policies and exclusion of socio-economic issues from the public and political discourse in post-Soviet Geo…
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Alissa Timoshkina in conversation with Catriona Kelly on Russian Food Since 1800
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Professor Catriona Kelly will be discussing her new book Russian Food Since 1800: Empire at Table with previous guest on this show, Alissa Timoshkina at Pushkin House in London on Friday 15th March 2024. It's an in-person & online hybrid event, which will from 6.30 to 8.00 pm GMT. Find out more about the event and buy tickets at pushkinhouse.org Ou…
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Episode 34: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution with Vincent Bevins
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On today's episode we sit down with journalist and author Vincent Bevins to discuss his recent book If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. This wide reaching conversation reviews the main themes and topics of his book, and the broader political lessons and reflections that the global social movements between 2010-2020, with…
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Episode 33: Vacations, Sanatoria and the Soviet Dream with Diane P. Koenker
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On today's episode we sit down with historian Diane P. Koenker to discuss the history, development and role of vacations, sanatoria and leisure in the Soviet Union. Koenker is the author of the 2013 study on the topic, Club Red: Vacation, Travel and the Soviet Dream
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In the spirit of High Fidelity, Ally Pitts brings you an audio listicle of some awesome movies he saw for the first time in 2023. They are, in the order they appear on the episode: - Conscience (Volodymr Denisenko; 1968) - Fright Night (Tom Holland; 1985) - Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris Jr; 1989) - The Queen of Spades (Thorold Dickinson;1949)…
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Links mentioned in the episode: Cinemas screening Tchaikovsky's Wife (UK and Republic of Ireland): sovereignfilms.co.uk/tchaikovskyswife The Guardian's Pjotr Sauer interviews Kirill Serebrennikov BBFC content advice for Tchaikovsky's Wife To receive a 50% discount on an annual subscription to Klassiki, please use the code RUPOD50 at checkout. Visit…
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Episode 32: The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System with Yiannis Kokosalakis
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On today's episode we sit down with historian Yiannis Kokosalakis to discuss his new book Building Socialism: The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System 1921-1941 Book description: "By placing the party grassroots at the centre of its focus, Building Socialism presents an original account of the formative first two decades of the Sovie…
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Probably not the best place to start if you're arriving at this feed for the first time.Ally Pitts
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Episode 31: Socialist & Capitalist Healthcare with Ana Vračar and Matthew Read
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On today's episode we put the specific yet shared experiences of healthcare systems in Socialist Yugoslavia, the German Democratic Republic and the Georgian SSR into conversation. Through the discussion we bring to light both the similarities and differences in three distinct forms of socialism, as well as how the transition to capitalism dramatica…
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Ally Pitts reviews Kira Kovalenko's 2021 Ossetian language coming of age drama Unclenching the Fists and then recommends a handful of other films currently streaming on MUBI. Links mentioned in the episode: To get a 30-day free trial of MUBI, please visit:https://mubi.com/russiansovietpod Carmen Gray's article, Scarred States: Unclenching the Fists…
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This is the first part of the story of the man behind the Wagner private military group, also known as Putin's chef, Yevgeniy Prigozhin. It covers his youth in prison, successful restaurant businesses, and subsequent huge government contracts in catering, which made him a billionaire. We will also discuss his infamous troll farm and media empire, w…
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FEED TAKEOVER: Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch; 1939) with Ally Pitts - All the Best Lines episode
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Ally Pitts introduces an episode of All the Best Lines, hosted by Smokey and Adam Roche, that he guested on in 2021. Links mentioned in the episode: Listen to more All the Best Lines episodes. Listen to our episode on War & Peace with Adam Roche. Listen to The Projection Booth on Ninotchka. Contact Us: (We've changed the name of the show, but the s…
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Episode 30: Anti-Colonial Bolshevik Historiography with Alexey Golubev
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In the 1920s and 1930s, Bolshevik historians actively took part in building Soviet socialism. As militant scholars, one of their main tasks was (broadly speaking) to reconceptualize and rearticulate the history of the political entity they had just overthrown - the Russian Empire. The multinational Bolsheviks were not only committed to building a s…
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Episode 29: Western Marxism & Anti-Communism with Gabriel Rockhill
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The history of Marxism in the 20th century, both as a means to interpret the world and as the basis of a politics to transform it, is marked by a profound intellectual and political diversity. Some of this can be attributed to individuals and their specific readings of Marx's thought. Yet other forms of Marxism - such as that which emerged in the g…
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Nursultan Nazarbayev, the first president of independent Kazakhstan, was the most powerful person in the country. For decades, his family controlled the most lucrative sectors of the country's economy. But in 2019, he suddenly stepped down. He picked his successor and hoped that he would be able to maintain his influence through various lifelong ti…
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Who is Ukrainian president Zelensky and how did he turn from comedian to war-time leader fighting off Putin's Russia, one of the most powerful militaries in the world? A famous Russian-speaking actor and comedian, Volodymyr Zelensky, won the Ukrainian presidential race in 2019. In February 2022, his country was invaded by Russia. While Russian spec…
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Introduction to Post-Soviet Chronicles, a podcast on Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and other former Soviet Union members exploring notable historical and political events that have shaped these countries since 1991. Subscribe via e-mail and access our social media: https://linktr.ee/postsoviet_chronicles…
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Dr Samuel Goff, editorial director at the film streaming service Klassiki, joins Ally Pitts to talk about Ally's five film picks from the Klassiki film Library. To receive a 50% discount on an annual subscription to Klassiki, please use the code RUPOD50 at checkout. Visit Klassiki.Online and sign up for a free trial! Follow Klassiki on: Letterboxd:…
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Episode 28: Decolonization and Ukraine with Geo Maher and Volodymyr Ishchenko
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On this episode we discuss the ins and outs of decolonization - as a set of historical revolutionary politics, intellectual tradition, contemporary framework of analysis as well the limitations and misuses of "decolonization" in the context of Ukraine and Russia today. To do this we have invited two distinct yet complimentary thinkers to put their …
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Episode 27: Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist, Fascism, Genocide, and Cult with Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe
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In terms of post-Soviet memory politics, arguably no figure is more controversial than interwar Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera. Since the Maidan uprising in 2014, his memory along with that of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists have been mobilized by both far right nationalists and the Ukrainian state - to…
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Episode 26: Improbable Nationalists? Social Democracy and National Independence in Georgia 1918-21 with Francis King
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The Democratic Republic of Georgia - also known as the First Republic - existed between 1918-1921. Under the control of veterans of the decades long social democratic movement both in the South Caucasus and the Russian Empire at large, these Georgian social democrats led by Noe Jordania were allied with the Menshevik wing of the Russian Social Demo…
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The collapse of the Soviet Union heralds a new era in international space travel and leads to the arrival of Lance Bass in Star City. But what happens when Lance’s mission goes wrong? Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Twitter and Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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Sergei finally returns to a new country. But what will happen to his beloved space program now cosmonauts are selling their space medals in the metro? Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Twitter and Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
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A starry eyed young wheeler-dealer from Toronto sets out on a mission. To get a coca cola can onto Sergei’s space station. But soon the idealism of post Communist Russia turns dark as Sergei’s new country is plunged into chaos. Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Twitter and Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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Episode 25: Workers, Labor and Cars in the Soviet Union with Lewis Siegelbaum
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For decades, historian Lewis Siegelbaum has taught and written on the Soviet Union. While many historians of labor and the working class in the USSR narrowly focused on moments of resistance, Siegelbaum investigated other aspects of working class existence such as the meaning of Soviet working class identity, the labor process, factory life and con…
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Sergei makes the decision to stay in the space station. But a few weeks later something happens that changes everything. Mikhail Gorbachev disappears. What happens over the next 3 days will decide the future of the Soviet Union once and for all. Three days that changed the world. Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Twitter and Instagram. S…
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In this mini-episode, we take a pit stop with our host Lance Bass in Star City. He gives us the no holds barred account of training with the Russians: from flying a fighter jet drunk on vodka to elective heart surgery. Plus, we hear about why he never did make it to space…not yet anyhow. Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Twitter and Inst…
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A woman in suburban Australia makes contact with the Soviet Space Station. Little does she know she’s about to become a lifeline to Sergei as his country collapses. Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Twitter and Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
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