The Eurasian Knot

The Eurasian Knot
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The Eurasian Knot

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 Eurasian Knot dispels the stereotypes and myths about the region with lively and informative interviews on Eurasia’s complex past, present, and future. New episodes drop weekly with an eclectic mix of topics from punk rock to Putin, and everything in-between. Subscribe on your favorite podcasts app, grab your headphones, hit play, and tune in. Eurasia will never appear the same.

  1. Georgia in Crisis

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    Georgia in Crisis

    Georgia recently held parliamentary elections. The ruling party Georgian Dream eked out a majority, adding to its over decade long rule. The elections, however, were not without controversy. The opposition has claimed vote rigging, its supporters hit the streets, and some Western governments have cried foul. Georgia now is in crisis.  What is the context for this political crisis? How does it relate to Georgia’s post-Soviet transformation, economic liberalism, and the current geopolitical conjecture? Is Georgia gravitating toward the EU or Russia? Or is trying to avoid Ukraine’s fate by maintaining a balance between both? To get some insight, the Eurasian Knot turned to Bryan Gigantino, the co-host of the podcast Reimagining Soviet Georgia. He recently published an article, “In Georgia, a National Election Is a Geopolitical Struggle” in Jacobin that put these complex issues that are shaping Georgia’s social, political, and economic fate. Guest: Bryan Gigantino is a historian and researcher focused on Georgia, the South Caucasus, and Eurasia in both the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. He is the co-creator of the podcast Reimagining Soviet Georgia and his writing has appeared in Jacobin, LeftEast, and Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. He is a lecturer at Georgian-American University in Tbilisi, Georgia and is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. He recently published “In Georgia, a National Election Is a Geopolitical Struggle” in Jacobin.

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  2. The World of Soviet Dissidents

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    The World of Soviet Dissidents

    Soviet dissidents have long been objects of fascination. Who were they? What made them dissent? What did they believe? And what did they endure at the hands of a repressive Soviet state? We now have a clearer picture thanks to Benjamin Nathans’ new book, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement. Soviet dissidents, or as they preferred to be called “rights defenders,” navigated a complicated choreography between the movement, the police, and its supporters abroad. Their approach was a strategy of “civil obedience,” that is pressuring the Soviet government to follow its own laws. Though amounting to around a thousand active participants, their influence grew, especially as they were lionized in the Western media. In this conversation with the Eurasian Knot, Nathans recounts this history, highlighting the often-overlooked role of women, dissidents’ complex relationship with Soviet society, and what their experience can teach us today. Guest: Benjamin Nathans is the Alan Charles Kors Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of the multiple award-winning book, Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia. His latest book is To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement published by Princeton University Press. Send us your sounds! https://euraknot.org/contact/  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/euraknot  Knotty News: https://eurasianknot.substack.com/ Website: https://euraknot.org/

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  3. A Deep Dive into Kabardino-Balkaria

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    A Deep Dive into Kabardino-Balkaria

    Kabardino-Balkaria is a small republic within Russia’s North Caucasus region. It’s an ethnically diverse area, home to Kabardians (a Circassian Muslim people), Balkars (a Turkic Muslim group), Russians, among others. The republic also has an incredibly fraught history—Tsarist conquest, the decimation of the local population in the 19th century, the Soviet-era ethnic deportations, and the ethnic and religious politics of today. Yet, unlike other parts of the North Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkaria has maintained relatively stability. Why? What about its long history that has prevented interethnic and religious strife? How did Russian colonization shape it? To get a better sense of this complex, and rather little-known history, the Eurasian Knot spoke to Ian Lanzillotti to paint us a picture of Kabardino-Balkaria over the long durée, and what it means to the region. Guest: Ian Lanzillotti is Assistant Professor of History at Washington & Jefferson College, where he teaches courses on the history of modern Europe, Eurasia, and the Middle East. He’s the author of Land, Community, and the State in the Caucasus published by Bloomsbury.

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  4. Soviet DIY Folk Museums

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    Soviet DIY Folk Museums

    In the 1960s, Soviet intellectuals began creating do-it-yourself museums to preserve national folk cultures. They scoured village attics, abandoned churches, and rural homes to gather artifacts. In a recent article in the Russian Review, Erin Hutchinson tells the story of three of them–the Russian writer Vladimir Soloukhin’s efforts to collect religious icons, the Ukrainian artist Ivan Honchar’s mission to hunt down folk art, and the Gagauz poet Dmitri Kara Coban’s efforts to preserve Gagauz artifacts in Moldova. All three were dissatisfied with how the Soviet state represented their national cultures in official museums, viewing them as ideologically distorted or incomplete. Why did and how did they do this? What was the point and larger meaning of their DIY museums? And what was their fate? To get answers, the Eurasian Knot spoke to Erin Hutchinson to discuss her prize-winning article, “Gathering the Nation in the Village: Intellectuals and the Cultural Politics of Nationality in the Late Soviet Period” in the January 2023 issue of the Russian Review. Guest: Erin Hutchinson is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History, University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on the cultural and political history of the Soviet Union, with a particular focus on the topics of nationality and empire. Her book project, Writing the Nation after Stalin explores the development of nationalism in Soviet culture after the death of Stalin. She recently won the Eve Levin Prize for the best article for “Gathering the Nation in the Village: Intellectuals and the Cultural Politics of Nationality in the Late Soviet Period” in the January 2023 issue of the Russian Review. Send us your sounds! euraknot.org/contact/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/euraknot Knotty News: eurasianknot.substack.com/ Website: euraknot.org/

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  5. Intimate Lives of International Communism

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    Intimate Lives of International Communism

    In the 1920s and 1930s, hundreds of mid-level office workers served in the Communist International, or Comintern. And while we know a lot about famous communists, historians have mostly overlooked the personal experiences of these minor radicals. A good place to begin uncovering those lives is to look into Hotel Lux, the dormitory for foreign communists in Moscow. Because it is in the Lux, Maurine Casey says, where you can better understand the motivations, social networks and intimate relationships of Comintern staff. What did they think of living in Soviet Russia? How did their experiences change between the 1920s and 1930s? And how did their personal dramas dovetail with their political beliefs? And why are their stories so important anyway? To learn more, the Eurasian Knot spoke to Maurice Casey about this “lost world” of international communism in his book, Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals published by Footnote Press. Guest: Maurice J. Casey is a Research Fellow in History at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals published by Footnote Press. It is available now in bookstores and online as an ebook and audiobook.

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  6. Gulag Memory in Russia’s Far North

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    Gulag Memory in Russia’s Far North

    From 1929 to 1958, hundreds of thousands of prisoners from across the Soviet Union were sent to the Komi Republic in Russia’s Far North. After their release, many left the region. But many also stayed in Komi and rebuilt their life under the shadow of the prison camp. And by the late 1980s, many of these former prisoners began writing memoirs, collecting and preserving documents, and building organizations to work through, publicize and house these materials. The result was the Komi branch of Memorial. Crucial to these efforts was the “camp brotherhood” that bound former prisoners. The shared experience of the camp became the basis for forming informal networks, mutual support, and collective solidarity. These showed that even in horrible, life threatening conditions, people still find companionship and support. And it is this, Tyler Kirk says, served as the foundation for gulag memory projects in Komi. The Eurasian Knot spoke to Tyler Kirk about his book After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia’s Far North to get the full story. Guest: Tyler Kirk is Associate Professor and the Arthur T. Fathauer Chair in History at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He’s the author of After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia’s Far North published by Indiana University Press. Send us your sounds! https://euraknot.org/contact/  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/euraknot  Knotty News: https://eurasianknot.substack.com/ Website: https://euraknot.org/

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  7. The Russia That Was Lost

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    The Russia That Was Lost

    A curious thing occurred after Stalin died in 1953–the emergence of Imperial Russia in Soviet culture. Sure, there was some of this before–the rehabilitation of Imperial figures, events and symbols during the patriotic fervor of WWII. But now, the imperial past returned as a lament, a Russia that was lost, among Soviet Union’s liberal intellectuals and conservatives to discredit the socialist project. Interestingly, this Imperial revival survived the collapse of the Soviet system. And the idea of the “Lost Russia” still resonates among Putin loyalists and liberal oppositionists, forming an odd consensus that has contributed to the reemergence of authoritarianism. Just what is this “Russia that we lost”? How does it attract otherwise political adversaries? And what does this mean for the politics of memory today? To answer these questions, the Eurasian Knot spoke to Pavel Khazanov about his new book, The Russia That We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Guest: Pavel Khazanov is Associate Professor of Russian at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and the author of The Russia That We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse published by the University of Wisconsin Press. For the next month, you can buy The Russia That We Have Lost for $30 with the promo code: AA251. Send us your sounds! https://euraknot.org/contact/  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/euraknot  Knotty News: https://eurasianknot.substack.com/ Website: https://euraknot.org/

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  8. Free Marc Fogel!

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    Free Marc Fogel!

    In August 2021, Marc Fogel landed in Sheremetyevo to begin his tenth-year teaching at the Anglo-American School of Moscow. He didn’t make it past customs. Security searched his bags to find 17 g of medical marijuana. Fogel suffers from chronic back pain and pot is the only thing that gives him relief. He was arrested, given a hasty trial, and sentenced to fourteen years in a Russian prison, an outrageous penalty. Marc still sits in a Russian prison today as a hostage, despite recent prison exchanges between the US and Russia. Why is Marc Fogel still in a Russian prison? Why hasn’t the US declared him “unlawfully detained” despite the similarity of his case to Brittney Griner’s? Or has Marc, a guy without celebrity or connections, just been forgotten? Ambassador Eric Rubin was recently in Pittsburgh to bring attention to Marc Fogel’s plight. The Eurasian Knot sat down with the Ambassador to talk about life as a diplomat and the Fogel case. Guest: Ambassador Eric Rubin has had numerous diplomatic appointments over his 30-year career in the US State Department. Most recently, he served as ambassador to Bulgaria from 2016 to 2019. Before that he was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow from 2008-2011. He has recently devoted his time to free Marc Fogel, an American teacher who has been imprisoned for marijuana possession in Russia since 2021. Send us your sounds! euraknot.org/contact/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/euraknot Knotty News: eurasianknot.substack.com/ Website: euraknot.org/

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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 Eurasian Knot dispels the stereotypes and myths about the region with lively and informative interviews on Eurasia’s complex past, present, and future. New episodes drop weekly with an eclectic mix of topics from punk rock to Putin, and everything in-between. Subscribe on your favorite podcasts app, grab your headphones, hit play, and tune in. Eurasia will never appear the same.

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