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In 2020, Russian-American filmmaker Michael Lockshin and his co-writer, Roman Kantor, were offered an impossible task: to adapt Mikhail Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita for the big screen. It was a daunting task to rewrite such a beloved novel, with its complicated and overlapping narratives. Lockshin and Kantor hoped to succeed where others failed.…
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Guest: Michael Lockshin talks about adapting Bulgakov's Master and Margarita for the big screen and the controversy surrounding the film. The post Adapting Master and Margarita appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.Oleh The Eurasian Knot
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Guest: Bryan Gigantino, co-host of the podcast Reimagining Soviet Georgia, on the context and causes for the current political crisis in Georgia. The post Georgia in Crisis appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.Oleh The Eurasian Knot
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The World of Soviet Dissidents
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Guest: Benjamin Nathans on To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement published by Princeton University Press. The post The World of Soviet Dissidents appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.Oleh The Eurasian Knot
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The World of Soviet Dissidents
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Guest: Benjamin Nathans on To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement published by Princeton University Press. The post The World of Soviet Dissidents appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.Oleh The Eurasian Knot
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A Deep Dive into Kabardino-Balkaria
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Guest: Ian Lanzillotti guides through the history of Kabardino-Balkaria in his book Land, Community, and the State in the Caucasus published by Bloomsbury. The post A Deep Dive into Kabardino-Balkaria appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.Oleh The Eurasian Knot
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Guest: Erin Hutchinson on her award-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. The post Soviet DIY Folk Museums appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio…
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Intimate Lives of International Communism
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Guest: Maurice Casey on the “lost world” of international communism in his book, Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals published by Footnote Press. The post Intimate Lives of International Communism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.Oleh The Eurasian Knot
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Intimate Lives of International Communism
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Guest: Maurice Casey on the “lost world” of international communism in his book, Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals published by Footnote Press. The post Intimate Lives of International Communism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Gulag Memory in Russia’s Far North
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Guest: Tyler Kirk on After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia's Far North published by Indiana University Press. The post Gulag Memory in Russia’s Far North appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.Oleh The Eurasian Knot
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Gulag Memory in Russia’s Far North
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Guest: Tyler Kirk on After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia's Far North published by Indiana University Press. The post Gulag Memory in Russia’s Far North appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.Oleh The Eurasian Knot
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Guest: Pavel Khazanov on The Russia That We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse published by the University of Wisconsin Press. The post The Russia That Was Lost appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.Oleh The Eurasian Knot
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Guest: Pavel Khazanov on The Russia That We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse published by the University of Wisconsin Press. The post The Russia That Was Lost appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.Oleh The Eurasian Knot
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Guest: Ambassador Eric Rubin on the efforts to free Marc Fogel, an American serving 14 years in the Russian prison for possessing 17 g of medical marijuana. The post Free Marc Fogel! appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.Oleh The Eurasian Knot
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