Send us a text Today, we begin a three-part series on the Great Purge of 1937-1939, where over one million people lost their lives. The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Send us a text Today's episode with Professor Laruelle will cover a number of topics including an overview of Russian history and the ebb and flow of Russian reforms and autocracy and how it relates to the rest of the world. You can find out more about her books at http://marlene-laruelle.com/ The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Send us a text Today, we cover the story of the Battle of Borodino, the battle that would turn the tide against the French and Napoleon. It was one of the most important conflicts in world history. The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Send us a text Today, we cover the miserable conditions that Russian serfs lived in. In particular, we will share quotes from the memoirs of one of the serfs, Savva Dmitrievich Purlevsky, who live in Russia between 1800 and 1868. The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Send us a text Today, we wrap up the series of this remarkable woman. From meeting Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, and Denis Diderot, Dashkova would become the first woman to lead a major science academy. The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Send us a text Today, we continue the story of this remarkable person. Dashkova, as she writes in her memoirs, believed herself to be in the middle of the coup to remove Peter III and replace him with the future Catherine the Great. The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Send us a text Today, we begin the series into one of the most fascinating women in world and Russian history, Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova Dashkova. She would become friends with Catherine The Great, Voltaire, and even Benjamin Franklin. The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Send us a text Who was Vladimir Ulyanov Lenin? How did he become the man who would help overthrow the Romanovs and begin the Bolshevik control of Russia and its neighboring countries? The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Send us a text Today, we wrap up the Great Game of tensions between the British and Russian Empires in Central Asia. The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Send us a text Today, we talk about the quagmire that the British stepped into when they invaded Afghanistan to begin the First Anglo-Afghan War and the role it played in the Great Game. The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Send us a text Today, we begin a new series on the Great Game (also known as Bolshaya Igra), a jockeying of position between the two great empires of the 19th century, Russia and Great Britain The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Send us a text Today's special episode is an interview with Professor Simon Miles, Author of Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War. To purchase his book, and learn more about this fascinating topic, go to https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776069/engaging-the-evil-empire/#bookTabs=1 The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Send us a text Today, we discuss the history of one of Russia's most famous architectural achievements, The Kremlin. The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Send us a text Today, we finish our three-part series on the traumatic events of the end of the Tsarist regime with the people's perspective of the Russian Revolution. The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Send us a text Alexei Navalny's recent passing has placed focus on the corruption of the Russian government and its persecution of its enemies. Today, we recount the all too brief life and death of Alexei Navalny. Support the Show.

Send us a text Today, we talk with Professor Maya Vinokour, author of the new book, Work Flows: Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture. You can find the book here - https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773679/work-flows/#bookTabs=1 The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Send us a text Today, we continue our three-part series on the people's perspective of three monumental events in Russian history, this time about the Crimean War. The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Send us a text Today, we look at the Russian Civil War from a people's perspective. We avoid talking about the battles and the political events, concentrating more on how the people survived, and sometimes didn't. The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

Send us a text Today, we share an Interview with Rolf Hellebust, author of How Russian Literature Became Great, available from Cornell University Press. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773419/how-russian-literature-became-great/#bookTabs=1 Support the show

Send us a text Today, we will cover the 9 year war between the Soviet Union and Afghani rebels. The losses suffered by the Soviets would be a spark that would cause the collapse of the USSR in 1991. The Loved One 'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show