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Making an audio documentary about Lovett Fort-Whiteman, the only known Black American victim of Stalin's Terror. "Nothing of them is left over except the same ghostly objecthood—a bare gelatinous blob of undifferentiated human labor."--Marx, Capital.

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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 13h
Over the last century, tens of millions of people quit Eastern Europe. The push-pull factors were many: war, poverty, instability, persecution at home and opportunity, refuge, and liberty abroad. Listen to episode 1 of Thresholds for more on the topic: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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Harry C. Merritt @harrymerritt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In case you missed it, my interview last week with the Eurasian Knot about my book, Latvian Soldiers of World War II 👇 bsky.app/profile/eura...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Taking a look back at an earlier episode this summer with Marc Bennets, we learned about Reporting Russia's Descent, and how things changed when Russia invaded Ukraine. Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Take a listen to our episode from last week with Andrew Jenks discussing the Russians in Mexico and in this clip, whitening the west. Listen to the full episode here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Brothers fighting brothers on the Eastern Front. Soldiers swapping SS uniforms for Red Army uniforms on the spot. How did Latvia end up on both sides of WWII at the same time? Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum has Russian roots. Her grandparents were Eastern European Jewish immigrants who fled to Mexico City in the 1920s, and her great uncle was shot as a Trotskyite. Listen to the rest of last week's episode here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Evil Nazis" or "heroic freedom fighters"? Neither narrative tells the real story. The truth about Latvian soldiers in WWII is far more complex and human than led to believe. Listen to our latest episode: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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Harry C. Merritt @harrymerritt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I spoke with Sean Guillory on the Eurasian Knot about my book, Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service. I really appreciated getting to share my thoughts in such a wide-ranging interview. bsky.app/profile/eura...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The veterans wanted reconciliation. The politicians gave them competing monuments instead. New episode out today! Listen here:
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Have you ever considered that the US-Mexico border isn't just about Mexicans and Central Americans? It's the Ellis Island of the South. Listen to the rest of the episode here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ten years ago, we delved into Autocracy, Marriage, and Power in Early Modern Russia with Russell Martin. Revisit it today before our latest episode releases this Wednesday! Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We may never know when Putin decided to invade Ukraine. No documents, no Kremlin insiders, no smoking gun. Historian Michael Kimmage on why that uncertainty matters and why we can't afford to ignore it. Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What do Russians really think? The question is old and elusive. It is also somewhat of a tell–to pose it is to suggest there’s coherent answer, and more so, that Russians’ collective opinions matter. Listen here about Everyday Politics in Russia: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In this week's episode listen to Michael Kimmage discuss the soft power gap of which Russia cannot close. Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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Dr Tobias Atkinson @tobiasa1994.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Found this an interesting listen.
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If Putin decided 10 years ago, the whole war reads differently. If he decided a week before, it's another story entirely. Historian Michael Kimmage on why we may never know the truth. Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Would you expect Soviet citizens to support the death penalty? An abolitionist's research took her by surprise. Listen to last week's episode: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
 ​ ​The soviet death penalty was more bureaucratic than you think. Listen to this week's episode on the Soviet Death Penalty: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Not every life is shaped by revolutions and regimes. Sometimes the turning point is just the year someone you loved is gone. This is a clip of our episode of the Eurasian knot. New episode tomorrow. Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
How did a republic and an autocracy approach its indigenous subjects? How did Sioux and Kazakhs resist and accommodate colonization? And what does it all say about the American and Russian imperialism at the heart of each’s historical DNA? www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
On April 12, 2026, Hungarians overwhelmingly voted, ending the sixteen-year rule of Viktor Orban. Now, observers are looking to see whether Magyar will roll back Orban’s illiberal system and even prosecute Orban and his clients for corruption. www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Eurasian Knot hasn’t featured many philosophers, when Ukrainian political philosopher, Mikhail Minakov, came to the University of Pittsburgh to give a talk, I eagerly pulled him into a studio, creating our episode on "The Post-Soviet Human Condition". www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How did a set of children's books about persecuted Russian kids turned a British historian's life into a quest to uncover the hidden history of Soviet Protestants? Find out and learn more on this week's episode: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The paradox of Soviet atheism: the regime couldn't destroy religion without losing the enemy that made it look modern. Listen to this week's episode here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
One woman, one underground newspaper, and a prisoner swap that ended at Jimmy Carter's church. Listen to this week's episode: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We have finished releasing our episodes of the Thresholds series. Please check out the series in its full at: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The final straw was the disillusionment of the Soviet Union for Julia and her family. The last episodes of our Thresholds series are now out. Julia's Episode: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Thresholds: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"There's room for everyones story" are some of the lasting words from our episode with Olga for our final segment of Thresholds. Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Thresholds: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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Thresholds: Eastern European Immigration to the United States
Thresholds: Eastern European Immigration to the United States
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"Don't look back" is the lasting advice from our interview with Yelena Epstein on her immigration experience. Listen to her episode here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Whole Thresholds series: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"How can I explain who I am?" Is the question Julia asks on her episode of Thresholds. Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Thresholds:storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Patriotism is like loving flawed parents" are the words of Olga, listen to her story on her immigration experience on the final segment of Thresholds. Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Thresholds: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What, for Yelena, does it mean to be an American? Our final segment of Thresholds released today, listen to a clip from Yelena's story. Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Thresholds: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Before the final segment of our threshold series' releases tomorrow, Check out Thresholds Part 3: Russians in San Francisco on our patreon! Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Thresholds: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Russian immigrants understood what it felt like to be targeted by the state; so, they empathized with those facing it now. Listen to the full episode here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Thresholds: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
New immigrants are still being 'disciplined' into whiteness. It looks just like it did 100 years ago. Listen to the rest of the podcast in our Thresholds series here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Thresholds: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Post-Soviet immigrants are called 'exceptional' — but is it really about merit, or just whiteness? Listen to this weeks episode of Thresholds to hear more: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Thresholds: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Immigrants from Eastern Europe confronted many of the same challenges migrants do everywhere—exploitation, hardship, and discrimination. This week's episode dives into the topic of New Immigrants. Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Thresholds: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Do you have a book, article, work or topic related to Eurasian politics, history, and culture you'd like to discuss? Let us know! We can't keep up on everything. Contact the Eurasian Knot about booking an interview. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The hierarchy within whiteness. Listen to a clip from our latest episode with Nina Bogdan for our Thresholds series. Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Thresholds: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
On our Patreon you can sort through the tags. Listed under "Protest" is a 2020 episode on the Protests in Belarus. Mass protests erupted in response to the falsification of the Presidential elections. Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In 1917, the Bolshevik Party had roughly 24,000 members. A decade later, it boasted about 1.2 million. Recruitment came in waves and so did the purges. Listen to an earlier episode on the Bolshevik Rank and File. Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Here is a clip from this week's episode on our Thresholds series with Nina Bogdan, a historian and cultural preservationist. Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Thresholds: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Do you have a book, article, work or topic related to Eurasian politics, history, and culture you'd like to discuss? Let us know! We can't keep up on everything. Contact the Eurasian Knot about booking an interview. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This week's episode is out now! Listen to Nina Bogdan discussing: How did this first wave of Russian emigres meet the challenge of otherness and assimilation? Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Thresholds: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
 They said immigrants couldn't be organized. Then they organized and got deported for it. Here is a clip from last weeks episode of Thresholds with David Roediger. Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Thresholds: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
What is whiteness and why is it central to the history of the United States? How is race intertwined with rights, citizenship, and labor? Listen to this weeks episode with David Roediger: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Thresholds: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Is freedom the ability to travel across the Atlantic to find a new life, or is real freedom the ability to stay home and have a good life?" Check out last week's episode of Thresholds with Tara Zahra. Listen: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Thresholds: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#listening
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is David Roediger, author of Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs, in this weeks episode of our Thresholds Series. Listen here: www.patreon.com/euraknot/pos... Thresholds: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...
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The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Do you have a book, article, work or topic related to Eurasian politics, history, and culture you'd like to discuss? Let us know! We can't keep up on everything. Contact the Eurasian Knot about booking an interview. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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