Apr 16, 2021 · Podcast

Zuleikha p.1 by Yakhina

Major themes: Forest spirits, Vestigial pagan folklore, and Dekulakization

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Apr 9, 2021 · Podcast

Anna Karenina Film Adaptations with Ally Pitts

Major themes: Adultery, Kiera Knightly’s painful smile, Is Stiva the real villain of the book?

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Apr 2, 2021 · Podcast

Love of the Worker Bees by Kollontai

Major themes: Adultery, *Our* kid, New Economic Policy = Capitalism?

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Mar 26, 2021 · Podcast

What Is to Be Done? by Lenin

Major themes: Constant references to recent articles in Iskra, Learning to write for the revolution, Trade Unionism

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Mar 19, 2021 · Podcast

What Is to Be Done? by Tolstoy

Major themes: Idiosyncratic Religious Beliefs, Rage Against the Landed Gentry, and Fiji

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Mar 12, 2021 · Podcast

What Is to Be Done? by Chernyshevsky

Major themes: Rakhmetov Being an Absolute Unit, Sewing Collectives, Subtext is for Cowards

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Mar 5, 2021 · Podcast

We p.2 by Zamyatin

Major themes: The False Neutrality of Logic, Math, The Final Number

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Feb 26, 2021 · Podcast

We p.1 by Zamyatin

Major themes: Pink Slips, 1984, and Mathematical Socialism

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Feb 19, 2021 · Podcast paid

Song of the Final Meeting, Lot's Wife, and Requiem by Akhmatova

Major themes: The Great Terror, Translations, The Eyes Have It

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Feb 12, 2021 · Podcast paid

The Cow & The Third Son by Platonov

Major themes: Animals As People, Naturalistic Communism, Denouncements

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Feb 5, 2021 · Podcast paid

How Much Land Does a Man Need? By Tolstoy

Major themes: Koumiss, Skaz, Oddly aggressive conversation between siblings

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Jan 29, 2021 · Podcast paid

Fathers and Children p.2 by Turgenev

Major themes: Feeling bad about not calling our parents more often, self-deceiving characters, the collision of ideology and human emotion.

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