Life and Fate (Part 2, Chs. 21-50) by Grossman
Major themes: Why fight wars, no step on snake, not the purge exactly
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View episodeMajor themes: Flow, cosmic symbology, energy reserves
View episodeMajor themes: Provocative moral questions, totalitarian ideology, World War 2 worship
View episodeMajor themes: Philosopher ships, respecting tomes, the emigree Gorky
View episodeMajor themes: Read Along recap, Dosteovsky-gram, Empress Theresa
View episodeMajor themes: Rehumanizing routine, totalizing systems and their believers, GrossmanGPT
View episodeThis week, Matt and Cameron are joined by Professor David Cooper to talk about his new book The Czech Manuscripts: Forgery, Translation, and National Myth.
View episodeMajor themes: Dissertations, fears of sea monsters, DostoevskyGPT
View episodeMajor themes: A wolfish era, memorialization not valorization, emerging identities
View episodeMajor themes: Prodigious drinking, After the USSR’s dissolution, Andrei Bolkonsky returns
View episodeMajor themes: Improvised speaking, sulpher water, ambiguous relationships
View episodeMajor themes: sustainability and off-loading
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