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The Body of the Soul by Ulitskaya
Major themes: Death, dogs, the essential immortality of the soul
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Office Hours - Ranking our best episodes
Major themes: reflection, tier lists, angry listener feedback
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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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Work Flows: Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture (w/ author Dr. Maya Vinokour)
Major themes: Flow, cosmic symbology, energy reserves
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Life and Fate (p.1 chs. 61-70, p.2 chs. 1-20) by Grossman
Major themes: Provocative moral questions, totalitarian ideology, World War 2 worship
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Light Breathing by Bunin
Major themes: Philosopher ships, respecting tomes, the emigree Gorky
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Office Hours - Do-stoevsky it for the 'gram, Empress Theresa
Major themes: Read Along recap, Dosteovsky-gram, Empress Theresa
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Life and Fate Book 1 Chs. 32-60 by Grossman
Major themes: Rehumanizing routine, totalizing systems and their believers, GrossmanGPT
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The Czech Manuscripts (w/ Author Dr. David Cooper)
This week, Matt and Cameron are joined by Professor David Cooper to talk about his new book The Czech Manuscripts: Forgery, Translation, and National Myth.
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Office Hours - Dissertation, sea monsters, DostoevskyGPT
Major themes: Dissertations, fears of sea monsters, DostoevskyGPT
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Life and Fate Book 1 Chs. 1-31 by Grossman
Major themes: A wolfish era, memorialization not valorization, emerging identities
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Ochre & Rust by Gandlevsky (w/ translator Philip J. Metres)
Major themes: Prodigious drinking, After the USSR’s dissolution, Andrei Bolkonsky returns
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