Guest: Xenia Cherkaev on her book Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice published by Cornell University Press.

Guest: Andy Bruno on his new book Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and its Environmental Legacy published by Cambridge University Press.

Guest: Natasha Lance Rogoff on making Sesame Street in Russia in the turbulent 1990s.

Guest: Paula Chan on the Extraordinary State Commission and its investigations in the Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union.

Guest: Karl Schlogel on the lost world of Soviet civilization.

Guest: Mariia Koskina on Siberian industrialization, the environment and the black skies over Krasnoyarsk.

Guests: Tigran Grigoryan (The Regional Center for Democracy and Security) and Kelsey Rice (Berry College) revisiting the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh.

Guest: Natalia Krylova on life, love, language, and the Soviet Avant Garde.

Guest: Nicholas Bujalski on his prize-winning Russian Review article, Tuk, tuk, tuk! A History of Russias Prison Knocking Language.

Guest: Brian Milakovsky with a grim update on Ukraine, the war, and the shrinking prospects of even a lousy peace.