1869, The Cornell University Press Podcast

Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/JXonA8TBa7KATPeoEiGtZly8Xs0 This episode, we speak with Vera Michlin-Shapir, author of Fluid Russia: Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501760549/fluid-russia/#bookTabs=1 Vera is a Visiting Research Fellow at The King's Centre for Strategic Communications, King's College London. We spoke to Vera about why the Western conventional wisdom about Russia is fundamentally incomplete, why Russia can be considered “patient zero” when it comes to the populist wave of anti-globalization and the rise of neoauthoritarian regimes, and why Putin's regime as a political system actually depends very much on Russia being part of the global world. Vera Michlin-Shapir, author of Fluid Russia: Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era. If you’d like to read Vera’s new book, use the promo code 09POD to save 30 percent on the paperback. If you live in the UK use the discount code CSANNOUNCE and visit th