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The Slavic Literature Pod

The Slavic Literature Pod

The Slavic Literature Pod is your guide to the literary traditions in and around the Slavic world. On each episode, Cameron Lallana sits down with scholars, translators and other experts to dive deep into big books, short stories, film, and everything in between. You’ll get an approachable introduction to the scholarship and big ideas surrounding these canons roughly two Fridays per month.

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55:30

The Meek One by Dostoevsky (w/ Dr. Kaitlin Shirley)

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/08/27

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron are joined by Dr. Kaitlin Shirley as they discuss “The Meek One,” sometimes alternately translated as “A Gentle Creature.” In usual Dostoevskian fashion, “The Meek One” explores themes of exploration (or perhaps better called: thoughtful misunderstanding) of one’s self, the place of suffering, and questions of domination. Introspection, suffering, and attempts to control, oh my! It’s Dostoevsky hour, everybody.You can also find Dr. Kaitlin Shirley as Dostoevsky

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52:01

Anna Karenina p.8

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/08/13

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron cover Part 8 of Anna Karenina, the FINAL section of this incredibly dense novel. Although you may expect this story to end with Anna’s death—a belief we would understand given both every movie adaption and the fact that this novel is named after her—life goes on for the other characters. So join us as we cover the final journey of the most important character of part ll: Levin’s brother, Sergei. Oh, and I guess we find out what happens to the other characters,

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50:23

Anna Karenina p.7

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/07/30

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron reach the penultimate Part 7 of Anna Karenina full of exciting things like Levin awkwardly visiting people he doesn’t know at Kitty’s behest, Levin getting into gambling, and Levin not liking this new-fangled Wagnerian art. Am I missing something? Hm. It can’t be all that important…can it?Apologies for Cameron’s audio in this episode—he was recording away from his usual set-up so the quality is a little lower than usual. The appropriate punishment shall be

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55:03

Anna Karenina p.6

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/07/16

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron travel from light love affair to life after marriage (and pseudo-divorce) with Levin and Kitty’s life, paralleled with Anna and Vronsky’s. Of course—we are reading Tolstoy after all—this is not merely their story, but also that of Sergei and Varenka and Vasenka and so many other interesting characters that we run into in this part. Grab your gun, get up early for snipe hunting, and don’t forget to bring along this podcast to keep you entertained! Major themes:

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52:51

Anna Karenina p.5

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/07/02

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron get their teeth into the incredibly action-packed Part 5 of Anna Karenina! Seriously. Even if we weren’t comparing this to two straight parts full of farming and legal procedure, it would still stand out. Throw away your farming equipment, grab your finest wedding attire, and get ready for marriages and domestic unrest and familial drama, oh my!Major themes: Death, Honeymoonin’, Born Again Christianity.08:57 - 1967, is the year the Soviet version was

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8:02

Format Change

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/06/30

Show Notes:(Apologies about the confusing intro, this was originally slated to release alongside our Friday episode where we also announce the format change.)In order to better accommodate our increasingly busy lives combined with the amount of work we try to put into each podcast episode (reading, researching, recording, editing, promoting, etc.) Tipsy Tolstoy will be switching over to a biweekly release schedule. Further details are in this bonus episode.We plan to use this time to better engage

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51:43

One Soldier's War by Babchenko

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/06/25

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron examine One Soldier’s War by Arkady Babchenko, the biography of a Russian soldier who served in the first and second Russo-Chechen Wars. This is, in all honesty, a pretty tough read; but there is an unfortunately dearth of English-language focus on Russia’s first military conflicts as a post-Soviet state. Don’t worry if you’re not all that familiar with Chechen history—we’ll be covering all of that in an extremely long context section!We tried to keep the

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47:11

Anna Karenina p.4

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/06/18

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron keep it rolling with part 4 of Anna Karenina. This section might be alternately titled: Oh, you were tired of farming were you? Let me show you something much less interesting and good for humanity. That is the long way of saying that this section is mostly about Karenin’s committees. Saying that, however, sells this part a little short because it also contains one of the most important scenes in the book. I guess it really is all about light and shadow.Major

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42:02

Matryona's House by Solzhenitsyn

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/06/11

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron (finally) respond to the request of a Patron and tackle Matryona’s House by Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn. In this loosely autobiographical story, we follow our unnamed narrator’s time living with the eponymous Matryona in the very interesting town of Peat-Produce as he better understands the dynamic of living in this small town. Ah, and also there are cockroaches. Many, many cockroaches. Have fun!~Major themes: Cockroaches, Allegories for the USSR, Torfoprodukt.07:16

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46:17

Anna Karenina p.3

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/06/04

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron keep the summer of Anna Karenina rolling with part 3 of Tolstoy’s legendary novel. After a little over 250 pages of simmering desire and clashing wills, we slow it down with a lengthy inspection of Levin’s life on the farm—a topic which may at first seem to be an overlong digression from the main plot, but may just set up some of the most important themes of the book. Or maybe we’re finding justifications for having to read many, many chapters about mowing

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45:49

The Unwomanly Face of War by Alexievich

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/05/28

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron pull out their soap boxes and get maudlin drunk as they cover The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich. The Unwomanly Face of War is an oral history of the disparate experiences of Soviet women in World War Two, told in fragmented tales revolving around various themes. Get out your Soviet Union-centered history textbooks, find the appropriate wartime alcohol substitute, and tune in to this...sad, but extremely informative episode.Major themes: Sad Sake

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46:26

Anna Karenina p.2

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/05/21

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron continue the Summer of Anna Karenina with Part 2 of Leo Tolstoy’s canon-defining work Anna Karenina. Come join us as Anna reveals her affair to her husband, Kitty finds (and then quickly loses) religion, and Levin...thinks about farming. He also chastises his peasants for farming not the way he wants them to. Scintillating stuff. Also, Sativa’s still on the bread thing like half a year later. There are a lot of fun details to go over, so tune in!Major themes:

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38:14

Pkhentz by Sinyavsky

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/05/14

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron attempt to unravel Andrei Sinyavsky’s short story Pkhentz, which stars a man in the late USSR who is fundamentally uncomfortable with everything from the concept of food to the idea of sexual attraction. Come to figure out if this is a political allegory, stay for Andrei Kazimirovich’s evaluation of sausage-making.Major themes: Cacti, Water Water Everywhere Nor Any Drop to Drink, Overuse of the Word ‘Alienation’22:50 - Count how many times I can say

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46:09

Anna Karenina p.1

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/05/07

Show Notes: This week, Matt and Cameron kick off the Summer of Anna Karenina with Part 1 of Count Tolstoy’s famous novel! Join us as we delve into a tale of “the beauty of light and shadow,” as Matt absolutely does not want you to describe it, and explore one of the most intriguing characters ever put to the page. Oh, and Konstantin Levin is there, too. Sit back, find a partner for the Mazurka, and tune in! Major themes: Adultery, Definitions of Evil, Special Smiles. 44:45 - Spoiler: it doesn’t. The

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39:23

The Lady with the Dog by Chekhov

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/04/30

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron take on Anton Chekhov’s famous fanfiction of Anna Karenina, “The Lady with the Dog.” Filled with adultery, complex emotions, and so much gray, Chekhov’s tale is a 15-page story with an 800-page amount of needed analysis. Oh, and Cameron finally gets to mention “A Doll’s House”. At least it’s not The Lord of the Flies this time.Major themes: Anna Anna Everywhere, Watermelon, Where did the dog go?05:48 - If you know a way to import Vasileostrovskaya beers into

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48:14

Zuleikha p.2 by Yakhina

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/04/23

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron take on the second half of Zuleika by Guzel Yakhina, wherein our eponymous heroine fully sheds her old identity as the “pitiful hen,” and—deep in the woods of Siberia—becomes a hunter, mother, cook, medical assistant, lover, and everything you might have imagined to be impossible in such exile. As with the first half, Zuleikha continues to be an absolute joy to read and talk about so get your 100-proof vodka and enjoy!Major themes: Call your mom, Bad man as

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47:22

Zuleikha p.1 by Yakhina

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/04/16

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron tackle the first half of Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina, following the story of the so-called ‘Pitiful Hen,’ as her farm is collectivized, her husband is killed, and she is sent half-way across the USSR to build her own prison. With a great focus on the integration of pagan folklore and (then) modern Islam and a surprising number of action-filled setpieces, Zuleikha is an absolute joy to read and talk about. Sit back, crack open a home-made berry moonshine, and tune

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59:45

Anna Karenina Film Adaptations with Ally Pitts

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/04/09

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron dive into several adaptations of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina alongside Ally Pitts of the Russophiles Unite! Movie podcast. Although a bit different than our usual fare, we had a ton of fun recording this with Ally. Mustache licking, French speaking, unfaithfulness ahoy!A huge thank you to Ally for coming on to this episode! It was incredibly fun to record. You can listen to Russophiles Unite! anywhere you get your podcasts and you can follow him and his podcast

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43:29

Love of Worker Bees by Kollontai

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/04/02

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron dive into Love of the Worker Bees by Alexandra Kollontai, a major figure of early Soviet Union Bolshevik politics. Though she would later fall out of favor due to her outspoken opposition to the changing Bolshevik party, Kollontai remained a USSR official, Marxist feminist theorist, and author until her death. I know, I know, more Soviet political theory—some day you will find this as interesting as we do. It’s just a matter of time.Major themes: Adultery,

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39:19

What Is To Be Done? by Lenin

The Slavic Literature Pod ·

2021/03/26

Show Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron finish the “What Is To Be Done?” series with Vladimir Lenin’s take on the matter. Perhaps it is only fitting that we end the trilogy with the man who would very much put this question to rest by making it irrelevant (at least, for a time). Come listen to us fully devolve into a political theory podcast—it’s fun, we promise.Major themes: Constant references to recent articles in Iskra, Learning to write for the revolution, Trade Unionism.05:41 - Though I

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