

Guest:

Mark Steinberg is a professor of Russian History at the University of Illinois. He’s the author of many wonderful books including, Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925; Voices of Revolution, 1917; Petersburg Fin de Siecle; and with Nicholas Riasanovsky, A History of Russia, now in its 8th edition. His most recent book is The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 published by Oxford University Press.

Listen to my interview with Mark Steinberg on his St. Petersburg Fin de Siecle on the New Books Network.

Music:

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Coma Girl,” Streetcore, 2003.