Brigid O'Keeffe's guest appearances

Brigid O'Keeffe

New Books in Language

New Books in History

New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

New Books Network

CREECA Lecture Series Podcast

The Slavic Connexion

James Joyce

Brian Taylor

Christine E. Evans

Sean Roberts

John Reuter

Aisalkyn Botoeva

Emily Greble

Morgan Liu

Jeff Sahadeo

Yuri Maltsev

Chris Price

Mikhail Krutikov

Graeme Robertson

Harriet Murav

Jose Vergara

OwlTail

On this episode, author and historian Brigid O'Keeffe joins Sergio and Misha to discuss her research and newly released work on the rise and fall of the multiethnic Soviet Union. The social histories which Dr. O'Keeffe mentions are: Jeff Sahadeo's Voices from the Soviet Edge https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501738203/voices-from-the-soviet-edge/ and Adrienne Edgar's Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501762949/intermarriage-and-the-friendship-of-peoples/#bookTabs=1 ABOUT THE GUEST Brigid O'Keeffe is a Professor of History at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.  She is a specialist on the history of late imperial Russia and the Soviet Union.  O’Keeffe is the author of The Multiethnic Soviet Union and its Demise (Bloomsbury); Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia (Bloomsbury; Winner of the 2021 Ab Imperio Award) and New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union (University of Toronto Press). She is at work on her next book, The Family Litvinov: A History of the Twentieth Century. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 31st, 2022 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! CREDITS Host/Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Host/Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Taylor Ham Social Media Manager: Eliza Fisher Supervising Producer: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper) Executive Producer &amp; Creator: Michelle Daniel (@M_S_Daniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Brigid O'Keeffe.

On this episode, author and historian Brigid O'Keeffe joins Sergio and Misha to discuss her research and newly released work on the rise and fall of the multiethnic Soviet Union. The social histories which Dr. O'Keeffe mentions are: Jeff Sahadeo's Voices from the Soviet Edge <a href="https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501738203/voices-from-the-soviet-edge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501738203/voices-from-the-soviet-edge/</a> and Adrienne Edgar's Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples <a href="https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501762949/intermarriage-and-the-friendship-of-peoples/#bookTabs=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501762949/intermarriage-and-the-friendship-of-peoples/#bookTabs=1</a> ABOUT THE GUEST Brigid O'Keeffe is a Professor of History at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is a specialist on the history of late imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. O’Keeffe is the author of The Multiethnic Soviet Union and its Demise (Bloomsbury); Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia (Bloomsbury; Winner of the 2021 Ab Imperio Award) and New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union (University of Toronto Press). She is at work on her next book, The Family Litvinov: A History of the Twentieth Century. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 31st, 2022 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email <a href="mailto:slavxradio@utexas.edu" rel="nofollow">slavxradio@utexas.edu</a> and we will be in touch! CREDITS Host/Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar Host/Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Associate Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion) Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Assistant Producer: Taylor Ham Social Media Manager: Eliza Fisher Supervising Producer: Katherine Birch Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel Music Producer: Charlie Harper (@charlieharpermusic) <a href="http://www.charlieharpermusic.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.charlieharpermusic.com</a> (Main Theme by Charlie Harper) Executive Producer &amp; Creator: Michelle Daniel (@M_S_Daniel) <a href="http://www.msdaniel.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.msdaniel.com</a> DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. Special Guest: Brigid O'Keeffe.

"The Demise of the Multiethnic Soviet Union" with Brigid O'Keeffe

In 1887, a Jewish eye doctor named L.L. Zamenhof launched his international auxiliary language “Esperanto” from the western borderlands of a tsarist empire in crisis. Brigid O’Keeffe traces the history of Esperanto as a utopian vision rooted in late imperial Russian culture through to its rise as a vibrant global movement that inspired women and men around the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although Esperanto and Esperantists have long been dismissed to the margins and footnotes of history, O’Keeffe proposes that revolutionary Russia’s Esperantists were exemplars of their era. Their triumphs, frustrations, and tragedies illuminate how and why the Soviet Union ultimately rejected an international language for the global proletariat and chose instead to elevate Russian – “the language of Lenin” – as the language of socialist internationalism.

Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia - Brigid O'Keeffe (10.21.21)