Hello everyone! I hope you all are having a great holiday season. This is the 2024 recap where I will be going over the state of the Beneath The Red Star Podcast, discussing the previous year for the show, where it is now and what you can expect in the year to come.

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Today we will be discussing the history of Finland in relation to Russia. We will be discussing Finland's history as a part of the Russian Empire and as an independent nation and its relationship with the USSR and the Russian Federation.

Sources:

Finland: ⁠https://www.jstor.org/stable/1945868⁠

Reich Security Main Office (RSHA): ⁠https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/reich-security-main-office-rsha⁠

Nordic Council of Ministers: ⁠https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nordic-Council-of-Ministers⁠

History of Finland: ⁠https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Finland⁠

Sweden Officially Joins NATO: ⁠https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Finland⁠

Relations With Finland: ⁠https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49594.htm⁠

“The Plan to Rescue Finnish Jews in 1944" by Simo Muir

The Holocaust as Active Memory: The Past in the Present by Irene Levin

Finland at war: The Winter War 1939 – 1940 by Peter Munter and Toni Wirtanen

Hello and welcome to the most newest episode of Beneath the Red Star! Today we are discussing the Trans-Siberian Railroad and its history. Grab a seat next to a random stranger and let's head out across Siberia.

Sources:

The Russian Discovery of Siberia: https://www.loc.gov/collections/meeting-of-frontiers/articles-and-essays/exploration/russian-discovery-of-siberia/

Trans-Siberian Railroad: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Trans-Siberian-Railroad

From Kiachta to Vladivostok: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43737542

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43737542

Some Economic Aspects of Railroad Development in Tsarist Russia: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2117164 Rossia Siberica: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40241735

A Russian Pacific Railroad: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1762931

Russian Railway Construction and the Urals Charcoal Iron and Steel Industry, 1851-1914: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2599467 A Century of Russian Railroad Construction: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2491700 History of the Trans-Siberian Railway: https://www.transsiberianexpress.net/train-info/history-of-the-trans-siberian-railway

Blame the Switchman?: https://www.justice.gov/atr/blame-switchman-russian-railways-restructuring-after-ten-years

All country and continent sizes taken from Encyclopedia Brittanica

Hello everyone and welcome to this newest episode! Today we will be doing a second issue on the offbeat religions of Russia. Today, we will be discussing the Christian sects known as the Spiritual Christians. These would include the Doukhobors and Molokans.

Sources:

The Origin of the Freedomite Movement: https://doukhobor.org/the-origin-of-the-freedomite-movement/ Religion and Migration: The Molokan Experience: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24040086

Russo-Japanese War: https://www.britannica.com/event/Russo-Japanese-War

Problems of the Ideology of Peasant Movements: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24652739

A Pacifist Sect form Russia is Shaken by War, and Modernity: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/world/canada/canada-doukhobors-ukraine-war.html

Doukhobor Identity and Communalism at Kirilovka Village Site: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25617319 Russian Spiritual Christianity and the Closing of the Black-Earth Frontier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24667202

Burning of Arms: https://doukhobor.org/tag/burning-of-arms/

Hello everyone! Today we are going to be following up on last week's episode about Alexander Pushkin. As I discussed last week, Pushkin was associated with the Decembrist Revolt and their scary liberal ideas. So, today, we are going to be talking about who the Decembrists were and why exactly they were so scary to the Russian government.

Sources:

Decembrist: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Decembrist The Decembrist Revolt: https://www.prlib.ru/en/history/619844

The First Russian Revolution: https://www.ijors.net/issue6_2_2017/articles/cicek.html

A People’s HIstory of the Russian Revolution, Chapter 2: The Revolutionaries: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1k85dnw.9

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode description. Today we are talking Pushkin. We will be discussing the life and times of one of, if not the, most famous literary figure in Russian history. So strap in for some talk of literature, politics and just a smidge of dueling.

Sources:

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aleksandr-Sergeyevich-Pushkin

Arzamas Society: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Arzamas-society

Imperial Lyceum at Tsarskoe Selo: https://www.prlib.ru/en/history/619677

Abraham Hannibal – Ethiopian or Central African?: https://www.anglo-ethiopian.org/publications/articles.php?type=A&reference=publications/articles/2006spring/abrahamhannibal.php

Pushkin's Biography: https://educ.jmu.edu/~pleckesg/Pushkin/Bio.html

Welcome back to the second part of our impromptu mini-series on the Pale of Settlement. Last week we discussed the legal and physical boundaries and restrictions of the Pale. This week we discuss what life was like for the millions of Jews who lived in the Pale.

Sources:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvbkk0gx.6⁠

⁠https://www.jstor.org/stable/4467338⁠

⁠https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv75d7p9.6⁠

⁠https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctvrzgvqk.17⁠

⁠https://www.britannica.com/topic/pale-restricted-area⁠⁠https://www.jstor.org/stable/20171196⁠⁠https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/jews-in-england-1290/#:~:text=On%2018th%20July%201290%2C%20Edward,November%20to%20leave%20the%20realm⁠⁠https://www.census.gov/popclock/world/pl⁠

⁠https://www.census.gov/popclock/world/up