{"id":1888,"date":"2024-02-15T13:54:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T13:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/?post_type=showcase&#038;p=1888"},"modified":"2024-05-09T14:42:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T14:42:09","slug":"season-5-episode-3-peace-to-the-world-lessons-from-the-soviet-antiwar-underground","status":"publish","type":"showcase","link":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-5-episode-3-peace-to-the-world-lessons-from-the-soviet-antiwar-underground\/","title":{"rendered":"Season 5, Episode 3: &#8220;Peace to the World&#8221;: Lessons from the Soviet Antiwar Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#4d4d4e\">Alexander McConnell talks with Olga Medvedkova, a Soviet antiwar activist whose arrest garnered worldwide attention in 1983. In light of the two-year anniversary of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, what can we learn from Medvedkova and the Soviet peace movement?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/logo_16-9-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Moscow Trust Group logo (detail), circa 1980s. Description: Illustration depicting an open hand, held out to signal \u201cstop,\u201d that is blended into a picture of a dove. \" class=\"wp-image-1893\" style=\"width:1000px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/logo_16-9-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/logo_16-9-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/logo_16-9-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/logo_16-9-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/logo_16-9-1568x882.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/logo_16-9.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image:&nbsp;Moscow Trust Group logo (detail), circa 1980s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Season 5, Episode 3: \u201cPeace to the World\u201d: Lessons from the Soviet Antiwar Underground\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/6V1uzwI5lUncXbFe3FZake?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-25\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/reverb-effect\/id1486434428\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-25\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZlcmJlZmZlY3QubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M\">Google Podcasts<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-25\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4Otp5KrKnJYZVd1S8guPe6?si=UC24WtvISZaa_B_7JbXrIA\">Spotify<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine aimed at toppling the government in Kyiv. Within hours, antiwar activists were organizing demonstrations against the attack, and in the following weeks thousands of protestors were arrested in major cities around the world, including Moscow and St. Petersburg. These protests are&nbsp;part of a broader history of underground Soviet peace activism stretching back to the 1980s\u2014yet today&#8217;s activists are operating within the confines of a profoundly different&nbsp;political&nbsp;regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode, Alexander McConnell interviews Olga Medvedkova, a Soviet antiwar activist whose arrest became the focus of world news after accompanying Ann Pettit and Karmen Cutler, members of England\u2019s Greenham Common anti-nuclear arms movement, to a meeting with the Soviet Peace Committee in 1983. In light of the two-year anniversary of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, what can we learn from Medvedkova\u2019s story?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-5-episode-3-transcript\/\" data-type=\"showcase\" data-id=\"1890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View the full episode transcript<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"historian-biography\">Historian Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alexander McConnell<\/strong> graduated in 2023 with a PhD in history from the University of Michigan. He is the 2023-2024 postdoctoral fellow at the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. McConnell\u2019s research centers on the intersection of political language, cultural production, and moral values in the Soviet Union. His current project traces the evolution of \u201chumanism\u201d in Soviet ideology, culture, and philosophy, examining how contests over the scope and meaning of this key concept reshaped ideals of socialist personhood. His article \u201c\u2018Tragic Presentiments\u2019: Maksim Gor\u2019kii and the Invention of Soviet Humanism\u201d is forthcoming in the Summer 2024 issue of <em>Slavic Review<\/em>. McConnell\u2019s research has been supported by grants from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), American Councils for International Education, the Donia Human Rights Center, and the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"production-credits\">Production Credits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Episode Producer:&nbsp;<\/strong>Alexander McConnell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Host and Season Producer:<\/strong>&nbsp;Paige Newhouse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Executive Producer:<\/strong>&nbsp;Gregory Parker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editorial Board:\u00a0<\/strong>Henry Cowles, Amir Marshi, Enrieth Martinez Palacios, Talitha Pam, Cheyenne Pettit, Sophie Wunderlich<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Voice Actors:<\/strong> Fyodor Maksimishin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Interview: <\/strong>Olga Medvedkova (Alexander McConnell, March 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Audio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u041f\u0435\u0448\u043a\u043e\u043c \u043f\u043e \u041c\u043e\u0441\u043a\u0432\u0435, &#8220;&#8216;\u041d\u0435\u0442 \u0432\u043e\u0439\u043d\u0435!&#8217;\/\u041c\u0438\u0442\u0438\u043d\u0433 \u0432 \u041c\u043e\u0441\u043a\u0432\u0435 24.02.2022\/Stop the war!&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VAUiecIWOB0\">YouTube<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u0426\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u0442\u0435\u043b\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0449\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420, \u201c\u0421\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0435 \u043f\u0435\u0441\u043d\u0438 \u043e \u0434\u0440\u0443\u0436\u0431\u0435, \u043c\u0438\u0440\u0435 \u0438 \u0417\u0435\u043c\u043b\u0435&#8221; [&#8220;Soviet Songs about Friendship &amp; Peace\u201d] (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IyEqqNm32_Y&amp;t=3423s\">YouTube<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jimmy Carter, \u201cSoviet Invasion of Afghanistan,\u201d January 4, 1980 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?153941-1\/soviet-invasion-afghanistan\">C SPAN<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oleg Radzinskii, <em>Sluchainye zhizni<\/em>, Read by the author, (Moscow: Izdatel&#8217;stvo Corpus, 2018), Audiokniga audio ed., 11 hr., 25 min<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BBC World Service, \u201cThe women trying to stop a nuclear war\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7SBJ1V5iS_g\">Youtube<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Music: <\/strong>LogicMoon, \u201cThe Morning Glory (Theme)\u201d (Freesound, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 Deed<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Share your thoughts about&nbsp;<em>Reverb Effect<\/em>&nbsp;by messaging&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:reverb.effect@umich.edu\">reverb.effect@umich.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 2024 Regents of the University of Michigan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander McConnell talks with Olga Medvedkova, a Soviet antiwar activist whose arrest garnered worldwide attention in 1983. 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