Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 50 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 49 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 48 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 47 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 46 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 45 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Show Notes:

This week, Matt and Cameron keep up the pace in Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, covering Part 2, chapters 21 through 50. They’ll be covering everything from Klimov’s All Quiet on the Western Front moment in Battlefield Stalingrad to the death camps that take up much of the latter chapters for this part. Get ready to get sad, and tune in. 

Major themes: Why fight wars, no step on snake, not the purge exactly

01:02:19 - “Art and Politics” by William T. Vollman

The music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. 

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Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 44 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 43 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 42 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 40 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 39 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 38 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 37of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 36 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 35 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 34 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 33 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Covering thoughts shared by some of our listeners on our Discord and on social media about Part 2, Chapter 32 of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. You can read our post about the chapter here.

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Show Notes:

This week, Matt and Cameron sit down with Dr. Maya Vinokour to talk about her book Work Flows: Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture and touch on Daniil Kharms’ short story “How the Old Woman Tried to Buy Ink.” 

Dr. Vinokour is Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian & Slavic Studies at New York University and the author of Work Flows: Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture. Her interests include Stalinism and Nazism, late-Soviet science fiction, post-Soviet media, and the global Far Right. She recently published an article in Jacobin on a phenomenon she calls "lifestyle fascism."

Major themes: Flow, cosmic symbology, energy reserves

39:45 - “How the Old Woman Tried to Buy Ink” by Daniil Kharms

The music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. 

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