Behind the News: The Confederate Diaspora

Jacobin Radio

Jacobin

Socialism, History, News, Left, Jacobin, Alternative, Socialist, Politics

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Anatol Lieven, Eurasia director of the Quincy Institute, discusses Prigozhin’s aborted uprising in Russia and Putin’s status. Samuel Bazzi, co-author of a paper on "The Confederate Diaspora," talks about the effects of white migration out of the South after the Civil War.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online. https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	.
0:10.0	.
0:20.0	.
0:28.0	.
0:33.0	Hello and welcome to Behind the News.
0:35.0	My name is Doug Henry.
0:36.0	Two guests today, shocking, I know.
0:38.0	We'll hear from behind the news regular,
0:40.0	Anatole Leven, on the bizarre uprising,
0:42.0	by Yevgeny Pregorian in Russia,
0:44.0	and then from Samuel Basie,
0:46.0	co-author of a paper in the Confederate diaspora
0:48.0	and its effects in the political culture of the recipient locals.
0:52.0	The shortlist rebellion by the Wagner group of mercenaries
0:55.0	last weekend in Russia was one of the otter stories
0:57.0	to come down the wires in some time.
0:59.0	Not that the Wagner group itself was in an odd story
1:01.0	before this past weekend.
1:03.0	Its co-founder and current leader, Yevgeny Pregorian,
1:06.0	followed a rather unconventional career path.
1:09.0	Released from prison in 1990 after serving nine years of robbery,
1:12.0	Pregorian set up a hot dog stand at Levengrod.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jacobin, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jacobin and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.