With the current conflict in Ukraine, we focus in on Russia and Ukraine\u2019s changing interactions with the world around them through the centuries. Find nine podcast episodes from our archive below\u2026<\/strong><\/p>

1<\/span>
The Ukrainian famine<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n
In this 2017 podcast, historian Anne Applebaum discusses her book Red Famine: Stalin\u2019s War on Ukraine<\/em>, which charts the events of the devastating 1932\u201333 famine in Soviet Ukraine \u2013 a man-made catastrophe in which almost 4 million people lost their lives.<\/p>\n
Listen now<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<br\/><\/p><div class=\""listicle"\"> <span class=\""listicle__count"\">2<\/span> <h3 class=\""listicle__title\" heading-3=\"\">Cold war mind games<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Martin Sixsmith explores the role of psychology in the Cold War, from propaganda and paranoia to a divided mindset and unpredictable decisions made by unstable leaders.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\""https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/cold-war\/cold-war-mind-games-podcast-martin-sixsmith\/"\">Listen now<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe title=\""Cold\" war=\"\" mind=\"\" games=\"\" src=\""https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/historyextra\/cold-war-mind-games"\" width=\""100%"\" height=\""180px"\" scrolling=\""no"\" frameborder=\""0"\" style=\""border:none;overflow:hidden;"\"\/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\""highlight\"><div class=\""highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> \n<h4><strong>More articles about the history of the Russia-Ukraine crisis:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/general-history\/russia-invade-ukraine-history-relationship-crimea-why-conflict-facts\/"\">Russia-Ukraine crisis: 9 milestone moments in history that explain today\u2019s invasion<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/21st-century\/russia-ukraine-roots-crisis-keith-lowe-comment\/"\">\u201cRussia has always refused to let Ukraine go\u201d: Keith Lowe on the long roots of today\u2019s crisis<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/20th-century\/nato-russia-soviet-union-history-post-ww2-tensions\/"\">Nato, Russia, and the history of the post-WW2 tensions<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul><p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section><p>\u00a0<br\/><\/p><div class=\""listicle"\"> <span class=\""listicle__count"\">3<\/span> <h3 class=\""listicle__title\" heading-3=\"\">The Cold War: everything you wanted to know<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>From espionage across the Iron Curtain, to the global struggles between communists and capitalists, Michael Goodman responds to your questions on the decades of geopolitical tension that shaped relations between east and west in the second half of the 20th century, as part of our series tackling the big questions on major historical topics.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\""https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/cold-war\/cold-war-everything-you-wanted-know-michael-goodman-podcast\/"\">Listen now<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe title=\""The\" cold=\"\" war:=\"\" everything=\"\" you=\"\" wanted=\"\" to=\"\" know=\"\" src=\""https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/historyextra\/thecoldwar-everythingyouwantedtoknow"\" width=\""100%"\" height=\""180px"\" scrolling=\""no"\" frameborder=\""0"\" style=\""border:none;overflow:hidden;"\"\/>\n<p>\u00a0<br\/><\/p><div class=\""listicle"\"> <span class=\""listicle__count"\">4<\/span> <h3 class=\""listicle__title\" heading-3=\"\">The Cuban Missile Crisis: everything you wanted to know<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Historian Mark White responds to listener queries and popular search enquiries about the Cold War nuclear confrontation between the US and the USSR.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\""https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/cold-war\/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-cuban-missile-crisis-mark-white-podcast\/"\">Listen now<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe title=\""Everything\" you=\"\" ever=\"\" wanted=\"\" to=\"\" know=\"\" about=\"\" the=\"\" cuban=\"\" missile=\"\" crisis=\"\" but=\"\" were=\"\" afraid=\"\" ask=\"\" src=\""https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/historyextra\/everythingyoueverwantedtoknowaboutthecubanmissilecrisis-butwereafraidtoask"\" width=\""100%"\" height=\""180px"\" scrolling=\""no"\" frameborder=\""0"\" style=\""border:none;overflow:hidden;"\"\/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br\/><\/p><div class=\""listicle"\"> <span class=\""listicle__count"\">5<\/span> <h3 class=\""listicle__title\" heading-3=\"\">How US-Russian relations fractured in the 1990s<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Mary Sarotte talks about her book <em>Not One Inch<\/em>, which reveals how diplomatic missteps after the fall of the Berlin Wall soured US-Russian relations and fuelled the rise of Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\""https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/20th-century\/us-russian-relations-1990s-podcast-mary-sarotte\/"\">Listen now<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe title=\""How\" us-russian=\"\" relations=\"\" fractured=\"\" in=\"\" the=\"\" src=\""https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/historyextra\/howus-russianrelationsfracturedinthe1990s"\" width=\""100%"\" height=\""180px"\" scrolling=\""no"\" frameborder=\""0"\" style=\""border:none;overflow:hidden;"\"\/>\n<p>\u00a0<br\/><\/p><div class=\""listicle"\"> <span class=\""listicle__count"\">6<\/span> <h3 class=\""listicle__title\" heading-3=\"\">The Russian revolution: everything you wanted to know<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Historian Robert Service responds to listener queries and popular search enquiries about the Russian revolutions of 1917, which saw Tsar Nicholas II deposed and the beginnings of the Communist era.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\""https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/20th-century\/russian-revolution-everything-wanted-know-podcast-robert-service\/"\">Listen now<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe title=\""The\" russian=\"\" revolution:=\"\" everything=\"\" you=\"\" wanted=\"\" to=\"\" know=\"\" src=\""https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/historyextra\/therussianrevolution-everythingyouwantedtoknow"\" width=\""100%"\" height=\""180px"\" scrolling=\""no"\" frameborder=\""0"\" style=\""border:none;overflow:hidden;"\"\/>\n<p>\u00a0<br\/><\/p><div class=\""listicle"\"> <span class=\""listicle__count"\">7<\/span> <h3 class=\""listicle__title\" heading-3=\"\">Poland, 1939: World War Two begins<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Roger Moorhouse tells the story of one of the most misunderstood campaigns of the Second World War \u2013 the German and Soviet invasions of Poland in 1939.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\""https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/second-world-war\/poland-1939-ww2-begins-roger-moorhouse-podcast\/"\">Listen now<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe title=\""Poland,\" world=\"\" war=\"\" two=\"\" begins=\"\" src=\""https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/historyextra\/poland-1939-worldwartwobegins"\" width=\""100%"\" height=\""180px"\" scrolling=\""no"\" frameborder=\""0"\" style=\""border:none;overflow:hidden;"\"\/><br\/><\/p><div class=\""listicle"\"> <span class=\""listicle__count"\">8<\/span> <h3 class=\""listicle__title\" heading-3=\"\">1983: the Cold War almost goes nuclear<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Taylor Downing describes the events of the <a href=\""https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/20th-century\/able-archer-83-what-happened-nato-war-gamecold-war-nuclear-disaster\/"\">Able Archer scare<\/a>, which nearly witnessed global Armageddon when the Soviets misread the intentions behind a NATO war exercise.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\""https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/cold-war\/1983-the-cold-war-almost-goes-nuclear\/"\">Listen now<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe title=\""1983:\" the=\"\" cold=\"\" war=\"\" almost=\"\" goes=\"\" nuclear=\"\" src=\""https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/historyextra\/1983-thecoldwaralmostgoesnuclearuntitledepisode"\" width=\""100%"\" height=\""180px"\" scrolling=\""no"\" frameborder=\""0"\" style=\""border:none;overflow:hidden;"\"\/><br\/><\/p><div class=\""listicle"\"> <span class=\""listicle__count"\">9<\/span> <h3 class=\""listicle__title\" heading-3=\"\">Chernobyl: the story of a tragedy<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Serhii Plokhy, author of an award-winning book on the 1986 Soviet nuclear disaster, explores the causes and consequences of the <a href=\""https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/20th-century\/chernobyl-disaster-1986-reactor-four-what-happened-why-when-facts\/"\">Chernobyl accident<\/a> and offers his thoughts on the accuracy of the 2019 television drama.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\""https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/20th-century\/chernobyl-what-happened-story-causes-consequences-accuracy-drama\/"\">Listen now<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe title=\""Chernobyl:\" the=\"\" story=\"\" of=\"\" a=\"\" tragedy=\"\" src=\""https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/historyextra\/chernobyl-thestoryofatragedy"\" width=\""100%"\" height=\""180px"\" scrolling=\""no"\" frameborder=\""0"\" style=\""border:none;overflow:hidden;"\"\/><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emily Briffett Published: Friday, 04 March 2022 at 12:00 am With the current conflict in Ukraine, we focus in on Russia and Ukraine\u2019s changing interactions with the world around them through the centuries. 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