Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of the Beneath the Red Star podcast. Today we have the first part of an impromptu 2 parter. Today's episode will be on the Pale of Settlement which is the region of the Russian Empire in which the Jews who lived in the empire were forced into. This week we will discuss the history of how the Pale came to be and the legal justifications behind that.

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

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

Welcome back to a very special episode of the Beneath the Red Star podcast where I accidentally take a week off. Oops. Sorry about that. But good news. Today we have an episode on the House of Faberge and on the eggs that Faberge made for the Tsar. If you like jewelry, gems, gold, chickens or eggs then you are gonna love this.

Sources:

The History Behind the Ukrainian Tradition of Decorating Pysanky Easter Eggs: https://time.com/6166140/pysanka-ukraine-easter-egg-history/

Pysanky / Писанки: https://crees.ku.edu/pysanky

The Pysanka, a Symbol of Hope: https://pysanka.ukrainianinstitute.org/

Fabberge Egg: https://www.britannica.com/art/Faberge-egg

Faberge.com: https://www.faberge.com/

Faberge Eggs: https://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/faberge_nav/main_fabfrm.html

Do you like lakes? Do you like protests movements? If you answered yes to one or either of those then, great! Boy do I have an episode for you! Tune in today as we will be discussing the Baikal Movement, a grassroots environmental movement from the USSR and how they have for the past 60+ years fought to keep one of the world's greatest natural treasures safe.

Sources:

At the Watershed: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.93.1.0147?read-now=1&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents

Cleaning up Baikal: https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1980-2/cleaning-up-baikal/

Lake Baikal: https://www.britannica.com/place/Lake-Baikal

Lake Baikal: https://academic.oup.com/book/3365/chapter-abstract/144449420?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Lake Baikal: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/754/#:~:text=Situated%20in%20south%2Deast%20Siberia,world's%20total%20unfrozen%20freshwater%20reserve.

Russian Natural Resources’ Sphere: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10108780/

Siberian Writers and the Struggle to Save Lake Baikal: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3984667

The Ten Largest Lakes in the World: https://www.statista.com/statistics/262931/the-ten-largest-lakes-in-the-world/

The Baikal Movement: https://www.icwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/EA-19.pdf

The battle Over Lake Baikal: https://www.dw.com/en/reopening-of-lake-baikal-paper-mill-triggers-environmental-fury/a-5242634