Read the transcript for this interview. Guest: Claire Shaw is an Associate Professor of History at Warwick University specializing in the history of the Soviet Union, with a particular interest in the formation of Soviet identity and the history of marginal groups. She’s the author of Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991 published by Cornell University Press. Music: Killing Joke, “Pssyche,” Chaos for Breakfast Disc 2, 2003.