Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-01-03
Books mentioned on Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power
Stephen Kotkin is a professor of history at Princeton university and one of the great historians of our time, specializing in Russian and Soviet history. He has written many books on Stalin and the Soviet Union including the first 2 of a 3 volume work on Stalin, and he is currently working on volume 3.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Stalin
Discussed“whose examples did you look to when you picked up these books that you read and you read the books and you made pencil marks in them”
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