Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2025-01-06
Books mentioned on #456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the President of Ukraine. On YouTube this episode is available in English, Ukrainian, and Russian.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Red Famine
Red Famine by Anne Applebaum is a historical account detailing the Holodomor, the devastating man-made famine engineered by the Soviet regime in Ukraine during the early 1930s.
Discussed“So, for example, I read Red Famine by Anne Applebaum. It's about Holodomor.”
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The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's monumental historical exposé detailing the brutal realities of Soviet forced labor camps through personal testimony and archival history.
Discussed“For example, Anne Applebaum's book, Gulag, is very different from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago. The former is a rigorous, comprehensive historical account. The latter is a literary, psychological, and personal portrait of Soviet society.”
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Gulag
Discussed“For example, Anne Applebaum's book, Gulag, is very different from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago.”
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L.
Discussed“On the bias front, for example, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer is a good example. It is full of bias. But he was there, and to me, he has written probably one of the greatest, if not the greatest, book on the Third Reich ever.”
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Animal Farm
“For the critics in the stands, chanting the latest slogans of the mass hysteria machine like sheep in Animal Farm.”
Passing Animal Farm
“For the critics in the stands, chanting the latest slogans of the mass hysteria machine like sheep in 'Animal Farm'. I love you too.”