Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2025-01-06
Lex Fridman & Volodymyr Zelenskyy: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #456
#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.
Lex Fridman recommended Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy, and discussed Red Famine by Anne Applebaum, The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Gulag by Anne Applebaum, and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Russo-Ukrainian War
Recommended“If forced to recommend two, at this moment, I would say the Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy and The Showman by Simon Schuster, which is a good personal behind-the-scenes biography of the President focused on 2022.”
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Red Famine
Discussed“So, for example, I read Red Famine by Anne Applebaum. It's about Holodomor.”
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The Gulag Archipelago
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
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.”
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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.”