This book by Stephen Kotkin has come up 2 times on Lex Fridman. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-01-03 and the most recent from 2022-05-25. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
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Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Stalin, Hitler, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine | Lex Fridman Podcast #289
“he has written what is widely considered to be the definitive biography of stalin in three volumes two of which have been published”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Stephen Kotkin: One of the foremost historians of 20th and 21st century Russia and Eastern Europe, author of the definitive multi-volume biography of Stalin. A scholar at Princeton (moving to Stanford) known for his theory of Russia's 'perpetual geopolitics.'. Historian Stephen Kotkin dismantles the 'NATO made Putin do it' narrative and frames Russia's war on Ukraine as a recurring strategic choice.
Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #63
“he has written many books on Stalin in the Soviet Union including the first to of a three-volume work on Stalin and he's currently working on volume three”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Stephen Kotkin: Professor of history at Princeton University and one of the leading historians of Russia and the Soviet Union. He is the author of a planned three-volume biography of Joseph Stalin, with the third volume in progress. Historian Stephen Kotkin dissects the nature of unconstrained power through Stalin, Putin, and the lessons of the 20th century.
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