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Stalin Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

Stephen Kotkin

A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band seizes...

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The Ezra Klein Show

The guest said they had just begun reading Kotkin's first volume on Stalin, describing it as a remarkable and narratively engaging long slog.

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the book that I have just started, and it's a long slog, so I'm not so far through it, is Steve Kotkin's first in his series on Stalin. ... it's remarkable. I love reading that book because it's one w...

— Episode: Why Russia Is Losing the War in Ukraine

Episode: Why Russia Is Losing the War in Ukraine

The guest said they had just begun reading Kotkin's first volume on Stalin, describing it as a remarkable and narratively engaging long slog.

"

the book that I have just started, and it's a long slog, so I'm not so far through it, is Steve Kotkin's first in his series on Stalin. ... it's remarkable. I love reading that book because it's one where I feel like I can hear the author almost like narrating.

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