Stephen Kotkin
The Stalin biographer on the secret to understanding the mind of an autocrat.
December 14, 2017
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December 14, 2017
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<p>Stephen Kotkin is a historian and the author of <em>Stalin: Waiting For Hitler, 1929-1941</em>. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss Stalin’s differences from the autocrats of today, what Stalin and Hitler did and didn’t share, and the secret to getting inside the head of a dictator.</p><p> </p><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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