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Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power

Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power

Lex Fridman Podcast vor 6 Jahren

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Stephen Kotkin is a professor of history at Princeton university
and one of the great historians of our time, specializing in
Russian and Soviet history. He has written many books on Stalin
and the Soviet Union including the first 2 of a 3 volume work on
Stalin, and he is currently working on volume 3.

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Episode Links:

Stalin (book, vol 1): https://amzn.to/2FjdLF2

Stalin (book, vol 2): https://amzn.to/2tqyjc3

Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you
should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

00:00 – Introduction

03:10 – Do all human beings crave power?

11:29 – Russian people and authoritarian power

15:06 – Putin and the Russian people

23:23 – Corruption in Russia

31:30 – Russia’s future

41:07 – Individuals and institutions

44:42 – Stalin’s rise to power

1:05:20 – What is the ideal political system?

1:21:10 – Questions for Putin

1:29:41 – Questions for Stalin

1:33:25 – Will there always be evil in the world?