Stalin's World: Stephen Kotkin in Conversation with David Remnick (2/10/15)

The Harriman Institute at Columbia University

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Published 2015-02-10

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist David Remnick, editor-in-chief, The New Yorker, interviews historian Stephen Kotkin about the first tome of his three-volume biography, "Stalin:Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928."

All Comments (21)

@Salenceable 2 years ago

I'm running out of Stephen Kotkin videos.
@cecilefox9136 1 year ago

What a brilliant historian is Mr Kotkin.
@jaylinn416 5 years ago

It takes a street guy like Joe Pesci to really understand Stalin on the gut level.
@getevennow 1 year ago

Brilliant with language par excellence .Amazing clarity of mind
@harryaarrestad583 1 year ago

Find mr. Kotkin facinating , love his style of delivering his knowledge , and his accent . Dude’s cool 😎
@vanderkonig 3 years ago

Thank you Mr. Kotkin for your amazing body of work. You're an inspiration to us all. Also I just learnt that Kotkin and Remnick are the same age.
@philipford6183 5 years ago

What fantastic interview. Kotkin is endlessly entertaining.
@RogerBuffington 2 years ago

Kotkin is brilliant. What a wonderful talk.
@pawelsz4825 1 year ago

Gr8 material . Thnx
@joepisacreta3822 5 years ago

Absolute legend - thank you Mr. Kotkin!
@gaoxiaen1 3 years ago

Stephen Kotkin is the best!
@HugoNewman 4 years ago

The interviewer has an uncanny ability to interrupt and sidetrack Kotkin just as he's approaching the synthesis of a multi-faceted answer. Very frustrating.
@richardhausig9493 4 months ago

I'm not huge on Stalin or Russia but I can listen to/Prof Kotkin all day any day. He's makes it so interesting
@EjnerH1949 4 years ago

Kotkin is great but, very absorbed by his topic, by all his topics. David Remnick as an interviewer is excellent, insightful. If you just want to 'watch a lecture' there are lots of good Kotkin one and half hour uninterrupted presentations elsewhere. This is a very good panel discussion where Kotkin is "called out", asked to explain his opinions by a knowledgeable interviewer. Read the first 700 pager, half way through 'Waiting for Hitler', and waiting for third volume.
@emigrant41 4 years ago

Kotkin profound and accurate, just great as usual
@adamcathcart 9 years ago

Very engaging; great tidbits on Volkogonov, Beria, working in archives, amid a nice rapport with the discussant.
@jackiwannapaint3042 2 years ago

I have read a handful of bios of stalin including the Simon Montefiore book that I hold in some regard but Prof Kotkin adds a new dimension to the subject and I find it--and him--fascinating
@LDdrums20 3 years ago

What an excellent conversation!
@thomasjablonka3155 5 years ago

This editor interviewer moderator guy is a real jerk.
@EurekaRepublic89 8 years ago

Thank you for this talk, Joe Pesci! I mean Stephen Kotkin!