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Two experts on Joseph Stalin - one a Marxist philosopher, the other a historian - come together to discuss the Soviet dictator’s origins, and his painful mark on history. STEPHEN KOTKIN is the Birkelund Professor of History and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and History department of Princeton University, where he has taught since 1989. He is also a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His most recent book is Stalin, vol. I: Paradoxes of Power. He has also written Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment, with Jan T. Gross; Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse 1970-2000; and Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization. Kotkin has served as vice dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and is again directing Princeton’s Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies program. Outside Princeton, he was the book reviewer for The New York Times Sunday Business section (2006-9) and has worked with George Soros’ Open Society Foundat
