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Stephen Kotkin
Historian
Stephen Kotkin appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across artificial intelligence, geopolitics, history. Lex describes Stephen Kotkin as historian.
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2025
1 appearance
Dwarkesh Podcast / July 10, 2025 / Episode #88
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history
The most consequential figure of the 20th century
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Why did so many go along with enforced famine and the Great Terror?
Why did so many go along with enforced famine and the Great Terror?
2022
1 appearance
Lex Fridman Podcast / May 25, 2022 / Episode #289
Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine
Stephen Kotkin is a historian specializing in Stalin and Soviet history.
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Russian invasion of Ukraine
Stephen Kotkin and Lex Fridman discuss russian invasion of ukraine.
2020
1 appearance
Lex Fridman Podcast / January 3, 2020 / Episode #0
Stephen Kotkin: Stalin, Putin, and the Nature of Power
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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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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Stephen Kotkin
Historian
Stephen Kotkin appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across artificial intelligence, geopolitics, history. Lex describes Stephen Kotkin as historian.
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3
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January 3, 2020 to July 10, 2025
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