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About the Event
Perhaps you think Joseph Stalin’s story has been told before, but Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 contains a host of astonishing revelations, bringing to the public’s attention for the first time materials from Soviet military intelligence and the secret police. The first of a projected three- volume study, the book has been described by the New York Times as “masterly” and by the Washington Post as “replete with witty aphorisms, vividly told anecdotes, and sweeping conclusions about power and politics.” In this talk, Kotkin will examine Stalin in the larger historical and geographic context, and employ that larger context to understand the place of Russia today under Vladimir Putin. Kotkin has taught at Princeton since 1989 and served as vice dean of the Woodrow Wilson School. He is also the W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, he is the author of several books, including Uncivil Society and Armageddon Averted. Venue
Present Day Club
72 Stockton Street
Princeton. NJ. US. 08540
Registration
Open exclusively to FPRI Members (and spouses) at the $250 level.
Reservations are required. RSVP: events@fpri.org
For more information contact 215 732 3774, ext 200 or events@fpri.org.
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