What Stalin Can Teach Us About Putin

January 22, 2015

Stalin/Putin: Geopolitics, Power, Ideas (January 15, 2015)

What do we really know about Stalin, how he built his personal dictatorship, and how he exercised power? Are there deep patterns in Russian history that seem to recur? Specifically, are there resemblances between the Putin and Stalin regimes?

In a recent event, Stephen Kotkin and Bill Keller addressed these questions and more. Listen above.

Topics

Anticorruption, Rule of Law

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A group of volunteers clear out rubble from a building

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