5 Questions For Stephen Kotkin

<p style="font-weight:400;">Stephen Kotkin is a professor of history at Princeton and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the author of nine works of history, including the first two volumes of his planned three-volume history of Russian power and Joseph Stalin,<a href='https://www.amazon.com/Stalin-Volume-I-Stephen-Kotkin-audiobook/dp/B00QL17Z50/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=kotkin+stalin&qid=1643773852&sprefix=kotk%2Caps%2C351&sr=8-1'> Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928</a> and <a href='https://www.amazon.com/Stalin-Volume-II-Stephen-Kotkin-audiobook/dp/B07884ZNR8/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=kotkin+stalin&qid=1643773852&sprefix=kotk%2Caps%2C351&sr=8-2'>Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941</a>. The premise of this show is simple: Peter Robinson poses five questions to Dr. Kotkin: what Xi Jinping, the president of China believes; what Vladimir Putin believes; whether nuclear weapons are a deterrent in the 21st century; the chances of another American renewal; and Kotkin’s rational basis for loving the United States. It’s a fascinating conversation that delves deep into one of the country’s brightest minds.</p> <p style="font-weight:400;">Recorded on January 14, 2022</p>