American historian at Princeton and Hoover Institution — author of the multi-volume Stalin biography (Paradoxes of Power, Waiting for Hitler, Tyrant) — the most comprehensive and analytically serious Stalin biography in English.
Creates the definitive academic account of Stalin's rise and rule — Kotkin's Stalin biography (3 of projected 3 volumes) combines archival research with conceptual analysis in a way that makes Stalin comprehensible as a political actor without making him sympathetic.
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