Books mentioned in “Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history”

Dwarkesh Patel · watch the video ↗

Stalin: Paradoxes of Power

Stephen Kotkin

Named as the first volume of Kotkin's Stalin biography trilogy.

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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler

Stephen Kotkin

Named as the second volume of Kotkin's Stalin biography trilogy.

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The Education of a True Believer

Lev Kopelev

Kotkin cites this memoir by Kopelev to explain the psychology of Soviet interrogators and collectivization enforcers.

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Uncivil Society

Stephen Kotkin

Dwarkesh references it directly ('This is your thesis in Uncivil Society, right?') regarding pushback from within communist systems.

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