As there is little to record about Stalin that is not political, this brilliant and fascinating volume is in effect a full-fledged "life and times." The author has devoted many years to studying the ...

06:21, Mon, Feb 12, 2018 Updated: 06:36, Mon, Feb 12, 2018 Kotkin opens the book by pointing out that Stain achieved very little in his first thirty-nine years and also that he was human, a point that ...

For all the blood on his hands, Josef Stalin is indisputably one of the most important historical figures of the 20 th century. But where many biographers agree with Leon Trotsky's waspish dismissal ...

Robert Tucker, a distinguished Sovietologist whose frustrations in persuading the authorities in Stalin’s Russia to let his new Russian wife accompany him home to the United States gave him crucial ...

On this week’s episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke with Stephen Kotkin, a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union who has just published the massive second volume of his Joseph Stalin ...

Even before it became the IT capital of India, Bangalore was the least left-wing of Indian cities. When it was merely a cantonment town, it exuded an air of placid contentment; that air is now ...

In the last 200 years the idea of will has gone from the most admired philosophical concept to the most maligned. Pulling yourself up by the bootstraps seemed the only way to go for Beethoven. Now we ...