Stephen Kotkin?

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Stephen Kotkin is the Birkelund Professor in History and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University, where he directs the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and co-directs the Program in the History and Practice of Diplomacy. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He was the business book reviewer for the New York Times Sunday business section for a number of years. His essays and reviews appear in Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941, is his sixth book.

been meaning to pick up a book or two of his
his talks are excellant

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