Tag Stephen Kotkin

Solzhenitsyn’s accent

Stephen Kotkin, the author of two biographical books on Stalin, wrote in this week’s issue of the Times Literary Supplement: Solzhenitsyn wrote it [The Gulag Archpelago] conspiratorially, in fragments, hiding his completed sections in the homes of trusted allies… In…

Kotkin on Putin

Stephen Kotkin has published a long article entitled Gasputin in The New Republic. One can read the first page by Googling “stephen kotkin gasputin.” The remaining four pages are only available to subscribers. Could somebody sum up Kotkin’s main points?…