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Hi everybody, welcome back to the Tom Wood Show episode 2491. I'm delighted to be joined once again

by my old Harvard professor Vladimir Brovkin. I want to talk about issues relating to Ukraine this time, but I also want to remind everybody

about Dr. Brovkin's new book from Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin, Russia in search of its identity, 1913 to

2023, which I highly recommend we'll get more into that no doubt in future

episodes, but welcome back Dr. Brovkin. Thank you.

Glad to be here.

Before we get into the questions I want to ask that pertain more closely to current events,

I just want to refresh my memory. Do you have any recollection of whether or not you assigned to us Robert Conquest's book Harvest of Sorrow about the terror famine in Ukraine?

Yes, I did. Yes, I did I did in fact in those days I wrote the review and I knew

Robert Kunk was personally he's a wonderful person is a great author a great colleague is one of the best of that age so yes indeed

because I was a nerd I had already read that book before I took your course but

I've recommended it ever since even though I suppose perhaps with the opening of the Soviet

Archives maybe there's a more thorough treatment that's been done since then?

Yeah there are more details but he got the big picture pretty much from the sources that he had.

When I did research for this book from Lenin to Putin,

and the terror in the 1930s was not my major focus.

I just wanted to summarize major things.

But I did discover some of the specifics.

For example, in some of the letters to the Siberian Bureau,

Dallin wrote about specific numbers of kulaks that had to be deported.

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