Stalin’s early years and Mein Kampf

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🗓️ 1 January 2015

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Princeton historian Stephen Kotkin, author of a major new biography of Josef Stalin, describes the Soviet leader's path to power. Meanwhile, BBC journalist Chris Bowlby gives us the lowdown on his forthcoming Radio 4 documentary about Adolf Hitler's notorious book, Mein Kampf. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.1	I even came across in a library in Munich a copy, would you believe, in Braille?
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1:01.7	In terms of the accumulation of power and the exercise of power, this is in many ways the gold standard dictatorship. It's very hard to see who has built up and exercised more power than Stalin had.
1:08.0	And that was Stephen Kotkin, author of a major new biography of Joseph Stalin.
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