Stephen Kotkin on Solzhenitsyn

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🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Historian and author Stephen Kotkin of Princeton University and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the historical significance of the life and work of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Solzhenitsyn's birth.

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0:31.0	Today is December 10, 2018, and before introducing today's guest, I want to encourage listeners
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0:54.2	His story in an author, Stephen Kotkin, of Princeton University, where he is the John P.
0:58.6	Berkland Professor in History, International Affairs, co-director of the Program in History
1:03.7	and the Practice of Diplomacy, and director of the Princeton Institute for International
1:08.1	and Regional Studies, is also a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
1:13.4	Among many books, he is the author of a massive award-winning biography of Joseph Stalin,
1:18.6	Stephen Welcome to Econ Talk.
1:20.8	Thank you, Russ.
1:21.8	Our topic for today is Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
1:24.6	We're taping this on December 10th, the day before Solzhenitsyn's 100th birthday, if
1:29.8	he were alive, and we did two episodes early this year with Kevin McKenna, the University
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