Stephen Kotkin on Robert Conquest’s Conquering the Former Soviet Union
Hoover research fellow Stephen Kotkin discusses C…
February 4, 201633m 8s
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Show Notes
Hoover research fellow Stephen Kotkin discusses Conquest’s revelatory work on life behind the Iron Curtain, noting that Conquest definitively established the colossal scale of Soviet horrors, correctly identified their source in Marxist ideas and practices, and underscored the legions of Western dupes who retailed Soviet lies, beginning when Stalin was alive and decades thereafter.