What Everyone Needs to Know about Russia Under Putin - FPRI's 2018 Champagne Brunch for Partners
What Everyone Needs to Know about Russia Under Putin Stephen Kotkin April 22, 2018 On this special occasion, we were pleased to feature our new Eurasia Fellow for 2018, Stephen Kotkin, an outstanding lecturer and scholar. Professor Kotkin has been teaching in the History Department at Princeton since 1989, and holds a joint appointment at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs, where he has been vice dean. Two volumes of his trilogy on Stalin have been published to critical acclaim -- Stalin: Paradoxes of Power (2014) and Stalin: Waiting for Hitler (2017) – as have his earlier books, Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (2009); Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse (2008), and Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (1995). He writes frequently on Russian and Eurasian affairs for The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Washington Post.
