Unwrapping The Enigma, Mystery And Riddle: Stephen Kotkin Explains Russia To Andrew Roberts

Understanding the psyche of Russia and the Russians has bewildered Westerners for generations; foremost expert Stephen Kotkin gives some penetrating insights into how to do it.

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  • @maximilianglaus9811
    @maximilianglaus9811 Жыл бұрын

    After just having binge watched all of Hoover's interviews and talks with Mr. Kotkin - it's a great delight to see you having him on once more.

  • @stevefrayne
    @stevefrayne Жыл бұрын

    Thank you from the bottom of my heart for interviewing Kotkin. He is the most qualified man in the world to communicate to the west about the Soviet Union and hence modern Russia.

  • @bennnbrown
    @bennnbrown Жыл бұрын

    Great conversation !!! Stephen never disappoints!!

  • @tsuich00i
    @tsuich00i Жыл бұрын

    Andrew Roberts AND Stephen Kotkins?? You spoil us Hoover! I hope for many more duos and trios of genius like this.

  • @ralphdevito5897
    @ralphdevito5897 Жыл бұрын

    Always enjoy hearing Stephen Kotkin

  • @friendlyinternetman5271
    @friendlyinternetman5271 Жыл бұрын

    Immediate click for Kotkin

  • @gabrielfriedel4754
    @gabrielfriedel4754 Жыл бұрын

    Love them both. Kotkin crystal clear as always.

  • @felipecortez1042
    @felipecortez1042 Жыл бұрын

    I love these 2 historians, i really enjoyed listening to the whole interview

  • @thenoblegnuwildebeest3625
    @thenoblegnuwildebeest362510 ай бұрын

    Two of my favorite historians. It's amazing how Kotkin talks about learning Russian and Czech midway-through his PhD program. I've spent a year trying to learn French and feel like I've made no progress.

  • @brianheil8656
    @brianheil8656 Жыл бұрын

    Great conversation, between two great minds!

  • @aslamtu
    @aslamtu Жыл бұрын

    Great discussion. Dr. Kotkin is amazing.

  • @MMircea
    @MMircea Жыл бұрын

    Always a pleasure listening to Joe Pesci talk about historical and also contemporary Russian thugs :)

  • @alextyy
    @alextyy Жыл бұрын

    Public demand works again. Kotkin is a national treasure these days.

  • @annexcanada9987
    @annexcanada9987 Жыл бұрын

    Always great to hear Joe Pesci talk. Joe bless all of you.

  • @bagsjr1
    @bagsjr1 Жыл бұрын

    Within the video Stephen recommends reading: Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy Hardcover - February 8, 2022. I just ordered it.

  • Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful!

  • @shingnosis
    @shingnosis Жыл бұрын

    World-class.

  • @gjgoyena
    @gjgoyena Жыл бұрын

    I didn’t know Joe Pesci is such a scholar.

  • @1969cmp
    @1969cmp Жыл бұрын

    The insight into Hong Kong is thought-provoking.

  • @TheCtotheT
    @TheCtotheT Жыл бұрын

    This made my birthday 🎉

  • @StanleyGrill
    @StanleyGrill Жыл бұрын

    The opening music by Shostakovich by itself makes this a uniquely outstanding video!

  • @crazytactics3603
    @crazytactics3603 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @ferdinanddaratenas3447
    @ferdinanddaratenas3447 Жыл бұрын

    Stephen rules!

  • @RasmusDyhrFrederiksen
    @RasmusDyhrFrederiksen8 ай бұрын

    Absolute gem of an interview.

  • @johnprice3443
    @johnprice344311 ай бұрын

    very well done. Dr. Kotkin do not take this personally but i really hate you for being so smart and humble. The sttory about learning czech and it going nowhere so you had to learn Russian i had heard and was bad enough. The new addition today about getting queezzey in an operating room and chnaging the course of your career really was the cherry on top. stay well, the rest of us normal people are watching.

  • @patrickyoung2106
    @patrickyoung2106 Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic!

  • @Anthony-jo7up
    @Anthony-jo7up Жыл бұрын

    Kotkin!

  • @markb8468
    @markb8468 Жыл бұрын

    1st! WOOHOO. Any time I can hear this man speak I listen.

  • @michaelnichol8115
    @michaelnichol8115 Жыл бұрын

    Bloody brilliant! Thank you so much: Why oh why is he not on mainstream? HAH! do I really need to ask? 🤨Mick the Hick

  • @thomastallerico6340
    @thomastallerico634011 ай бұрын

    A brilliant historian that never disappoints.

  • @lesseelye4747
    @lesseelye4747 Жыл бұрын

    In this discussion Professor Kotkin indicates that the people of Russia in the 1930's were a true believer in the Soviet system. Accepting of the horrible treatment of the people. Did the people have that belief in the 1930's and Stalin rule exist because the conditions under the Czar's were even worse?

  • @jameslippincott7440

    @jameslippincott7440

    Жыл бұрын

    I don’t think so, what he’s talking about is people suspending disbelief for an ideal, which was ultimately unreal.

  • @sprezzatura8755
    @sprezzatura8755 Жыл бұрын

    Always enjoy listening to Stephen. Sort of an Ivy League Joe Pesci.

  • @lynngilbert1596
    @lynngilbert159610 ай бұрын

    Keats had same problem in med school, trying to tie off a carotid artery as i recall. He drpped out.

  • @1969cmp
    @1969cmp Жыл бұрын

    The push for renewable energy and lowering carbon etc footprint.........could this have the potential to be the developed world's "Great Leap Forward", a disaster.

  • @user-dr5lz6su5f
    @user-dr5lz6su5f Жыл бұрын

    Interesting to hear that someone has estimated all victims of communism between 1917 and 2017 at 65 million people. What about British imperialism? My guess would be something like 200 to 500 million victims in India, China, Americas, Africa and Australia within the period between early 18th and mid 20th centuries. Is then British imperialism worse than communism of all kinds?

  • @jakubjodlowski8416
    @jakubjodlowski8416 Жыл бұрын

    🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @stephenhammel4168
    @stephenhammel416811 ай бұрын

    Stephen Kotkin is an absolute delight and no doubt the premier historian par-excellence specifically focusing on the years of Stalin’s rise and assent to what would arguably become the worlds most powerful man. On a somewhat negative note here and I must say it only confirms my earlier suspicions about how Andrew Roberts unabashed biased towards everything British to the point of blinding and deafening certain facts that as he puts here in the interview to Mr Kotkins. response on Hong Kong as blaming the British and so forth. How anyone could read into that response an indictment on the Brits is obviously an overt symptom of that person narcissistic relationship to his country in which all relevant facts that don’t jive with his Anglo Saxon St Vitus dance are tossed away like soiled tissue paper. After all it’s Great Britain not so, so Guam or pretty shitty Paraguay. Such humility.

  • @paulheydarian1281
    @paulheydarian1281 Жыл бұрын

    Look at what the Hoover Institute hoovered up. *Joe Pesci*

  • @doctorwoohoo1152
    @doctorwoohoo1152 Жыл бұрын

    Forst!

  • @georgespix7125
    @georgespix7125 Жыл бұрын

    Survival rations. Start here for all the protein and carbs. You need, and store a year's worth. An airtight containers in your garage or attic. Now we have to have clean water or water that can be disinfected or boiled. Some dried jerky. Add one strip per day. And prepare a day's worth, overnight. Go run the numbers and we can understand why so many immigrants can send so much of their pay or busking back, because when you buy 25 lb bags at a time of the All you needs. It cost no money for a family of two working. Which is more than enough money to give give, tithe to their parish priest. To stick around, or the their family back home. To be able to give that money to their parish. To support the only social system that will ever work, voluntary societies. and has ever worked for most of these people. Both and getting people together, to share the pain, and distribute the excess, and always meet the minimum requirement. To live another day until civilization is rebuilt. Which it turns out we talk about musk creating robots that can duplicate themselves. But it turns out we've already had that ability with some people who can almost be self-taught by being an apprenticeship in a tool shop. Where the only self-reproducing hardware we need, beyond a ability to find iron ore and build some form of smelters. Fuel and a homemade bellow.The only tools you need are a lathe and a mill. And we could rebuild it all from the ground up. In 15 or 20 years. Squawks the macaw ht tp s://modernsurvivalblog.com/survival-kitchen/rice-and-beans-a-survival-combination/

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