Stephen Kotkin: 12 books
Magnetic Mountain
Stalinism as a Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 1997
This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin's decision to transform the predominantly...
Stalin
Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world
It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band...
Stalin
Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history
In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over...
Uncivil Society
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection,...
Armageddon Averted : Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue--bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse--this compact, original, and engaging book offers the definitive account...
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Stephen Kotkin
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Featuring an extensive, provocative introduction by historian Martin Malia, this authorized English translation of The Communist Manifesto, edited and annotated by Engels, with prefaces to editions published between 1872 and 1888, provides a new opportunity to examine the document that shook the...
by Stephen Kotkin, Bruce Allen Elleman
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
The remote vastness of Mongolia has remained somewhat of a mystery to most Westerners - no less so in the 20th century. Homeland of the legendary conqueror Chingiz Khan, in modern times Mongolia itself has been the object of imperial rivalry. For most of the 20th century it was under Soviet domination....
A un passo dall'Apocalisse
Il collasso sovietico, 1970-2000
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Durante la Guerra Fredda nessuno avrebbe immaginato che il crollo dell’Unione Sovietica sarebbe stato scatenato da dinamiche interne, e nemmeno che sarebbe avvenuto in relativa calma, senza grandi conflitti. Il lavoro di Stephen Kotkin mostra che la prima causa del collasso sovietico non è stata...
Beijing's Power and China's Borders
Twenty Neighbors in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
China shares borders with 20 other countries. Each of these neighbors has its own national interests, and in some cases, these include territorial and maritime jurisdictional claims in places that China also claims. Most of these 20 countries have had a history of border conflicts with China; some...
Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East
Siberia and the Russian Far East
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
This work presents a trans-Siberian expedition to rediscover the peoples, cultures and riches of Russia's eastern frontiers. It addresses such questions as: who are the people of the region?; have they a distinct culture?; and does the area have a future as part of the Pacific Rim?
Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia
Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The common images of Korea view the peninsula as a long-standing battleground for outside powers and the Cold War's last divided state. But, Korea's location at the very center of Northeast Asia gives it a pivotal role in the economic integration of the region and the dynamic development of its more...
Manchurian Railways and the Opening of China: An International History
An International History
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The railways of Manchuria offer an intriguing vantage point for an international history of northeast Asia. Before the completion of the Trans-Siberian railway in 1916, the only rail route from the Imperial Russian capital of St. Petersburg to the Pacific port of Vladivostok transited Manchuria. A...