Waiting for hitler, 19291941 is the story of how a political system forged an unparalleled personality and vice versa. Yet he maintains that if the soviet elite had so chosen, they could have sustained it decades longer. Stephen mark kotkin is professor of history and director of the program in russian studies at princeton university. Sep 06, 2001 this is the story of the structural factors behind the soviet collapse, which did not suddenly end in 1991, and the relation of the structural to the great personalities such as mikhail gorbachev and boris yeltsin. Our rbdigital platform distributes the broadest array of digital content typesincluding audiobooks, video, magazines, ebooks, education, and entertainmentall in one powerful app. Dec 23, 2008 armageddon averted by stephen kotkin, 9780195368635, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. He founded and coedited a book series on northeast asia that published six. Armageddon averted by stephen kotkin overdrive rakuten. The books pithy and vivid prose will draw in the novice reader, while scattering plenty of tidbits for. Kotkins book should attract both the academic and the informed general reader. See all books authored by stephen kotkin, including armageddon averted.
With an overdrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for ataglance information about availability. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on modern authoritarian regimes, global history 1850present, and sovieteurasian history. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Combining historical and geopolitical analysis with an absorbing narrative, kotkin draws upon extensive research, including memoirs by dozens of insiders and senior figures, to illuminate the factors that led to the demise of communism and the ussr. Stephen kotkin joined the princeton faculty in 1989. Princeton university historian stephen kotkin takes up these salient questions in his concise, readable, and informative book armageddon averted.
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