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Stephen Kotkin on Robert Conquest’s Conquering the Former Soviet Union

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.

Monday, January 25, 2016 0 min read with

Stephen Kotkin, Eric Wakin,