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Huh. Thanks for the article.
I’ve read Kotkin’s volumes on Stalin and enjoy his writing style. I saw his interviews at the Hoover Institution at Stanford years ago (the YouTube videos), and I remember him making the same statements you are. Stalin definitely did believe in his program of “Socialism in One Country.” I found the discussion over the question of Trotsky between Hitchens and Service about the impact he would’ve had on the Revolution had things fallen his way to be interesting. I’ve read a decent amount on Trotsky. Not many people knew he was as good of an orator to the Russians as Hitler was to the Germans.
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