Slavoj Žižek with Stephen Kotkin on Stalinism

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Slavoj Žižek and Stephen Kotkin discuss Kotkin’s monumental new biography of Joseph Stalin. Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 covers the Soviet dictator’s youth, from his humble origins in Georgia as the son of a shoemaker to his days as a revolutionary organizer in Lenin’s inner circle.