Spends half the lecture, "We will not be talking about x,y,z." XD
@malvolio014 роки тому
Can't get enough of Joe Pesci's smart twin.
@arturogal45054 роки тому
Hahaha I knew this guy looked like someone!
@yourpooruncle43564 роки тому
@@arturogal4505 Sounds like him most of all.
@sethnotes3 роки тому
This is the best UKposts comment ever. And neither can I.
@chuckles85193 роки тому
THAT'S who he looks like - thank you!
@fullmetalalchemist91263 роки тому
Who the fuck is Joe Pesci
@AvenRadcliffeРік тому
Kotkin explains history in interesting and relevant ways. Easily digestible. He’s a gift to learning.
@walterthorne4819Рік тому
One of the most interesting teachers I have followed via UKposts…..Many thanks Professor Kotkin.
@igorabasjidze11944 роки тому
..My grandfather was a Red Army officer. Regiment commander at the age of 30, lieutenant-colonel. Second Ukrainian Front. ..He had survived Battle of Moscow, Stalingrad and died with his regiment in 1944 storming the city of Sebastopol...
@erikritli17763 роки тому
My Grandfather also fought at Stalingrad, Hungarian second army, was lucky to survive.
@ilogos81243 роки тому
My grand-uncle was at Stalingrad, too. Spanish Divisíon Azúl, came home with an Iron Cross ;-)
@giorgikolxicolchian95813 роки тому
ქართველი ხარ? ბაბუაჩემიც იბრძოდა ლენინგრადის ბლოკადაში იყო, მერე ბერლინამდე ჩავიდა
@andrewrodgers21803 роки тому
Thanks to your grandfather for his service. Lest we Forger
@felipewerner66703 роки тому
@Joseph Stalin gulag him hard mr stalin!
@lhaviland86024 роки тому
This guy's dry wit is amazing!
@alexplotkin33684 роки тому
What I admire about Kotkin is his rigorously empirical approach to history. And his looking at evidence, and drawing conclusions, in a very logical fashion. At the end, he talks about not having sufficient evidence to draw conclusions on certain issues. But also having ample evidence on certain issues. This makes his lectures and writing so interesting.
@andyjay46953 роки тому
Watching Stephen Kotkin talk about Stalin was a day of lockdown well spent
@1940limited3 роки тому
Yes, and now you can experience right here at home in DC with Beijing Biden!
@bayron453 роки тому
@@1940limited Trump this Biden that. Take your nonsense somewhere else, this is not Fox News's comment section. The world is a more complicated place. If you read Stephen Kotkin's book about Stalin and if you weren't such an illiterate you wouldn't be making this type of low IQ trolling comments.
@1940limited3 роки тому
@@bayron45 Another hate-filled, ignorant comment from a Biden lover! You guys are all alike. If you weren't such an ignorant fool you'd keep your insults and stupid replies to yourself. BTW, I'm familiar with Kotkins, have read his works and seen some of his lectures. Nor do I watch Fox News! So go to hell. You're the ignorant one.
@Sean-xy4hk2 роки тому
@@1940limited Wait, are you saying Biden is a communist? Lmao I wish he was, but as a communist myself, I can assure you he's not 😂
@C_R_O_M________2 роки тому
@@Sean-xy4hk you are a communist? If admitting to absolute foolishness and ignorance on a public forum is your thing, go ahead and spread the word, otherwise go take a few economic classes and books (preferably of the Austrian school). I bet that you have no idea what you are supporting (and what you are opposing too)!
@ingenuity1684 роки тому
I like Stephen Kotkin's style of lecture.
@roc78803 роки тому
purely Socratic. he is making you see the light, instead of just giving you the stuff
@roc78803 роки тому
but he knows where the light is.
@johnbanwell63913 роки тому
stephen kotkin is a fine man and a fine scholar. We need more like him.
@88omair3 роки тому
I like how we heard about everything we were "not going to hear about"
@BronzeBullBalls3 роки тому
He has to sell his book
@davidcoleman27962 роки тому
He always does this .
@giorgimerabishvili81945 років тому
Stephen Kotkin is absolutely brilliant author!
@ottomeyer69283 роки тому
@Sam Rocks true
@ottomeyer69283 роки тому
ultra was not yet active
@VladTokarev5 років тому
Steven Kotkin's Stalin's trilogy Part I & II are on audiobook now and it's amazing how detailed the books are. He is a brilliant historian. Can't wait for the next book of the trilogy!
@thecrow48405 років тому
Do you know when the release date of Stalin At War???
@gaygambler4 роки тому
Vlad Tokarev kotkins tells what we know. “Mostly. But he talks mostly bollox
@thecrow48404 роки тому
@@gaygambler for example?
@samueldyer41004 роки тому
@@thecrow4840 Grover Furr tears Kotkin apart my man.
@thecrow48404 роки тому
@@samueldyer4100 in what sense? Elaborate?
@johnjarpe9055Рік тому
What was not mentioned about the Soviet tanks is that the war planners studied the limited life expectancy of a Soviet tank and concluded that it would have been a waste of good materials to put quality parts made of quality materials into a tank that was going to have a severely limited life span so they used crappy parts made out of crappy materials on purpose. Not all T-34s were made alike.
@Vziad5647Рік тому
Потрясающе поучительная лекция блестящего историка профессора Коткина.Огромное спасибо!
@squamish42442 роки тому
The idea of Stalin having a nervous breakdown and blowing the joint for his cabin in the woods is just too amusing to me. If even he can snap, then maybe I'm okay.
@gg2fan2 роки тому
I imagine having the fate of the entire slavic race and Eastern Europe on your shoulders if a pretty understandable reason to snap
@squamish42442 роки тому
@@gg2fan I don't think Stalin gave a shit about anybody unless it involved his own career and in the system he had created, his life as well. So by default he carried the fate of the Slavs on his shoulders because if too many of them died he would lose the war and probably end up murdered or executed.
@user-hz5wy5vx1k2 роки тому
Nervous breakdown? The Man Of Steel, the revolutionary who was preparing the USSR for the war for 10 years? Don’t let morons brainwash you.
@tusker24182 роки тому
Everyone faces challenges and everyone falters at least once in their life. So it's not a question of maybe, it's an assurance that you are human and most definitely okay even when you encounter setbacks. That being said, Stalin didn't breakdown upon Nazi invasion. Whatever your opinion of Stalin, and he was no Saint, to suggest that he wasn't a brilliant military leader is just false. Especially if you compare him to Churchill and Roosevelt. During the Civil War, when Russia was invaded by foreign advisories, Lenin always dispatched Stalin to take control of the battlefield when they faced impossible odds or when they were losing ground. It was Stalin's experience during the Civil War that made him the tactician he was during WW2. Russia and it's people, led by Stalin, were the reason the Nazis were defeated. All the Allies played a role in their defeat, but it was Russia that tipped the scales. The world owes Russia and it's people a great debt. Without their bravery and sacrifice, I don't even want to imagine the world we would be facing now.
@BoRisMc3 роки тому
This guys kills it everytime. Amazing speaker
@TranscendianIntendor4 роки тому
I've done some study of tanks since tanks take territory. One of the stories about the T34 is that their crews, the driver, the commander had to look out of the tank with inferior optics. It is a big deal to not be able to sight your gun or drive with situational awareness when you can't see. The Germans had also put radios in their tanks whereas the Russians had few. So often Russian tanks were half blind and were not coordinated with their infantry or other tanks. Russians did have very good and numerous artillery pieces. Earlier today I watched the CATO lecture. It is more timely & useful far as balance of power questions & Russian Policy imperatives. I want to thank Stephen Kotkin for his work & those who work to present him in these youtube lectures.
@dickyt13182 роки тому
the thing that the USSR had plenty of was man [& woman] power and it was their extravigant expenditure of this 'resource'which eventually helped them to their victories.
@TranscendianIntendor2 роки тому
@@dickyt1318 This was good propaganda. As the war progressed the Soviets became much more conservative of their manpower. Note that their ground attack aircraft were very well armored. They did not take the same tact at all as the Japanese. The Caldron tactics of the Germans that worked so well for them, was imitated by the Soviets. Those tactics worked well for the Soviets.
@peaceandlove5442 роки тому
But those tanks were made for Russian's tough climate, terrain, not the Germans and that became and issue.
@Senor0Droolcup4 роки тому
Fantastic lecture. Having read so many of the authors mentioned by Kotkin, I think I learned more in this 54 minute lecture than in years of reading the top works on the Great Patriotic War.
@leomarkaable14 роки тому
Read Viktor Suvorov, ex-GRU intelligence officer, for a true history of WW2. He has been sentenced to death in absentia. His most comprehensive work is " The Chief Culprit".
@user-bo8iy1zj7i2 роки тому
@@leomarkaable1 Суворов иуда
@C0wb0yBebop4 роки тому
Stephen Kotkin “You’re not gonna hear about this, but I’ll talk about it anyway.” 😂
@Gibbsian364 роки тому
It's called "apophasis".
@ottomeyer69283 роки тому
shut up
@David-ln8qh2 роки тому
@UN KNOWN Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
@jstanley83422 роки тому
His opening crack on Stalin's sense of humor actually had me LOL.
@JoeDraiser2 роки тому
Thats an obvious bullshit. Crack for western hearer that anticipate something stuff to hear. I'm not a Stalin fan boy totally but I never heard about such stupid 'humor' from any real historians. It must be taken from some fictional novell
@jstanley83422 роки тому
@@JoeDraiser Yes. But it's funny.
@stephendean28963 роки тому
Magnetic Mountain is book authored by Stephen Kotkin. It's about everyday life of citizens living in Magnitogorsk Russia during the 1930s. It is the best book I have read about what life was like under stalinism before The Great Patriotic War.
@Sputnikoff2 роки тому
Behind The Urals by John Scott is a great book by an American who worked there
@squamish42442 роки тому
I don't know how these authors stay sane writing about all this hideous stuff. Probably know when to take a break and have a beer.
@Sputnikoff2 роки тому
@@squamish4244 John Scott was a socialism fanboy, aka "tankie" by modern lingo. A couple of years in the USSR healed that problem
@squamish42442 роки тому
@@Sputnikoff Well, I mean, how do all the writers who deal with Hitler and Stalin and what happens to everyone else when two disgusting people butt heads using human lives as their weapons. I can only take so much of this stuff before it starts screwing with my head so I don't know how they have the stomach to go back to the well repeatedly. E.g. Simon Sebag-Montefiore said that while he was writing 'The Court of the Red Tsar' he had horrible nightmares about people being tortured and beaten.
@carlosmarte4282 роки тому
@@squamish4244 I suppose that it depends on the individual. Some people are capable of experiencing hell and returning to some semblance of normalcy. It’s definitely not the norm though.
@analitykiemzycia54903 роки тому
When referring to Stalin and WWII, Prof. Kotkin is truly one of a kind. Next to him is Prof. David Gantz. However, most will agree that Gantz is a terrible author. He just doesn't have it. If brief, DG's work is dry. Reading the labour of Kotkin is a pleasure and it's easy to ride to the end, with pure enjoyment. Kotkin is a skilled author, able to hold interests. I would suggest that most history buffs purchase all of his writings. His thick books on Stalin should have been broken up becuz of the difficulty in carrying and other reasons. Sto Lat do Kotkina (May Kotkin live a 100 yrs.).
@whatslifespurposeРік тому
This is absolute gold and should be shown everywhere.
@Scar6263 роки тому
I haven't ever heard this take on Stalin and the Soviet Union during war time before and I have to admit, this makes more sense than the conventional narrative I usually get from documentaries and lectures
@fellowtraveler22512 роки тому
Its because theres a heavy cold-war anti-soviet bias that has been heavily integrated into the study of the subject, oftentimes leaving out much of the nuance and objectivity because it doesn't serve to demonize the USSR.
@alex987alex9872 роки тому
@@fellowtraveler2251 Communist ideology, and USSR as an embodiment thereof, was widely regarded as an existential threat well before the cold war. Imagine how the only "great power" that didn't suffer at all from the Great Depression looked like to the powers that be (or the masses) in 1930s.
@jerryrichardson2799Рік тому
An excellent lecture that acknowledged how complicated and contradictory history can be.
@Coastfog2 роки тому
3:04 As a cameraman, I felt that... "so folks are gonna stay in place?" "yeah, sit behind the cam and relax, just make sure the speaker is in focus and press record." "okiedokes..."
@Coastfog2 роки тому
"should we do a 2 camera setup just in case we need to edit or wanna make the talk a bit more dynamic?" "nah, client said 1 is fine."
@calvincanterbury56142 роки тому
Infatuated with WW2 my Grandfather was in the Battle of the Bulge. Love this. Ty
@alanpennie80133 роки тому
Stalin destroyed himself in winning the war. I've often thought that and it's good to see a scholar confirm it.
@edwardcone6860Рік тому
Brilliant and utterly fascinating exposition. Thank you, Professor Kotkin!
@brucevilla5 років тому
Thanks for Uploading.
@tuirfghfhg17874 роки тому
and then Stalin stopped and said to Voroshilov: "funny? funny how? what the fuck do you mean I am funny?"
@jps01173 роки тому
LOL, very good. He's just trying to amuse us... like a clown.
@samstewart48074 роки тому
Great content. Too bad NO one LISTENED to it before they posted it TURN UP THE VOLUME!
@johnsmith14744 роки тому
You needn't be subject to the volume offered to you, just run the signal to a stereo and you can have it knock you off your chair if you like.
@eamonngaines98874 роки тому
Download it in RealPlayer, then play it back on VLC Player, turn it up as loud as you like on your PC or smartphone or whatever.
@samstewart48074 роки тому
@@eamonngaines9887 this is not my problem.
@busterbiloxi38334 роки тому
Your computer has a volume control, you stupid bastard. Use it!
@mitreswell4 роки тому
Nothing wrong with my volume here. Maybe your hearing aid batteries need replacing?
@jmichaelortiz2 роки тому
Marvelous lecture! thank you, Professor Kotkin!
@ladlane2 роки тому
This is a preview of Volume 3. As always, great lecture!
@37Dionysos3 роки тому
Thanks! Much very worthwhile once he gets going!
@JC-gw3yo4 роки тому
Could listen to this man all day. Could us some question and answer too
@jjforcebreaker4 роки тому
Hell yeah Mr. Kotkin! Thanks for publishing this lecture.
@davidkugel2 роки тому
Excellent and informative lecture. Thanks for posting it. Kotkin knows his stuff.
@shirleymason7697Рік тому
Always, always eager to listen to Dr. Kotkin.
@bozo56323 роки тому
Triumph of the Will... It was Stalin who held the USSR together, when the whole German plan depended on "the whole rotten edifice" crumbling down swiftly. Who could have replaced him? So imho Stalin was the central, indispensable figure in the Soviet victory. Churchill's personal refusal to negotiate with Natzis and his personal ability to draw the USA into the war made him perhaps similarly indispensible. The USSR did fall in the 90's... But that wasn't the threat that Russia faced in 1941. Stalin avoided annihilation and extermination. Russia and most of the other former republics are better off today than they were in 1941. They would have been lebensraum without old Joe.
@alanpennie80132 роки тому
You got to give him that. He was a vicious bastard, but he did organise the defeat of Hitler.
@user-hz5wy5vx1k2 роки тому
Very well said. Stalin is the greatest leader in history. The odd thing is he was a hero and “Uncle Joe” for the US and two times man of the year in Times magazine before 1945 and then suddenly the US realized he was in fact a bloody dictator. Quite schizophrenic, don’t you agree?
@bozo56322 роки тому
@@user-hz5wy5vx1k He was a bloody dictator. That only bothers America when it's not convenient.
@user-hz5wy5vx1k2 роки тому
@@bozo5632 Well, America’s beliefs/ concerns/ demands are less and less relevant. And the truth is out there for anyone with more than 2 brain cells to see.
@bozo56322 роки тому
@@borbo23 It depends how you define 'dictator,' but if Stalin wasn't a dictator then who was? Stalin aside, the USSR was dictatorial. It was also bloody, and not only during the revolution. I would describe the uncontested (and uncontestable) ruler of a bloody dictatorship as a bloody dictator. Hitler was also popular, and chosen through some process, and also a bloody dictator. If Stalin wasn't one, then neither was Hitler. If they don't count, then has there ever been a dictator? The czars and feudal barons before Stalin were bloody dictators too. So the revolution can be justified, and thus the (sometimes bloody) results of the revolution can perhaps be justified, or at least (perhaps) excused. And it's much better now as a result, so maybe you can justify all of it that way. So maybe you can justify Stalin's bloody dictation (joke), but it is what it is. You can argue that it's a damned good thing that Stalin was Stalin. The results of the revolution might have been worse without him. Certainly ww2 might have been worse without him, especially for the Soviets. (Not to mention millions of Soviet Jews.) How Stalin is remembered will be an accident of history, and forever in flux. It will not be an objective, impartial final judgment. Depends on who's writing the history and how they want it to look.
@blakehoward52272 роки тому
Remarkable job! Definitely transformed my understanding of Stalinist rule and the events leading up to the war.
@vahagsh12084 роки тому
I gotta say this is one of the most objective and well balanced reports I've ever heard on ww2 eastern front and coming from former Soviet Union country I've heard so many of them starting from my school years.
@NikolaAvramov4 роки тому
The man is a McCarthyite lunatic that literally advocates nuclear war.
@newmillennial42484 роки тому
Nikola Avramov literally? I’m genuinely curious, do you have the source to back up this claim? I’d like to hear his arguments for advocating nuclear war.
@NikolaAvramov4 роки тому
@@newmillennial4248 50:00 ukposts.info/have/v-deo/nKGapYurm3yak30.html He's literally advocating for starting of World War 3 'cause "that'll show 'em". The man's insane and should be banned from public platforms because he's literally lobbying for the planet's surface to be scorched in a nuclear exchange. 'cause that would happen if his wish would come true.
@jrus6902 роки тому
McCarthyite lunatic, for one talking about the Soviets the way he is I do not think I would be referring to him that way. McCarthyite would be doing the opposite, and would not be speaking highly of the Soviets.
@Bravo-Too-Much4 роки тому
He spends 20 minutes talking about what he wasn’t going to talk about in this lecture.
@sebastiansterner79454 роки тому
Welcome aboard.
@jerseycitysteve4 роки тому
It's a rhetorical device.
@goodplenty5344 роки тому
He does it all the time.
@ZZz-jq4tt3 роки тому
the worlds premier Soviet scholar carries around a sackfull of caveats
@jhony4013 роки тому
read the books....3 of then ...big
@etbadaboum4 роки тому
A great Kotkin performance
@dimitriosfromgreece42274 роки тому
Yes yes Love from SWEDEN ❤
@FiddelCastro4 роки тому
this is very interesting! loved the lecture
@McIntyreBible4 роки тому
I agree; Kotchin makes the subject something worth listening to! Most lectures are boring, but not S.Kotchin's!
@Swellington_Рік тому
This guy is awesome, and he knows his stuff too
@alcoholfree63812 роки тому
What a teacher! Near the end of his talk, after enumerating numerous facts about Stalin and his massive roles, Professor Kotkin cups his hand over his mouth and tells us: “He was Stalin!”
@mishacknthane10602 роки тому
I discovered professor kotkin recently I'm hooked he is a very brilliant historian
@ET_Bermuda5 років тому
OMG, I just so happen to have the time to kill & THIS pops up! Yes! An unexpectedly good day! I love this guy's lectures.
@tommyodonovan38835 років тому
I love Joe Pessie....Didn't know he had a doctorate in history, best selling author.....It might be the Keystones Talk'n but I learned something today.
@AndreAndFriends4 роки тому
@@TheWersum idiot, yes, you!!!! Germans were winning at first. Then the idiots thought that they already won the war & started to enslave & kill civilians. So, the people got pissed & kicked zee German arse. First two years of the war, more than 50% of the local population was pro Hitler. Than everyone learned the truth about zee German superiority. . ......
@gmatsue844 роки тому
@@TheWersum Soviets were outnumbered? Check your data
@gmatsue844 роки тому
@@TheWersum ????? Kotkin didn't mention Dunkirk, logical and smart or non of the crap you talked about. Nobody mentioned a piece of nazi propaganda here. What are you even talking about? How does that relate to anything in the comment? Fucking lunatic
@fury86464 роки тому
@@TheWersum Dude i think you need to account for soviet reserve divisions which overall would still give USSR the numerical advantage in WWII.
@ThePinnacleOfCynical2 роки тому
“You been gone awhile, I don’t shine shoes no more, nah I talk at podiums now” Pesci if he hit the books some more
@williamfragaszy60168 місяців тому
Having read the excellent first two volumes, I am anxiously awaiting the publication of the final volume.
@shaunlanighan8133 роки тому
Love his lectures
@johncook38715 років тому
Professor Pesci is back!
@VladTokarev5 років тому
Barabim-baraboom!
5 років тому
Indeed, a good fella!
@AndreAndFriends4 роки тому
Haha, so true.
@thecrow48405 років тому
This lecture was brilliant
@74subutai5 років тому
What a wonderful introduction.
@ryanpyle98225 років тому
I hope this means Volume 3 is coming soon since he's giving speeches about WWII
@scotthanlon125 років тому
I understand it's expected in October.
@ffleischer5 років тому
and he mentioned it’s taking longer than expected during a recent CATO lecture...
@milosmilojevic35065 років тому
I think during autumn this year
@AK-cm8qe5 років тому
@@ffleischer Indeed, I believe his wording was "years away."
@varovaro19675 років тому
Scott Hanlon thank you, how do you know? They are extraordinary.
@noheroespublishing19073 роки тому
So, what you're telling me is that the eastern front is the greatest HBO series never made and that we only have the Soviet film 'Come and See' to view that gives us a glimpse of the madness of that period?
@claudiaauditoredafirenze4323 роки тому
nope, we have starmedia brilliant documentaries
@paulzx50342 роки тому
@Alexis Z. ??? Did you saw the movie?
@sarpedon95842 роки тому
@Alexis Z. what propaganda are you talking about?
@TalkernateHistory4 роки тому
Volume 3 when, Stephen?
@soyusmaximus71764 роки тому
Oberstein's always creeping around.
@renatosky78284 роки тому
The gulag archipelago aleksandr solzhenitsyn
@GS5402 роки тому
@Adrian Delgado What is your source on this?
@alanpennie8 місяців тому
It's a good question.
@rup3rt752 місяці тому
Excellent lecture and great demonstration of oratory
@andreykuchin63674 роки тому
Stalin: What! You haven't been arrested yet? Kotkin:
@arsbekbek25884 роки тому
yes. he lost the weight and hair got white. ww3. no chance
@ned9005 років тому
I love this man. Pity the Q&A section is not here, but nevertheless, to the uploader, thank you.
@YungBosshog4 роки тому
Love this man and his knowledge. Can't help but think that his voice reminds me of a Bronx mob boss.
@Tyler-ut6st3 роки тому
He reminds me of a certain actor but I can't put my finger on it
@TheCaliph12343 роки тому
Vinny / Pesci
@koolaidman3243 роки тому
Hyman Roth from The Godfather! 😂
@milamilojevic83464 роки тому
I hope prof Kotkin will finish third volume in near future! First two volumes are already great achievments
@svendbosanvovski42414 роки тому
Stephen is a brilliant historian. His two volumes (so far) on Stalin are immense. They reward close reading. So much writing on the Soviet Union is infected with propaganda and bias, but you truly feel Stephen's implacable search for the truth.
@khrachvikkhrachvik70494 роки тому
Yeah. It's too bad that when you check his sources, the entire second book seems to be dishonest. Which is a bummer, because the first one was pretty good.
@arthurdent91603 роки тому
I really loved how he pointed out the skewed misconceptions of the war in favour of *both* Nazi Germany and the Soviets. So often you here either the one narrative or the other. Truly a breeze of fresh air.
@khrachvikkhrachvik70493 роки тому
@The RightStuff sorry! You're absolutely right. what I mean is that kotkin, even as ideologically motivated as he is, and even as much misleading language as he uses, was over all correct on facts throughout the first book, and if you check his sources against what he says, they generally check out (going back to primary sources). The second book, forever, feels like he lets his research assistants run wild or something. I personally checked 8 claims and by the secondary source, all 8 did not match up to what kotkin claims they do in the book. 3 of those led directly to hearsay that was debunked (one iif which was debunked over a decade before he wrote it), impossible to verify stories that are written as if they are facts. For all of the historical integrity of the first book, it seems to be missing completely in the second. Another historian in this field wrote an entire book debunking kotkin here. Grover furr. The book is called "blood lies"
@khrachvikkhrachvik70493 роки тому
@The RightStuff No problem! It's just really a shame that this stuff doesn't get more widely circulated. Kotkin's popular, but the debunking of the second book? It's been pushed down and down and down. As for bias... Kotkin? He's a conservative. Ideological bias isn't really a deal-breaker, though. As we saw with his first book. It dispelled many misconceptions and myths about the Soviet Union and Stalin and focused on history for the most part. Knowing a bias is a good thing for understanding language use, but we should never use it the way people in media teach us to use it, to dismiss something that might challenge our preconceptions. We have an entire field (historiography) that wouldn't exist if we did that, you know?
@khrachvikkhrachvik70493 роки тому
@Kit yeah. So... for source discrepancies, it's a far far far more labor intensive way of getting at the deception. If you check any random grouping of, let's say a dozen of three footnotes against the sources they cite, then check that source against what it cites, etc, down to the "primary source" (and this is something even first year college students are taught to use, primary sources), you will find at least 10, if not 11 or 12 of them have misrepresented something somewhere, sometimes going so far as to outright make things up (the story about the ukrainian/ grave, for example - made up). The misleading language example: use of the word "dictator" to describe Stalin. Just one off the top of my head. It's been a while since I watched this. If you'd like, I'll give it another watch and give a bigger list, but I hope this is good to get you started. There is a good book called "stalin: waiting for the truth" that exposes a LOT LOT LOT more. (There are free pdf versions online and the author has put most primary source evidence on his website for people to verify)
@rojaaaa4 роки тому
Great lecturer as always! But when is the final book coming out?
@McCensoredРік тому
This gentleman is a rockstar! ⭐️
@rolandkleinhenz38252 роки тому
A brilliant lecture. Greetings from Thuringia/Germany.
@yogi1kenobi2 роки тому
Obviously a man of great depth of knowledge and able to talk on his feet
@larryjohnson16754 роки тому
The O’hare joke made me give this a like
@budgibson1853 роки тому
His knowledge is amazing
@jonaldquattРік тому
Absolutely loved this
@KizzMyAbs4 роки тому
The position of the microphone is driving me CRAZY
@VladTokarev4 роки тому
I did not know Adrian Monk is still alive.
@ahpacific4 роки тому
Only at a place like IAS
@meeeka4 роки тому
He is wearing the mike around his neck. The podium mike is sometimes not preferred.
@busterbiloxi38334 роки тому
Turn up the volume, moron!
@user-mv6he6gl8m5 років тому
I'm half-way through his second brick of a book;) on this most appalling dictator. But I must confess that I'm eagerly awaiting the third and final masterpiece!
@AndreAndFriends4 роки тому
MISSED THE Q&A SECTION!!!! Please post it. Thank you.
@basilal-nakeeb7610Рік тому
Brilliant. Thank you.
@firstal37994 роки тому
Nice lecture
@EurekaRepublic894 роки тому
Joe Pesci's speech was amazing.
@johnsmith14744 роки тому
So if you appreciate him, why be a pop culture dope and reference that? Because you must, because you are a completely propagandized TV addicted American who sings ad jingles and buys brand names and only knows how to refer to pop culture?
@rventra854 роки тому
Kotkin was amazing in the Irishman
@comradetirer4 роки тому
John Smith yeah, i also loved him in goodfellas
@Mr.Altavoz5 років тому
Love to listen S. Kotkin!
@Timrath5 років тому
@@TheWersum I watched the entire video, but I didn't hear him say the French and Brits did everything right. In fact, he didn't even refer to Western strategy at all. I really don't get what you're trying to say. Is the question of whether the Soviets committed stupid blunders contingent on whether the Western Allies did likewise?
@NikolaAvramov5 років тому
He's a McCarthyite warmongering lunatic, but ok.
@wilvannatta42155 років тому
You like liars? Listen to Grover Furr
@NikolaAvramov4 роки тому
@Larson Oppenheimer In his speeches he is openly agitating for an escalation of war between two nuclear superpowers. That's insane in itself.
@NikolaAvramov4 роки тому
@Larson Oppenheimer 48:58 ukposts.info/have/v-deo/nKGapYurm3yak30.html Right here he makes that case. Even though it would literally instantly lead to a nuclear war - he doesn't care, 'cause he's insane. Study or observe McCarthyism and you will notice a particular brand of bloodlust that he is drawing inspiration from and practicing himself.
@sydsacks9097Рік тому
Brillliant and masterful!
@harrypeitsinis3005Рік тому
Joe Pesci the historian over here everybody. We love him
@mikegray87762 роки тому
This seemingly unlikely historian is absolutely mesmerising! He INHABITS his subject totally, and delivers both the tiniest details and the widest possible overview, without even a moment’s confusion or loss of focus. What is more, he brings his subject completely to life; we are all there with him in the thick of some of the most significant - but often misunderstood - events of a monumentally complicated century. I admire hugely such historians as Niall Ferguson and Victor Davis Hanson, but on C20 Russia and Stalin, this man with a Russian name and a New York accent is peerless - and his powers of narrative are totally unmatched. Thank you Stephen Kotkin, for many, many hours of enlightenment and entertainment.
@timmcintyre74455 років тому
Great lecture. Ty
@smddsi2 роки тому
I would recommend "Stalin waiting ... for the Truht " from Grover Furr.whichpresents a very interesting analysis of Kotkin's sources.
@toddydarkko4 роки тому
loved it
@lithostheory5 років тому
Talk starts at 2:54
@johnsmith14744 роки тому
Worthless comment.
@lithostheory4 роки тому
@@johnsmith1474 Worthless comment.
@johnsmith14744 роки тому
@@lithostheory - Muted parrot.
@DwRockett5 років тому
Whoa this one is recent
@frederickratel42312 роки тому
Kotkin seems to be saying that any country willing to sacrifice millions of its people to winning a war will prevail. Excellent.
@DavidErdody3 роки тому
Thank you for mentioning David Glanz (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Glantz)
@dimitriosfromgreece42274 роки тому
BRAVO ❤ LOVE FROM SWEDEN 😍
@mortalclown38123 роки тому
May we please ask for greater volume? Don't always have headset. He's so soft spoken next to my old professors. :-) Merci!
@thewhiskeycowboy-official4 роки тому
"You are not going to hear about".... then continues to tell you about what you are not going to hear; over and over and over. With only the things you are not going to hear (but end up hearing about anyways) made for a good mini-lecture anyways. ;) Good lecture... information that more need to know and understand. On another note.... I always wait for him to work in something about "the two youts". ;)
@sau0023 роки тому
I like the sarcasm - "Soviets had superior tanks till the time they broke down"
@user-mv6he6gl8m3 роки тому
Not a sarcasm. A fact.
@Charliecomet823 роки тому
"Quantity is its own type of quality." Stalin
@alanpennie80132 роки тому
Saurabh dasgupta. "When they were losing they were winning, and when they were winning they were losing." The dialectical approach.
@dukedematteo19954 роки тому
Glantz fully acknowledges Stalin's personal nerve, power, brutality, ruthlessness was a major reason for Soviet victory.....why he thinks he's negating Glantz points I dont know. He realizes Stalin's decision prior to Moscow and the stopping of the Germans there was one of the main turning points. It was basically Stalins ability not to give a shit about human life that allowed them to win.
@lexbor35114 роки тому
What historians fail to see - it was not just Stalin. Stalin just took the attitude of Russian people of those times. Emperors of Russia failed to see it cause they lived in their aristocratic bubbles. Open a video called "The Romanovs. The History of the Russian Dynasty - Episode 6" and just listen from 35:00 to 35:20. Modern Russian and world mindset is different. Thats why researchers point at Stalin as an explanation.
@johnweerasinghe41394 роки тому
Did the founding fathers give a shit about the Indians. Did the plantation owners give a shit about the slaves that made them profit. Did the French give a shit about their colonies in Africa and Indochina. Did Churchill give a shit about Chinese, Arab and Indian life.
@user-yz1hg4ro6l5 років тому
It was great! Thank you.
@normalbutyl3 роки тому
Very insightful ✊🏾
@rondav413 роки тому
The Whaley book about the intelligience before barbarossa Stephen Kotkin is referring to at 10:51 of the lecture is "Codeword Barbarossa" by Barton Whaley.
@prasantbanerjee81994 роки тому
And here is an apocryphal story about the Soviet years. As N S Khrushchev waxed eloquent at the 20th Party Congress, a senior CPSU functionary shouted out from the auditorium: "What, comrade, were you doing to stop what you now lambaste as 'Stalin's excesses?' " Khrushchev paused in his stride, looked around, and said, 'Will the comrade who has just passed this comment please stand up and identify himself?' A pin drop silence followed: no one stood up. Mused Khrushchev :"You would have by now realized what I was doing or rather not doing during the Stalin years."
@MultiCappie4 роки тому
Nice story tho.
@antonivanov31424 роки тому
Brilliant!
@leomarkaable14 роки тому
Khrushchev was responsible for the murder through starvation of 6 million Ukrainians, who descended into cannibalism to survive. He "waxed eloquent" did he?
@shanemedlin94003 роки тому
Just so.
@ALimbOfGreatTree3 роки тому
leomarkaable1 a brutal person can still wax eloquent....
@spyrosspyratos6543 роки тому
It was mentioned in the beginning of the interview that Soviet Union's population was more the 200 m when Germany, Austria was 90m. But in fact, against Soviet Union fought Italians, Romanians, Hungarians, Bulgarians and many other fascist nations at the time. In addition there thousands of Vermacht and SS volunteers or not from occupied countries. In addition,Soviet Union had substantial reserves kept to fight a possible war against Japan (axis member). Regarding Stalin's integrity at war he send his son to fight and he was caught prisoner. Nazis offered an exchange to Stalin (to exchange his son with a high German officer, can't remember whether was general, I think yes) and he replied - I can't exchange a soldier with a general. His son died few weeks later.
@alexalexin94913 роки тому
+Finns and a Spanish volunteer division
@C_R_O_M________2 роки тому
Τι τρομερός ηγέτης αυτός ο Στάλιν έτσι; Θυσίασε μέχρι και τον γιο του για την καρέκλα! Διακρίνω μια «μικρή» τάση εκθείασης του Σοβιετικού εκτρώματος στο σχόλιό σου! Μάλλον σου διέφυγε το γεγονός ότι οι Εθνικοσοσιαλιστές και οι Σοβιετικοί ήταν σύμμαχοι μέχρι την επιχείρηση Μπαρμπαρόσα και την επίθεση του Χίτλερ. Επίσης μάλλον σου διαφεύγει το γεγονός ότι ο Στάλιν είχε τοποθετήσει μέχρι και οπλοπολυβόλα στα μετωπισθεν για να καθαρίσει όλους τους συμπατριώτες του που θα οπισθοχωρούσαν! ΤΙ ΗΓΕΤΗΣ! Τυφλά να’χουν οι εχθροί σου!
@beldinomussane5392 роки тому
Me parece q foi o paulus q se rendeu em estalininigrado
@luifernando40022 роки тому
Also the German army during Barbarossa actually outnumbered the Russian army at the front and both armies were more or less evenly sized during the first 3 years of the war, which is something few people know
@jackiwannapaint30422 роки тому
not a bad point: how difficult, if not impossible, for the historian to convince himself he has finally nailed down the truth.