peoplepill id: stephen-kotkin
SK
United States of America
3 views today
4 views this week
Stephen Kotkin
American historian, academic, author

Stephen Kotkin

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
American historian, academic, author
Work field
Gender
Male
Age
65 years
Stephen Kotkin
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Stephen Mark Kotkin (born February 17, 1959) is an American historian, academic and author. He is currently a professor in history and international affairs at Princeton University and a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Kotkin's most recent book is his first of three planned volumes, which discuss the life and times of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin: Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 (2014).

Academic career

Kotkin graduated from the University of Rochester in 1981 with a B.A. in English. He studied Russian and Soviet history under Reginald E. Zelnik and Martin Malia at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his M.A. in 1983 and his Ph.D. in 1988, both in history.

Starting in 1986, Kotkin traveled to the former Soviet Union multiple times for academic research and fellowships. He was a visiting scholar at the Russian Academy of Sciences (1993, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2012), and its predecessor, the USSR Academy of Sciences (1991). He was also a visiting scholar at University of Tokyo's Institute of Social Science Institute in 1994 and 1997

He joined the faculty at Princeton University in 1989, and was the director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Program for 13 years (1995-2008). He is currently the John P. Birkelund '52 Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton. He is also a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Author

Kotkin has authored several nonfiction books on history as well as textbooks, and is perhaps best known for Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization, which exposes the realities of everyday life in the Soviet city of Magnitogorsk during the 1930s. He published Armageddon Averted, a short history of the fall of the Soviet Union, in 2001.

Kotkin is a frequent contributor on Russian and Eurasian affairs and writes book and film reviews for various publications, including The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Financial Times, The New York Times and the Washington Post. He also contributed as a commentator for NPR and the BBC.

His first volume on the life of Joseph Stalin, a 900-page biography analyzing his life through 1928, received strong reviews. Jennifer Siegel of The New York Times called the biography "a riveting tale, one written with pace and aplomb.... this first volume leaves the reader longing for the story still to come.")

Kotkin is currently writing the second and third volumes on Stalin: Waiting for Hitler (Releasing on November 7, 2017) and Miscalculation and the Mao Eclipse (TBA). He is also working on a multi-century history of Siberia, focusing on the Ob River Valley.

His literary agent is Andrew Wylie.

Published works

YearTitleCollaborator(s)PublisherISBN
1991Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev EraBerkeley: University of California; paperback with afterword in 1993ISBN 0962262900
1995Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far EastM. E. SharpeISBN 1563245469
1995Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a CivilizationBerkeley: University of CaliforniaISBN 0520069080
2001Armageddon Averted: the Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000Oxford and New York: Oxford University; paperback with new preface, 2003; updated edition 2008ISBN 0192802453
2002Political Corruption in Transition: A Sceptic's HandbookCo-authored with András SajóCentral European University PressISBN 9639241466
2003The Cultural Gradient: The Transmission of Ideas in Europe, 1789–1991Co-authored with Catherine EvtuhovRowman & LittlefieldISBN 0742520625
2005Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast AsiaCo-authored with Charles K. Armstrong, Gilbert Rozman, and Samuel S. KimM. E. Sharpe
2009Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of Communist EstablishmentWith a contribution by Jan GrossNew York: Modern Library/Random HouseISBN 978-0679642763
2010Manchurian Railways and the Opening of China : an International HistoryEdited with Bruce A. EllemanM. E. SharpeISBN 978-0765625144
2014Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern EuropeCo-edited with Mark BeissingerCambridge University PressISBN 1107054176
2014Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928Penguin PressISBN 1594203792
2017Stalin: Volume II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941Penguin PressISBN 978-1594203800
The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Stephen Kotkin is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Stephen Kotkin
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes