Stephen Kotkin (born 1959) is a Statesian anti-communist historian, author, and the Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.[1] Kotkin has written many books on communism, the Soviet Union, and Stalin, usually portraying historical communist leaders as "bloody tyrants". He is an open advocate for and private property and "free markets".[2]
In 2019, communist historian Grover Furr published a rebuttal to the second volume of Kotkin's biography about Soviet leader Joseph Stalin titled Stalin: Waiting for ... The Truth! Exposing the falsehoods in Stephen Kotkin's 'Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941'.[3]
References
- ↑ "Stephen Kotkin". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
- ↑ Stephen Kotkin (2017-11-03). "Communism’s Bloody Century" The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
- ↑ Grover Furr (2019). Stalin. Waiting for ... The Truth! Exposing the falsehoods in Stephen Kotkin's 'Stalin. Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941'. New York: Red Star Publishers. ISBN 9780578445533 [LG]