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Stephen Kotkin on Dwarkesh Patel: Why Stalin Needed Terror

How the Bolshevik terror held even as police were killed alongside their victims: Stalin carried the repression through the czar's collapse and well beyond.

Stephen KotkinguestDwarkesh Patelhost
Jul 10, 20252h 13mWatch on YouTube ↗

CHAPTERS

  1. 0:00 – 24:38

    Was the tsarist regime the lesser of 2 evils?

  2. 24:38 – 38:31

    The peasants brought Lenin to power, then he enslaved them

  3. 38:31 – 1:03:19

    Why did so many go along with enforced famine and the Great Terror?

  4. 1:03:19 – 1:13:54

    Today's leftist civil war

  5. 1:13:54 – 1:36:06

    Doesn’t CCP deserve credit for China's growth?

  6. 1:36:06 – 1:53:38

    Why didn't somebody just kill Stalin?

  7. 1:53:38 – 2:13:34

    Overcoming the pathologies of communism with tech: USSR vs China

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