Kotkin’s Stalin: Prospects and Perils
Those with more nuanced perspectives on the Soviet experience often have not considered it worthy of their time to breakdown and critique the unbelievable myriad of bourgeois media hitjobs regarding Joseph Stalin, the “biography of a monster” has become a veritable genre unto its own which has two historic trends: The tendency to further and further emphasize Stalin’s personality and character to explain what transpired, and to exponentially increase the number of alleged victims with every account.