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  1. A conversation about Joseph Stalin
    A conversation about Joseph Stalin

    with Robert C. Tucker, Stephen Cohen and Edvard Radzinsky on Apr 8, 1996

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Robert C. Tucker is a historian who specializes in Russia and the Soviet Union. He was a prominent Sovietologist at Princeton University and served as an attaché at the American Embassy in Moscow from 1944-1953. His books include “Political Culture and Leadership in Soviet Russia, Stalin as Revolutionary: 1879-1929” (1973) and its sequel, “Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941” (1992), “Politics as Leadership” (1995) and “Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx” (1961). Tucker?s biographies of Stalin are cited by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies as his greatest contribution. Tucker is also responsible for the coining of “military communism” to distinguish communist regimes which militarize the party. At Princeton he started the Russian Studies Program, and he still holds the position of Professor of Politics Emeritus and IBM Professor of International Studies Emeritus at the school.

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