- Stephen Kotkin
Stephen Mark Kotkin is Professor of
History and director of the Program in Russian Studies atPrinceton University . He specializes in the history of theSoviet Union and has recently begun to researchEurasia more generally.Kotkin graduated from the
University of Rochester in 1981 and studied history underReginald Zelnik andMartin Malia at theUniversity of California, Berkeley , where he earned his M.A. in 1983 and hisPh.D. in 1988. While at Berkeley, he was also influenced by the French philosopherMichel Foucault .He 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 theSoviet Union , in 2001. He is currently working on a multi-century history of Siberia, focusing on theOb River valley.Kotkin frequently writes on Russian and Eurasian affairs for the popular American press, particularly "
The New Republic ".Works
*"Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel" (editor, author of preface), Indiana University Press, 1989.
*"Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era", University of California Press, 1992.
*"Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization", University of California Press, 1995.
*"Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East", M. E. Sharpe, 1995.
*"Mongolia in the 20th Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan" (editor), M. E. Sharpe, 2000.
*"Political Corruption in Transition: A Sceptic's Handbook" Central European University Press, 2002.
*"Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World (1300 to the Present)" (co-author), W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.
*"Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000", Oxford University Press, 2003.
*"The Cultural Gradient: The Transmission of Ideas in Europe, 1789-1991" (co-author), Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
*"Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia" (co-author), M. E. Sharpe, 2005.External links
* [http://www.princeton.edu/history/people/data/k/kotkin/profile/ Profile]
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