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Stephen Kotkin

スティーヴン・コトキン　/　すてぃーゔん・こときん

American historian

February 17, 1959 (age 67)　・　Englewood, New Jersey, United States

New Jersey
historian
author
university teacher

My Take

Stephen Kotkin is, to me, one of the most formidable minds working in history today. His monumental multi-volume biography of Stalin, with titles like Paradoxes of Power and Waiting for Hitler, reflects an almost obsessive scholarly stamina I deeply admire. Berkeley-trained, three decades at Princeton, and now at the Hoover Institution, he is a Guggenheim Fellow who excavates the darkest corners of the twentieth century from mountains of archival sources. I have always been more moved by people who do quiet, gargantuan work than by flashy celebrity. When it comes to explaining power and history, I can think of few I trust more.

Overview

Stephen Mark Kotkin (born February 17, 1959) is an American historian, academic, and author. He is the Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. For 33 years, Kotkin taught at Princeton University, where he attained the title of John P.

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1. Profile

Name (English): Stephen Kotkin
Name (Japanese): スティーヴン・コトキン
Reading: すてぃーゔん・こときん
Born: February 17, 1959 (age 67)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aquarius / Boar
Origin: Englewood, New Jersey, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: historian / author / university teacher

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: University of California, Berkeley

Awards & achievements

Guggenheim Fellowship

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role	Year
Notable work	Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928	—
Notable work	Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%88%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3

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