Jeremy Friedman

About Jeremy Friedman

Jeremy Friedman is Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit of Harvard Business School. He received his B.A. in History and Philosophy from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. Professor Friedman studies the history of communism, socialism, and revolution in Russia, China, and the developing world.

The Ambiguity of Stalin

By Jeremy Friedman|2019-04-25T23:43:12-06:00April 25th, 2019|Categories: Books, Communism, History, Russia|

Somehow Joseph Stalin cannot be reduced merely to just another Russian autocrat or just another communist dictator. Not for him the “banality of evil.”… Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 By Stephen Kotkin (Penguin Press, 2014) Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator By Oleg Khlevniuk, translated by Nora Seligman Favorov (Yale University Press, 2015) The [...]