The Weakness of the Despot

David Remnick and Stephen Kotkin discuss Putin, Russia, and the West.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/stephen-kotkin-putin-russia-ukraine-stalin

Stephen Kotkin is one of our most profound and prodigious scholars of Russian history. His masterwork is a biography of Josef Stalin.
He is a professor of history at Princeton University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford University.